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A page from a junior school punishment book from the period from the mid 1960s to early 1970s when it was decided to end the use of the cane at that school by the new Headteacher.
The date, surnames and teacher who inflicted the punishment have been removed due to modern requirements on documents.
Were these punishments justified, and were some of them a little harsh for the event, it has to be remembered that these were not older boys at senior school, but boys in a primary school, many of who were well under 11 years of age.
The crimes where the cane was given.
Spitting, flicking glue, kicking infant, writing obscene notes, kicking children, spitting, picking on younger children, using foul language.
Academic High School (Vienna)
(Pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Beethovenplatz
school form - general secondary school (high school humanistic)
Founded in 1553
♁ coordinates 48 ° 12 '5 " N, 16 ° 22 ' 34" OKoordinaten : 48 ° 12 '5 " N, 16 ° 22' 34" E | |
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About 610 students (4 April 2010)
About 60 teachers (4 April 2010)
Website www.akg -wien.at
The Academic Gymnasium in Vienna was founded in 1553 and is the oldest high school in Vienna. The school orientation is humanistic and compared with other traditional high schools of the city rather liberal. The current number of students is about 610 students, divided on 24 classes.
History
16th and 17th Century
At the time of the foundation of the high school, the University of Vienna had the privilege to decide about the estabilishment of educational institutions. In March of 1553, the Jesuits received permission from the university to the founding of the Academic Gymnasium.
The primary objectives of the exclusively Jesuit teaching corps was the provision of religious instruction, the practice of the Catholic faith and the strengthening of the religious attitude of the students. The Academic Gymnasium was located at the time of its inception in the Dominican monastery opposite the then university. The former language was Latin.
18th and 19 Century
The dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV led to a conversion of the teaching staff and educational goals. The new focus was on history, mathematics, German, literature and geography. The management of the school was transferred to the Piarist. Subsequently the school was somewhat cosmopolitan conducted and the spirit of the Enlightenment prevailed both among teachers and among the students. Likewise, new didactic and educational measures, and later the school fees were introduced.
As a result of high school reform in 1849, the eight-year school with the final matriculation examination was developed. The humanistic aspects crystallized out more and more, the focus of the lesson were mainly linguistic-historical, mathematical and scientific aspects not being neglected. The first high school graduates made their final exams at the end of the school year 1850 /51.
Academic High School before the vaulting of the Vienna River (Wienfluß - as small as possible)
Since 1866 the building of the Academic Gymnasium is located on Beethoven place in the first district of Vienna. It was built by Friedrich von Schmidt, who also designed the City Hall, in his typical neo-Gothic style.
The first students (female ones) gratuated in 1886 and 1887 (every year an external student), since the school year 1896/97 there were almost every year high school graduates, a general admission of girls there since 1949 /50.
20th Century
The years following the First World War were extremely distressing for the high school, because there was a very narrow escape for not being closed, the cause was a sharp decline in students. The educational institution was menaced from losing its good reputation and attractiveness.
GuentherZ 2007-02-22 2707 Wr Akad Gym plaque Jewish students and Lehrer.jpg
After the "Anschluss" of Austria in 1938, the Jewish students had to leave the school, they were 28 April 1938 transfered, some of the students but had logged off before this date. The total loss amounted to nearly 50 percent of the students because the school from all Viennese schools was attended most of all of children of Jewish families. Today, several plaques remember on the outer facade of the high school the transfer and the horrors of Nazism. A known victim of that action was the future Nobel laureate Walter Kohn, he had to leave school in the 5th class.
Wolfgang Wolfring (1925-2001) popularized the high school from 1960 as the site of classical Greek drama performances in ancient Greek original language. Annually took place performances of the classical Greek dramatic literature, among them, King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus and Philoctetes of Sophocles, the Oresteia of Aeschylus and The Trojan Women and Alcestis of Euripides. Protagonists of these performances were later Lawyers Josef and Eduard Wegrostek, Liliana Nelska, Doris Dornetshuber, Gerhard Tötschinger, but also in smaller roles Gabriel Barylli, Paulus Manker, Konstantin Schenk and others.
Over the years the school acquired the old reputation back and enjoyed high access rates. More and more emphasis has been placed on humanistic education, which has been demonstrated mainly by the wide range of languages, school theater performances at a high level and numerous musical events of the school choir the public in general as well.
21th Century
The focus are still on a broad linguistic foundation, which also includes training in languages such as Latin or Greek. The school offers both French and English from the first grade. The other of the two languages begins as early as the 2nd class.
In addition to this a wide range of projects are organized and voluntary activities offered. The goal of the Academic Gymnasium is the general education, which in turn should prepare for a subsequent university study.
One problem is the shortage of space of the school. Since there's a large demand for school places, the school house for financial reasons and such the monument preservation not expandable, not for all admission solicitors school places are available.
