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The Library of Congress Woman portrait 1899
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Title
[African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, seated with left arm over back of chair, facing front]
Contributor Names
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector
Created / Published
[1899 or 1900]
Subject Headings
- African Americans--Women--Georgia--1890-1900
- Clothing & dress--Georgia--1890-1900
Headings
Gelatin silver prints--1890-1900.
Portrait photographs--1890-1900.
Notes
- In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 90.
- B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available.
- Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress).
- Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930
Medium
1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
Call Number/Physical Location
LOT 11930, no. 90 [P&P]
Source Collection
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Du Bois albums of photographs of African Americans in Georgia exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
cph 3c24687 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c24687
Library of Congress Control Number
99472220
Reproduction Number
LC-USZ62-124687 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions on publication.
Access Advisory
Original albums; Restricted access; Served by appointment only.
Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-1990,, photographer.
Grain storage elevators and highway through Lone Tree, North Dakota
1941 Aug.
1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 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--North Dakota--Golden Valley County--Lone Tree.
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
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
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Call Number: LC-USF34- 057905-D
Note: The headline writer for the following piece was being too generous. Trump's son-in-law has no business being in government.
Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response.
By Michelle Goldberg
Opinion Columnist
The Washington Post
April 2, 2020
Reporting on the White House’s herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror.
According to Sherman, when New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said that the state would need 30,000 ventilators at the apex of the coronavirus outbreak, Kushner decided that Cuomo was being alarmist.
“I have all this data about I.C.U. capacity,” Kushner reportedly said. “I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators.” (Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top expert on infectious diseases, has said he trusts Cuomo’s estimate.)
Even now, it’s hard to believe that someone with as little expertise as Kushner could be so arrogant, but he said something similar on Thursday, when he made his debut at the White House’s daily coronavirus briefing: “People who have requests for different products and supplies, a lot of them are doing it based on projections which are not the realistic projections.”
Kushner has succeeded at exactly three things in his life. He was born to the right parents, married well and learned how to influence his father-in-law.
Most of his other endeavors — his biggest real estate deal, his foray into newspaper ownership, his attempt to broker a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians — have been failures.
Undeterred, he has now arrogated to himself a major role in fighting the epochal health crisis that’s brought America to its knees. “Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response,” said a Politico headline on Wednesday.
This is dilettantism raised to the level of sociopathy.
The journalist Andrea Bernstein looked closely at Kushner’s business record for her recent book “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power,” speaking to people on all sides of his real estate deals as well as those who worked with him at The New York Observer, the weekly newspaper he bought in 2006.
Kushner, Bernstein told me, “really sees himself as a disrupter.” Again and again, she said, people who’d dealt with Kushner told her that whatever he did, he “believed he could do it better than anybody else, and he had supreme confidence in his own abilities and his own judgment even when he didn’t know what he was talking about.”
It’s hard to overstate the extent to which this confidence is unearned.
Kushner was a reportedly mediocre student whose billionaire father appears to have bought him a place at Harvard.
Taking over the family real estate company after his father was sent to prison, Kushner paid $1.8 billion — a record, at the time — for a Manhattan skyscraper at the very top of the real estate market in 2007.
The debt from that project became a crushing burden for the family business. (Kushner was able to restructure the debt in 2011, and in 2018 the project was bailed out by a Canadian asset management company with links to the government of Qatar.)
He gutted the once-great New York Observer, then made a failed attempt to create a national network of local politics websites.
His forays into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — for which he boasted of reading a whole 25 books — have left the dream of a two-state solution on life support.
Michael Koplow of the centrist Israel Policy Forum described Kushner’s plan for the Palestinian economy as “the Monty Python version of Israeli-Palestinian peace.”
Now, in our hour of existential horror, Kushner is making life-or-death decisions for all Americans, showing all the wisdom we’ve come to expect from him.
“Mr. Kushner’s early involvement with dealing with the virus was in advising the president that the media’s coverage exaggerated the threat,” reported The Times. It was apparently at Kushner’s urging that Trump announced, falsely, that Google was about to launch a website that would link Americans with coronavirus testing.
