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Post Hurricane Sandy NYC
Power is actually restored but some basements in lower Manhattan still remain flooded
Restore us again, O God of our salvation,
and put away your indignation toward us!
5 Will you be angry with us forever?
Will you prolong your anger to all generations?
6 Will you not revive us again,
that your people may rejoice in you?
7 Show us your steadfast love, O LORD,
and grant us your salvation.
8 Let me hear what God the LORD will speak,
for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;
but let them not turn back to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
10 Steadfast love and faithfulness meet;
righteousness and peace kiss each other.
11 Faithfulness springs up from the ground,
and righteousness looks down from the sky.
12 Yes, fthe LORD will give what is good,
and our land will yield its increase.
13 Righteousness will go before him
and make his footsteps a way.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ps 85:4–13.
A beautifully restored EMD SD24 diesel locomotive sits on a siding in front of Barn 9 at the Illinois Railway Museum.
Monday, September 5, 2011
IRM - Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Illinois
Olympus E-3 DSLR
Olympus ZD 14-54mm f.2.8-3.5 Mk II zoom
Quantaray Pro Digital circular polarizer
ISO 400 -- 17mm -- f.5.6 -- 1/640
Haus Opherdicke ist ein Wasserschloss und ehemaliges Rittergut im Holzwickeder Ortsteil Opherdicke. Das Haus steht östlich des Ortskerns auf dem Kamm des Ardeygebirges mit Blick nach Süden ins Tal der Ruhr. Nach dem Erwerb durch den Kreis Unna wurde es 1980 umfangreich saniert und restauriert.
Haus Opherdicke is a moated castle and former manor house in the Opherdicke district of Holzwickede. The house stands to the east of the town centre on the crest of the Ardey Mountains with a view to the south into the valley of the Ruhr. After its acquisition by the district of Unna, it was extensively renovated and restored in 1980.
Entitled: Foot Bound Girls, Liao Chow, Shansi, China [c1920-1930s] likely by IE Oberholtzer [RESTORED]. I took out spots, repaired obvious image defects, increased the contrast and fixed the edges.
Another picture worthy of social note was found from a private web gallery. I discovered this wonderful photograph amongst a series of pictures posted to Picassa Web Albums (Google's free picture gallery) by someone named Joe. He has a collection of images that (from what information I could gather on his gallery), seems to have been taken by one I.E. Oberholtzer in or around the Liao Chow area of Shansi, (modern day Liaozhou, Shanxi Province), China, during the 1920-1930s. His collection captured a wide range of events. There is a detailed series on road construction, a small series on the effects of war, and finally, a section devoted to missionary work, and the social milieu of the Shanxi area. I do not know if Oberholtzer himself was a missionary or not.
Other pictures from this series and Joe's magnificent galleries can be seen here:
picasaweb.google.com/LlamaLane
Beauty is often held to be in the eye of the beholder. One of the most famous, yet puzzling, but distinctly Chinese ideas thereof resided in the form of Bound Feet 纏足. This was done by the forcible breaking, folding and binding of young girls feet, so that the resultant footprint was only about half or a third of the size that it would naturally be. This painful, crippling, and sometimes fatal deformity process was performed on Chinese girls as early as three years old. It was considered something that made them more desirable by Chinese men when they reached eventual adulthood. Also known as a Lotus Foot, the practice was almost an exclusive habit of the affluent or wealthy (since the Tang) until the mid to late 1800's, whereupon the very poor too, eventually took up this practice. It was then thought to increase a family's prospects for eventual receipt of a better dowry when a daughter married. Many poor women however, could typically only be married into other poor families, thereby harshly limiting the size of any such dowry. Thus most poor women had their feet crippled for nothing. The practice was eventually outlawed in the early 1900's but remained a cultural imperative clandestinely performed until the middle of the century. At that time, communist Chinese authorities ultimately threatened death sentences to anyone who didn't stop. It was arguably one of the best pro human rights action that the Chinese communists ever did in China.
