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Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
This descriptive plaque is located near the entrance to the carousel, with the river in the background.
I suppose it was just an accident of the way the sun was shining on it, but I thought the reflection was pretty cool ...
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Because I work and live in Manhattan, I don’t often visit the four other boroughs of New York City … but there’s a magical place in Brooklyn that I want to tell you about, located in Brooklyn Bridge Park at the edge of the East River. It’s right on the water, framed by the Manhattan Bridge on the north and the Brooklyn Bridge on the south. A few NYC residents and perhaps even a few visitors are already nodding their heads as they read this, but I suspect that most readers of these Flickr notes are as oblivious as I was, and have never heard of Jane’s Carousel.
“Jane” is, as I’ve now learned, Jane Walentas, an artist who spent 20 years overseeing the restoration of a magnificent 48-horse carousel, created by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, and first installed in a park in Youngstown, Ohio in 1922. Ms. Walentas and her husband, David, bought the carousel and the wooden horses at an auction in 1984 for $385,000; I have no idea what inspired them to do so, or what could possibly have inspired Jane to spend the next 20 years scraping off layers of paint and restoring the original design and colors, the pin-striping and the gold leaf as the carousel sat in a studio in Dumbo (for the non-New Yorkers who might have stumbled onto this page of notes, “DUMBO” is an acronym that means “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass).
Anyway, the carousel was opened in mid-September 2011, and for reasons unknown, I was completely oblivious as to its existence for the next three years. It’s located in a $9 million transparent acrylic “jewel box” that was designed by the French architect Jean Novel, and it’s absolutely stunning to see. My wife coaxed me into taking the somewhat laborious subway ride from the Upper West Side (via the “C” and the “F” trains) over to Brooklyn a couple days ago, and we were lucky to have chosen a brilliantly sunny Saturday afternoon, arriving just at the beginning of the “golden hour” when the light was perfect for photography.
In the three years since it opened, Jane’s Carousel has apparently attracted a lot of attention: there were some New Yorkers like me wandering around, and some visitors from nearby New Jersey and Long Island … but I also heard and saw evidence of visitors from France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Korea, and a lot of other places which would normally have great difficulty distinguishing Brooklyn from the Bronx or Staten Island. You can arrange birthday parties at the carousel; and there were heavily-costumed bridal parties along with the dog-walkers, the photographers, and the tour boats (including the venerable Circle Line) cruising up and down the East River.
And speaking of the East River, one of the most dazzling aspects of this place is the view that you get, with the two mammoth bridges spanning the river, along with the Wall Street skyline, the South Street Seaport, and the massive Freedom Tower in the background. Even if you didn’t spend a minute looking at the brightly painted carousel horses, and listening to the hypnotic music of the carousel, you could easily spend the afternoon watching the tugboats and sailboats and barges and ferries, the cruise boats and the motorboats chugging up and down the river. One can only imagine what it must have been like a century ago, before the railroads and jet planes had eliminated the bulk of water travel.
I’m embarrassed that it took me so long to visit this place, and I hope that you’ll take the hint and go see it yourself, at your first opportunity. If you would like to see some more details about the place, you might want to start with the official website for Jane’s Carousel, located here:
A New York Times article, written shortly before the official opening of the carousel in mid-September 2011, can be found here
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/arts/design/janes-carousel-at-...
and an October 2012 New Yorker article about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the carousel can be found here:
www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-carousel-survives
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
Maker: F.W. Maynard
Born: UK
Active: UK
Medium: book
Size: 10 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in
Location:
Object No. 2022.683
Shelf: N-41
Publication: F.W. Maynard, Descriptive Notice of the Drawings and Publications of the Arundel Society, from 1869 to 1873 Inclusive; (Being a continuation of "Twenty Yaers of the Arundel Society") Illustrated by Photographs of All the Publications, Arranged in the Order of Their Issue, Arundel Society, Nichols and Sons London, 1873
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Notes: A 1873 catalog illustrated with photographs listing the books published by the Arundel Society between 1869 and 1873 years. The Arundel Society was founded at London in 1849 and named after the Earl of Arundel, the famous collector of the Arundel Marbles and one of the first great English patrons and lovers of the arts. The society's purpose was to promote knowledge of the art works of the old Italian, Flemish, and other European masters. Much of the work of the society consisted of publishing chromolithographs of Italian art works, especially fresco paintings, of earlier centuries and raising public awareness for the preservation of these works. The society was discontinued in 1897.
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Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
Descriptive Title: Treatment for a depressed skull fracture.
Technique: engraving/etching
Dimensions: 20 x 12 cm.
Digital ID: RBAI010-0021
Scope and Content: Treatment of patient with depressed skull fracture to the parietal bone. Surgical instrument used to drill into the bone and lift the fractured section.
General: Male head, in vivo.
