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I took a shot of my bookcase for a friend and thought I'd have some fun posting it to Flickr.
Your turn. Post a shot of your bookcase, complete with comments about specific books, or whatever. Post a link back here in the comments so that the rest of us can see what you've got.
Devastation Left in the Wake of German Armies.
MILL AT COURCELLES, FRANCE, WITH BOILERS BLOWN BY DYNAMITE INTO A MASS OF SCRAP AND TWISTED METAL.
THIS IS TYPICAL OF HUNDREDS OF SIMILAR CASES DESTRUCTION IN THE INVADED DISTRICTS OF FRANCE.
AN ORGY OF DESTRUCTIVE RAGE IS INDICATED BY THIS RUIN OF THE EXTENSIVE WORKS OF THE COAL PITS AT DOURGES, FRANCE.
NO MILITARY END WAS SERVED BY THIS, AND IT WAS WHOLLY OUTSIDE THE SANCTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
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The war of the nations: portfolio in rotogravure etchings: compiled from the Mid-week pictorial. New York: New York Times, Co, 1919. Book.
Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/19013740/. (Accessed November 08, 2016.)
Images from "The War of the Nations : Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings : Compiled from the Mid-Week Pictorial" (New York : New York Times, Co., 1919)
Notes: Selected from "The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings," published by the New York Times shortly after the 1919 armistice. This portfolio compiled selected images from their "Mid-Week Pictorial" newspaper supplements of 1914-19. 528 p. : chiefly ill. ; 42 cm.; hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 --Pictorial works.
New York--New York
Format: Rotogravures --1910-1920.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction
Repository: Library of Congress, Serials and Government Publications Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
Part Of: Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 (DLC) sgpwar 19191231
General information about the Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 digital collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037
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The branch of our library is being redone so it is closed for more than a year. So twice a week the bookmobile comes to our neighborhood now.
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Square stamp with wooden handle. Stamp reads: 'WEST LOTHIAN * EDUCATION COMMITTEE / COUNTY /LIBRARY'.
West Lothian Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
Copyright: West Lothian Council Museums Service.
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting WLCMS2006.002.001.
The Kalamazoo Public Library McConnell collection includes over 100 largely unidentified photos donated to the Kalamazoo Public Library. They were the property of Marion Louise McConnell of Kalamazoo. Photos may include members of the McConnell, Rineveld, Kelder, Born, and Link families. www.kpl.gov/local-history/
Seattle Central Library, Seattle, USA.
Architects: Rem Koolhaas, oshua Prince-Ramus (OMA + LMN)
Built: 2004
Area: 38300.0 sqm
Location: Seattle, WA, USA.
Rather shiny library sign at Edinburgh University catching the autumn sun, seemed perfect for a B&W shot, so fired off a quick snap while the light was just so
The Children's section contains something for kids of all ages, including picture books, early readers, award winners, movies, and more!
The library is to be moved from this 1960s building to a newly built building which will also house the Kent County Archives and the Kent central library.
Part of the Art School on the right, the end of the Royal Albion pub on the left
Jack Woodford - Teach Me to Love
(Original Title: Strangers in Love)
Novel Library 44. 1950
Cover Artist: unknown
"A Special Brand of Love"
Statue, Craven College, Skipton and Free Library, Skipton
Statue of Sir Matthew Wilson
SD 9951 1/60
Monument to Sir Matthew Wilson, first Member of Parliament for Skipton 1885-6.
Square sandstone plinth with moulded base and cornice, supporting standing stone figure by A Bruce Joy 1888.
Listing NGR: SD9901251805
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright.
AT a time when almost half the population of Great Britain was illiterate and when work life was hardly above the level of slavery, an organisation sprang up driven mostly by the middle classes, passionately committed to improve the lot of the working poor.
Skipton Mechanics' Institution started with a limp in 1823, hobbled along again from 1839 and then leapt into life more sure footed in 1847.
This fledgling organisation had been using rooms in the Hole in the Wall Yard, off Court Lane and later from 1847 based itself in a two roomed property in Chancery Lane, off High Street - now demolished.
This latter manifestation came about thanks to a gang of moneyed backers, the upper crust of the town, mill owners, members of the professions and other worthies including Skipton Building Society.
It did well. And by 1852 it was issuing over 2000 books a year and about 75 members were attending classes in writing arithmetic, grammar, geography, French, higher mathematics, history and reading, plus a host of scientific lectures.
To cater especially for the working classes it set up People's Concerts and in 1860, to cultivate more cultural amusement, established "Penny Readings".
For a penny, illiterate folk could listen to readings of great literature - the likes of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. They were so popular the Craven Herald reported that as many as 400 people would assemble in the Temperance Hall.
