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Jack-up barge Haven Seajack 1 assembled and waiting for a weather window to go to Fair Isle according to Marine Traffic, I am guessing this will be part of the civil engineering works to determine the best location to build the Fair Isle's first Ro/Ro ferry terminal. This has been directly funded by the UK government by way of their "Levelling Up Fund" The project has been awarded approx. £27,000,000. Some people have commented about the politics of the UK government funding projects in Scotland rather than giving the money to the Scottish government. *This post is not political* It is merely to show the barge and what the reason for it is in Orkney. Fair Isle is the winner, no matter who pays for the work. *Please do not post any political comments - just be happy that the people of Fair Isle are finally going to get served by a Ro/Ro ferry instead of Lo/Lo [lift on/off] for more info see
Kudos to the birders who figure out who these drifters are and then take the trouble to help other birders find them.
This guy was way off his patch.
"While today’s vagrant might be tomorrow’s model citizen, destined to become a colonizer and perhaps an established resident, as Grinnell (1922) asserted, most vagrants might be viewed as “failed colonization attempts”. Newton (2008: 267–299) summarized quite well the various explanations of the causes of vagrancy put forward over the past century or so. They include: normal dispersal over long distances, population growth or expansion, drift by winds, migration overshoots, deviant directional tendencies (right time but wrong direction), mirror-image migration, and reversed direction migration. While all explanations probably play a role and explain the occurrence of some vagrant individuals, we address the latter three explanations as they likely involve the vast majority of landbirds. The mirror-image misorientation theory, originally developed by DeSante (1973), and described by Diamond (1982), proposed that vagrants are misoriented by confusion of right and left in relating an inherited migration direction to a compass reference direction. Mirror-image misorientation theory accounts for observations made by DeSante (1983a) that in certain situations large-angle misorientations seem more frequent than small or intermediate deviations from the normal migration course (Alerstam, 1990). Misorientation by the wind has long been suggested as a cause of accidentals (Austin, 1971), but Thorup et al. (2012) found differently, as the authors used radio telemetry to track individual migratory flights of several species of songbirds from the Faroe Islands, approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland, far west of their normal migration route. Birds with expected easterly and south-easterly migration direction departed westward out over the Atlantic Ocean, indicating that these birds are actively flying in the “wrong” direction and that their occurrence is not caused by wind drift. However, on Attu Island, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, Hameed et al. (2009) found statistical evidence that the occurrence of spring Asian vagrants on this North Pacific island were correlated with storm winds from the west."
Excerpt from www.amo.gov.hk/en/historic-buildings/monuments/kowloon/mo...:
Kowloon Union Church, one of the earliest inter-denominational churches in Hong Kong, was built by the London Missionary Society with financial support from Sir Paul Chater. The foundation stone was laid on 27 May 1930 by the then Colonial Secretary, W.T. Southorn, and the church was officially opened on 10 April 1931 by the then Governor Sir William Peel. During the Japanese Occupation, the church ceased to function and the building was converted into a horse stable by the Japanese army and suffered severe looting and damage. The church was opened again for public worship with a rededication service held on 19 October 1947 and continues to serve the community until now.
The church possesses “Perpendicular Gothic” architectural features, with pitched Chinese-tiled roof, red load-bearing brick walls and contrasting grey granite steps and window surrounds. A semi-circular apse and an attached three-storey battlemented tower are built at the two ends of the church respectively.
The square battlemented tower with pointed arch doorway surround and foundation stone at the base is designed to serve as the main entrance to the church. It is of fair-face red brickwork with carved granite ornaments and trimmings. There is also a concrete flat roof topped with a crenelated low parapet wall.
The windows of the church are set in decorative granite framing in the form of trefoil-headed tracery. The window frames are of wrought-iron and there are angular carved hoods above the windows. The windows of top floor of the battlemented tower are with stone louvers. The elegant double hammer-beam timber roof trusses with carved granite corbel supports are a rare and dominant feature of the spacious interior of the main hall of the church.
Kowloon Union Church was declared a monument in 2017.
The Library of Congress Miss C. Farwell (Between 1905-1945)
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Title
FARWELL, C., MISS
Contributor Names
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Created / Published
[between 1905 and 1945]
Headings
Glass negatives.
Genre
Glass negatives
Notes
- Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
- Date span based on active dates of Harris & Ewing, Inc.
- Portrait series.
- Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
- General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
- Temp. note: Batch four.
