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Title courtesy of the young lady on the right. Cute to see them having so much fun over something so wonderfully simple.
It's the Little Things 2.0 #199
The face of this Libyan fighter, known as Uljof and credited with killing Gadhafi before later being killed himself in the fighting, is spray-painted everywhere in Tripoli.
Inscription within the Plantin Polyglot Bible (Vol. 1) / printed as "Biblia Polyglotta" by Christopher Plantin in Antwerp between 1568 and 1573 as an expression of loyalty to King Philip II of Spain / purchased in 1669 by Chetham's Library, Manchester, UK
Title: Bibliotheca chalcographica : illustrium virtute atque erudition in tota Europa, clarissimorum virorum…Collectore Jano Jacobo Boissardo, ves: sculptore Jan: Theod: de Bry Chalcogr:
Author: Boissard, Jean Jacques 1528-1602
Published: Francofurti : Impensis Johannis Ammonii Bibliopola
Year: 1650-1654
Call number: NE 218 .B657 1650
Physical Description: 9 parts in 1 volume. 438 portraits, 21 cm. The cover is most likely vellum with gold decorations, particularly the spine. The fore edges are yellow. There is an index and yellow and blue striped headbands. Almost all illustrations (portraits) and very little writing.
About this book: Also known as “De Bry’s Portraits of Illustrious Men." Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) was a French antiquary and Neo-Latin poet. He traveled in Germany, Italy and Greece but became ill and died in France (Wikipedia).
Note that there were multiple de Brys. It is unclear as to which one that this book is referring to.
Johann Theodor de Bry was a Flemish-German engraver and publisher. He sometimes collaborated with Jean Jacques Boissard (Wikipedia).
Sources cited:
Jean-Jacques Boissard (n.d.). Retrieved on June 17, 2015 from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Boissard
Johann Theodor de Bry (n.d.). Retrieved on June 17, 2015 from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Theodor_de_Bry
Original Caption: Resolution introduced by Senator Henry Clay in relation to the adjustment of all existing questions of controversy between the states arising out of the institution of slavery (the resolution later became known as the Compromise of 1850), 01/29/1850
Production Date: January 29, 1850
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=306270
From: Senate Simple Resolutions, Motions, and Orders of the 31st Congress, ca. 03/1849-ca. 03/1851; Record Group 46; Records of the United States Senate, 1789-1990; National Archives.
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
I went to Colorado thinking I would be able to journal and write quite a bit, but in truth I was so busy experiencing new adventures that I didn’t get to write but one page. I don’t have any regrets about that- I just surprised myself that I was so consumed with the mountains that I didn’t have time to stop and think.
Now that I am home I find that I have so very much that I want to write about but do not have the time to write… such is life!
Theme: Musings And Ramblings
Year Six Of My 365 Project
Miscellany of medical recipes, culinary recipes, and other ephemera, mostly in Italian (Bolognese dialect), some in Latin. Incomplete composite manuscript, compiled for personal use. Variety of scribal hands. One dated folio (32v): "3 Dbre 1614 in bolog(n)oa." Some lively pen trials and doodles (50-51).
Description on front of card: Columbus, Ohio's State Capitol from the Air
No. in Series: A-22 / OB-H1956
Description on back of card:
Business section and civic center showing U.S. Post Office, Municipal Buildings, A.I.U. Citadel and State Office Building on Marconi Boulevard.
Recovered Written Date: April 8, 1945
There appears to have been a message at one time and it has since been erased.
Recovered Message:
April 8, 1945
View on post card is of ? ? small building in front of A.I.U. Citadel is the City Hall which I visited. There is a ?bby show ???
Scioto River ??? River ??? River ??? River ??? O[lentangy?] River ????
Broad
Era: Linen Era
Condition: Used. Message erased before card was received. Writing on the back.
Publisher: W.E. Ayres, 1049 Livingston Ave., Columbus, Ohio | Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" postcard by Curt Teich Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photo by: Butler Airphotos, Inc.
Publisher Note:
Butler Airphotos, Inc. was established in 1938 by Clyde Butler, Howard Alsop, and Margaret Butler.
W.E. Ayres had a variety store at 1047-1049 Livingston Avenue in Columbus, Ohio.
Curt Teich emigrated to Chicago in 1895. He had worked as a lithographer in Lobenstein, Germany.
He founded the Curt Teich Company in 1898, concentrating on newspaper and magazine printing. He was an early publisher of postcards, but he didn't begin printing them himself until 1908.
According to MetroPostcard.com, "As his competition dwindled, his sales expanded and his American factories would eventually turn out more postcards than any other in the United States."
The company was best known for its wide range of advertising and postcards of North America. By the 1920s, it was producing so many postcards with borders that they became recognized as a type dubbed "White Border Cards," creating an "era."
Curt Teich started using offset presses in 1907, but it took a number of years before he had offset presses made to his satisfaction and many more years for him to perfect the method.
His innovations in this printing technique directly led to the production of what we now call "linens" by the early 1930s.
The company aided the war effort during the second world war by also printing many military maps.
Curt Teich eventually turned management of the company over to his son, but he remained active in company operations throughout its history.
Curt Teich died in 1974 and the family business was sold to Regensteiner Publishers who continued to print postcards at the Chicago plant until 1978 when the rights to the company name and processes were sold to the Irish company, John Hinde Ltd. Their California subsidiary now prints postcards under the name John Hinde Curteich, Inc.
Source:
Writing a letter to S. on a Tuesday evening. The coffee is good, the lemon sandwich cookie even better. This is at Citizen Cupcake near Union Square.
Plaquette publicitaire pour les parfums Lanvin éditée en juin 1949. Préface de Colette, poèmes et calligrammes de Louise de Vilmorin, aquarelles et esquisses de Guillaume Gillet.