Subject: Skull
Subject: Skull Fractures
Subject: Surgical Instruments
This plate is taken from the book:
Title: Succenturiatus anatomicus
Author: Paaw, Pieter, 1564-1617
Published: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : Apud Iodocum á Colster, 1616
Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm
From a descriptive text on Germany's 1950s industrial reconstruction a rather fine view of the post-war reconstruction of the Germania Colliery in Dortmund-Marten, that belonged to the post-war grouping of the G.B.A.G. that had been spun out of the pre-war giant Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG. The company was one of the true giants of the deep coal mining business and operated some large collieries in the Ruhr district around Essen and Gelsenkirchen, shafts being organised so as to best utilise reserves that were both relatively easy to 'win' along with ones that were of more meager output.
I probably need some one with local knowledge but I'm wondering of one of the structures we see here is the headframes now relocated to the German Mining Museum at Bochum when the Germania complex closed in 1971?
The Museum's headframes. that stood over the main shaft of the Germania mine complex in Dortmund-Marten. Designed by renowned industrial architects, Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer, this solid-walled double headframe was constructed in 1943-44.
Descriptive catalogue of the lepidopterous insects contained in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company :.
London :Parbury, Allen,1828-1829..
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
Scenes from Madison Historical Society's summer Exhibition, "Over Here Over There - Madison In World War I". Sponsored by the Madison Historical Society, the Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives, Inc., and cthumanities, the exhibit opened July 30 at the Lee Academy (see madisonhistory.org/current-exhibitions/). It features many of the images and artifacts in the Albums shown at right, plus many many more along with informative research and commentary.
This panel is dedicated to Paul Pavelka, a Madison adventurous resident who served in the Lafayette Escadrille.
The color painting insert is "Nieuports of Lafayette Escadrille", displayed here with permission of the artist Robert Karr (www.facebook.com/Robert.Karr.Artist/). It is
Number 7 of 79 limited edition prints by Artist Rober Karr, © 2010. Please do not copy it.
See other scenes from the Exhibit at flic.kr/s/aHskEaskZU
(Photo credit Bob Gundersen - www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
Descriptive Title: Dissection of the head and neck, cranial, spinal and sympathetic nerves.
Actual Title: Tome 3. Pl. 93
Artist: Jacob, Nicolas Henri, 1781-1871
Technique: lithography, with hand-colouring
Dimensions: 36 x 23 cm.
Digital ID: RBAI077-0268
Scope and Content: Dissection of the head and neck, cranial and sympathetic nerves, shown in situ. Neck muscles, salivary glands, carotid artery also shown. Lateral view.
General: Plate drawn by N.H. Jacob; transferred to the stone by Léveillé. Printed by Lemercier.
Artist: Léveillé
This plate is taken from the book:
Title: Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme
Author: Bourgery, Marc Jean, 1797-1849
Published: Paris : C. Delaunay, 1831-1854
Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm
Please be cautious: This is a gruesome, descriptive story.
Okay, enjoy.
My eyes widen and flit to the door as the knob turns and opens, letting in a slit of light. I squint against the gleam shining from the metal carelessly tossed about the small, low-ceilinged room. My heartbeat quickens and pounds; feels like it’s about to burst out of my chest. I wriggle and try to scream as he walks toward the table, but silver duck tape stops the yell at my my throat; metal chains restrain my legs and arms. Still, I fight against the rusted iron and tears slip from my eyes in frustration.
An amused glint shines in his eyes as he slowly cranks a lever that tightens my arms against the cool surface. He grabs a sharp, silver object I can’t name from a small shelf that lies against the wall. I try to shake my legs free to no avail. He takes his time walking around the table until he comes to a stop above my right my arm. More tears fall from my eyes as I stare into his cold, silver irises. I know I need to calm down, but another scream that feels like it rises from my feet, tries to tear through my closed lips.
My hands hang limp at the edge of the table from lack of blood, and he presses the sharp object against my arm, sliding it down the slick skin until he reaches the edge of my palm. He stays there for a few minutes, letting me take in my surroundings. My eyes flit from his face, the sharp object, around the darkness, and back. I can see the outline of an old lamp by a glazed window from the corner of my eye. I start to turn my head to the left, but stop in a sudden shock of pain that radiates from my wrist and scream a muffled scream.
He carves a deformed F into the thick skin, sending waves of pain that makes me thrash around with silenced screams. My thoughts scatter as my mind focuses on that one point of reality.
His lips form a smirk while he continues to tear apart my skin, shoving the infected metal deep with brute force. I try to sit still; moving is just making myself get worse wounds. Tears pool around the unyielding tape covering my mouth. Seconds, minutes of unbearable pain passes, feeling like a century. Why am I not passing out? Please. Let me pass out, I think.
But before my prayer can be granted, he stops and laughs. My screams turn into whimpers, and I look from his disgust-filled eyes to my arm. My eyes widen as I take in the word, the scars that will always be with me; FREAK. He throws the blood-stained metal piece onto my chest and walks to the door with heavy thumps. He turns and looks at me with those silver eyes I once thought were kind, caring, beautiful.
“Freak.”
And with that, he shuts the door and leaves me alone in the damp room. I lay there, resisting the dark that threatens to over take me. But as the seconds pass, I get weaker and weaker from loss of blood. So I let the burning pain and cold silence drag me into the uncaring darkness. I let my mind go numb and the tears spill over with a wretched sob..
I stay there, laying in a world of black pain.