Known students and graduates
The Academic High School has produced a large number of public figures in its history:
Birth year before 1800
Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781-1862), writer
Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger (1795-1871), geologist
Stanislaus Kostka (1550-1568), Catholic saint
Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862), painter
Joseph Othmar Rauscher (1797-1875), Archbishop of Vienna
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Composer
Johann Carl Smirsch (1793-1869), painter
Birth year 1800-1849
Alexander Freiherr von Bach (1813-1893), lawyer and politician
Moritz Benedikt (1835-1920), a neurologist
Nikolaus Dumba (1830-1900), industrialist and art patron
Franz Serafin Exner (1802-1853), philosopher
Cajetan Felder (1814-1894), Mayor of Vienna
Adolf Ficker (1816-1880), statistician
Anton Josef Gruscha (1820-1911), Archbishop of Vienna
Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (1849-1917), physician
Carl Haslinger (1816-1868), music publisher
Gustav Heider (1819-1897), Art History
Joseph Hellmesberger (1828-1893), Kapellmeister (chapel master)
Hyrtl Joseph (1810-1894), anatomist
Friedrich Kaiser (1814-1874), actor
Theodor von Karajan (1810-1873), German scholar
Alfred von Kremer (1828-1889), orientalist and politician
Kürnberger Ferdinand (1821-1879), writer
Henry of Levitschnigg (1810-1862), writer and journalist
Robert von Lieben (1848-1913), physicist and inventor
Karl Ludwig von Littrow (1811-1877), Astronomer
Titu Maiorescu (1840-1917), Romanian Prime Minister
Johann Nestroy (1801-1862), actor, poet
Ignaz von Plener (1810-1908), Prime Minister of Austria
Johann Nepomuk Prix (1836-1894), Mayor of Vienna
Benedict Randhartinger (1802-1893), Kapellmeister (conductor)
Friedrich Rochleder (1819-1874), chemist
Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886), German scholar
Anton Schmerling (1805-1893), lawyer and politician
Leopold Schrötter, Ritter von Kristelli (1837-1908) , doctor (laryngologist) and social medicine
Johann Gabriel Seidl (1804-1875), lyricist of the Austrian imperial anthem "God save, God defend our Emperor, our country!" ("may God save and protect our good Emperor Francis")
Daniel Spitzer (1835-1893), author
Eduard Strauss (1835-1916), composer and conductor
Franz von Thun und Hohenstein (1847-1916), Prime Minister of Cisleithania
Joseph Unger (1828-1913), lawyer and politician
Otto Wagner (1841-1918), architect
Birth year 1850-1899
Othenio Abel (1875-1946), biologist
Ludwig Adamovich, senior (1890-1955), President of the Constitutional Court
Guido Adler (1855-1941), musicologist
Plaque for Altenberg, Beer-Hofmann, Hofmannsthal and Schnitzler
Peter Altenberg (1859-1919), "literary cafe"
Max Wladimir von Beck (1854-1943), Austrian Prime Minister
Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945), writer
Julius Bittner (1874-1939), composer
Robert Dannenberg (1885-1942), lawyer and politician
Konstantin Dumba (1856-1947), diplomat
August Fournier (1850-1920), historian and politician
Erich Frauwallner (1898-1974), Indologist
Dagobert Frey (1883-1962), art historian
Albert Gessmann (1852-1920), librarian and politician
Raimund Gruebl (1847-1898), Mayor of Vienna
Michael Hainisch (1858-1940), President of the Republic of Austria
Edmund Hauler (1859-1941), classical scholar
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), playwright
Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), philosopher and politician
Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), lawyer, co-designer of the Austrian Federal Constitution
Franz Klein (1854-1926), lawyer and politician
Arthur Krupp (1856-1938), industrialist
Wilhelm Kubitschek (1858-1936), archaeologist and numismatist
Edward Leisching (1858-1938), director of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna
Felix from Luschan (1854-1924), doctor, anthropologist, explorer, archaeologist and ethnographer
Eugene Margaretha (1885-1963), lawyer and politician
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), founder and president of Czechoslovakia
Alexius Meinong (1853-1920), philosopher
Lise Meitner (1878-1968), nuclear physicist
Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), economist
Paul Morgan (1886-1938), actor
Max von Oberleithner (1868-1935), composer and conductor
Paul Pisk Amadeus (1893-1990), Composer
Gabriele Possanner (1860-1940), physician
Przibram Hans Leo (1874-1944), zoologist
Przibram Karl (1878-1973), physicist
Josef Redlich (1869-1936), lawyer and politician
Elise Richter (1865-1943), Romance languages
Joseph Baron Schey of Koromla (1853-1938), legal scholar
Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), writer, playwright
Julius Schnitzler (1865-1939), physician
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), physicist, 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics
Birth year 1900-1949
Ludwig Adamovich, Jr. ( born 1932 ), President of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Christian Broda (1916-1987), lawyer and politician
Engelbert Broda (1910-1983), physicist, chemist
Thomas Chorherr (*1932), journalist and newspaper editor
Magic Christian ( born 1945 ), magic artist and designer
Felix Czeike (1926-2006), historian
Albert Drach (1902-1995), writer
Paul Edwards (1923-2004), philosopher
Caspar Einem (born 1948), Austrian Minister of Interior, Minister of Transport
Ernst Federn (1914-2007), psychoanalyst
Friedrich Heer (1916-1983), writer, historian
Georg Knepler (1906-2003), musicologist
Walter Kohn (b. 1923), physicist, 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (1901-1976), sociologist
Lucian O. Meysels (1925-2012), journalist and nonfiction author
Liliana Nelska (born 1946 ), actress
Erwin Ringel (1921-1994), physician, advocate of Individual Psychology
Ernst Topitsch (1919-2003), philosopher and sociologist
Milan Turković (*1939), Austrian-Croatian wind blower and conductor
Hans Weigel (1908-1991), writer
Erich Wilhelm (1912-2005), Protestant superintendent in Vienna
Year of birth from 1950
Gabriel Barylli (*1957 ), writer and actor
Christiane Druml (b. 1955), lawyer and bioethicist
Paul Chaim Eisenberg (born 1950), Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community Vienna
Paul Gulda (b. 1961), pianist
Martin Haselboeck (born 1954), organist
Peter Stephan Jungk (*1952), writer
Markus Kupferblum (b. 1964), director
Niki List (1956 - 2009) , film director
Miki Malör (born 1957), theater maker and performer
Paulus Manker (born 1958), actor and director
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny (* 1959), Vienna Councillor for Culture and Science
Doron Rabinovici (*1961), writer
Clemens Unterreiner (born 1977), opera singer, soloist and ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera
Original Title: Certificate of ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, accompanied by resolution and transcript of the Journals of the Two Houses of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee
U.S. National Archives' Local Identifier: NWL-233-PETITION-66AH221-1
From: File Unit: Petitions and Memorials of the House Committee on Woman Suffrage from the 66th Congress, 05/19/1919 - 03/03/1921 (Record Group 233)
Created by: U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on Woman Suffrage. (1917 - 1927)
Production Date: 8/24/1920
Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/306664
Repository: National Archives Building - Archives I (Washington, DC)
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Pages from the earliest telephone directory I have, pre-GPO, as issued by the National Telephone Company. The Rochdale and other local exchanges fell within the Bolton Area. As expected the entries are mostly commercial with few residential numbers in existance at the time so the Heywood numbers are mostly those of local companies - many mills, shops and doctors. The reason I scanned this is to do with the c1950 picture of Heywood town centre I posted, and Wadey's comments - amazingly the Freemasons' Arms pub had a phone - under the name of W P Binns, telephone number 0195. Under the tail end of Rochdale's entries a few of interest. Turner, Samuel - and the infamous asbestos company that was to carry their name. Tweedales & Smalley's were major manufacturers of cotton mill machinery, based in Castleon, Rochdale as were Whipp & Bourne. I recall, as a child, Whatmough's lovely shop on Drake St - and the Yorkshire Penny Bank (on Yorkshire St) were I had my very first bank account in 1962!
