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Students at Philadelphia’s Greenfield Elementary School got the FIRST look at artifacts recovered from Titanic!
Photo: Darryl Moran/ The Franklin Institute
Students at Philadelphia’s Greenfield Elementary School got the FIRST look at artifacts recovered from Titanic!
Photo: Darryl Moran/ The Franklin Institute
File name: 08_06_020039
Title: Artifacts
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1934 - 1956 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 3 1/8 x 4 1/4 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Figurines; Encyclopedias & dictionaries
Notes: Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
The new addition to the Ft. Sam Theatre will seat 600 people and features:
-state-of-the-art lighting and acoustics
-a dance studio with the same wood floor as the stage
-a performers' lounge
-an audio/video mixing and recording studio
-Army Entertainment command suite and administrative offices
-an outdoor projector for projecting images against the addition's upper wall
-receiving ramps for moving sets from trucks to theatre
-catwalks rigged to the ceiling for production personnel
-an 80-foot “fly house” pulley system for quick set changes
Designed and outfitted with the latest equipment and features based on a design by RKJ, Inc. subcontractor construction team. Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon and Williams Theater Consultants, the same company that designed the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, contributed design concepts as well. Husband-and-wife theatre veterans Steve Smith and Nicole Coppinger brought their thespian background and insight to the project. The team proposed the theatre as the new home of the Army Soldier, and it will also play host to Operation Rising Star, USA Express, and concerts from touring music and entertainment stars.
Smith, technical director for the Army Soldier Show, has 20 years' experience in professional theatre and got his start working in Army Entertainment at Ft. Gordon. Coppinger, set designer for the Soldier Show, received her bachelor's degree in fine arts and has worked on Broadway in New York City. They worked with RKJ Construction, Inc., IMCOM Force Management Division and the Army Corps of Engineers to ensure that the new theatre would meet the standards necessary for a comprehensive training venue for budding artists and a Broadway-caliber theatre.
At the same time, all parties took great care to ensure that the front part of the original theatre, which contains the stage, main lobby, ticket box, original entrance and facade and VIP seating were restored to their authentic 1927 look. The carpet, paint, furniture, wood etching and silk banners hanging from the ceiling will all be restored or replicated as closely to the original as possible.
The project, which cost $18 million, started in early 2009 and will be completed in September 2011.
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Inlay by Harvey Leach
The Samurai is the alter ego of the Geisha guitar. When combined, the two instruments form a Yin and Yang relationship. Not only is one decidedly male while the other is female, one is also night while the other is day. The Yin and Yang are also present within each guitar: the samurai are depicted mostly at night, a period of time which corresponds to the female Yin; the geisha are mostly depicted during the daytime, reflecting the male Yang. When the Samurai is complete, it will contain elements that connect it directly to the Geisha. For example, the samurai figures on the headstock are fighting in front of the same shrine as the lady on the headstock of the Geisha. In addition, the Samurai pickguard will depict the scene hinted at by the shadows on the Geisha pickguard, but from inside the veranda. The two guitars also represent two different approaches. The Geisha is a reproduction of original artwork from the 1600s wherein the challenge was to create an inlay that looks and feels like the original print. The Samurai, on the other hand, is a collection of images, some from the past and some Harvey’s own, combined to create a “new” original in the spirit of the 17th century masters. The inlay of the footbridge is based on an 1834 print by the artist Gakutei. The original was of a sightseeing boat, but Harvey replaced the sightseers with samurai, and added a pair fighting. Most of the materials used in both of these inlays consists of various woods and Corian®.
Students at Philadelphia’s Greenfield Elementary School got the FIRST look at artifacts recovered from Titanic!
Photo: Darryl Moran/ The Franklin Institute
Students at Philadelphia’s Greenfield Elementary School got the FIRST look at artifacts recovered from Titanic!
Photo: Darryl Moran/ The Franklin Institute
You never know what you can see while going through the car wash.
iP5s with ProCamera. Touched with Snapseed, Matter, Tangled FX, Blender and Aviary.
Southern Mississippi, Archeology Archives. These were collected at several archeological digs sponsored by the Mississippi state archeology association, over the course of many years.
The photos are of a large private collection that's been documented by line drawings in several university press books (author of these books is a professor Webb).
Students at Philadelphia’s Greenfield Elementary School got the FIRST look at artifacts recovered from Titanic!
Photo: Darryl Moran/ The Franklin Institute
This bag came from the Dollar Store at Seventh and P, N.W., in the District of Columbia. It cost two dollars (which is a contradiction of the Dollar Store).
I see a lot of homeless people with these bags. And I see a lot of people with the bags with the wheels on them. They're morphing – they're moving up. It used to be the tote bags.
They use these to carry their belongings because they carry everything with them. At the shelter where I stay (CCNV), I am able to leave my stuff. But a lot of shelters don't let you leave your stuff, or much of it, at the shelter during the day. If it were me, I would cut down to the bare essentials that would let me have just one bag, because I wouldn't want to look homeless – I wouldn't want the stigma.
I bought this to pack up all my stuff for the bedbug people. Sometimes they give these out when they spray for bugs at the shelter. They give you the bag to pack your stuff and put it all in one location so when they spray, the bugs can leave your bed and go into the bags.
