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Part of: 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
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May 15th, 2014
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Built in 1939-1940, the United States Post Office and Court House building was designed in the Stripped Classical style by Louis A. Simon and Thomas Harlan Ellett, winners of a national competition held by the United States Treasury under the New Deal, with the building being published in the architectural periodical Pencil Points. The building stands at the corner of Scott Boulevard and 7th Street in downtown, replacing an earlier structure at the corner of Scott Boulevard and Park Place, and stands on the site of several 19th Century townhouses and the first synagogue in the city, Temple Israel, which was built in 1915, all of which were demolished to make way for the large building. The building features an imposing limestone exterior with minimalist modernist interpretations of classical architectural details, with sculptures and reliefs depicting and personifying such figures and items as justice, tobacco, and horse breeding, crafted by sculptors Carl L. Schmitz and Romuald Kraus. The building also features three-story glass curtain walls between massive pilasters, two basement light wells at the base that integrate with the staircases to the entry doors on either end of the building, and a service court at the southern end, partially enclosed by a deeply set-back limestone wall with additional sculptures. The interior of the post office space features brass doors and trim, stone floors, brass light fixtures, circular ceiling coffers, and wooden wall paneling. The building was expanded to the rear (east) in 1969 under the supervision of architects Fisk-Rinehart & Hall-McAllister-Stockwell, with the cream-colored buff brick addition adding additional service areas for the Postal operations within the building, as well as the courts and offices on the upper levels. In 1999, a new Federal Courthouse was built at the corner of 5th Street and Montgomery Street, allowing the postal service to expand their operations within the building to occupy the space formerly reserved for the federal courts and offices. The building is a contributing structure in the Covington Downtown Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and expanded in 1995 to cover the block where the building is located.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by H. David of Béthune.
German gunners used to target churches and cathedrals in France and Belgium, partly out of boredom, partly to practise their skills, but mainly because the height of such ecclesiastical buildings made them ideal observation posts for the Allies.
These buildings, along with châteaux and other large secular edifices, were literally sitting targets - they couldn't be moved or made smaller or camouflaged, hence the appalling damage that many of these beautiful buildings sustained from enemy artillery - they just had to sit there and take it.
Shells aimed at churches which just missed their target tended to fall in the churchyards, throwing up gravestones, coffins and corpses.
Vermelles
Vermelles is a village that was just behind the British lines on the Western Front. The château was used as an Advanced Dressing Station during the Battle of Loos which took place from the 25th. September to the 8th. October 1915.
The Use of Chlorine Gas
The battle represented the largest British attack of 1915, and was the first time that the British used poison gas. Prior to the attack, about 140 tons (140,000 kg) of chlorine was released with mixed success - in places the gas was blown back into British trenches (Friendly Gas - a ghastly variation of the term Friendly Fire).
Due to the inefficiency of the available gas masks, many British soldiers removed them as they could not see through the fogged-up eyepieces or could barely breathe with them on. This led to many casualties when the gas blew back.
'Reconciliation'
Siegfried Sassoon wrote a poem called 'Reconciliation'. Here it is:
'When you are standing at your hero’s grave,
Or near some homeless village where he died,
Remember, through your heart’s rekindling pride,
The German soldiers who were loyal and brave.
Men fought like brutes; and hideous things were done;
And you have nourished hatred, harsh and blind.
But in that Golgotha perhaps you’ll find
The mothers of the men who killed your son'.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
My story and photographs about GYC (Generation of Youth for Christ) were published in the Southwestern Record February 2012 edition.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 26th of July 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
We hope you enjoy looking through our collection, you are welcome to download and share our images for your own personal use, as they are to our knowledge, in the public domain. If you would like to use the images for commercial purposes, please contact us and we can provide a High Quality Digital Image for a fee. If you are able to use the Low Resolution Image from the website please do, but we would appreciate a credit: Image from the Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection, Thank you.
outtakes for the inside-out - be the change project in athens, greece. a subset was selected for the action, which will take place friday, june 21, 2013.
more information:
Marina And The Diamonds
Friday, June 5th, 2015
Bowery Presents
Webster Hall, NYC
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I was very excited to have one of my afghans published in the "Little Box of Throws". For this collection, search for Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss at amazon.com
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle August 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Two of my photos were published in this scientific textbook in India (April 2010), the storm clouds and heart shaped lightning photos. The clouds photo was used for the cover and numerous other pages and images related to the book. The book was written by Dr. Anu Kapur while a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study; she is now at the University of Delhi. I had several communications with Dr. Kapur and the publisher and am very pleased how it turned out. I was invited to India for the release of the book but could not attend on my dime! Maybe someday. And indeed I was given full credit for the photos and minor compensation; Sage is an international publisher of many academic books.
