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Circo Price-
Imprenta de Manuel Minuesa de los Ríos (Madrid)-
Druck und Verlag von J. Weiner (Viena)-
Publicación: [Madrid : Circo Price, 1883] : Imp. de M. Minuesa de los Rios, Barranco de Embajadores, 13
Descripción física: 1 cartel (4 h.) : tipografía (texto) y cromolitografía (imagen) ; 240'5 x 96 cm
Nota general: Imagen de 119 x 96 cm en el centro con tít. "Niagara" y pie de imp. "Druck u. Verlag v. J. Weiner Wien Nº 3 11", que representa una actuación de Miss Niágara
Texto del cartel: "Circo y Teatro de Price / Plaza del Rey / Compañía ecuestre, gimnástica acrobática, cómica y coreográfica / Hoy lunes 18 de junio de 1883, á las 9 de la noche / Debut / de la distinguida artista, la anfibia / Niagara / The water queen / Miss Niágara / reina de las cristalinas corrientes..."
Signatura: Cart.p/10
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Goal: to provide a visual graphic to enhance the message for Christmas Eve Services at The Grove Community Church in Riverside, CA.
Audience: church attenders, weekend audience of about 4,000.
Direction: text information only.
Other important info: Typefaces used: Mensch and Thirsty Rough. The arrow graphics are from the Tightrope family at Lost Type Co-op.
Finished work.
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Photo: me
Processed: photoshop 7.0
{comments and critics are always appreciate.}
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M.K. Jessup - The Case for the U.F.O.
Bantam Books A 1374, 1955
Cover Artist: unknown
From the Preface to the 'google docs edition':
docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass...
On the evening of April 20, 1959, an astronomer committed suicide in Dade County Park, Florida. Inhaling automobile exhaust fumes, which he had introduced from the tail pipe through a hose into his station wagon, he died in the same academic obscurity in which he had lived, unheralded and almost unrecognized in his discipline. Ironically, the scientist’s only public recognition had come from lay people, who had read his series of four books about unidentified flying objects.
Morris K. Jessup’s first book, The Case For the UFO, had tended to alienate him from his colleagues, though it came and went with relatively few sales. Its publisher sold it off to second-hand bookstores at $1.00 each. Today it brings $25.00 or better per copy, if you can find one.
It was a paperback edition of the same book, published in 1955 by Bantam Books that enmeshed Jessup in one of the most bizarre mysteries in UFO history. An annotated reprint of the paperback was laboriously typed out on offset stencils and printed in a very small run by a Garland, Texas manufacturing company which produced equipment for the military.
Each page was run through the small office duplicator twice, once with black ink for the regular text of the book, then once again with red ink, the latter reproducing the mysterious annotations by three men, who may have been gypsies, hoaxters, or space people living among men. The spiral bound 8 ½” X 11” volume, containing more that 200 pages, became known as The Annotated Edition. The reprint quickly became legend. A few civilian UFO enthusiasts claimed to have seen copies, and it was rumored that a few close associates of the late Mr. Jessup possessed copies.
feathers, text strips from songs and a book about the history of spaceflight, wool
gewebte Geschichte mit Federn (Ausschnitt)
Federn, Textstreifen aus Liederbüchern und einem Buch über die Geschichte der Raumfahrt, Wolle
This is a finely illuminated and iconographically rich Book of Hours, made in England at the end of the thirteenth century. The manuscript is incomplete and misbound. Its main artist can also be found at work in a Bible, Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Auct. D.3.2, and a Psalter, Cambridge, Trinity College Cambridge Ms. O.4.16. The manuscript contains a number of unusual texts including the Hours of Jesus Crucified, and the Office of St. Catherine. The patron of the manuscript is not clear: a woman is depicted as praying in many of the initials, but rubrics in the Office of the Dead mention "freres". The imagery is marvellously inventive, and the Hours of Christ Crucified are graced with images depicting the Funeral of Reynard the Fox in its margins. In the absence of a Calendar, it is not possible to locate the origin of the manuscript precisely.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
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I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... I look forward to reading them!
Co-produced by Chris Silva & Lauren Feece for In:Site's Art On & Off Capital project in Milwaukee, WI.