As the above photo shows, by the early 20th century, this slavish "fashion" phenomenon wasn't restricted to the very rich. Three young teenage girls, with poor and threadbare peasant clothing, nonetheless have tiny bound feet.
For those that have an interest in this horrifying yet historic practice, do take a look at Flickr member Okinawa Soba's extensive collection of images. His gallery not only has great pics of this cultural phenomenon, it is also peppered with lively discussion about it:
www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3462167744/in/set-7215...
And for those that don't already know it, Okinawa Soba has one of the finest (if not THE best) Flickr galleries of Old Japan, and general far east period images. His extensive collection is not only inspiring but should serve as a model for all of us Flickr members as to how it really should be done.
This photograph shows the U-Boat 110, a German Submarine that was sunk and risen in 1918. This photograph shows the Submarine's Electric Control Room, looking in to the Motor Room and Stern Torpedo Room.
Reference: DS.SWH/5/3/2/14/1/66
This image is taken from an album of photographs found in the Swan Hunter shipbuilders collection at Tyne & Wear Archives. The album is from 1918 and documents the U.B. 110 before she was scrapped on the dry docks of Swan Hunter Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend.
The twin-screw German submarine U.B. 110 was built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg.
On the 19th July 1918, when attacking a convoy of merchant ships near Hartlepool, she herself was attacked by H.M. Motor-Launch No. 263 and suffered from depth charges. Coming to the surface she was rammed by H.M.S. Garry, a torpedo boat destroyer, and sunk.
In September she was salvaged and placed in the admiralty dock off Jarrow slake. She was then berthed at Swan Hunter's dry docks department with an order to restore her as a fighting unit.
The Armistice on 11th November 1918 caused work on her to be stopped. She was towed on the 19th December 1918 from Wallsend to the Northumberland Dock at Howdon and was subsequently sold as scrap.
The album of photographs, taken by Frank & Sons of South Shields, documents the U.B. 110 in extensive detail. The photographs provide a rare glimpse into the mechanics and atmosphere of the raised German submarine.
More images of the U-Boat 110 can be viewed here.
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Newly renovated vintage Canterbury Hotel bar now resides at Stuts Business Ctr., Indianapolis.. I did that...
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-11/retired-train-drivers-brin...
More than one hundred years since its dispatch to war, the Hunslet No. 327 locomotive will call The Workshops Rail Museum its home after three years of restoration.
Queensland Museum’s Acting CEO Dr Jim Thompson said it was wonderful that the Hunslet No. 327 locomotive would be on permanent display at the Museum.
“This small locomotive has had an extraordinary life, initially not expected to last more than about six weeks during war and then serving more than 40 years in a Queensland sugar cane mill,” Dr Thompson said.
Built in 1916 by the Hunslet Locomotive Works of Leeds, England, the engine was one of 665 steam locomotives ordered by the British War Office during the First World War and dispatched to France to move munitions and supplies to the front lines.
Following the end of the war the locomotive was rebuilt by Hunslet Engine Co. and in June 1920 it was one of 15 War Office Hunslet locomotives purchased by the Queensland Government and shipped to Mackay to begin work as a cane train at the North Eton Sugar Mill.
The locomotive was retired in 1964 and moved to Eton’s Langford Park where it was put on static display for the community. Due to deterioration, it was removed in 2005 and generously donated by the Mackay Sugar Co-Operative Association to The Workshops Rail Museum in Ipswich.
In a project spanning ten years, including three years of restoration by Queensland Rail, The Workshops Rail Museum has brought the Hunslet No. 327 back to its original First World War configuration.
Major General's Great Uniform, British Army (c.1786-1794) on display in the museum at Fort Ticonderoga.
Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York in the United States. It was constructed by Canadian-born French military engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière between October 1755 and 1757 during the Seven Years' War, often referred to as the French and Indian War in the US. It was of strategic importance during the 18th-century colonial conflicts between Great Britain and France, and again played an important role during the American Revolutionary War.