(As The Atlantic reported, a health insurance company co-founded by Kushner’s brother — which Kushner once owned a stake in — tried to build such a site, before the project was “suddenly and mysteriously scrapped.”)
The president was reportedly furious over the website debacle, but Kushner’s authority hasn’t been curbed.
Politico reported that Kushner, “alongside a kitchen cabinet of outside experts including his former roommate and a suite of McKinsey consultants, has taken charge of the most important challenges facing the federal government,” including the production and distribution of medical supplies and the expansion of testing.
Kushner has embedded his own people in the Federal Emergency Management Agency; a senior official described them to The Times as “a ‘frat party’ that descended from a U.F.O. and invaded the federal government.”
Disaster response requires discipline and adherence to a clear chain of command, not the move-fast-and-break-things approach of start-up culture.
Even if Kushner “were the most competent person in the world, which he clearly isn’t, introducing these kind of competing power centers into a crisis response structure is a guaranteed problem,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a former U.S.A.I.D. official who helped manage the response to the Ebola crisis during Barack Obama’s administration, told me.
“So you could have Trump and Kushner and Pence and the governors all be the smartest people in the room, but if there are multiple competing power centers trying to drive this response, it’s still going to be chaos.”
Competing power centers are a motif of this administration, and its approach to the pandemic is no exception.
As The Washington Post reported, Kushner’s team added “another layer of confusion and conflicting signals within the White House’s disjointed response to the crisis.” Nor does his operation appear to be internally coherent. “Projects are so decentralized that one team often has little idea what others are doing — outside of that they all report up to Kushner,” reported Politico.
On Thursday, Governor Cuomo said that New York would run out of ventilators in six days. Perhaps Kushner’s projections were incorrect. “I don’t think the federal government is in a position to provide ventilators to the extent the nation may need them,” Cuomo said. “Assume you are on your own in life.” If not in life, certainly in this administration.
www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/jared-kushner-coronavi...
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Trump is responsible for our unfolding coronavirus disaster
Michael Gerson
The Washington Post
July 6, 2020
The United States is entering dangerous, uncharted territory. With a little more than 4 percent of the world’s population, our country has about 25 percent of coronavirus infections.
Over the course of five months, more Americans have lost their lives to this disease (127,000 and counting) than died in World War I (116,516).
New infections have reaccelerated and are rising toward some unknown peak.
And we have a president who doesn’t appear to give a damn.
How did we get here? The story is relatively simple.
Through shutdowns and social distancing, Americans flattened the curve of new infections. But we plateaued at a very high level — roughly 20,000 a day during most of May. (Contrast this with France, which flattened the curve to a plateau of roughly 400 daily cases.)
Then came Memorial Day. Many Americans — with the encouragement of some politicians — took this as the mental end of the crisis phase. On May 25, there were roughly 18,000 new infections. On June 25, it was 40,000. Six days after that, 53,000.
And a few weeks from now, the Fourth of July harvest of stupidity will be revealed.
On the second upswing of the first wave — where we currently stand — the profile of the disease has changed.
Because nursing homes are better protected and the elderly have adhered to pandemic hygiene, the average age of someone infected by the disease has fallen by roughly two decades.
Though a significant number still need hospitalization, fatality rates are lower. America is doing a better job shielding the most vulnerable.
But there are two problems.
First, following covid-19’s assault on the body, a significant number of younger people end up with long-term health complications.
One doctor I know says that 40-year-old patients he has treated sometimes end up climbing stairs like wheezing senior citizens. Researchers warn of lingering damage to the brain.
President Trump’s claim that 99 percent of covid-19 cases are “totally harmless” is a cruel lie.
Second, allowing the exponential spread of the disease will eventually make protecting the vulnerable an impossible task. All our islands of safety for the ill and elderly are endangered when the sea level of infection rapidly rises.
Many Americans simply don’t understand what exponential growth means. Three million infections can quickly bloom to 10 million infections, and higher. Even with a relatively low fatality rate, this could easily leave more than half a million Americans dead.