Medium
1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-H25- 68568-K [P&P]
Source Collection
Harris & Ewing photograph collection
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
hec 19736 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.19736
Library of Congress Control Number
2016860795
Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-hec-19736 (digital file from original negative)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html
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image
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The photo I've taken in the breaks until there was a siren alarm or missile attacks from russians in my town. Please help Ukraine to stop russian invasion with your donation - u24.gov.ua/
Silas Wright, Jr. (May 24, 1795 – August 27, 1847) was an American Democratic politician. Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved with his father to Weybridge, Vermont in 1796. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1815 and moved to Sandy Hill, New York, the next year, where he studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1819. Wright commenced practice in Canton, New York. He served as surrogate of St. Lawrence County 1821-1824 and then as a member of the New York State senate from 1824 to 1827. Wright was appointed brigadier general of the state militia in 1827.
In 1826, he was elected to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1827, to February 16, 1829, when he resigned. He successfully contested the election of George Fisher to the Twenty-first Congress, but declined to qualify. Wright served as Comptroller of the State of New York from 1829 to 1833, in which post he became a prominent follower of Martin Van Buren and a member of the Albany Regency that ran the state for the Democratic Party in this period. Wright was elected to the United States Senate in 1833 as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William L. Marcy. He was reelected in 1837 and served from January 4, 1833, to November 26, 1844. In the Senate, he served as Chairman of the Finance Committee from 1836 to 1841.
Wright was offered the Democratic vice presidential nomination in 1844, as a sop to followers of Van Buren, who had been disappointed in his hopes for renomination, but declined instead running for the position of Governor of New York. He served as Governor from 1845 to 1846, and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection, being defeated by the Whig candidate John Young.
Wright died soon after, aged 52, in Canton, on August 27, 1847 and is interred in Old Canton Cemetery.
Excerpt from www.aab.gov.hk/filemanager/aab/en/content_4/202406_N248_E...:
Tak Wing Pawn Shop
The building at No. 72 Des Voeux Road Central is four-storey high. It is a typical verandah-type shophouse where the front façade projects over the pavement and is supported by two columns to form a covered walkway. It is easily identifiable by the five plastered plaques bearing the Chinese name“德榮大押” on the front façade facing Des Voeux Road Central and the side elevation facing Man Yee Lane (萬宜里). The wall of the side elevation is finished with plaster marked with faux horizontal joint lines. There are altogether 15 metal-framed windows on the side elevation, with one row of four situated slightly higher than the others, which are believed to be the windows for the internal staircase. On the ground floor at the rear elevation is an enclosed backyard. A flagpole used to sit on a short stepped base on the left-hand side of the roof, but it was removed sometime between 1980s and 1990s and only the base remains now.
The building is situated at the intersection of Des Voeux Road Central and Man Yee Lane. Its location on the corner provides a side entrance, catering to customers who wish to avoid being seen entering the pawnshop from the main street.
The unique setting and some iconic features of a traditional pawnshop can still be seen inside the shop on the ground floor today. The main hall features a wooden “shy screen”(遮醜板), in an L-shape, blocking the view inside from the main door and side entrance to protect customers’ privacy. Behind the screen is a high counter that divides the front and back of the shop, where the pawnbroker serves customers. The height of the counter allows the pawnbroker to have a full view of the shop to ensure security. However, both the wooden screen and the finishes of the high counter are relatively new, following recent renovations carried out on the ground floor.
Security is a prime concern for this building, as evidenced by the verandahs on the upper floors, all of which are fitted with green metal grills to safeguard the pawnshop from burglars. Of particular interest are the coin motifs along the bottom of the metal grills, adding some decorative details to the functional design of the building.
The original built form of the building, including the footprint and the verandahs with their supporting columns, has been retained. Various renovations have been carried out over the years on both the exterior and interior of the building on the ground floor, such as the supporting columns and all the walls have been refurbished with new stone tiles and the floor has been laid with new modern tiles.
The changes seem to be mainly confined to the ground floor, whereas the exterior of the upper floors has remained intact. The only exception is that the figure “1940” that was previously painted on the roof parapet has now been removed. Overall, the building has been kept in a generally authentic condition in terms of its built form and original appearance. The building is an example of traditional pawnshop occupying an entire pre-war shophouse. The ground floor still opens for business, while the upper floors, which were previously used to store large pawned items, seem to be vacant. Pre-war shophouses that are entirely dedicated to a single pawnshop are becoming increasingly rare in Hong Kong as a result of urban development.
Netherlands Government
Arriving on 22 at Stansted Airport with delegates attending the NATO summit in London.