Thanks to Thor Goodlife for use of his “Baby Boy” font. Many thanks to Anton Morokov, Alex Bradley Cohen, Erik Harris, Colin Matthes, Makeal Flammini & Jon Reiter for lending hands at various points along the way to make it all happen. And thanks to old friend David Moutoussamy, a member of my first graffiti crew, for making us feel a more personal connection to his uncle, the man behind this wise quote himself, Arthur Ashe.
From Third Coast Digest's write up about the projects:
"The spirit of this year’s project is celebrated in a collaborative mural placed at 34th and Capitol. It applies well-known tennis champion-turned-philanthropist Arthur Ashe’s words: “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
For their Plant Seeds mural, Chris Silva and Lauren Feece drew on Ashe’s words as a cornerstone for the expression of their belief that positive change can grow through the collaboration of individual efforts. Through bright colors and bold text, their piece proclaims the environmental direction of this project to passersby, whether they are walking, biking, or burning oil down Capitol. It is an uplifting alternative to the typical billboards that accost our senses."
Seattle Center Monorail
www.facebook.com/SeattleMonorail
The Seattle Center Monorail is an elevated monorail line in Seattle, Washington, that operates along Fifth Avenue between Seattle Center in Lower Queen Anne and Westlake Center in Downtown. Seattle Center Monorail is a self-sufficient public transit system with a top speed of 45 mph. Owned by the City of Seattle, the line has been operated by private contractor Seattle Monorail Services since 1994. It was given historical landmark status by the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board April 16, 2003.
The monorail, which cost $3.5 million to build, opened on March 24, 1962 for the Century 21 Exposition, a World's Fair held at the current site of Seattle Center. Eight million people rode the monorail during the half year the fair was open; today, annual ridership is around 2 million. The line and its trains were built by Alweg Rapid Transit Systems.
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Center_Monorail)
Alweg was a transportation company known for pioneering straddle-beam monorails. Alweg was founded by Swedish industrial magnate Dr. Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren in January 1953 as Alweg-Forschung, GmbH (Alweg Research Corporation), based in Fühlingen, a suburb of Cologne, Germany. The company was an outgrowth of the Verkehrsbahn-Studiengesellschaft (Transit Railway Study Group), which had already presented its first monorail designs and prototypes in the previous year. The Alweg name is an acronym of Dr. Wenner-Gren's name (Axel Lennart WEnner-Gren).
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alweg)
Texte original du site de Belgian Owl Whisky
Dans les années 90, une petite graine d’orge nourrissait déjà les rêves d’Etienne Bouillon. Les rencontres succèdent aux rencontres, Christian Polis et Pierre Roberti sont enthousiastes et rejoignent Etienne dans sa création.
Ce distillateur passionné, initiateur du projet, a rempli le premier fût du futur Belgian Single Malt Whisky, The Belgian Owl, le 29 octobre 2004. Les premières ventes ont eu lieu dès décembre 2004 par le biais d’une vente online soutenue par la presse quotidienne écrite belge via une pleine page publicitaire.
La création de ce premier Belgian Single Malt Whisky créé à partir d’orge cultivée en Belgique a généré un certain émoi au sein de la population belge. Très rapidement, les 804 premières bouteilles du The Belgian Owl furent achetées par des passionnés désireux de participer à l’aventure.
Déjà, dès 2004, Jim Murray au travers de sa Whisky Bible 2004 souligne la qualité de la production.
En novembre 2007, The Owl Distillery a initié l’événement ‘Spirits in the Sky’ au cours duquel les premières bouteilles ont été remises à leurs heureux propriétaires.
Depuis 2008, The Belgian Owl est disponible auprès de revendeurs spécialisés partout en Belgique. Ceux-ci ont promu le produit et ont partagé cette passion commune pour ce premier whisky belge issu de notre agriculture nationale.
2010 et 2011 ont vu la reconnaissance de la qualité du travail fourni par The Owl Distillery tant au travers des concours internationaux tels que ‘World Selection’ ou ‘Le Mondial de Bruxelles’ qu’au travers d’ouvrages tel que la Whisky Bible de Jim Murray. Parmi les prix obtenus :
Médaille d’Or 2010 et 2011 au Mondial de Bruxelles ;
Grand Gold Quality Award 2010 et 2011 au World Selection ;
European Single cask whisky of the year 2011 avec 95.5% dans la Whisky Bible de Jim Murray ;
Etc.
Notre premier objectif est de créer The Belgian Owl et de lui obtenir une reconnaissance qualitative internationale.