Who is responsible for this unfolding national disaster?
It starts at the top, where Trump has been a determined and creative ally of the virus.
In mid-April, the president simultaneously endorsed a strategy for gradual, prudent reopening of the economy and began egging on populist advocates of immediate reopening. It was clear to everyone where his sympathies truly lay.
Rather than bucking up governors to continue shutdowns until the burden of disease was manageable, Trump undercut them for his own (perceived) benefit.
Foolish, reckless governors quickly got the message that economic recovery was more urgent than pandemic responsibility.
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) actually stripped localities of the authority to issue stay-at-home orders so no one could resist his aggressive reopening plan.
But even governors who demonstrate concern about people’s lives have found many Americans — particularly younger Americans — increasingly resistant to basic pandemic precautions.
The successful control of infectious disease — using bed nets against malaria, adhering to AIDS medications, social distancing to inhibit the spread of the novel coronavirus — is ultimately a matter of individual behavior.
Successful attempts to improve such behavior on a large scale require a consistent message from all the commanding heights of a culture — the medical profession, the government, the church and the media.
The default position for many Americans is a robust individualism that leads to suspicion of government mandates. Overcoming this natural tendency requires energetic persuasion.
In the coronavirus crisis, the medical profession has done its job by providing the facts.
But the government (see Trump), the church (see Trump’s evangelical enablers) and the media (see Fox News and talk radio) have encouraged broad skepticism about essential health measures. In the process, they have created a right-wing constituency for preventable death.
There are two options here. Either Americans will be rudely jerked toward sanity by the sight of rapidly filling graves, or leaders of determination and talent will rise above the self-destructive strife and make deliverance from illness and death a unifying national cause.
The president has left this role vacant. It needs filling.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-responsible-for-...
The home of former West Virginia Governor Hulett C. Smith stands abandoned just outside Beckley, West Virginia. After his passing in 2012, the circa 1953 residence was sold to Governor Jim Justice-owned Bellwood Corporation with the intent of redeveloping the parcel into a mix of commercial, retail, and professional spaces, single-family homes, multi-family apartment complexes, and senior living facilities, and a nine-hole golf course. The project has stalled because of a back-and-forth over tax increment financing.
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Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
[Mechanical drawing class at Tuskegee Institute, ca. 1902]
[ca. 1902]
1 photograph : glass negative; plate 22 x 27 cm (8 x 10 format)
Notes:
Photograph shows students in a mechanical drawing class at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama.
On negative sleeve: "1/93".
Title from caption card for negative.
Date from caption card for negative.
Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Tuskegee Institute--People--1900-1910.
African Americans--Education--Alabama--Tuskegee--1900-1910.
Classrooms--Alabama--Tuskegee--1900-1910.
Students--Alabama--Tuskegee--1900-1910.
Format: Glass negatives--1900-1910.
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: Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 88707696
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.05694
Call Number: LC-J694- 109 [item]
To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, the Swamp Works team poses for a group photograph inside the Swamp Works laboratory area at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 21, 2023. Swamp Works includes several laboratories where hands-on, cutting-edge technology is developed for NASA and its exploration goals, as well as for benefits on Earth. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Description Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space mission in July 1969, served for seven years as a research pilot at the NACA-NASA High-Speed Flight Station, now the Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards, California, before he entered the space program. Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (later NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, and today the Glenn Research Center) in 1955. Later that year, he transferred to the High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards as an aeronautical research scientist and then as a pilot, a position he held until becoming an astronaut in 1962. He was one of nine NASA astronauts in the second class to be chosen. As a research pilot Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100A and F-100C aircraft, F-101, and the F-104A. He also flew the X-1B, X-5, F-105, F-106, B-47, KC-135, and Paresev. He left Dryden with a total of over 2450 flying hours. He was a member of the USAF-NASA Dyna-Soar Pilot Consultant Group before the Dyna-Soar project was cancelled, and studied X-20 Dyna-Soar approaches and abort maneuvers through use of the F-102A and F5D jet aircraft. Armstrong was actively engaged in both piloting and engineering aspects of the X-15 program from its inception. He completed the first flight in the aircraft equipped with a new flow-direction sensor (ball nose) and the initial flight in an X-15 equipped with a self-adaptive flight control system. He worked closely with designers and engineers in development of the adaptive system, and made seven flights in the rocket plane from December 1960 until July 1962. During those fights he reached a peak altitude of 207,500 feet in the X-15-3, and a speed of 3,989 mph (Mach 5.74) in the X-15-1. Armstrong has a total of 8 days and 14 hours in space, including 2 hours and 48 minutes walking on the Moon. In March 1966 he was commander of the Gemini 8 orbital space flight with David Scott as pilot - the first successful docking of two vehicles in orbit. On July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 lunar mission, he became the first human to set foot on the Moon.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: E56-2607
Date: January 1956
View of Colonial Peak and Pyramid Peak from Sourdough. Item 18865, City Light Photographic Negatives (Record Series 1204-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.