03-12-2019
“New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK”
www.gov.uk/government/news/new-digital-id-scheme-to-be-ro...
“Building on the work already underway to roll out a GOV.UK digital wallet, the digital ID will sit on people’s phones, alongside the digital driving licence which the government has already announced plans to introduce.”
“In Australia, citizens can access a range of private services, from banking to buying alcohol, with their digital identification, reducing the need for multiple separate accounts and pieces of paper.”
“In Estonia, digital ID has revolutionised parents’ lives by enabling access to child benefits, health records and applications for nursery places seamlessly, never having to provide the same information twice.”
“In Denmark, students can use their national digital ID to log in and automatically retrieve education records and qualifications in job and university applications.”
“And in India, the government has saved around US $10 billion annually by reducing fraud and leakages in welfare schemes.”
Digital IDs, Central Bank Digital Currencies, Social Credit Scores, Universal Basic Income, and eventually a microchip—MARK of the Beast.
Proverbs 1:5 “The wise hears and increases learning; and understanding ones get wisdom.”
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is aligned across all four of its science instruments, as seen in a previous engineering image showing the observatory's full field of view. Now, we take a closer look at that same image, focusing on Webb's coldest instrument: the Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI.
The MIRI test image (at 7.7 microns) shows part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. This small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way provided a dense star field to test Webb’s performance.
Here, a close-up of the MIRI image is compared to a past image of the same target taken with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera (at 8.0 microns). The retired Spitzer telescope was one of NASA’s Great Observatories and the first to provide high-resolution images of the near- and mid-infrared universe. Webb, with its significantly larger primary mirror and improved detectors, will allow us to see the infrared sky with improved clarity, enabling even more discoveries.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech (left), NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (right)
#NASAMarshall #jwst #space #telescope
SuperDracos will power the Crew Dragon spacecraft's revolutionary launch escape system, the first of its kind. Should an emergency occur during launch, eight SuperDraco engines built into Dragon's side walls will produce up to 120,000 pounds of axial thrust to carry astronauts to safety.
SpaceX has test-fired this Crew Dragon Propulsion Module 27 times, in addition to test-firing SuperDraco engines individually over 300 times, to refine the design for the demands of operational missions carrying astronauts to the International Space Station.
More info: blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2015/11/10/crew-dragon-prop...
The Library Congress Rehabilitation client's wife
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Title
Rehabilitation client's wife, Jackson County, Ohio
Contributor Names
Jung, Theodor, 1906-1996, photographer
United States. Resettlement Administration.
Created / Published
1936 Apr.
Subject Headings
- United States--Ohio--Jackson County
- Farms, farmers--Ohio
Format Headings
Nitrate negatives.
Genre
Nitrate negatives
Notes
- Additional information on caption card: Use copy negative in LC-USF331 for this image.
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Medium
1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-USF33- 004100-M1 [P&P] LOT 1001 (corresponding photographic print)
Source Collection
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
fsa 8a14199 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a14199
Library of Congress Control Number
2017727984
Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-fsa-8a14199 (digital file from original neg.) LC-USF331-004100-M1 (b&w film copy neg. from file print)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Language
English
Online Format
image
Description
1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image contains a veritable mix of different galaxies, some of which belong to the same larger structure: At the middle of the frame sits the galaxy cluster SDSS J1050+0017. The gigantic mass of this cluster creates the fascinating phenomenon of strong gravitational lensing. The gravity of the cluster bends light coming from behind it in a similar way to how the base of a wine glass bends light. The effects of this lensing can be clearly seen as curved streaks forming a circular shape around the center of the frame. Astronomers can use these distorted galaxies to calculate the mass of the cluster — including the mass of the dark matter within it — and to peer deeper into the universe than otherwise possible. Gravitational lensing not only distorts the views of galaxies, it also enlarges their appearance in the sky and magnifies their light.
Image credit: ESA (European Space Agency)/Hubble & NASA; acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
D1054 'Western Governor' stands by the turntable at Old Oak Common depot in 1974-75
Last day in traffic 24-11-76
Withdrawn on 25-11-76
Part of the Tom Derrington Collection with photographer unknown
This view of southern California was taken by the Apollo 7 crew during their 18th revolution of the Earth, on Oct. 12, 1968. Photographed from an altitude of 124 nautical miles, the coast of California can be seen from Point Mugu southward to Oceanside. Santa Catalina can be seen below the off shore clouds. Details of the Los Angeles area are obscured by pollution which extends from Banning westward for 100 miles to beyond Malibu. In the upper portion of the photograph can be seen (left to right) the San Joaquin Valley beyond Bakersfield, the Techachapi Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley, Death Valley and the Mojave Desert.