"Quand Radio-Loulette
Fonctionne, c'est divin.
Jean finit sa toilette
En robe de Lanvin." (Jean Cocteau)
Title: Treaty of Alliance with France
Production Date: February 6, 1778
Treaty of Alliance with France, 1778; International Treaties and Related Records, 1778-1974; General Records of the United States Government, Record Group 11; National Archives.
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=2524341
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
If this is censoring, so be it! This guy tried to write ON another persons entry and I told him "NO" and this is his fit!
Feel free to stop by my facebook page if you like: www.facebook.com/collageandautomaticwriting/
Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Papers
Call Number: A-146
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000605309/catalog
Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian
My Christmas present to myself. :o)
You'd be amazed how hard it is to get rose gold to look right on a computer monitor; my best attempt here really falls short. One could imagine rose gold as gold with a reddish, bronze tinge. It's NOT pink - at least not the alloy on this pen.
This version is for crossviewing, no glasses needed.
If you don't know how to view these, here's a guide:
This is the garage that belongs to the boathouse. Dylan Thomas used this as his writing shed. This is where he wrote Under Milkwood. The location is amazing, tucked away on the bank of the estuary.
Beijing, China
Golden Chinese characters on a wall in the Yonghe Temple in Beijing, China.
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"Ed Sullivan, the widely known newspaper columnist and television celebrity, sent a telegram to Reckless requesting she be on his show "Toast of the Town". At the time she received the message her ship was in a typhoon and she couldn't have cared less. The mere mention of toast was enough to make her ill."
From the Randolph Pate Collection (COLL/802), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections.
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
Jose M.J. Lerma (active end of 19th Century)
a.) Letras y Figuras (Jose M.J. Lerma)
inscribed “Recuerdo del año de 1896”
pencil on paper
23” x 31” (58 cm x 79 cm)
b.) Letras y Figuras (Maria V. Tiangco)
dated 1896
pencil on paper
23” x 31” (58 cm x 79 cm)
Starting bid: P 300,000
Literature:
Cariño, Jose Maria A., Jose Honorato Lozano: Filipinas 1847, Ars Mundi, Philippinae, Makati City, 2002, p. 49 (illustrated)
At the Peabody Museum in Massachusetts, one can suddenly be startled to attention by two paintings that at first look like a presentation of the Alphabet, but if looked at second blink, are representations of Manila Bay in the 1850s. The age tinted paintings on manila paper depicting, vignettes of nineteenth century Philippine life, ingeniously arranged, delineated and highlighted with color to form the letters spelling out a certain person’s name are some of the most quaint and endlessly fascinating relics of Filipino culture in the Spanish time.
The Letras y Figuras as works of art trace their origin way back to the art of book illumination in the Middle Ages. Their introduction into the Philippines is attributed to the religious missionaries. A practical minded artistic priest must have used them to interest his parishioners, all at once, with reading, writing and the rudiments of art. The earliest known painter in this style is Jose Honorato Lozano of the Sampaloc district of old Manila. Although one may still come upon many Letras y Figuras in private collections in the Philippines today, caution must be used before attributing these to Lozano, as he had many contemporaries and followers.
There is, for example, an obvious difference between Lozano’s style and that of the “J-O-S-E M.J. L-E-R-M-A” limner, Jose M.J. Lerma himself.
Lozano’s works are characterized with a penchant for rigid, straight lines which render his human figures a little stiff looking, even if depicted in action. Lerma gave his figures more curvilinear contours, which gave them a sense of free movement. Another noticeable characteristic of Lozano’s work is his “horror vacui,” squeezing his artistic material into his visual area; while Lerma’s work possesses an elegant sense of open, flowing space.
There is a self-taught attempt at architectural perspective too, drawn just like how a child might draw old houses that can be seen with the depiction of a Philippine Pueblo and the undulating horizon in the space between “J-O-S-E M J and L-E-R-M-A”. This architectural depiction permits Lerma to release an undercurrent of pleasant irrationality that turns a snapshot view into a caprice.
Jose M.J Lerma, the artist, belongs to a generation of Letras y Figuras artists who did works at a time when Jose Honorato Lozano was already feebly old or long dead. Thus, all these latter artists such as Lerma deserve a separate study for they represent another aspect, a latter development, of the art of Letras Y Figuras.
For example, Jose M.J. Lerma also limned “M-A-R-I-A V. T-I-A-N-C-O”. The space between Maria V. and Tianco features a medallion flanked by half figures. The late 19th century book “Handbook of Ornament” by Franz Sales Meyer (First edition: Carlsruhe, 1888; Fourth Edition: Carlsruhe 1892) says about the half figure: “From Antique times up to the present day, Half figures have been popular as startings for ornaments…below the breast or stomach, often defined by a girdle, there is developed a sort of inverted foliage cup, from which the scroll ornament grows.”
Both “J-O-S-E M J L-E-R-M-A” and “M-A-R-I-A V T-I-A-N C-O” are bordered with an elaborate interlacement of bands.
Lot 69 of the Leon Gallery auction on 11 June 2016. For more details, please see leon-gallery.com/v2/gallery/AuctionData-23-Spectacular-Mi...
This woman faithfully writes letters to those she loves, despite the crippling arthritis in her hands. These hand shots were part of a slide show on the "hands of heaven on earth".
I met this girl when I stayed in a hostel in Barcelona. She was writing home and I just thought that was really sweet.
Audax UK cards the Altitude Award and the Fixed Wheel Challenge. The first ran into the ground owing to living in perhaps one of the flattest parts of the UK without a car ,the other due to lack of time. in 1993 I appear to have achieved 18 fixed wheel points, including a 100km grimpeur on fixed wheel, a modest 1800km on't cog. And that appeared to be that.