An 82-year old man drove into my car while he was getting gas.
Basically, I decided to stop at a gas station I never stop at. I should never break my habits! This one was significantly more crowded.
I didn't think there was any damage; it was a really weak hit. However, I'd previously failed inspection and had to get a $150 repair for thinking there was no damage in a similar situation. In the 90's a woman barely bumped my Pontiac 6000, and my horn never worked after that. Which will make you fail inspection. Weaksauce.
So having already paid the price for being a nice guy in the 1990s, I vowed never to be the nice guy again. If you so much as touch my car, we will exchange information.
My intent was not to file a claim, but to have the man's information in case I found out later that something broke. But this man refused. This is the 2nd white-haired old person tohit my car and then refuse to give his information. And they call OUR generation entitled?!
I called the police from the gas station, and told the guy this. I also told him, "Becuase you weren't civil, and didn't act like a reasonable human being, I now WILL be filing a claim, and your insurance will go up."
The claim involved me taking my car on a special trip to a body shop to have them inspect it for damage. I assume the cost for these damages were passed onto his insurance company.
Anyway, the cop came, and forced the guy to give him his information. The cop also yelled at him because he left his wife in the passenger seat and went away. Cop told him he's not allowed to leave the scene of an accident like that. The old man still tried to refuse to give his information, saying that we might harass him. As if he has a right to hit peoples' cars with no recourse! Nobody has that right!
He also tried to mis-write his license plate number, which the cop did not catch. BUT ANOTHER TIME, a tractor trailor hit me and gave a fake license plate number. The cop didn't notice. I took down the real number after the cop left. The DMV of Alabama refused to release the guy's identity to the Virignia police! Can you believe that? Why should Virginia let Alabama trucks drive through their state, if they can hit us, and then not have to pay because they lied?!?!?!?!?! So anyway, I learned from that lesson: CHECK THE PLATE NUMBER YOURSELF.
So it took me TWO bad lessons to get to the point of knowing how to handle myself in my best interest!
What a douchebag. And he has USAA too: The ultimate entitlement insurance.
He also tried to make some excuse that a car was coming at him to me. What a fucking load. Your license should be revoked. You live in Virginia and have an Ohio license. I get it: You yourself know you're not qualified to pass a driver's test here.
Chrysler 300M 1999 car, Toyota Camry 2004 car, accident report.
Ohio, Shell, gas station, Annandale, Virginia.
May 30, 2012.
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Lovely insight into the construction of women's clothing in the 1880s, and the cost thereof, at least if you were a customer at M. Downes of 72 Grafton Street in Dublin...
Date: Tuesday, 17 July 1883
Size: 23 x 18 cm
NLI Ref.: EPH B421
Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland
Positively the last document regarding my father-in-law's post war arrangements which I am going to post here.
It tells us a lot about inflation that paying off a debt of £57 was a great relief in 1950.
Both my in-laws had taken out loans to finance their higher education in the late 30s, and had agonised about getting married in 1942 with those debts around their necks. By the end of the war they found themselves still alive and kicking, with three small children to bring up. The prof and his sisters remember more dissent on the question of whether Edgar should be a schoolteacher for a three years, thus not having to pay back his loan, or whether he should pursue his budding career in the Scientific Civil Service, than at any later time. It is worth noting that at that time they did not know that their children would all have their tuition fees in British higher education paid, together with substantial contributions to living expenses, and they were already planning to foot those costs themselves. Alas, small children in the UK today cannot look forward to such support.
Format: Dokument
Dato / Date: 16 Oktober 1893
Sted / Place: Leinstrand
Wikipedia: Budeie
Eier / Owner Institution: Trondheim byarkiv, The Municipal Archives of Trondheim
Arkivreferanse / Archive reference: Nypvang skole: Y - Andre utskilte arkivdeler - Diplom
Diplom
Leinstrandens Sogneselskab
har med Bidrag af Søndre Trondhjems
Amts Landhusholdningsselskab ved foretagen
Fjøsbefaring i 1893 tilkjendt Budeie
Helga Larssen
Hederlig Omtale for Fjøsstel.
Leinstrandens Sogneselskab den 16de October 1893.
John O. Stav
f.t. formand
For prisdommerne:
I. Aasenhus
CG Dayal: Close the Indian Consulate in New York
For the first time ex-CG Prabhu Dayal has made a very intelligent suggestion that Indian Consulate in NY should be shut down to save money and embarrassment to GOI. The main functions of the Consulate; Consular work relating to passports, visas, OCI cards, PIO cards were out sourced to private agencies during his tenure. CG Dayal after making the services substandard and a nightmare for the applicants, converted the Consulate into a Pub for few rich American Indians and shady organizations as well as quasi-criminals.
During CG Dayal’s tenure only the trend to celebrate birth days of individuals not connected with Consulate or GOI in any official capacity. All kinds of non-sense events primarily Daru(liquor) Parties and covert fund raising for shady non profit organizations or to give them legitimacy became the norms at the Consulate. Just for an example CG Dayal along with Indian public sector organizations knowingly Patronized FIA famed for Girls wearing Indian Tri-color Bikinis for India Day Parade. All of them were aware that FIA is not a representative organization of Indian Americans because barring 1-2 all the office bearers are from one religion and one state of India . Loss making Premier Public enterprises; Ministry of Tourism, Air India, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India by financing FIA have been promoting racism with Indian Tax Payers money in America besides misuse of public funds by FIA owners for personal promotion. CG Prabhu Dayal knowingly shared the float with a Fugitive Nirav Mehta running from Indian Law enforcement, in India Day Parade in New York .
Current CG Mulay besides supporting FIA and maintaining a status quo of a Pub; has taken the Consulate to new heights by holding press conferences for Bollywood movie releases and holding state Dinners for visiting public sector officials, politicians and film stars that may be on a private visit. Mulay is also credited for celebrating Diwali at Times Square along with Maharashtra Minister Bhujbal with Indian Tax Payers money to benefit a local company created for this particular event only. The Indian public sector Banks and money losing Air India also funded this extravaganza that has nothing to do any thing Diwali so that their officials can wine, dine and have photo sessions with Indian dignitaries and Bollywood stars.