The site controlled a river portage alongside the mouth of the rapids-infested La Chute River in the 3.5 miles (5.6 km) between Lake Champlain and Lake George and was strategically placed in conflicts over trade routes between the British-controlled Hudson River Valley and the French-controlled Saint Lawrence River Valley. The terrain amplified the importance of the site. Both lakes were long and narrow, oriented north–south, as were the many ridge lines of the Appalachian Mountains extending as far south as Georgia, creating the near-impassable mountainous terrains to the east and west of the Great Appalachian Valley that the site commanded. The name "Ticonderoga" comes from the Iroquois word tekontaró:ken, meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways".
During the 1758 Battle of Carillon, 4,000 French defenders were able to repel an attack by 16,000 British troops near the fort. In 1759, the British returned and drove a token French garrison from the fort merely by occupying high ground that threatened the fort. During the American Revolutionary War, the fort again saw action in May 1775 when the Green Mountain Boys and other state militia under the command of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured it in a surprise attack. Cannons captured were transported to Boston where their deployment forced the British to abandon the city in March 1776. The Americans held the fort until June 1777, when British forces under General John Burgoyne again occupied high ground above it and threatened the Continental Army troops, leading them to withdraw from the fort and its surrounding defenses. The only direct attack on the fort took place in September 1777, when John Brown led 500 Americans in an unsuccessful attempt to capture the fort from about 100 British defenders.
The British abandoned the fort after the failure of the Saratoga campaign, and it ceased to be of military value after 1781. It fell into ruin, leading people to strip it of some of its usable stone, metal, and woodwork. It became a stop on tourist routes of the area in the 19th century. Its private owners restored the fort early in the 20th century. A foundation now operates the fort as a tourist attraction, museum, and research center.
Flickr User Espressobuzz was kind enough to forward me some scans of rare trichrome separations by Seattle photographer George Morihiro after seeing my work restoring trichrome images from the Prokudin-Gorskii Collection.
This image, by far the most striking of the set, depicts a woman wearing a black kimono reclining in a studio.
The original black and white channel separations are included on the left for comparison.
Full view of the front or the river view side of the Rosenbaum House.
Touring Alabama's one and only structure designed by the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The Rosenbaum House is the second of Wright’s Usonian style homes to be built. The Usonian style home was a new designed concept intended as a low-cost housing for middle-class American families. In 1938, newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum were given a two acre lot and funds to build a home by Stanley’s parents. After reading about Frank Lloyd Wright, they commissioned Wright to design and build the house. The first phase of the house cost the couple $14,000. The Rosenbaums moved into their new home in September 1940. The first photographs of the house were placed on exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Built in an L-shape, the house is made from natural materials, largely cypress wood and brick. Multilevel low-rising steel-cantilevered roofs covering both the living spaces and adjoining carport. The distinctive feature of the house is its glass, with most of the rooms have their own door to the outside. The center of the house is the “service core”, built around a large stone hearth. The original Usonian floor plan provided 1,540 square feet of living space. After the Rosenbaums fourth child, the family needed more space in the already cramped house. The Rosenbaums asked Wright to design an extension. Wright’s 1948 modification added an additional 1,084 square feet in a second L-shape.
The house was occupied by the Rosenbaums until 1999 when Mildred was moved into a nursing home. This makes the longest occupancy by the original owners of any of Wright’s other Usonian homes. The Rosenbaum family donated the house to the City of Florence and sold the furniture and contents of the house to the city for $75,000. When the city acquired house, the house was in poor repair, with extensive water penetration and termite damage. According to the tour guide, “we almost lost the house for good after a building inspector looked over the house and saw the severity of the damage that he recommended for the house to be torn down since it was in an unsafe condition.” City leaders came up with a plan to fund the restoration of the house. With the help of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, along with the many volunteers and professionals, the Rosenbaum house was meticulously restored and opened to the public in 2002 as a museum.