Les rêves succèdent aux rêves. À peine un s’est-il réalisé que le suivant se présente déjà… Allez … Osons encore … et en route pour de nouvelles aventures !
altered textbooks. 69 x 69 cm.
sedimented knowledge series.
Zwischen Zeilen.
Veränderte Lehrbücher. 69 x 69 cm. Zur Serie "Wissen, abgelagert".
Essaouira is characterized by its narrow streets which there are different traditional houses. Each house has a door that stands out from others.
On one of the houses, the owners have decided to include on their door "save me from loss" since they did not have enough money to renovate it.
One of the locals confirmed to me that someone bought it, and its renovation will be done in the future.
Spoon-fed is being treated by others, in a way that discourages independent thought or action.
The last 20 months on Flickr have been a blast - cheers Flickrians.
A special thanks to my contacts who continue to inspire, challenge and give constructive feedback - phew!
My previous word / image play shot: www.flickr.com/photos/48037999@N06/6187727627/
p.s., I promise not to delete this one but I had no idea (blissfully ignorant) that my last post had so many interpretations.
Pink tights and tutus--it's an evening at the ballet! Direct scan of "The How and Why Wonder Book of Ballet," published by Wonder Books, New York, 1961.
This book was meant as a serious reference book: It was written by Lee Wyndham, illustrated by Rafaello Busoni, with editorial production by Donald D. Wolf.
Edited under the supervision of Dr. Paul E. Blackwood, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Text and illustrations approved by Oakes A. White, Brooklyn Children's Museum.
atelier ying, nyc.
some initial thoughts...
1. For years in Chinatown there was an arcade with a chicken inside that told fortunes.
2. One of my favorite monster movies, Rodan, really started out with the Japanese name Radon.
3. My reliquarian instincts are constantly circling around the stories about trained pigeons with tiny cameras strapped on their bodies. They were used for reconnaissance during World War I.
4. The now lamentably iconic red "Angry Bird" Is the reason I also offer a "hello" sticker for this outfit.
The Canomatic M70 camera used In this design has a set of perches that the owner can alternately use for his passionate bird hobby. It's not strong enough for a larger bird like an Eclectus or a Cockatoo, But it will amply house a cardinal, which is a protected species over here in the states, which led me to christen this a bird hotel.
The fun of collecting perches provides the following:
1. a Rodan radio tower that rotates
2. a Texas Longhorn adjustable perch, recalling the fact that one of the types of Northern Cardinals hails from that state.
3. a silverplated cigar holder which is attached on when the hotel is vacant or for birdwatching reveries. Birds don't like smoke.
4. a misting device which is simple, effective. The water is adjustable by breath pressure
5. a bubble-making ring that is meant to train birds to avoid flying into dangerous glass.
6. a combination Bird-whistle & monoscope
All of these accessories attach to the hotshoe on the camera.
The bottom base is a simple birdhouse, or when not in use it can house the accessories mentioned above. With all this space this vintage camera is digitized along the lines of my other work. The housing makes all this possible and the profile view looks bird-like. The base would have to be weighted.
This design is dedicated to the great actor Mickey Rourke. I read a story that he has a pet cockatoo.
This would add to his bird family.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.
P.S: I don't know why every time I work with a Canomatic camera, I end up designing an oblong, rectilinear type of structure, for example please see my design dedicated to PSY (camera design no. 48).
Goal:
Annual Report Cover
Direction:
Our Spring Issue of our quarterly magazine is the church's annual report. We design 18 pages of info graphics and statistics to show the church our status with church growth, giving, outreach, campus life, expansion and media. The remaining 30 pages follow the same format of our normal magazine which covers life change, outreach partners and initiatives, staff spotlight and other events of the past quarter. We used a silver metallic ink for the background grey, with a matte light grey and white on the map and the white text respectively. It gave the cover a nice 'pop' without feeling too gaudy.
Other Important Information:
We worked with our web team to develop an interactive version of the Annual Report, along with a downloadable PDF. You can find it here.