CG Dayal’s suggestion of closing the Consulate will definitely save money to GOI. According to him the protocol of receiving Indian Delegations in New York and sending them back to India can be done by the India ’s Permanent Mission in NY. The same is presently shared by them with the Consulate. Consular work relating to passports, visas, OCI cards, PIO cards has already been outsourced during CG Dayal’s tenure; instead of bringing the documents to the Consulates, the outsourcing company could courier them to the Embassy in Washington. Since the Permanent Mission enjoys full immunity the Indian Officials can exploit their Domestic Staff with full immunity from US Laws!
CG Dayal and most of the Consulate officials past and present are highly educated and it seems are well aware of the US laws concerning TVPA, (victims of Trafficking and violence), Domestic workers Bill of Rights, minimum pay and no deductions can be made from the payroll of a domestic help for lodging, medical care, medical insurance, travel and meals. It is a million dollar question why none of them ever tried to make aware the concerned officials in Government of India about the US Laws? Why they were paying their Domestic help less than the stipulated wages and forcing them to work long hours in violation of US Laws? Above all the local attorneys who are permanent fixtures in the Consulate/Pub why their opinion was never taken on this issue?
Devyani is not the first one to be accused of domestic help exploitation; prior to her so many cases have been settled out of court including CG Prabhu Dayal’s with Indian Tax payer’s money. It is very strange that highly educated Devyani’s US citizen husband never objected to her actions violating US laws. He should be treated as an accessory in the crimes committed by Devyani. Violation of US laws knowingly by the highly educated Indian officials amounts to nothing but gross misuse of one’s power as well as no concern for Indian Tax Payer’s money and no respect for human rights.
Coming to CG Prabhu Dayal’s version of “Consulate Officials Domestic Help pursuing American Dreams”; here CG Dayal is misrepresenting the facts. So many high Officials including CG Dayal from Indian Consulate and Embassy have done the same and have remained in United States to pursue American Dreams. Some have settled their children and relatives in USA . CG Dayal’s daughter and son are also living in US and both got plum jobs while he was CG of Indian Consulate in NY. CG Dayal who has been living in New Jersey since his retirement can he explain under what US laws these officials and their children have been able to peruse their American Dreams?
People in India should find some thing better than to demonstrate about Devyani’s strip search, hand cuff and mug shot. In America it is a standard procedure and some of the very high and mighty has gone through it. They should demonstrate about Minimum wages, standard work hours, pension, medical, vacation and sick leave for Domestic workers working for Indian intelligentsia, rich and powerful. The Indian Politicians, IFS IRS & IAS officials who are upset over corrupt Devyani’s arrest must come out of their British Raj privileges that they are above law.
By the way where were these demonstrators and upset corrupt rulers lot; when Indians were called “Cockroaches, animals, illiterates go home” in America or a 8 years old was traumatized for drawing Hindu Swastika or a 12 years old was Terrorized by Jewish controlled US Media for demanding equal rights with Jews and Christians of his town from Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie in a public meeting?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6EfA4-Yas&feature=mfu_in_or...
12yr old demanding equal rights with Jews & Christians from Governor of New Jersey
americafraud.blogspot.com/2013/09/moditraumatizedfordrawi...
8 yrs old Traumatized for drawing Hindu Swastika by a Jew Teacher in America
Dave Makkar
davemakkar@yahoo.com
Jan.03, 2014
38 old maps of England folded and bound in a leather book.
Most seem to have been printed from copper plates made by
Richard Blome in the 1660s and 1670s. The plates were modified
and Bloom's name was removed from many of the plates before
this set of maps was printed at a later date. Most of the plates
measured 9 x 7-1/2 inches. Book was found in New Jersey, USA.
Please note that I know nothing about old maps. The backs of the
maps was used as a notebook/ledger in 1726. I have posted some
images of the ledger. Some of the names and dates found on these maps are:
Richard Blome
W. Hollar secit
R. P. sculp
Richard Palmer
1667
1670
1671
1672
Right click on the image and select "original" to see a
high resolution image.
Update: This appears to be "England Exactly Described"
published by Thomas Taylor in 1715.
From: www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=thomastayloratlas5210
"Taylor was also responsible for the publication of several
maps including England exactly described [...] in 1715
containing maps of the English counties which had been
issued previously in Speed's Maps Epitomiz'd in
1681 and in other works. "
In 1836, sixty copies of He Whakaputanga were produced by William Colenso on the CMS press at Paihia at the request of James Busby; they were circulated urgently in order to diffuse a flare-up between missionaries and traders in the Hokianga. In April 1837 Colenso printed a second edition of one hundred copies. This is the version displayed above.
In preparing the text for printing, Colenso standardised the spelling of English words transliterated into Māori, and inserted additional punctuation. Hapū information not recorded on the original document has also been added.
34 rangatira signed the original document on 28 October 1835. The printed version records 31 of them – Waikato, Te Peha and Hone Wiremu Heke Pokai are not recorded. Busby deliberately left Waikato’s name off the printed copy due to his involvement in a conflict at Waitangi, but it is not known why the others are not recorded.
A further 18 rangatira signed the original document between 29 October 1835 – 22 July 1839. Six of these names are recorded on the printed copy.
You can view the original, signed document here: www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnz/10430000633/in/album-721...
Archives Reference: ZZZZ 6249 W5243 Box1
collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/item/aims-...
Here are all my fountain pens with fine nibs. I tried to do it from fattest line to thinnest. In order it goes:
Lamy Vista (Safari) steel fine nib
Pelikan M215 steel fine nib
Ohto fine steel one size nib
Cross ATX steel fine nib
Parker Sonnet seel fine nib
Parker Vector steel fine nib
Parker 75 14k gold fine nib
Aurora Ipsilon steel fine nib
Waterman Harmonie steel fine nib
Platinum Preppy steel blue fine nib
Pilot Vanishing Point Déceimo 18k gold fine nib
This is written on run of the mill college ruled filler paper.
I've cleaned out a lot of my pens, and I'm trying to keep most clean unless I'm using them. Right now, I have the Pilot Decimo, Platinum Preppy, Aurora Ipsilon, Parker Vector, Pelikan M215, and Lamy Vista inked. The rest are earning some well deserved rest.
Title: Judgment in Plessy v. Ferguson
Creator(s): Supreme Court of the United States. (02/02/1790 - )
Plessy vs. Ferguson, Judgement, Decided May 18, 1896; Plessy v. Ferguson, 163, #15248; Records of the Supreme Court of the United States;Record Group 267; National Archives.
Issued on May 18, 1896, the ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." It was not until the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas and congressional civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s that systematic segregation under state law was ended.
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=1685178
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Happy Birthday Karla bird!