Apollo 7, which launched on Oct. 11, 1968, and was nicknamed "The Walt, Wally and Donn Show," was the first crewed Apollo mission to launch. The mission demonstrated the capabilities of the Command and Service Module, mission support facilities' performance during a crewed mission and Apollo rendezvous capability, as well as the first live TV broadcasts from space.
Image credit: NASA
A photographer catches his own reflection, multiplying the appreciation all around!
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Irish, G. S. (George S.), photographer
Globe reflection, Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake George / G. S. Irish, photographer, Glen's Falls, N.Y.
[187-]
1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen.
Summary:
Stereograph shows self-portrait of photographer with camera on tripod, hotel, and lake reflected in a shiny globe.
Notes:
• Title from item.
• Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:123).
• General information about the Stereograph Cards Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.stereo
Subjects:
• Irish, G. S.--(George S.)--New York (State)--Lake George.
• Fort William Henry Hotel (Lake George, N.Y.)--1870-1880.
• Hotels--New York (State)--Lake George--1870-1880.
• Photographers--New York (State)--Lake George--1870-1880.
• Reflections--1870-1880.
Format:
• Albumen prints--1870-1880.
• Self-portraits--1870-1880.
• Stereographs--1870-1880.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s02976
Call Number: STEREO SUBJ FILE - Photographers
The Library of Congress Migratory worker 1939
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Title
Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn't to do it. It ain't fair in no way. The government lays them off (that is in Work Projects Administration - 1939) and they come in because they're locals and take the jobs away from us that never had no forty-four dollars a month. I came out of Pennsylvania, used to be an oil worker. I'm getting along in years now and I seen lots of presidents and lots of systems. Voted for Roosevelt both times and I don't know of any president that ever leaned toward the laboring man like him, but this system they've got here in the fruit is a rotten system the way they work it." Yakima Valley, Washington
Contributor Names
Lange, Dorothea, photographer
Created / Published
1939 Aug.
Subject Headings
- United States--Washington--Yakima Valley
Headings
Nitrate negatives.
Genre
Nitrate negatives
Notes
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch2
- Film copy on SIS roll 28, frame 1029.
Medium
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-USF34- 020378-C [P&P] LOT 302 (corresponding photographic print) LOT 2302 (corresponding photographic print)
Source Collection
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
fsa 8b34364 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b34364
Library of Congress Control Number
2017772770
Reproduction Number
LC-USF34-020378-C (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8b34364 (digital file from original neg.)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Language
English
Online Format
image
Description
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Original Format
photo, print, drawing
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Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to show that, multiple eruptions from a supermassive black hole over 50 million years have rearranged the cosmic landscape at the center of a group of galaxies.
Scientists discovered this history of black hole eruptions by studying NGC 5813, a group of galaxies about 105 million light years from Earth. These Chandra observations are the longest ever obtained of a galaxy group, lasting for just over a week. The Chandra data are shown in this new composite image where the X-rays from Chandra (purple) have been combined with visible light data (red, green and blue).
Galaxy groups are like their larger cousins, galaxy clusters, but instead of containing hundreds or even thousands of galaxies like clusters do, galaxy groups are typically comprised of 50 or fewer galaxies. Like galaxy clusters, groups of galaxies are enveloped by giant amounts of hot gas that emit X-rays.
Read Full Article: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/chandra-finds-evidence...
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One of Australia's most important artists of the twentieth century, Grace Cossington Smith, was best known for her modernist depiction of a Sydney cafeteria, paintings of the arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it was being built, and her late indoor scenes of doorways and windows where yellow is usually the dominant colour. Many of her scenes give a glimpse of the ordinary suburban home of her time: still lives, doorways and window sills. She also sometimes painted important events such as the World Wars and the arrival of the Prince of Wales in Sydney, which show a broader view of what was happening in Australia and the world at the time.
The Curve of the Bridge (1928-29)
Just over a month into its mission, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites. These early observations – while not yet examples of the key science observations Parker Solar Probe will take closer to the Sun – show that each of the instruments is working well. The instruments work in tandem to measure the Sun’s electric and magnetic fields, particles from the Sun and the solar wind, and capture images of the environment around the spacecraft.
