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This image is from a body of work I made last semester. The class was a Documentary Photography class. I had just moved out of my parent's house in a small, quiet, rural town, to an apartment by myself, in the city of Springfield, known for its high crime rates, and below middle class areas. I made this body of work about the people who lived in this city, using their homes a way to show how these people live, and sort of a description of who they are. The images are also about boundaries, and the sort of barrier and disconnect I feel with this city. Scariest body of work I've ever made. I was always alone, creeping around people's homes with my camera. I always left my car running right next to me so I could just jump in a drive away really quickly if anyone tried to bother me. Thankfully, no one ever really did.
These people were really funny. I saw them in the windows when I was driving by, and thought it would make a wonderful photo, so I pulled over and grabbed my camera. I hollered up to them asking if they would mind if I made a photograph of them. They replied, "No! No, we have no money!" I said, "I don't want your money, I just want to take your picture!" They thought I wanted to sell them the photograph I think. But they finally said okay, although I don;t think they were still very sure of what I wanted from them. If you look closely there's a dog in the bottom left window who was barking at me the entire time I was photographing. :)
Built in 1919, this Commercial and Chicago School-style building was designed by Harry Reiger to house the Jennings Ford Automobile Dealership, which remained in the building until around 1930. The building was subsequently utilized as an automobile dealership under other banners until the 1950s. The building features a red brick exterior with terra cotta trim, steel-frame windows, decorative terra cotta pilasters flanking the bays on the front facade, large storefront openings on the first floor of the principal facade, and a metal canopy over the main entrance. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, and is a contributing structure in the Central Springfield Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and expanded to its present size in 2016.
I've seen other people's elaborate designs for the Prison. I admit that with the prison, I did not have any desire to be elaborate. I like the idea of an island prison; kinda like Rikers.
The train pulls into Springfield and a Coal Train sits on the loop bound for Christchurch, Ka 942 trip to Arthurs Pass, 8th July 2012
Springfield Rugby Football Club vs Sunday Morning Rugby Football Club on March 16, 2019 at the Springfield Pitch. Springfield wins 29-24!
The listing of businesses is clearer than the reasons why individual photos were chosen for inclusion in the book. Here appears to be a broad view of Springfield perhaps photographed from a hillside. Several ads to come are about bicycle makers and sellers with one stating Springfield was a "Bicycle city". Maybe this was taken from one of the bike trails in 1895.
Rick Springfield is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He was a member of pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 and then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the United States. He had a No. 1 hit with "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 in both Australia and the US. He received the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Jessie's Girl". He followed with four more top 10 US hits, "I've Done Everything for You", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Affair of the Heart" and "Love Somebody". His two US top 10 albums are Working Class Dog (1981) and Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (1982). As an actor, he portrayed Dr. Noah Drake on the daytime drama General Hospital, from 1981 to 1983 and during 2005 to 2008.
Springfield Armory National Historic site in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Lincoln Tomb State Historic Park is located at Oak Ridge Cemetery. It houses the remains of Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, and three of their four children. Construction of the tomb began in 1869 and was completed in 1874.
photo taken by Springfield Presevation Trust 5-22-08 during a tour of the house. The 3rd floor porch where the 3 windows are now must have been installed sometime after 1969. See the black & white photo from 1969.
NS High Hood GP38-2 #5083 and SD40-2 #3527 sit in the ex-Wabash yard in Springfield with no work to do and a stormy situation overhead.
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Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 116,250 at the 2010 U.S. Census, which makes it the state's sixth most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois. As of 2019, the city's population was estimated to have decreased to 114,230, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.
Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President of the United States. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices State Historic Site, and the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with four distinct seasons, including, hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government institutions include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
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The concept came to life during an event that started September 2017, to help raise funds to benefit downtown revitalization. It’s a pop up art event in where you can watch artists compete to create a mural in one day and unveil it during a reception party that night. Each year the murals change, making this a great spot to visit and wander through and take pics or the amazing artwork!
Note Onion domed tower in the building corner even being topped with a crescent shaped finial. Samuel Colt's 19th century arms factory in Hartford, CT had a similar Moorish tower dome, Buggy traffic and pedestrian traffic seem at a light volume on this day Caption reads.: Fuller Block, Looking at the east side of Main street..
Union Station was built in 1898 and was used primarily by the Illinois Central. It has been beautifully restored and re-opened as the Springfield Visitor Center in 2007.
Built in 1869, this Italianate-style house was gifted by Judge William Wilson to his son-in-law, Dr. Bernard Stuve, and his daughter, Mary Wilson Stuve, upon their marriage. The house features a painted exterior with quoins, a low-pitch hipped roof with gable ends and bracketed eaves, oxeye attic windows, arched one-over-one double-hung windows, and porches with rectilinear columns and hipped roofs. The house is part of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.