We ordered one of each tasting menu, resulting in just over 20 different dishes, each of which blew my mind.
Having gathered signatures at Waitangi, Waimate and the Hokianga, William Hobson began the trip south aboard the HMS Herald on 21 February. His task was to gather more signatures around Aotearoa New Zealand. However the 21-gun salute on 8 February (www.flickr.com/photos/archivesnz/15838612069 ) and comments Hobson made to others show the importance he placed upon the signing at Waitangi. Hobson wrote to Major Thomas Bunbury on 25 April that:
“The Treaty which forms the base of all my proceedings was signed at Waitangi on the 6th February 1840, by 52 chiefs, 26 of whom were of the confederation, and formed a majority of those who signed the Declaration of Independence. This instrument I consider to be de facto the Treaty, and all the signatures that are subsequently obtained are merely testimonials of adherence to the terms of that original document.”
Above is a map of Aotearoa New Zealand, showing the approximate locations of the larger Māori iwi around 1800. However it is important to note that by 1840, when Hobson’s task was to visit as many of these iwi and hapū as possible, massive migration had changed this map considerably. For example, Te Whanganui-ā-Tara (Port Nicholson) had a number of iwi not mentioned on this map occupying or using land and resources in the area.
Archives Reference: MAW2459 Box 274/ Sep 696/ 5/13/132
collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=R21549377
This record is part of #Waitangi175, celebrating 175 years since the signing of of te Tiriti o Waitangi. You can see other real time tweets on Twitter (twitter.com/ArchivesNZ), or explore the Waitangi 175 album here on Flickr.
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Pencils, pencil sharpener and glasses on a check list for organizing financial and personal records and files.
Label of John Spencer Smith, 1769-1845
"J. Spencer Smith, Membre de l'université d'Oxford -- de la société royale de Londres -- de la société des antiquaires de Londres -- de la société pour l'encouragement des arts manufactures et commerce de Londres -- de la société royale des antiquaires de France -- de la société asiatique de Paris -- de la société de géographie de Paris -- de la académie royale des sciences arts et belles-lettres de Caen -- de la société des antiquaires de Normandie -- de la société linnéenne de Normandie. &c."
Penn Libraries call number: FC G3244 Q842s
St Andrew, Wingfield, Suffolk
Famously, Suffolk has no motorways. There are A-roads, B-roads, and a-long-way-from-any-other-roads. It is by way of this last category that you reach Wingfield, lost as it is in the lattice of dog-legging, high-hedged lanes somewhere between Eye and Halesworth. Even if there was no church, Wingfield would still be famous. It has a castle which isn't really a castle, and a college which is no longer a college. It was the combined power of these two, coupled with one of the most powerful families in late medieval England, which has given St Andrew the shape we find it in today. And even if it was just the church, this would still be a beautiful place to come, an elegant building of the 14th and 15th centuries set in a small, sloping, rambling graveyard at a curve in the climbing road beside the village pub.
Fine 18th and early 19th century gravestones abound, and not a great deal seems to have happened since, as if the sleepy air of this backwater has had a soporific effect on the powers of the seasons, the village, and even the passage of time itself. But if the graveyard is a place to remember our ancestors now just out of reach, St Andrew itself is a document of the events, enthusiasms and urgencies of longer ago, the Suffolk of more than half a millennium away.
The great defining moment in English history was the wave of virulent disease which swept western Europe in the middle years of the 14th century, for which the Victorians would coin the popular phrase 'the Black Death'. This outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plagues would, in the short term, carry off half the population of East Anglia, but it was the economic consequences which would have the greater effect in the long term. As the sons of the old landed families were carried off by the pestilence, so the old estates were broken up and sold off to a rising merchant class. The fall in population resulted in a shortage of labour, handing economic leverage to the ordinary people for the first time. A surplus of consumable produce, and money to spend on it, meant that by the second half of the 14th century we can for the first time identify what might be termed a middle class emerging in English society.
The old feudalism was giving way to what was a kind of proto-capitalism. Many families who rose to prominence during this century became fabulously rich. They exhibited their wealth in their houses and their households, and exercised their piety in donations and bequests to the Church, either in the form of buildings and furnishings, or by paying for Priests. Much of this effort was aimed at ensuring the prayers which would be said for them after they were dead. They hoped to escape the long centuries in purgatory which many of them clearly deserved. Part of this project involved an attempt to reinforce Catholic doctrine in the face of local superstitions and abuses, to make sure that the ordinary people knew their duty. Ironically, many of these families would, a couple of centuries later, embrace firmly the new idea appearing on the continent, Protestantism, and oversee a destructive Reformation in the parish churches that their ancestors had built up and beautified.
But that was in the future. Sir John Wingfield, whose family had owned the manor of Wingfield for generations, survived the Black Death, and perhaps as a form of thanksgiving he established a college of Priests here in Wingfield in his will of 1361. The college buildings survive at the heart of later buildings just to the south of the church. Wingfield's personal fortunes had been bolstered by marrying his daughter into one of the parvenu families which rose to prominence in the 14th century. These people were merchants and traders in the northern coastal city of Kingston upon Hull, nearly two hundred miles away, but theirs was a name which would come to be intimately linked with the county of Suffolk. They were the de la Poles.
Wingfield's grandson, Michael de la Pole, would inherit the Wingfield estates. He built the fortified manor house known as Wingfield Castle, and in the later decades of the century and the early years of the next, he oversaw a massive rebuilding of the church. Only the low tower was left from Sir John's day. De la Pole's father William had been made first Duke of Suffolk. He increased the family's wealth by lending it to the Crown. But it is Michael de la Pole's son that history remembers most firmly. John de la Pole, second Duke of Suffolk, was a notable figure in Shakespeare's Henry VI parts I and II. Wounded at Harfleur, he watched his brother die at Agincourt: All my mother came into mine eyes and gave me up to tears. The most powerful man in England, equivalent of Prime Minister and leader of the military, he surrendered at Orleans to Joan of Arc in person, and his family paid £20,000 for his release, roughly ten million in today's money, but a drop in the ocean to them.
John ended up in his grave rather earlier than he might have expected. Exiled for five years under tenuous circumstances, he was murdered by Henry VI's henchmen as the ship taking him into exile left Dover. On the day before he died, he wrote a letter to his young son enjoining him to look after his mother: Always obey her commandments, believe her counsels and advices in all your works. This message was received by the boy's grandmother, who by virtue of her father's marriage was granddaughter of the writer Geoffrey Chaucer.