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Don't worry, I don't think I'm a freak and I don't usually write things like this.
But, this was a dream I had a few nights ago. I guess you can call it a nightmare lol
It felt real though, and even though I usually forget everything, I remembered this with perfect clarity. So I decided to write it up as a story and share it with the Flickr community.
Hope I didn't creep you out too much ;) ♥
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Descriptive Title: Muscles.
Technique: engraving/etching
Dimensions: 10 x 22 cm.
Digital ID: RBAI040-0003
Scope and Content: Muscles, superioficial view. Male figure, lateral view.
General: Figure shown in a landscape.
General: Illustration serves as head-piece. Repeated at p. 1, 11, 60, 91, 103.
This plate is taken from the book:
Title: Myotomia reformata
Author: Cowper, William, 1666-1709
Published: London : Printed for Robert Knaplock, and William and John Innys ...; and Jacob Tonson ..., 1724
Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm
A descriptive catalogue of choice vegetable, flower, and agricultural seeds /.
Boston, MA :Curtis & Cobb..
In the Prague ZOO there are descriptive labels of the birds living in nature in Czech republic. While I was waiting to take a picture of another bird, this small tit arrived close to me and sat exactly on its own descriptive label. Just a case or maybe they are smarter than we can imagine? :)
Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. /.
Yokohama, Japan :Yokohama Nursery Co..
A descriptive manual of British land and fresh water shells, containing descriptions and figures of all the species
Darlington,H. Penney, Printer,1858.
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
Descriptive Title: Brain cyst.
Actual Title: Plate XIII.
Artist: Kirtland, G.
Technique: stipple engraving, colour-printed
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm.
Digital ID: RBAI071-0014
Scope and Content: Brain cyst, shown in isolation. Brain shown with large cyst on the inferior surface of the temporal lobe. Cyst has been dissected to removed liquid contents. Some cranial nerves and carotid arteries also shown. Inferior view.
General: Plate signed by the artist, G. Kirtland; and the engraver J. Wedgewood. Dated Jany. 1826.
Artist: Wedgewood, J.
Subject: Brain
Subject: Cysts
This plate is taken from the book:
Title: Morbid anatomy of the human brain
Author: Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835
Published: London : Printed for the author; and sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828
Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
Descriptive catalogue of the lepidopterous insects contained in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company :.
London :Parbury, Allen,1828-1829..
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Cactus illustrations from Iconographie Descriptive des Cactées by Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800–1871), French botanist and botanical author. Lemaire developed his botanical interest and published numerous papers on cacti and succulents. We have digitally enhanced illustrations from his notable cactus book into high resolution quality. They are free to download and use for either personal or commercial purpose under the CC0 license.
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A descriptive manual of British land and fresh water shells, containing descriptions and figures of all the species
Darlington,H. Penney, Printer,1858.
From a descriptive text on Germany's 1950s industrial reconstruction a rather fine view of the post-war reconstruction of the Nordstern Colliery in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, that belonged to the post-war grouping of the G.B.A.G. that had been spun out of the pre-war giant Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG. The company was one of the true giants of the deep coal mining business and operated some large collieries in the Ruhr district around Essen and Gelsenkirchen, shafts being organised so as to best utilise reserves that were both relatively easy to 'win' along with ones that were of more meager output. Nordstern had a long history running roughly from 1868 to 1982 and in its it later years with was connected with the Zollverein colliery in Essen. The complex seen here was later preserved, the buildings designed by architect Fritz Schupp, now forming the wonderful Nordstern Complex.
Descriptive Title: Skeleton.
Actual Title: T. 87 [octuagesimaseptima tabula]
Artist: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711
Technique: engraving/etching
Dimensions: 44 x 27 cm.
Digital ID: RBAI023-0090
Scope and Content: Skeleton, anterior view.
Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm
General: Figure shown in a landscape. Memento mori: Skeleton shown with a sarcophagus, holding an hourglass.
This plate is taken from the book:
Title: Anatomia humani corporis
Author: Bidloo, Govard, 1649-1713
Published: Amstelodami [Amsterdam] : Sumptibus viduæ J. a Someren , 1685
Title: Industrial siding, Victor Gasket Co
Descriptive Information: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/20432897
Date: Ca. 1961
Photographer: Redmond, James B.
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
Image ID: 5003pb53f020
Collection: U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs (#5003 P)
Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel
Collection Information: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html
Copyright: The content in the "U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs Collection" (Kheel Center collection: #5003 P) is believed to be in the public domain, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [www.library.cornell.edu/about/inside/policies/public-domain]. These images have been digitized from items in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University Library. More information about the physical collection can be found here: rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
Scenes from Madison Historical Society's summer Exhibition, "Over Here Over There - Madison In World War I". Sponsored by the Madison Historical Society, the Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives, Inc., and cthumanities, the exhibit opened July 30 at the Lee Academy (see madisonhistory.org/current-exhibitions/). It features many of the images and artifacts in the Albums shown at right, plus many many more along with informative research and commentary.
See other scenes from the Exhibit at flic.kr/s/aHskEaskZU
(Photo credit Bob Gundersen - www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)