Barb Wright as Liberace
This painting gave me difficulties....part and parcel of the woes as well as pleasures of digital painting. I began by loading the full cover from Confidential magazine (a sensational gossip rag from the 1950's onward) into ArtRage. Then I began painting the portrait on top of it. I was pleased with how it was coming along with the juxtaposition of painted portrait slapped against the magazine photo background. Then the difficulties began. First, part of the underlying red text area below became submerged under the painted image. As ArtRage does not have layers capability, I needed to hand paint the missing words in the "Mad About the Boy" area. In so doing, I zoomed in to work on the details of the lettering and moved the painting to one side of my computer screen to accomplish this easier. That was a fatal mistake. When I was finished with the letters, I then moved the picture back into place. All of a sudden, the entire right half of the picture was cut off and gone for good. I was faced with either abandoning the picture at this point or going on with it to hand paint the missing right half of the portrait as well as the missing photographic areas at the right of the picture. This explains the hand painted right section of the magazine. Actually, as it turned out, I now rather like the shift from left to right on the background section. In the "Frigid Wives" section, the move toward a bright green color was purely a color consideration called up by the bright yellow adjacent.... and the cool tone suggesting "frigid" in my painter's eye.
Toward completion, I thought perhaps to cut off the entire "Frigid Wives" section when I realized the "painted word" can load a painting with unavoidable narrative associations not attached to the image. However, the words tickled me as being so related to notions of American sexism of the '50's. So I let them stand as they were tied into the entire picture process from the beginning.
The portrait has been carried out with benign intent. I hope all viewers....and especial Barb Wright....can appreciate my image on its own process-involved terms.
Link to Photo Sources: www.flickr.com/photos/54791441@N03/7488795090/
www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.annehelenpetersen...
Link to Barb Wright's Flickr Photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/54791441@N03/
I noticed this old advertisement on a wall. Thought I could use it to make some textures. Free to use, as always!
Regular visitors to this stream will know that I'm involved in an ongoing project with the poet and writer Sophie Mayer, published in Vertigo, a great independent film magazine. We call the project 'Filmgrimage', because it's a pilgrimage to the sites of a film.
In this Filmgrimage, we visited Paris, looking for traces of films shot there by Jean-Luc Godard and Agnes Varda, during the French New Wave. We found these images on Rue Premiere Campagne – the road where Jean-Paul Belmondo's character dies in A Bout De Souffle.....
Please check out the magazine if you want to know more – it's a great read if you're interested in film & visual arts generally!
Horaaaay the thumbbail is oK :DD
so here it is, another stopmotion video from scrambledegg. I have worked on this for 3 days and window live movie makkker gahaa is just sooo ASDFFD Mist ! I need anohter programm, it sucks. ;D
so I will stop crying and tell you something about this video instead.
I love Juno
I love its soundtrack
I love Kimya Dawsons music
and Loose Lips is just the best!
I hope you will be able to read the text, the quality is blaba, but the lyrics are just so amazing!
Hey who out there is able to sing this song without reading the lyrics? :D
The song means a lot to me, unfortunately I cannot upload the whole song, so maybe you can listened to it un youtube. It is amazing!
I hope you will enjoy it :D baluu greetings vom Rührei16
PS: I think she is talking about Bush, not about Obama...
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This photo taken in the (downtown) Seattle Public Library Evelyn W. Foster Learning Center, which houses the library's literacy, ESL and world languages collection.
The maple-wood floor was created by artist Ann Hamilton. It contains 556 lines of text (in reverse) from the first sentences of books in 11 languages and alphabets found in the collection.
link to full size image, 2800x2800 pixels.
villa bille, house and studio for artists ejler bille and agnete therkildsen, vejby strand, denmark 1954-55.
architects: jørn utzon (1918-2008) and ib møgelvang (1919-1993).
on a related note, here is a minuscule and overlooked utzon project which allows us to trace the theme of roofs and skylights spanning parallel walls from bank melli half a decade back in time, to before he won the sydney opera house competition. why this is not featured prominently in the books is a mystery to me. utzon's single family houses from the 1950's tend towards the slightly dull - his Danish clients would have it no other way, I am sure - but there are famous exceptions like his own elegant, open-plan home and the middelboe house on pilotis by a lake. and then there is this one, the villa bille as it was named by its architect.
