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Description: Letter from British Embassy Mogadishu to Commonwealth Office enclosing photographs of British Colonial Administrators.
"Almost anything is of interest to somebody"
Date: 4th September 1968
Location: Mogadishu, Somalia
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/12
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I was never a bus spotter, number jotter in the sense of standing on street corners, or in bus stations recording numbers, but I did occasionally make notes to assist my photography and understanding of the general fleet movements of the time. This is one of the surviving records I have, listing withdrawn buses in Adderlely Street bus compound at Deritend, Birmingham on 28/9/1983.
The document also records the mechanical completeness/incompleteness of the vehicles, but fails to record the bodily condition. I know that on other lists I compiled that I used the abbreviation 'CAN' for buses that had bodies cannibalised for parts. There again, the photographs I took would have indicated the state of the bus bodies. The list is fairly self-explanatory, but for clarification:
NE = No engine
NG = No gearbox
NEG = No engine or gearbox
C = mechanically complete (It did not mean that the vehicle was a runner)
I don't know if these musings are of interest, but I thought that I would share a few of them, especially for those who can recall such events in the West Mids 30+ years ago.
Title: Eyewitness Account of the Trinity Explosion, 07/16/1945
Creator(s): Office for Emergency Management. Office of Scientific Research and Development. (06/28/1941 - 12/31/1947) (Most Recent), Council of National Defense. National Defense Research Committee. (06/27/1940 - 06/28/1941) (Predecessor)
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=594933
Eyewitness Account of the Trinity Explosion, 07/16/1945 (ARC ID 594933); File Unit: Trinity, 1945; Records of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1939 - 1950; Record Group 227; National Archives.
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Extract from police staff file of Henry Hasenkamp. Henry served in Normanton, Burketown, Georgetown, Table Top, Port Douglas and Cook Town.
Henry's father was the prominent German farmer from Ipswich, Adolphus Hasenkamp.
Found photos, a lost life.
Photos found in a plastic bag at Waterlooplein flea market.
All photos in this set belonged to Willem Agathus Huygens, a Dutch artist who was born on June 24th 1914 in Poerwokerto, the Dutch Indies.
A life in a plastic bag.
If anyone knows more about this gentleman, his family or what is shown on the pictures, please let me know.
Willemswerf Building
Rotterdam, TheNetherlands
Enjoy Flicker's machine tags:
document, text :)
As much as they get it wrong sometimes, the words can help one visualize a photo in a new and creative way.
Documenting COVID. May 2020. Knoxville TN USA has reopened in tiers over the last several weeks. With restrictions restaurants are starting to reopen, folks can get a haircut (but wait your turn outside in some cases), and a retail mall has only select doors open for shoppers to get in. Our Great Smoky Mountains National Park reopened May 9th with Phase I and more areas opened May 23rd. State Parks also reopened a few weeks ago with limitations. May 26th is the next phase for the county of Knox TN. Many will be happy that bars with inside seating will open.
Of course, some places never closed. The large company I work for has remained open and many of us at the corporate Knoxville office have been working from home. I'm sure we will have many adjustments when we return.
Life has been interesting AND my dog is so spoiled.
The visualization explores the Pritzker Prize assignment evolution, since 1979 to 2013. For each winner we visualized biographical information such as the continent of origin, the year of birth and death, the prize-awarding year and the age at the moment of the awards. Visualized are also the body of work selected by pritzkerprize.com per each architect, representing the architectural type, the year, the landscape context, the continent and the type of climate.
Manuscript title: Sermones Bernardi Claraevallensis abbatis
Manuscript summary: This manuscript contains 150 sermons by the Cistercian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153). The appearance of the script, in dark-brown ink, is mostly uniform. The title of the individual sermons have been written with red ink. 97v has been left blank. With regards to decoration, there are many decorative initials with runner- and bulb-motifs on a colorful background and numerous smaller initials, decorated usually in red and blue, occasionally with insular elements (59r, 67v). The manuscript was probably produced under Abbot Berchtold (1178-1197). (grd)
Origin: Engelberg (Switzerland)
Period: 12th century
Image source: Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 33: Sermones Bernardi Claraevallensis abbatis
Found in the new timetables, I thought it would have included TfL Rail but for some reason not. Maybe because of space. But if you want a joint up network - which TfL keep banging on about, one network map it a good way to start.
I thought this would have been the perfect time (as if they aren't commonly named already) to start branding lines - similar to Sydney Trains. However, LO have not done this. It seems the stupid names like "Highbury to New Cross/Clapham Jun/Crystal Palace/West Croydon route" will continue at least for now.
For those looking for the new tube map - there isn't one in the timetables for this term. So we'll have to wait a bit longer
This short poem, written I think in pencil on a card measuring just 8cm x 4.5cm, was found in the case behind the image, along with the pressed rose (Latin = Rosa) and lock of hair. I'll transcribe it below. Clearly Rosa has died. Is it Rosa depicted in the image? What is the relationship of the writer to Rosa? It almost feels to me like something a grieving husband might write rather than a parent, but I'd love your thoughts.
Dear Rosa
That thou art loved, these buds my witness be.
In the bright morning - noon - or starry night
One thought my bosom fills - it is of thee
And thou dost make all hours and seasons bright.
To see thee - hear thee - know that though art nigh,
Oh! this is joy unknown to me before!
All other thoughts are gone when though art by
Thou fill'st my heart - it can contain no more
There was also another card, and another even more amazing poem, which I'll upload next ...