Sir John Wingfield, his grandson Michael de la Pole and Michael's son the second Duke of Suffolk, John de la Pole, are all buried here in the chancel at St Andrew. To reach them, you step into the porchless north door of the nave; the porch on the south side was intended to serve the college. The nave is wide and square, and full of light even on a dull day thanks to the lack of modern glass. Only the floor tiles strike a jarring note; what was considered the height of taste in the late 19th century is now, rather unfortunately, reminiscent of Burberry - a bit like chav lino, innit. But never mind, for fashions will change again, and in any case the eye is drawn by the creamy light of the stone-faced chancel, the great arcades seeming to swell and soar as they head eastwards to the drama of the great Perpendicular window.
The chancel aisles continue, the arches become resplendent in motifs and riotous capitals. And above, the clerestory does something extraordinary. What had been a simple range of five evenly spaced windows on each side above the arches, becomes a Perpendicular wall of glass, seven windows on each side of the chancel huddling together and picked out in brick which may well have come from the de la Pole's works in Hull. Conversely, the great range of aisle windows in the nave continues into the chancel on the south side, but on the north becomes sparser and erratic, leaving wall space for monuments. For here was the final resting place of one of medieval England's most powerful families.
A marvellous crocketed and canopied archway surmounts what is now the vestry door, but was once the way into the chapel of the Holy Trinity. Beside it, within a magnificent canopied easter sepulchre, lies the effigy of Sir John Wingfield, founder of the feast. Michael, Earl of Suffolk, lies across the chancel between the sanctuary and the south aisle chapel, his great tomb set within the arch of the arcade. Beside him is his wife Katherine, and their effigies are made of wood, a fairly late example of the technique. An earnest little lion sits up, alert, beneath his feet, and under his head is a sleeping, bearded saracen, his mouth grinning in the rictus of death. One of the most spectacular features of the tomb is the way that the sedilia are built into the northern side, which at once shows that the tomb is in its original location, and also unites the de la Poles in the sacramental liturgy of the church.
But the finest monument here is back across the chancel, on the other side of the sanctuary and backing the wall to the chapel. This is John de la Pole, second Duke. He lies in alabaster beside his wife Elizabeth Plantagenet, sister of Edward IV and Richard III. Their tomb echoes that of John's grandfather, but there are subtle differences. His iconography is the same, but the rendering of the images has changed in half a century. Now, the lion is softer, prouder, and the moor is startling and dignified. This dignity extends to the whole structure, surely one of the finest memorials in England from the later part of the 15th century. Looking at Duke John's face, it seems inarguable that he was sculpted from the life. Beside him, his wife, her pillow borne to heaven by flights of angels, the tiny disembodied hand of one surviving poignantly beside her as she sleeps.
St Andrew is a tale of two churches, a church of two halves. Perhaps no other chancel in Suffolk is as magnificent as that of Wingfield, and it does rather put the nave in the shade. The return stalls survive from the days of the College of Priests, with misericord seats and sombre heads on the hand rests, polished by centuries of standing up and sitting down. Beneath them is an acoustic chamber, as at Blythburgh, an early form of amplification designed to add resonance to the voices of those singing the offices.
But within a century, it was all over. The Reformation did for the College of Priests and prayers for the dead, and the Anglican reformers comprehensively wrecked the buildings which their ancestors had built up with such devotion. What little remained was seen off by the puritans a century later. To be fair, some of the loveliest interiors in Suffolk are those which speak of the 17th and 18th century life of the buildings; but here, at Wingfield, the first response is to mourn what must have been lost. Indeed, by the 17th century this chancel was derelict and disused, probably roofless. What survives in the church from those years is ephemeral, unexceptional; except, perhaps, for the hudd, a kind of sentry box used by clergymen at burials in inclement weather. East Anglia has only one other, at Walpole St Peter in Norfolk.
The chancel was mended in a sympathetic manner in the 1860s; fortunately, the 19th century restoration of the furnishings here came later, and the Victorians can be praised for preserving so much. And if the nave speaks predominantly of any period, then it is of the present day, because this is obviously a thriving church.
One curious note, though: in 1911, the chancel was reordered in an Anglo-catholic fashion with furnishings by the great Ninian Comper. Incredibly, these were almost entirely removed and destroyed in another refurbishment in the 1960s, and all that survives of Comper are the candle holders on the return stall. What we see today in any case is the result of another major restoration in 1999.
So often in a quiet, rural backwater like Wingfield we expect, and usually find, a humble church of the common people, a touchstone to the blacksmith and the wheelwright, the ploughboy and the farrier. Well, they are all here - in the graveyard, they are all around. But St Andrew is not a humble church. It is one of the great English testaments, a story of power and glory, of treachery and downfall. The Dukes of Suffolk are no more, but still St Andrew rides the hidden lanes of the county like a great ship, a ship of light. All around, the 21st century seems rather mundane and shabby by comparison.
(c) Simon Knott, 2007, 2015
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St Mary, Yaxley is a pleasing perpendicular church with a tremendously ornate north porch right on the eve of the Reformation - was it a sign of things that would have followed? Inside, the stars are an elaborately carved rood screen and a good collection of medieval glass fragments. The sexton's wheel above the south door is unique in Suffolk, though there's another across the Norfolk border at Long Stratton. The choreographer Frederick Ashton is buried in the churchyard.
I was out in east Suffolk test-driving the new Buildings of England: Suffolk , a real pleasure. At nearly every church I found something I hadn't noticed before.
The new edition is in two volumes, Suffolk:East and Suffolk:West. Pevsner had only needed a single volume of about 500 pages for the first edition, but the fabulous new expanded edition runs to more than 1300 pages. The new Buildings of England volumes for Suffolk are published on April 23rd. People will just have to buy both.
Good writing succeeds on its ability to engage you, to make you think...
(Very similar to Tolstoy's "What Is Art.")
This autograph album belonged to Ollie Hubbard. I uploaded 50 of the 100 autographs that I liked the best. I am not sure if Ollie was a boy or a girl. (Ollie short for Oliver or Ollie short for Olivia, Olive, Olwen). The dates range from 1879 to 1889. Most of the names are from Trenton or Princeton, New Jersey. This may be Princeton University. There are references to the following names:
Model School
State Normal School
Trenton College
Princeton College
C. C. C. C.
A complete list of all the names is in the "set" description here.