The Rosenbaum House was place on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
2:34 PM CDT, September 4, 2022
Florence, Alabama Trip September 4-5.
Frank Lloyd Wright - Rosenbaum House Museum, 601 Riverview Drive, Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama.
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I wish I had taken a “before” photo! This guy was in sad shape. ALL of his chrome was worn off, his silver on his knee pads and gloves was almost gone too. I took a flysea chrome paint pen to his head and torso, and used acrylic silver paint for the highlights. Acrylic red dot for an eye, and voila! he looks right off the card from 1978!
My 4G iPod, waiting for me to put it on a wall charger (which I don't have) in order to finish the restore process.
Fantasy of Flight P51C - Oh what a gorgeous airplane!
In 1939, the British Purchasing Agency came to America to buy aircraft for the war that had just started in Europe. Having experience with Curtiss P-40s (of Flying Tiger fame), they purchased all that Curtiss could build them. When they approached North American Aviation to build more P-40s, the company was not too excited about building a competitor’s aircraft but offered to build a new fighter using the same American-built Allison engine. The British agreed, but on the condition the first aircraft had to be flying in no more than 120 days. 117 days later, the first P-51 flew!
Named the Mustang by the British, the P-51A was a great low altitude airplane but could not compete at altitude with the Spitfires powered by the British Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. With a more sophisticated supercharger, the Merlin could maintain its rated power to a much higher altitude than the Allison. Merlin-powered Mustangs were tested, and a great fighter was born.
The first Merlin-powered Mustangs were designated P-51 Bs and Cs, the only difference being the Bs were built in Long Beach, California, and the Cs in Dallas, Texas.
This aircraft was accepted by the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1944 at Lakeland, Florida, only 20 miles away!
Year Built — 1944
Wingspan — 37'
Cruise Speed — 300 mph
Top Speed — 434 mph
Gross Weight — 11,000 lbs
Engine — Packard build Rolls Royce Merlin 1650 (1,500 hp)
Armament —Four .50 caliber Browning machine guns Two 500 lb. bombs on under-wing racks
- See more at: www.fantasyofflight.com/aircraft/wwii/north-american-p-51...
Text from the Fantasy of Flight website
After a second power outage in two weeks that began on Saturday night, power was restored here in Aptos Monday afternoon. The preemptive power outages in California are undoubtedly foremost a climate change story. PG&E turned off power because the company feared unprecedented winds might push transmission lines into contact with trees that could easily catch fire. It’s a likely scenario given that much of California’s forest land has all but turned into firewood thanks to high temperatures and a persistent drought earlier this decade. But the conversation around PG&E also reflects the larger populist conversation about corporate accountability that Democrats have been having on the national level.
St Peter, Deene, Northamptonshire
I'd been to Blatherwycke, where the church, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, is a haunting delight. I was at Bulwick church, and the lady arranging flowers told me that I ought to go to Deene, not far off and another CCT church. "It's got the Brudenell monuments in it. Don't worry if the sign isn't out on the road", she said, "we have to leave it in the porch in case the Brudenells see it and come and lock the church up." Well, I hadn't planned to visit Deene, but how could I resist after that? It was a mile or two across the busy Kettering to Stamford road, and as I cycled down to it I saw it was beside an ornamental lake as at Blatherwycke. Two CCT churches barely five miles apart, both with ornamental lakes beside them! But at Deene the Hall is still there, and the Brudenells still live in it as they have for five hundred years. Separated from it by a big wall is a big church
The lady was right, the CCT 'open' sign was in the porch rather than out on the road, and the door beyond was open. A big barn of a building, rather dusty for a CCT church perhaps, some good glass and banners hanging in the nave. But it is the chancel which draws attention, for it was given a spectacular makeover in the 1890s by G F Bodley in the style of a London Anglo-catholic temple. The restoration was paid for by the widow of James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, who is most famous for leading the Charge of the Light Brigade (the Earl, not his widow). More, in the south chancel aisle there is a spectacular memorial to the man in the style of the 15th Century, him lying side by side with his devoted wife (whose head is turned to face him). Beyond it, and rather overshadowed by it, is the 1530s memorial in a similar style to Sir Robert Brudenell who lies between his two wives (a custom which should surely be restored to us). All rather astonishing. I was glad I'd come.