The book is listed on Amazon: Vulnerable India and many locations in India.
Funny thing of it was that all I did was look up, see some interesting storm clouds, snap, then from across the world it ends up on a cover of a scientific Disaster book! It is a very academic book so it's distribution is very limited but none the less I am pleased seeing my work used in education.
Published in 2004/April EDN ASIA magazine. It told us that don't be stupid to pay the money which is worth a deer to buy a dog.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 13th of July 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
We hope you enjoy looking through our collection, you are welcome to download and share our images for your own personal use, as they are to our knowledge, in the public domain. If you would like to use the images for commercial purposes, please contact us and we can provide a High Quality Digital Image for a fee. If you are able to use the Low Resolution Image from the website please do, but we would appreciate a credit: Image from the Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection, Thank you.
Published in The Film Daily, 1926 in a special edition celebrating Laemmle's 20th Anniversary in the film business
The Government today published the Action Plan for Jobs 2015, the next step in the multi-annual process aimed at delivering full employment by 2018. - See more at: merrionstreet.ie/en/News-Room/News/Action_Plan_for_Jobs_2...
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 26th of February 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Nola Treat and Lenore Richards
In the winter of 1924, Richard’s Treat Cafeteria opened in downtown Minneapolis. The tiny eatery was the venture of two young U of M home economics professors, Nola Treat and Lenore Richards. The pair had published the book Quantity Cookery in 1922, just as the need for instruction on institutional cooking (for school, hospital and workplace cafeterias where quantity was as important as quality) was becoming apparent.
With the slogan “Your home downtown”, classic, comfortable décor, and a reliably delicious rotating menu of breakfast, lunch and dinner items, Richard’s Treat quickly became a success. Over the years, the downtown establishment not only expanded to four more dining areas in the building, but added modern improvements like air conditioning. These qualities contributed to Richard’s Treat keeping the doors open during the Great Depression and the turmoil of World War Two.
In 1943, Nola Treat was the first woman to be appointed to the board of the Minneapolis Civic Council, and in 1945, Lenore Richards became a director of The National Restaurant Association. In 1957, the pair was named to American Restaurant’s Hall of Fame.
After 33 successful years, Richard’s Treat was forced to close its doors due to the destruction of the building to make way for a new downtown bank. The women continued to advise and consult with businesses and institutions on their dining programs and left generous donations to Millikin University in Decatur, Ill, Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Abbott Northwestern Hospital.
Lenore Richards passed away in 1971, and Nola Treat in 1983. The two are buried next to one another, the long relationship both personal and professional remembered to this day. Lenore’s letters to Nola sum up the pair perfectly. In January of 1918, Lenore wrote to Nola, “Let’s get something to do together, I can live and work so much happier when I am with you and I feel so stupid and uninspired when I am alone.” The next year Lenore wrote to Nola, “The further I go, and the more I think about the possibility of losing you, the more I realize how happy I am, and how hard working without you would be. For with no one to work with, and no one to laugh with, and no one to love with, life would be too dull.”
"The enduring legacy of Nola Treat and Lenore Richards extends well beyond the generous gift Miss Treat gave to help fund construction on our campus of the student center, including our dining hall, that bears their name," says Millikin University President Patrick White. "These two women achieved outstanding success as business owners at a time in our national history when that accomplishment was rare for women. The drive, courage, and indefatigable energy with which they lived their lives stand as an example to Millikin women and men of the entrepreneurial spirit we strive to empower in all of today's Millikin students as they seek to fulfill their best imaginations of who they can become.” Dr. Patrick White, President of Millikin University, the alma mater of Miss Treat and home to a student center named in honor of both Miss Richards and Miss Treat
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 11th of February 1916. During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past. The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories or information to add please comment below. Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.