This image shows the first-light data from Parker Solar Probe's WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument suite. The right side of this image — from WISPR's inner telescope — has a 40-degree field of view, with its right edge 58.5 degrees from the Sun's center. The bright object slightly to the right of the image's center is Jupiter. The left side of the image is from WISPR’s outer telescope, which has a 58-degree field of view and extends to about 160 degrees from the Sun. It shows the Milky Way, looking at the galactic center. There is a parallax of about 13 degrees in the apparent position of the Sun as viewed from Earth and from Parker Solar Probe.
Image credit: First Light Data for NASA's Parker Solar Probe
Bald Eagles typically nest in forested areas adjacent to large bodies of water, staying away from heavily developed areas when possible. For perching, Bald Eagles prefer tall, mature coniferous or deciduous trees that afford a wide view of the surroundings. Eagle nests are usually within view of a lake, river or large creek and a pair often chooses a dominant tree within the surrounding woodland. A good nest tree affords an easy glide upon leaving the nest and provides a favorable vantage point to scout for potential threats.
Ref: allaboutbirds.org | pgc.pa.gov
Pictured is a Royal Marine from 539 Assault Squadron performing a beach assault from a Landing craft Air Cushioned (LCAC) Hovercraft in Harstad, Norway.
The winter deployment 16 for the Royal Marines in Harstad, Norway forms part of the NATO COLD RESPONSE 16 Exercise.
Developing cold weather warfare skills with the Norwegians, Dutch, USMC and members of the Royal Navy’s sister Services. Ensuring the UK has a high-readiness flexible force with a truly global reach.
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What did the first quasars look like? The nearest quasars are now known to be supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. Gas and dust that falls toward a quasar glows brightly, sometimes outglowing the entire home galaxy. The quasars that formed in the first billion years of the universe are more mysterious, though, with even the nature of the surrounding gas still unknown.
Above, an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters. Exacting observations of three distant quasars now indicate emission of very specific colors of the element iron. These Hubble Space Telescope observations, which bolster recent results from the WMAP mission, indicate that a whole complete cycle of stars was born, created this iron, and died within the first few hundred million years of the universe.
Image credit: NASA/ESA/ESO/Wolfram Freudling et al. (STECF)
[Unidentified girl in mourning dress holding framed photograph of her father as a cavalryman with sword and Hardee hat]
[between 1861 and 1870]
1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.4 cm (case)
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Case: Berg, no. 2-61.
Photo shows a girl holding a framed image of her father. Judging from her necklace, mourning ribbons, and dress, it is likely that her father was killed in the war. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010)
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Purchased from: Rick Brown, Civil War Show, Chantilly, Virginia, 2007
Published in: Military images, vol. XII, no. 3 (November-December 1990), front cover.
Subjects:
United States.--Army--People--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.
Girls--1860-1870.
Families--1860-1870.
Mourning clothing & dress--1860-1870.
Photographs--1860-1870.
Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Tintypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Ambrotype/Tintype filing series (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650518
Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519
More information about this collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.26863
Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2012
Parks, Gordon,, 1912-2006,, photographer.
Washington, D.C. Shopper on Saturday afternoon
1942 Aug.
1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Subjects:
United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
Format: Safety film negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2002708960
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Call Number: LC-USF34- 013452-C
Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.
M-3 tank and crew using small arms, Ft. Knox, Ky.
1942 June
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
United States--Army
US Army Armor Center
World War, 1939-1945
Armories
Tanks (Military science)
Military training
Arms & armament
United States--Kentucky--Fort Knox
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-34 (DLC) 93845501
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Call Number: LC-USW36-155
Nps.gov: The Old Faithful Inn was designed by Robert C. Reamer, who wanted the asymmetry of the building to reflect the chaos of nature. It was built during the winter of 1903–1904. The Old Faithful Inn is one of the few remaining log hotels in the United States. It is a masterpiece of rustic architecture in its stylized design and fine craftsmanship. Its influence on American architecture, particularly park architecture, was immeasurable.
The building is a rustic log and wood-frame structure with gigantic proportions: nearly 700 feet (213 m) in length and seven stories high. The lobby of the hotel features a 65-foot (20-m) ceiling, a massive rhyolite fireplace, and railings made of contorted lodgepole pine. Stand in the lobby and look up at the exposed structure, or walk up a gnarled log staircase to one of the balconies. Wings were added to the hotel in 1915 and 1927, and today there are 327 rooms available to guests in this National Historic Landmark.
1471a
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Trini
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
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Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.36206
Call Number: LC-B2- 6039-13