Gov. Reuben Fenton Mansion, also known as Walnut Grove, is a historic home located at Jamestown in Chautauqua County, New York. It is an Italian Villa style residence built in 1863. The home features a four-story tower. It was the home of Reuben Fenton (1819–1885). In 1919, the city of Jamestown acquired the property as a Soldiers and Sailors Memorial.
It has been home to the Fenton History Center since 1964.
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Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year.
The sunshield — a five-layer, diamond-shaped structure the size of a tennis court — was specially engineered to fold up around the two sides of the telescope and fit within the confines of its launch vehicle, the Ariane 5 rocket. Now that folding has been completed at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, the sunshield will remain in this compact form through launch and the first few days the observatory will spend in space.
Designed to protect the telescope’s optics from any heat sources that could interfere with its sight, the sunshield is one of Webb’s most critical and complex components. Because Webb is an infrared telescope, its mirrors and sensors need to be kept at extremely cold temperatures to detect faint heat signals from distant objects in the universe.
Read the whole feature: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-s-webb-telescope-p...
This image: Both sides of the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield were lifted vertically in preparation for the folding of the sunshield layers.
Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn
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Sylva
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Photograph shows Belgian American mezzo-soprano opera singer Marguerite Sylva (also known as Marguerita Sylva) (1875-1957).
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
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
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.31919
Call Number: LC-B2- 5391-8
A large sandstone church of fine decoration and detail which incorporates sections of the original church built in 1857. This was blessed by Archbishop Polding and later substantially extended in 1873. The design of the major part has been attributed to Architect Edward Gell. The design is Gothic Revival externally while the interior is influenced by the Byzantine style. The interior is distinguished by a magnificent high altar, stencilled decorations to the walls and a fine iron fence dividing the nave and sanctuary. Within the tall buttressed tower was placed the peal of bells in 1903 and an octagonal steeple was built in 1911. The steeply pitched roof is sheeted in slate and the building is in good condition. Architectural Style: Gothic Revival. Building Material: Sandstone.
Info source, and more, here:
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDe...
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Romaine
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
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.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.27897
Call Number: LC-B2- 4766-2
The human gut teems with bacteria and other microbes. They contribute to our health but also influence our susceptibility to certain diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease.
Read more: directorsblog.nih.gov/2023/06/27/changes-in-human-microbi...
Credit: Donny Bliss, NIH
Creator(s): Department of the Interior. Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Alaska Field Office. ca. 1935-ca. 1983
Series: Correspondence, 1935 - 1983
Record Group 435: Records of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, 1929 - 1988
Production Date: 1935 - 1983
Access Restriction(s):Unrestricted
Use Restriction(s):Unrestricted
Contact(s): National Archives at Seattle (RW-SE)
6125 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115-7999
Phone: 206-336-5115
Fax: 206-336-5112
Email: seattle.archives@nara.gov
National Archives Identifier: 40859200
Local Identifier: SEAL-57
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/40859200
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Ada Jones
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
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.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.29158
Call Number: LC-B2- 4979-2
The Market is part of The Huddersfield Blueprint and will form part of the Cultural Heart of that plan.