It was the opening of Skipton's New Town Hall in 1862 which saw the next big change. It freed up the Georgian building in Sheep Street where the town council had been meeting .
So the trustees upped-sticks from Chancery Lane and decamped in Sheep Street thanks to the benevolence of Sir Richard Tufton who charged them just a nominal rent.
This chap Tufton was to crop up again offering his generous hand in the late 1890s. He was Sir Richard Tufton, Second Baron Hothfield whose family seat was Skipton Castle.
The tale goes like this. Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee arrived in 1887. So not letting a chance to boost their institution slip through their fingers, the trustees launched a memorial subscription and keen to get in on the act local big-wigs dug deep into their frock coats to pull out wads of notes including Baron Tufton along with Skipton mill mogal J Dewhurst, the Duke of Devonshire, Walker Morrison of Malham and former Skipton MP Matthew Wilson. A total of £2,382 was raised.
But Tufton's largesse didn't stop there. Next he popped up with a gift of land in High Street on which to construct a Science and Art School, a project that took two years to complete and was opened on September 25,1894.
Ownership was held by a special body of trustees who pledged to permit the building to be occupied by the directors of Skipton Mechanics' Institution for the purpose of educating children, adults, artisans and others in technical and general instruction in a variety of trades and professions.
The final pioneering effort of the Mechanics' in conjunction with the Science and Art School and Skipton Urban District Council was to fund a library.
Predictably, they launched a subscription scheme and with the knowledge of the philanthropic work of the Scot Andrew Carnegie at the back of their minds - he had financed a number of other public libraries, including Keighley's - he was approached and he flipped up £3,000 towards the construction. In 1910, the present library was handed over to the town.
There was a period of little activity between 1914 and 1946 apart for the provision of many school prizes, books and grants to individual students, money also going to Craven Naturalists and generous financial support to Craven Museum in 1928.
Following the Second World War, the West Riding of Yorkshire took over full control of further education and the trustees authorised the a lease of the Science and Art School to the county.
And 1971 saw another significant change when the trustees agreed to sell the freehold of the High Street premises to North Yorkshire County Council for continued occupation by Craven College.
Thanks to the Craven Herald
Our dining room and book collection. In retrospect this room sure would look good with my full sized table hockey game occupying the corner, although we don't have many people to play it.
South side of Aveiro University's library.
Design by Álvaro Siza Vieira, its sides look like a open book
Canon 350D
exif: 1/250s * f/10 * 37mm * ISO400
AA Gymnastics visited the library again and showed off their moves! At the end of the program kids from the audience got a chance to try out some of the training equipment to flip over backward!
The Library of Celsus is Ephesus's best known landmark, owing to the remarkable preservation of it's facade which, having collapsed at some point in the Middle Ages was meticulously pieced back together and re-erected in the late 1970s (with a concealed steel frame to protect against further earthquake damage).
Ephesus is justly famed as one of the finest ancient Roman sites anywhere. The ruins of the city are extensive with many impressive monuments to amaze the visitor (that have often been partially reassembled to give an indication of their former glory and context).
Unfortunately the fame and popularity of the site means that, unlike most of the classical sites we visited elsewhere, it is constantly crowded with tourists. However the city has always attracted visitors, and among those who spent time here centuries ago were St Paul and St John (and possibly Mary herself if one believes in the authenticity of her nearby residence).
Christina's Friday craft for the Tweens and the Young Adults was to create snow globes out of recycled bottles. Each kid was able to create something special to float inside their own personalized snow globe.
This is the Lawyers Library - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is directly across the street from the Library which I posted a sketch of earlier. Quite a contrast in styles.
On this sketch I drew inspiration from two of my favorite Flickr artists, Luis Ruiz and Florian Afflerbach.
Luis Ruiz recently posted a wonderful fish eye which I found particularly inspiring, so I though I would try it out myself. (see Luis' sketch)
www.flickr.com/photos/38933660@N05/4790675873/in/faves-40...
Flaf has a wonderful way of treating the bottom of a lot of his sketches. This building has a lot of trees, shrubs and visual clutter at the base which I thought would take away from the purity of the architecture. So I "tried" to implement a technique I have seen Florian use many times, however I think less succesfully than he does. See Florian's sketch here...
www.flickr.com/photos/flaf/4449659531/in/faves-40945387@N02/
Local Accession Number: 06_11_001347
Title: College library
Statement of responsibility: Leander Baker, photo.
Creator/Contributor: Baker, Leander, approximately 1842-1925 (photographer)
Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints
Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.
General notes: Title from handwritten text on verso.; Part of series: Providence views.
Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.
Subjects: Libraries; Universities & colleges
Collection: Stereographs
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Shelf locator: Colleges
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.