Sometimes they make you put all your stuff in the kitchen and people who had bedbugs, the bugs would leave their bags and go into yours. So I wouldn't put my stuff in there – I bucked. I always bucked.
– Cliff Carle
Curator's Note: To me, these tote bags are the emblems of urban homelessness today, much more than the shopping cart. And even more so are the messenger bags and small rollaway suitcases with telescoping handles.
When Cliff gave me this tote bag, he assured me it had no bedbugs, but I got to feeling nervous, so I put it in the microwave just in case. That's why there are burned spots all around the bag. Sorry!
– David Hammond
Donor's Note: Super Dave, did you really put it in the microwave? You should have put it in hot water. Anything over 103 degrees kills them. Or the freezer – you can freeze them. I've learned a lot about bedbugs.
– C.C.
Curator's Note: Bedbugs are everywhere nowadays – they're showing up in fine hotels and apartment buildings, and not just homeless shelters. The EPA held a conference this spring on the problem.
– D.H.
Director's Note: Cold won't kill them but a warm water wash with a little bleach will do the trick.
– David Ford
Catalogue Number: 2009:pptb:thms:CCNV:2nd&D:NW
Acquisition Data: Gift of Cliff Carle, Photographer and Homeless Advocate, Washington, D.C., 2009. Thank you, Cliff!
In this small room at the top of his tower, the Farseer stores the artifacts of old including his previous singing spear and a stasis cell with a spirit stone of his deceased sister Myranna.
Sliding (dual axis) magnifier for close inspection of Wyandot
artifacts at Huron-Clinton Metroparks' Oakwood Nature Center in New Boston, MI.
Designed and built by Taylor Studios, Inc.
Photo courtesy of Herb Byers
SOLD Rustic and earthy substantial Fine Silver PMC Pendant and beads with beautiful creamy green Amazonite stones as accents.
Made to look like an treasured artifact that it's been hiding underground for many years and only recently discovered. Lots of different texture and color.
The main pendant is about 2" at the widest point and about 1" deep. The length can be as long as 20" but I think looks best worn at about 16" with a Diamond shaped Amazonite stone hanging down the back. Fairly delicate sterling silver chain and lobster claw clasp.
An artifact in the native american exhibit of the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History.
Unfortunately i forgot to note down what this was or where it was from, im guessing somewhere in south america
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This shot can also be found in a group called Route Artifacts. Please come check the others in the group.
Cosmosphere is a space museum and STEM education center in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. It was previously known as the Kansas Cosmosphere. The museum houses over 13,000 spaceflight artifacts - the largest combined collection of US and Russian spaceflight artifacts in the world, and is home to internationally acclaimed educational programs.
The Cosmosphere is the only Smithsonian affiliate museum in Kansas.
The Cosmosphere's SpaceWorks division has restored flown U.S. spacecraft for museums and exhibits across the globe, including artifacts that are part of the collection of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum. Two examples of this work are the Apollo 13 Command Module Odyssey, and the Liberty Bell 7 - both on display at the Cosmosphere. The Cosmosphere built roughly 80% of the artifacts and props for the movie Apollo 13 and of the replicated spacecraft hardware seen in Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D; and the TV mini-series From the Earth to the Moon.
Flown items included in the Cosmosphere's collection are a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft and the Odyssey command module from Apollo 13. Additionally, authentic Redstone and Titan II launch vehicles used in the Mercury and Gemini programs flank the building's exterior. A prized item on display is a Moon rock from Apollo 11, the first manned mission to Earth's only natural satellite.
Every artifact on display at the Cosmosphere is either an actual, flown, artifact, a "flight-ready backup" (identical to the item actually flown), an engineering model, or an historically accurate replica.
The Cosmosphere museum begins with the earliest experiments in rocketry during the World War II era, explores through the Space Race and Cold War, and continues through modern times with the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, as well as SpaceShipOne and commercial spaceflight.
Inlay and Banjo by Renée Karnes
This project took two years and 700 hours to complete. Since Renée was building the banjo for herself, she wanted to create more of an art piece than an instrument used for performing. She came up with the idea for the theme while on a hunting trip in 2004, “I wanted to show the beauty of nature, and the hunt, using scenes with animals and birds. I drew the resonator back and the back of the peghead while on that trip.” The design includes 61 different animals, birds and fish, all engraved. Some are so small you need magnifiers to see them. Every piece of shell has engraving on it, except one. And, with the exception of four small pieces of reconstituted stone, the colors in all of the scenes were done with shell. One may wonder why she built a 5-string banjo: because she needed the extra room on the fingerboard to get the overall effect of the river running the full length along with individual scenes in each fret.
This artifact is terribly large and heavy. Some, there is just no doubt. How legs were carved through rock this dense is a mystery although professionals in this era ( whichever it might be ) could tell us. A lot of effigies have the head carved in to another layer, as in this big bear. It's the same method used in quite a number of small hand tools. Bear is at least 18" long, a foot high- very large whe it comes to carrying from our creek!
I did a bit of digging around today at a site of local historical interest where construction is going on. I rescued some interesting artifacts from the wrath of the bulldozer.
NOTE: This is my 100th Daily Self! Do I get a gold star?