Here you can see progress on building a pathway around the old Market Hall.
More Information here: www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/huddersfield-blueprint/pdf/hudde...
Here also is a short video from Kirklees Council showing a fly through The Cultural Heart: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANGWW2qj-9E
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is unloaded by forklift from the C-17 of the United States Air Force’s 436th Airlift Wing after arriving at Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida, on the morning of April 3, 2018. The spacecraft was taken to Astrotech Space Operations, also in Titusville, for pre-launch testing and preparations.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
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Kingdom of Cambodia A320-214 B-6738 & Colombian Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Colombiana) 737-74V(BBJ) FAC0001 getting a good wash during a thunder storm at Zurich.
Working with astronomical image processors at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., renowned astro-photographer Robert Gendler has taken science data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive and combined it with his own ground-based observations to assemble a photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106.
Gendler retrieved archival Hubble images of M106 to assemble a mosaic of the center of the galaxy. He then used his own and fellow astro-photographer Jay GaBany's observations of M106 to combine with the Hubble data in areas where there was less coverage, and finally, to fill in the holes and gaps where no Hubble data existed.
The center of the galaxy is composed almost entirely of HST data taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, Wide Field Camera 3, and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 detectors. The outer spiral arms are predominantly HST data colorized with ground-based data taken by Gendler's and GaBany's 12.5-inch and 20-inch telescopes, located at very dark remote sites in New Mexico. The image also reveals the optical component of the "anomalous arms" of M106, seen here as red, glowing hydrogen emission.
Robert Gendler is a physician by profession but has been active in astrophotography for two decades. Robert started taking astro-images from his driveway in suburban Connecticut. He then spent several years imaging remotely from places like New Mexico and Western Australia. More recently, Robert has been spending his time assembling hybrid images from multiple data sources including the Hubble Legacy Archive. Many of these images have been featured on "Astronomy Picture of the Day" and in various books and magazines.
This portrait of M106 contains only the inner structure around the halo and nucleus of this Seyfert II active galaxy. Large amounts of gas from the galaxy are thought to be falling into and fueling a supermassive black hole contained in the nucleus. Also known as NGC 4258, M106 lies 23.5 million light-years away, in the constellation Canes Venatici.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., in Washington.
For images and more information about M106, visit:
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and R. Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team) Acknowledgment: J. GaBany
[source: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/m106.html ]
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Princess Bibesco
[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
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.33384
Call Number: LC-B2- 5593-8
Margolies, John,, photographer.
Mission Motel, overall view, Mt. Vernon Avenue & Orange Street, San Bernardino, California
1977.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Notes:
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Motels (connected lines and multi-story); Lodging.
Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Subjects:
Motels--1970-1980.
United States--California--San Bernardino.
Format: Slides--1970-1980.--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00235
Call Number: LC-MA05- 235
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Noted physicist Stephen Hawking (center) enjoys zero gravity during a flight aboard a modified Boeing 727 aircraft owned by Zero Gravity Corp. (Zero G). Hawking, who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) is being rotated in air by (right) Peter Diamandis, founder of the Zero G Corp., and (left) Byron Lichtenberg, former shuttle payload specialist and now president of Zero G. Kneeling below Hawking is Nicola O'Brien, a nurse practitioner who is Hawking's aide. At the celebration of his 65th birthday on January 8 this year, Hawking announced his plans for a zero-gravity flight to prepare for a sub-orbital space flight in 2009 on Virgin Galactic's space service. Additional information from source:
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Yanks drilled by Serg. Gibson
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Baseball.
Format: Glass negatives.
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
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.24560
Call Number: LC-B2- 4231-8
[Clifton suspension bridge from the cliffs, Bristol, England]
[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Notes:
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.
Print no. "10110".
Forms part of: Views of Views of Great Britain and Ireland, predominately England, in the Photochrom print collection.
Subjects:
England--Bristol.
Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Views of Great Britain and Ireland, predominately England (DLC) 2002696059
More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.08048
Call Number: LOT 13415, no. 070 [item]
JWST's Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) approaches its summer 2014 destination in GSFC’s SES chamber, as viewed from high above the He-cooled shroud that takes the ISIM to its flight operating temperature of ~35-40K.
Credit: NASA/Desiree Stover
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[This is one of a set of 8 photos} The John Waddey Carter House in Martinsville, Virginia, was built in 1896; the architect was George Franklin Barber, mail-order architect from Knoxville, Tennessee. This was a wedding present for Carter’s second wife, Kizziah Drewery. Locally the house is known as the “Gray Lady.” Carter was a lawyer and politician, one-time mayor of Martinsville.
A somewhat subdued Barber design, this is still a remarkable Queen Anne with architectural features galore. It’s a 2-story frame weatherboard structure with a dominating central gable, under which are found porches on both first and second floors. The roofline is complex with the front gable, steep-pitched cross gables, and a tower with onion dome. The roof is hipped, standing-seam metal-clad. A large dormer window is on the side with narrow double windows. Running bond brick forms the foundation.
The first level front façade has a wrap-around porch that contains the bulge of the tower. It has a frieze of beaded spindlework, turned posts and lace brackets, and a balustrade consisting of thick balusters but with panels at the corners. The porch gable has a board-and-batten decoration and a very basic bargeboard. The second-level porch has more involved ornamentation with a base of fish-scale shingles, a wide, subdued bargeboard, and stylized floral corner medallions. The central gable is decorated with fish-scale shingles and has two small 1/1 windows, the upper portions with a design of diagonal muntins.
The octagonal tower is more a part of the mass of the house rather than a taller, more prominent element. Fish-scale shingles form the base of the tower above the roofline; above this are small sunburst windows; and above the windows is an overhang with prominent brackets. Capping the tower is a small onion-dome with patterned metal shingles. A variety of windows exists throughout—tall but narrow 1/1 paned windows, single-paned, round, half-round, arched, and stained glass (I didn’t spot this). The entrance is simple with large sidelights and a decorative sunburst pattern below them.
Modifications have been made to the original house to accommodate additions of a bathroom and kitchen.
The house was listed November 3, 1988 on the National Register of Historic Places with ID #88002180. The Virginia Department of Historic Resources nomination file includes a very detailed account of the interior arrangement and decorative elements.
www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Martinsville/120-00...
A nice b&w photo (no date given) at
www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Martinsville/Carter...
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Merchants and Farmers Bank, Columbus, Mississippi
1986.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Notes:
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Banks; Main Street.
Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Subjects:
Banks--1980-1990.
United States--Mississippi--Columbus.
Format: Slides--1980-1990.--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.04072
Call Number: LC-MA05- 4072
New York State Canal Tugboat Urger at the Waterford, NY Tugboat Roundup along the Erie Canal and Hudson River. She was built in 1901 with a bit of interesting history...
Beautiful sunset from Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area last weekend – photos: Meredith Matherly, BLM
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Photos captured Nov. 10, 2017
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Gov. Nellie T. Ross
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
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.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.29524
Call Number: LC-B2- 5041-13
clicknexplore.comSecond shot from the Uttarakhand series. I visited Binsar, Uttarakhand, India on the Christmas vacation.
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Canon Rebel xti
Canon EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
1/30-second exposures @F13
No grad filter
No Circular polarizer
ISO 100
RAW files processed with Aperture
TIFF files processed with Photoshop for border.
Tripod - Targus from Target Store.
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This is the Christmas morning sunrise shot from the KMVN Resort Terrace. The magnificent himalayan peaks of Trishul, Nanda Devi and Nanda Kot glows in the early morning as the first rays of sun falls on the East face. The surreal clouds also makes the scene more dramatic. This was truly a santa gift for me. It was cloudy and not a single peak was visible on the day one of the trip, thats two days before this.