I headed back towards Bulwick, cannon to the left of me, cannon to the right of me, and then started heading back towards Peterborough. It was about five miles to Southwick, my next church, steeply up hill at first and then gently down hill for lonely miles, no car passing. Two red kites flew languidly beside me before veering off together over a wide hillside of oilseed rape, an unforgettable sight.
Entitled: Auf Der Reise Zum Kloster Des Himmelsknaben Bei Ningpo (On The Journey To The Monastery Of The Celestial Boy Near Ningpo), Ningpo-Tíen Túng Sze, Chekiang Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann [RESTORED]
Ernst Boerschmann was a German architect detailed by the Kaiser's government to closely study Chinese architecture. In this endeavor he spent three years in China from 1906 - 1909, and returned with drawings and photographs, many of which were displayed in Berlin in the summer of 1912. In 1923, a compilation of this work was published in the form of a photographic book, entitled "Picturesque China - Architecture and Landscape - A Journey through Twelve Provinces." A copy of this rare book is held by the Toyo Bunko Archive in Japan, and digital copies of its pages can be accessed at the link here:
dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/creator/ernst_boerschmann.html.en
This photograph was found in Toyo Bunko's scan of the book, page 264.
*** Sidebar *** Historically, old photographs that appeared in print were sometimes retouched before publication. This was necessary as less than visually optimal image areas (under or over exposed, or blurred) often needed pencil or brushed dyes and toner to "fill in" for missing details. This usually encompassed the adding of darker lines or lighter highlights in order to emphasis an outline; or to create faux details. Hence, depending on the skill of the retouch artist, some resulting images were either very good or shockingly poor. Unfortunately, several images from the book held by Toyo Bunko are afflicted with this sort of enhancement work, some more obvious than others.
The K13 Sank while undergoing sea Trials at the Gareloch further up the Clyde Coast 80 Men were on board alas 32 Died. The Turbine Submarine was salvaged and recommissioned as the K22
Victoria Street on a walk around the city to catch up on what was happening. September 23, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand.
The Christchurch City Council has spent $892,000 restoring the Victoria St tower after Canterbury's earthquakes.
www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/city-centre/10404049/Final...
I got her in a terrible state, yellowed with rough sanding all over, nail varnish on her lips and lashes.
Her faceplate was restored by Freefall Creations and she did an amazing job.
Yous wouldn't believe this is the same doll!
Gracias a Inés por confiarme la restauración de su basaak. Ella me pidió un maquillaje suave y que solo arreglara nariz y labios.
Espero que Maria Carla te haga muy feliz!
The canalside Fish and Coal buildings were built as offices in 1851 as part of Lewis Cubitt’s design for the Goods Yard. The offices housed clerks employed to monitor the flow of freight through the goods yards. Additional blocks were added in the early 1860s. The buildings were gutted following a fire in the 1980s, he floors and roofs have since been rebuilt.
The buildings, which follow the curve of the canal, are being restored and will be used by the Jamie Oliver Group as offices and studios with restaurants at street level.
A friend of mine gave me a box of old model railroad stuff, and these were all busted up in the bottom of the box. Thought they deserved better, so I restored them and added a couple things.
This is an attempt to restore an old postcard that I have of the Burg Frankenstein (castle Frankenstein) from 1913. I scanned the original postcard (lower image) and then processed the scan in Photoshop (upper image). What do you think - I'm open for any comments.
Please view in full size for the best effect.
Black and white restored photograph of a young man in a suit and tie, taken in Hungary, 1934, with handwritten notes visible below.