Creator: Charles D. Walcott
Local number: SIA2014-06935
Summary: Notes document fieldwork of Charles D. Walcott while in Montana.
Dates: 1904
Collection: SIA RU 7004, Charles D. Walcott Collection, 1851-1940 and undated. Box 30, Folder 11.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
I'm not sure exactly what this is, or where I found it. It seems to be some sort of customs document from Port Said, Egypt.
Definitely not feeling very inspired, as you can tell.
Whenever I'm reading a book where it's important I remember details or even just the general plot, I can't even begin to read without my pen. I'm constantly blocking out text, underlining cool phrases, and making my own notes in the sidebar. This page is a little heavy compared to when I'm reading for class, but I will usually have a good amount of ink on the page by the time I'm done.
So yeah, this whole shooting by myself in my room before bed thing is cramping my style. Seriously. Someone make me shoot with them, please. Because if I have to start kicking crap under my roommate's bed again to make room for my tripod, I might just snap. Just a heads up.
First lesson in the Eleanor Winters' book "Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy": 8 basic strokes for lowercase letters, and simplest lowercase letters.
also, would love if you had the time to list links for your fave wedding photog - either website or flickr....i can't decide if i'm going to pour over inspiraton, or just shoot blindly and see what i come up with myself....
thanks!
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Spelling Bee
To be held at the West Terre Hill School, Friday eve., April 3, 1925.
There will be three classes: 1st--Spelling, open to pupils 14 years and under. 2nd--Spelling, open to all. 3rd--General information class. Three prizes given each class.
A special program will be rendered, consisting of recitations, dialogues, and singing.
Admission, 15c. Everybody invited. Doors open 7:00. Bee to buzz, 7:30. Helena Becker, teacher.
Times Print, Terre Hill, Pa.
Yesterday, I discovered the fabulous new singing Google frontpage: The Google Guitar! Today, I discovered another awesome addition: the "Record" button! Naturally, I decided to record some songs and post them on my Blog. If you want to hear them, here's the link to my blog:
The links to my songs are in my latest post (from 10th June 2011) :-) And, yes, I know that some of the songs are a bit funny (the rhythm is a little messed up), but the recordings could only be about 30 seconds long and there was also the delay between hitting my computer keyboard and hearing the sound. But I loved every second of being a "guitar expert" ;-)
If you're wondering about the photo: it's a photo of one of my old piano music books. I can play the piano and the synthesizer (I went to music school when I was younger.)
Keep the comments clean! No banners, awards or invitations, please!
Zusprache von meinen Freunden tut mir itzt desto wohler, je nötiger mir sie ist
aus der Zeit als Bibliotekar
in Lessinghaus in Wolfenbüttel
für meine Zwillingsschwester Lorella, die mich z.Z. sehr liebevoll erträgt und unterstützt :)
Il conforto da parte dei miei amici mi fa tanto più bene quanto più mi è necessario
citazioni da lettere di di Lessing all'epoca in cui era bibliotecario a Wolfenbüttel
Per la mia gemella Lorella che al momento tanto mi sopporta e sostiene :)
A letter written by my wife's late grandmother when she was 8 years old
December 21 1942
Dear Santa Claus
My name is Gretchen. My age is 8. My street number is 2427 Chicago Avenue. My Telephone number is MA-6760
I want a dolly with hair and a pair of skis and a nursery set and some other things including Defense Stamps. And a Story book dolly
From Gretchen
If you wanna spit your beer out of both nostrils head over to Flickr's 'The Help Forum' where many soon to be ex Flickr users are venting their frustrations in the deafening silence of a response from either Flickr or Yahoo.
The consensus is that Flickr tanked this one big time and a lot of people are moving to or opening up accounts on ipernity.com...
which looks a lot like Flickr used to and shows photographs in a more classy and elegant way... not like a pile of different sized bricks all squeezed together.
They also have a tool that lets you upload your pictures from Flickr in batches of 180 at a time.
Flickr's been filled with bugs and glitches and slow as hell all day.
Maybe that's because of all of the bandwidth getting used to move pictures to other sites or the volume of angry complaints going to Flickr on the 'Help Forum.'
I don't know.
I've signed up for an account at Ipernity and I'll explore it over the next few days.
If Flickr keeps this format I have to find another place to share my photographs because I just don't think this fits.
You guys have always inspired me and this place has always felt like a community.
But the reality is that we never 'owned' anything here.
The look of our community changed drastically in a moment without us even being prepared for it with some warning.
I don't know why... but I feel betrayed.
And I shouldn't.
I should just take my pictures somewhere where they 'fit.'
Complaining to the 'Help Forum' on Flickr here someone put it like this...
'I feel like my family album just got destroyed in a fire.'
I feel you man... I really do.
You know I wanna stay positive and be inspired and create whatever it is that I create in a community of people who do the same and appreciate the details that I appreciate too.
You and Flickr always felt like 'an old friend.'
And quite honestly, that old friend Flickr is dead.
Look at this screen shot above and read between the lines.
The community is outraged.
When the staff at Flickr has to remind us that 'personal attacks against Staff or other users will not be tolerated'...
well... you gotta figure that there's a LOT of outrage.
I miss my Flickr.
And I'll miss you guys.
I've always felt the love and I still do.
I'll be around... but if something drastic doesn't happen in Flickerland over the next few days more and more of my time, my photographs and my attention will be elsewhere...
probably on Ipernity.
I miss seeing you guys the way that I used to see you.
And Flickr... RIP.
You were a good friend.
I'll miss you buddy.