Peaks seen here in this shot are Trishul I (23360 ft), II (21949 ft), III (19708 ft), Mrigthuni (22489 ft), Maikatoli (22319 ft), Nanda Devi (25643 ft), Pawali Dwar (21860 ft), Nanda Devi East (24389 ft), Nanda Khat (21689 ft), Traill's Pass (17427 ft) & Pindari Glacier (12532 ft), Chhanguch (20741 ft), Nanda Kot (22510 ft), Lapsa Dhura (19400 ft) and Dangthal (19848 ft).
I went to Binsar, Uttarakhand for the Christmas vacation. Binsar is a protected wildlife sancuatry around 32 km from Almora and is the highest point in the Kumaon region. Binsar Hills known and Jhandi Dhar, rise to a height of 2412 m and offer an excellent view of Almora town, Kumaon hills and the greater Himalayan Valley. The surroundings abound in alpine flora, ferns, hanging moss and species of wild flowers. The chief attraction of Binsar is the majestic view of the Himalayas - a 300 km, stretch on famous peaks which includes Kedarnath, Chaukhamba, Trishul, Nanda Devi, Nanda Kot and Panchachuli in India to Api, Saipal and Jethi Bahirani peaks in Nepal Himalaya.
I stayed at he KMVN Resort at the top of the hill facing the Himalayas. There are a couple of other resorts which are at lower elevation and also does not have Himalayan View. Entry fee to the sanctuary is Rs 150 per person valid for 3 days and Rs 250 for the car. KMVN Resort boasts a terrace at the edge of the cliff which gives the panoramic view. This place is a must visit. What are the things to do for me in Binsar? Well, i went there, checked in, went out to the terrace, sat on the chair and basked the sun, sipped hot tea and enjoyed the view. And believe me i did this continuously for three days and I can do it for my life. It is an amazing feeling. Also take a walk up to the Zero point for seeing the Gangotri peaks on the other side of the hill. I will soon post pictures from my trip where these will be clear. Also do not miss out the sky view before moonrise. You can clearly see the milky way galaxy and innumerable stars and you will feel like you are out of this world. Go there to feel it.
Binsar haas wildlife all around ranging from monkeys, to jungle squirrels to leopard. there is a big variety of bird life also in the jungle.
The map shows the exact location of the shot. (29.698454 N,79.75968 E)
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KMVN Resort: The best views, excellent food, sunny terrace for laid back vacation, walking distance from Zero Point, out of the world environment. But you do not get electricity in the room except for 3 hours in evening, 2 buckets of hot water in the morning and no entertainment of modern world. Go there for laid back life.
Gov. Stanford is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive originally built in 1862 by Norris Locomotive Works. It entered service on November 9, 1863 and it was used in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America by Central Pacific Railroad bearing road number 1. It was Central Pacific's first locomotive and it is named in honor of the road's first president and ex-California governor, Leland Stanford.
The locomotive was rebuilt on 1878 with larger cylinders and an increased boiler pressure, which increased its tractive effort to 11,081 pounds-force (49,290 N). In 1891 the locomotive was renumbered to 1174. The locomotive was retired from regular service on July 20, 1895, then donated to Stanford University; however, it was not delivered to the university until 1899. The locomotive was disassembled and stored during World War II but was returned to display at the university after reassembly by retired Southern Pacific engineer Billy Jones. In the 1960s, the university needed the space occupied by the engine for other uses, so the engine was removed and loaned to the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, which had been in the process of collecting historic locomotives and rolling stock to be displayed in what would ultimately become the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. The locomotive is currently a centerpiece at the museum where it has been cosmetically restored to its 1899 appearance.
I broke down and paid for some professional photographs of me in my costumes this year; in this one I'm Governor-General James Howlett - an alternative universe version of Wolverine (think Wolverine combined with Teddy Roosevelt yet still Canadian). I think the photographer knocked it out of the park with these in terms of mood, background, and lighting.
Photographer: Bryan Humphrey
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A. Stanley
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
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
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.31512
Call Number: LC-B2- 5316-3
Construction of a new $122.65-million campus for Emily Carr University of Art and Design is nearly 50% complete.
The new campus will allow the university to meet increased student demand, accommodate current and emerging program areas, and build on its reputation as a leader in developing world-class creators.
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