I built a simple, digital model to show you the underlying principles. the two parallel walls are in brickwork, held up by five buttresses of varying sizes and angles. these are exceptional for such a small house, for any modern house. more like ancient remnants, they have the raw presence of monumental ruins, fragments of some greater whole.
a former colleague of mine told of her meeting with utzon; he was studying a section through the concrete structure of a building when he pointed to a spot where the steel rods were particularly densely spaced, saying, 'here, an opportunity for architectural expression has been wasted.'
anyone else would have put a few steel profiles inside those walls to keep them up. utzon's discovery was that all our neat and orderly solutions are detracting from architecture itself. after asplund, anyone could do a fine staircase, his friend sverre fehn later recounted, but they had forgotten the space it was in. utzon brought it back.
how are we doing now, I wonder.
utzon even placed a lean-to greenhouse between two of the buttresses, treating the structure almost as something found, adapted and reused. the greenhouse reflects a certain 1950's frugality, as does the house itself with a floor area of less than one hundred square meters. but there is more when you think about it; a spirit of independence and self-reliance, the artist couple leaving town for a life on the rugged coast, devoted to their work.
in fact, the house has their double height studio at its core. with no real windows to the world other than a clerestory, this was utzon's most introverted space to date, and the first version of a spatial category central to the architect's work, the cave-like retreat - a category which was to include the melli banking hall, bagsværd church and - in its most literal form - the unbuilt project for an underground asger jorn museum in silkeborg.
client and personal friend of the architect, ejler bille, also merits attention. he was a successful painter and sculptor, and a founding member of the COBRA group in the late 1940's. now, if the name COBRA does not ring a bell, many of you will know co-founders jorn and constant, who went on to found the internationale situationniste in 1957 with guy debord.
COBRA members celebrated ludic spontaneity, abundant colour, and painting styles related to abstract expressionism, yet they typically included distorted, mask-like humanoids inspired by children's drawings and folk art in their works. I like to think this brings us closer to understanding utzon's artistic affinities. he dreamt of a fuller integration of modern art and architecture, and of working with the freedom of the artists he admired, but he failed to secure or complete the commissions that would have allowed for such ambitions, one of the tragedies of his career.
in hindsight, perhaps ejler bille's paintings lack the edge found in the work of fellow COBRA members karel appel and asger jorn. bille borders on the whimsical, something you can hardly accuse utzon's hard-headed, little house of. rather, the willful primitivism of those abrupt brick walls make for a striking example of early, poetic brutalism. this is the stuff team X was made of, but utzon was careful to avoid association with groups, and we should be careful not to force them on him posthumously.
he was also careful in selecting what to publish, in the case of villa bille too much so.
more utzon here
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A wall with graffiti in Harajuku. Stenciled at the bottom of the wall is the text:
Importance of Existence
GRAFFITI SPACE
This Wall is Unapproved
But It Can Be Painted
Not sure exactly what it means, but it sounds like a support of graffiti.
"A noite é cega, as sombras de Lisboa
São da cidade branca a escura face
Lisboa é mãe solteira
Amou como se fosse a mais indefesa
Princesa
Que as trevas algum dia coroaram"
Detail of a retired harbour crane on the bank of the river Main in Frankfurt. A remarkable beast. I tweaked lighting and contrast, but the colour is as-shot.
Titanic needed '50% more lifeboats' and had just SIX life buoys as new documents reveal astonishing cover-up of safety warnings Inspector Maurice Clarke told bosses five hours before the ship left Southampton, but they hushed it up because they wanted to leave on time
Liner had 20 lifeboats but needed 30, he said, which could have saved 600 more people
Clarke was told he would lose his job if he mentioned fears and days later the Titanic went down with the loss of 1,517
His hand-written notes, hidden for a century, are going to auction in Britain
New explosive documents kept hidden for a century have revealed the Titanic's owners ignored warnings that they did not have enough lifeboats just hours before her doomed maiden voyage.
Experts say hundreds of passengers may have survived had White Star Line listened to safety inspector Maurice Clarke, who told them the liner needed at least '50 per cent more lifeboats'.
The civil servant surveyed the ship five hours before its departure from Southampton on April 10, 1912, but his plea for more safety equipment was suppressed by the ship's owners who were bent on making sure it left for New York on time.
Clarke was told to keep quiet and threatened with the sack after he said Titanic must have 30 not 20 lifeboats, which could have saved more than 600 lives when the liner later hit an Atlantic iceberg and sank.
Scandal: The Carpathia carries rescued lifeboats from the Titanic after the disaster in 1912, but new documents show a safety officer warned that the Titanic needed '50 per cent more' but was shut up
Disaster: Inspector Maurice Clarke was on board Titanic five hours before the ship left Southampton (pictured) and told he would lose his job if he spoke out
The cover-up has emerged a century after Mr Clarke's 'smoking gun' documents, as they have been made available for sale at auction.