Source: Scan of an original colour Swindon promotion document published by Swindon Borough Council.
Copyright: Swindon Borough Council.
Date: 1973.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
"-Por gente como usted estoy yo aquí y quiero ser poeta.
Pocas veces era capaz de vencer mi timidez, pero una fuerza mayor que mi propio encogimiento me permitió avanzar y abrirme hueco entre desconocidos. La emoción de sentirme cerca del poeta, al que había leído con avidez, como un episodio indispensable de mi educación social y de su historia intima , no evitó la perplejidad de una respuesta inesperada.
- ¿ por gente cómo yo? Ay, espero que algún día puedas perdonarme."
No me cuentes tu vida, Luis GARCÍA MONTERO
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y parafraseando al poeta yo también digo "por gente como tú"...
gracias
INTRODUCTION. This is a scan and transcript of a bunch of old family letters from about 1820 to 1880. In the late 1870's, my 3rd great grandfather Henry Claydon packed up the family in Solihull, England (near Birmingham) and moved to Greenfield Center, New York, USA. Two others in the Claydon family came to New York before Henry: James Claydon, brother of Henry's father Thomas in 1848, and Thomas, son on James' brother William. James and 2nd wife Charity Rowland corresponded with Rowland/Greene and Claydon relatives in the USA and back in England. The letters contained a huge amount of family information that enabled the building of a detailed family tree. Some of the letters imply or describe life in England and the USA western frontier, including family, farming life, and religious life.
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TRANSCRIPT:
James Claydon, the eldest member of the family in the USA, settled in Greenfield Center, New York. He left a variety of documents, including deeds, contracts, receipts, and letters. His 2nd wife, Charity Rowland, had a number of relatives in the Greenfield area, and further in the pioneer west who sent them letters. A few letters survived to the present day:
Letter from son of James' sister Sarah, Philip Claydon, living in Hendon near London:
My Verrey Dear [Uncle] [a section has been cut out]
I received your letter & with it the Book for which I thank you kindley. I must confess to you I thought it strange you did not write before we many times said no doubt you were dead, but was thankful when I received your letter to learn you where still alive & well which I am happey to say we all are has to coming over to see you, nothing would [end of page]
... pleasure than
... not begrudge
... the distance or
... with you.
... called at the N.Y
... But said there were no letters for him he his gone 3000 miles up the country but I don't know where to. Well now about myself. I thought I had made all A. B. C about me & mine, but from your letter I have not so I will try now. Well about 17 years ago 2 wealthey famileys of the name Spalding came to live at Hendon & they wanted a coachman & the lady took a fancey to me & I have been in the service of H. B. Spalding 16 years come April next. We ware living at [end of page]
Hendon nearley 8 years when I had been with them 7 years. He presented me with a very handsum Bible & wrote in it 'presented to me for my Christian character & faithfull services', then between the 7 & 8 years they removed to London but said if I would come with them he would buy a house for me but I have to pay 26L per year for it when I had been with them 14 years they gave me a handsom marble clock which strikes the half hours & house worth about 12 guineas when at Hendon we had a little farm- cows, 4 hogs, pigs & poltry & I had the entire management of all & I was ill just before we left there & the gentleman & lady said if I had died they would sell everything off has they could not [end of page]
endure to see any one else about it. I was not there so you see what they think about me & he told me when we came to London if we both should live in a few years he intended to buy a farm & let me do has I liked with it, for since we have been in town we have had no stock so in the spring we shall leave town & go into the country again about 15 or 20 miles & keep cows & stock again as before & of corse they can't go without Claydon has he known nothing about stock himself so all his left to me to do has I like but I must tell you he his a thorough christian & when he has taken the chair at the meetings in London he calls on the platform Mr. P. Claydon to stand up by his side to address the people so I must leave you to draw your own conclusion [end of page]
I thought I should have said all I had to say in 3 sheets but you asked me so many questions that I cannot say all you ask me about soul maters for which I thank you has I often in my prayers look towards Greenfield Center for you, you say make all sure for eternity well I believe it his the duty of every one before they have this world to know that all his right for heaven I know there are some preachers that say we shall never be free from sin while in the body, but to my mind, there preaching & the teaching of the Bible don't agree for that says has the tree falls so it layes pointing to man has he dies so he remains holey, holey still unholey unholy still so that if we are not to be free from sin hear I want to know where we are & if the blood of Christ don't cleanse from all sin I want to know what done [end of page]
his Frederick I have aprenticed him to the trade of gas & bell hanging & range & hot water apparatus. I paid 20 guineas for him. He his the youngest & his in his 18 year. He his very clever at his trade. I have heard nothing from neigher of my uncles for a long time. My uncle John's daughter was in town about a year ago & she came & stopt 2 or 3 days with me & he was very well then. I wrote to my Uncle Thomas nearly 2 years ago & gave him an invitation to come & see me and he said he would but he has never been & I have lost his address but he lives in Warwickshire, but I have not had an opportunity of getting my sons likenesses but as soon has ever I can you may depend you shall have them which I hope will be by the next time I write to you. Mr. & Mrs. Benett, Tarker Thorp & Cox are all well & desire to be kindly remembered to you [end of page]
Dear Dear Uncle now I will tell you about my family. I have 3 sons James & George & Frederick. James was apprenticed but did not like his trade, so I spoke to my master about him & he took him at once into their firm & now there his a place for him for life if he behaves himself. Wages 24s per week but he will have a rise if he goes on allright. He his married & one chile a boy, now there his George has strong has a lion almost he would go into the armey but he has had quite enough of a soldiers life & has I shall want 2 or 3 men when we go into the country. I thought it would be a good chance for him & he would be just the man for me but it will require 30L to buy him of, well the next [end of page]
but I believe it done, this his what I think about our Father. Do we want the pardon of all sin he his more willing to give than we are to receive, do we want to be holey he hath called us to holiness he wills that I should holy be do we want to be clean he says I will be thou clean, yea that he his willing to do far more exceeding abundantly for us more than we can ask or think, I hope both me and my dear wife if we never have the happiness of seeing your face again in the flesh we shall meet you in the world of spirits where parting will be no more for ever. I should like to say much more but space & time won't permit so I must conclude and believe us to remain your affectionate Nephew & Niece, P. E. Claydon
[ps.] I have read the Book through you sent me & some of it 2 or 3 times & I think it his an excelent Book and I hope I have writen plain this ... [same cutout as page 1]
NOTES:
"H. B. Spalding": In the 1861 census: Henry B. Spalding, born about 1818 in St. Pancras, Middlesex, paper merchant [Hendon NW, Middlesex. Class: RG9; Piece: 786; Folio: 57; Page: 1; GSU roll: 542700]. In the 1871 census, Henry is at Hampstead St John, London [Class: RG10; Piece: 189; Folio: 15; Page: 22; GSU roll: 823311]. In the 1881 census, Kidbrooke, London, Henry is a retired paper merchant, born about 1818 in Kentish Town, Middlesex [Class: RG11; Piece: 741; Folio: 63; Page: 8; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341173]. Philip is with wife Emily and son Jesse in a room over the coachhouse in the rear of the Spalding property.