They show he boarded the vessel at 8am on April 10, 1912 to carry out his checks before granting Titanic a certificate to allow her to carry emigrant passengers.
Under the heading 'boats', he acknowledged it was not possible to double the number of lifeboats from 20 to 40 to cover 'all hands' due to cost and extra manning.
But Mr Clarke, the emigration officer for the government's Board of Trade, wrote: 'I suggest 50 per cent more.'
Telling: Zooming in on Mr Clarke's notes, it shows he wrote that he wanted 50% more lifeboats on the Titanic
He stated that an increase of 50 per cent would mean 30 lifeboats that would carry 1,767 people in an emergency.
He wrote: 'This permits of all persons being transferred to another ship in one return, not 3.
'A sufficiency of boats would allay a panic.'
But he added, tellingly: 'To deviate...would leave me without support. I might be shifted as suggest to me by owners if I enforced my views as to efficiency.'
Incredible: His report will be going to auction and has been hidden for a century
Page: This handwritten note includes the key warning: 'to deviate from regulations...would leave me without support'
Incredibly, his notes also reveal that Titanic only had six life buoys on board, which equated to one per 370 people.
In the event, the Titanic left Southampton for New York with the legal minimum 20 lifeboats that had a capacity for 1,178 people.
Only 706 passengers and crew made it into the boats and 1,522 people died after the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912.
Despite his concerns, Mr Clarke towed the party line when he later gave evidence at the official inquiry into the disaster and did not repeat his views.
When asked whether Titanic was in a proper order to go to sea as an emigrant ship he replied: 'Undoubtedly.'
His documents are to be sold at auction by Henry Aldridge and Son of Devizes, Wiltshire.
Conspiracy: Chief officer Henry Wilde (back, second from left) carried out the lifeboat check with Maurice Clarke but warnings were ignored by those at the very top
Andrew Aldridge said: 'This has to be the most controversial document relating to the Titanic that has emerged in the last 100 years.
'This is clear evidence that a company, namely White Star Line, had sufficient influence to gag a government employee.
'Maurice Clarke felt the number of lifeboats on Titanic was inadequate and he wanted 50 per cent more.
'But he was told, or he was under the impression, that he would be moved from his position if he proceeded with this course of action.
'He felt he could not go go public or make his views known to the powers that be because the owners had made it clear that he wasn't allowed to.
Survivors from the Titanic are pictured here rowing towards rescue ship the Carpathia in what appear to be relatively calm seas'Had he done so, in his words he would have been shifted, which I think would mean moved position or demoted.
THE 'UNSINKABLE' SHIP THAT WENT DOWN IN JUST 3 HOURS
Dubbed the 'unsinkable' ship, the Titanic famously struck an iceberg and sank in under three hours on April 15, 1912.
Of the 2,224 on board, 1,517 passengers and crew perished.
It lay unseen on the ocean floor for decades, until 1985, when an American-French expedition identified its final resting place 329 miles south-east of Newfoundland.
The wreck, which was split into two sections 2,000ft apart, has now been the focus of research by scientists and historians for decades.
'This statement implies that the Board of Trade officials in charge of clearing Titanic had been pressurised by White Star Line with regard to the subject of insufficient lifeboats.
'This is a fact that has never been known before. It was a judgement which had calamitous results only five days later when Titanic sunk.
'If his recommendations for 30 lifeboats been accepted then potentially more than 1,000 out of the 1,500 people who died could have been saved.
'In hindsight, there was a very strong case to bring charges of corporate manslaughter against White Star Line over the disaster.
'If that had happened, then this document would have been the smoking-gun piece of evidence that would have helped convict them.
'Yet when Maurice Clarke gave his evidence to the official enquiry he played it with a very straight bat and towed the party line.'
The documents were obtained by a solicitor more than 50 years ago and it is his son who is now selling them with a pre-sale estimate of £30,000.
They also include a typed statement from Mr Clarke to the Board of Trade in response to receiving a list of questions he was likely to be asked at the inquiry.
The auction takes place on November 24 in Devizes, WIltshire.
Spotted this one during one of my explores in an old swimmingpool. The text on the bin is in dutch, it means "paper". Just love the loneliness in it…The fact that it's just hanging there with no purpose what so ever...
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