Name of claimant: Branning, William
Series Number: S 990
Creator: United States. Board of Land Commissioners.
Series Title: Confirmed Spanish land grant claims, 1763-1821.
Description: Established in 1822 (3 U.S. Statute 709, May 8), the Board of Land Commissioners settled all outstanding Spanish land grant claims in the territory that Spain ceded to the United States in 1821. The Board set up offices in Pensacola and St. Augustine to determine whether all titles and private claims to lands in east and west Florida were valid. It either supported or rejected land claims by studying the documents claimants supplied them.
The grants provide information on the settlement and cultivation of Florida during the Second Spanish Period (1783-1821) and the Territorial Period (1821-1845). Grantees had to provide the following information: description of land granted, date of grant, size of grant, property boundaries, as well as proof of residency and cultivation. The records contain surveys and plats, copies of royal grants, testimonials, correspondence, deeds, wills and translations of Spanish documents.
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/233344?id=3
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38 old maps of England folded and bound in a leather book.
Most seem to have been printed from copper plates made by
Richard Blome in the 1660s and 1670s. The plates were modified
and Bloom's name was removed from many of the plates before
this set of maps was printed at a later date. Most of the plates
measured 9 x 7-1/2 inches. Book was found in New Jersey, USA.
Please note that I know nothing about old maps. The backs of the
maps was used as a notebook/ledger in 1726. I have posted some
images of the ledger. Some of the names and dates found on these maps are:
Richard Blome
W. Hollar secit
R. P. sculp
Richard Palmer
1667
1670
1671
1672
Right click on the image and select "original" to see a
high resolution image.
Update: This appears to be "England Exactly Described"
published by Thomas Taylor in 1715.
From: www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=thomastayloratlas5210
"Taylor was also responsible for the publication of several
maps including England exactly described [...] in 1715
containing maps of the English counties which had been
issued previously in Speed's Maps Epitomiz'd in
1681 and in other works. "
On 12 August 1895 Minnie Dean was hanged at Invercargill gaol after being found guilty of infanticide, becoming the only woman ever to have been executed in New Zealand. Scottish-born Dean lived in Winton, Southland, with her husband Charles Dean, where she looked after unwanted children for payment. Known as ‘baby-farming’, this practice reflected the lack of socially-acceptable alternatives for women having unwanted babies, and Dean took in many children throughout the 1880s. However several of the children died while in her care, prompting police surveillance of her activities. In May 1895 Dean was seen boarding a train carrying a young baby and a hat-box, and disembarking later carrying only the hat-box. Police later unearthed the freshly buried bodies of two babies and the skeleton of an older boy in Dean's garden.
A coroner’s inquest of one of the dead babies, Dorothy Edith Carter, declared that she had "met her death… through poison administered by Minnie Dean." Dean was subsequently tried for infanticide on 18 June, and despite the defence arguing Carter's death was accidental, on 21 June Dean was found guilty of murder and executed a few weeks later.
The execution of a woman was an unusual course of action to be taken by the New Zealand Supreme Court. Before Dean's trial and execution, three other women had been tried and sentenced to death, all in relation to child murder, but in each case those sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. Public interest in the case was high, with souvenirs of the hat-box notoriously being sold outside the courthouse during her trial. The story of Minnie Dean entered into New Zealand folklore, and the case lead to major advances in New Zealand child welfare legislation, with the passing of the Infant Life Protection Act 1893 and Infant Protection Act 1896.
Archives Ref: J1 1895/917
collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=R24566594
Material from Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o Te Kāwanatanga
38 old maps of England folded and bound in a leather book.
Most seem to have been printed from copper plates made by
Richard Blome in the 1660s and 1670s. The plates were modified
and Bloom's name was removed from many of the plates before
this set of maps was printed at a later date. Most of the plates
measured 9 x 7-1/2 inches. Book was found in New Jersey, USA.
Please note that I know nothing about old maps. The backs of the
maps was used as a notebook/ledger in 1726. I have posted some
images of the ledger. Some of the names and dates found on these maps are:
Richard Blome
W. Hollar secit
R. P. sculp
Richard Palmer
1667
1670
1671
1672
Right click on the image and select "original" to see a
high resolution image.
Update: This appears to be "England Exactly Described"
published by Thomas Taylor in 1715.
From: www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=thomastayloratlas5210
"Taylor was also responsible for the publication of several
maps including England exactly described [...] in 1715
containing maps of the English counties which had been
issued previously in Speed's Maps Epitomiz'd in
1681 and in other works. "
Title: Letter from Upton Sinclair to President Theodore Roosevelt, 03/10/1906
Production Date: March 10, 1906
Letter from Upton Sinclair to President Theodore Roosevelt, 03/10/1906 (ARC ID 301981); Letters Received, 1893 - 1906; Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1839 - 1981; Record Group 16; National Archives.
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=301981
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Original Caption: Reflection from Biloxi Lighthouse Secured, 02/1862
U.S. National Archives' Local Identifier: 6037241
Created by: Department of the Treasury. Customs Service. Collection District of New Orleans (Louisiana). (1804 - 1913)
From: Series: Letters Received from the Confederate Treasury Department, compiled 1861 – 1862
Production Date: 02/1861
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=6037241
Repository: National Archives at Fort Worth, TX.
Access Restrictions Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
It occurred to my husband recently that we might look into refinancing our house, and when I called our mortage broker, we were happily surprised to find out how well we could do. Assuming the loan goes through, it will be a serious relief to us. We have been under a lot of stress.
We spent today pulling together documents and filling out forms. Please keep your fingers crossed for us that we get the appraisal we need.
I am so grateful that this possibility has opened up to us, grateful that my husband thought of it, and grateful for his help in pulling this together.
Gratitude Project -- 30 Days - Day 1