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A 1942 rent book for the council house owned by Thurrock Urban District Council at 17 Shakespeare Avenue, Tilbury - for which Mr Hill paid 14/11d (14 shillings and 11 pence). The council notes that this allowed up to 8 1/2 people to live at the address!
-- Page 40
DIAS
Destruction In Art
Symposium
9, 10, 11 September
1966
London
DIAS extends an invitation to all
artists who have employed the
element of DESTRUCTION
IN ART Symposium. If unable to
attend, artists are invited to send
documentation and photographs
for the exhibition.
DIAS also invites writers, psy-
chologists, sociologists and
others interested, to attend and
present papers that explore the re-
lations existing between aggres-
sion and destruction in society
and DESTRUCTION IN ART.
DIAS will sponsor a series of
events, Happenings, expendable
environments, films, music and
exhibitions that will take place in
London throughout September.
DIAS Honorary Committee:
Mario Amaya; Roy Ascott;
Enrico Baj (Milan); Bob Cobbing;
Ivor Davies; Jim Haynes; Dom
Sylvester Houedard; Milles; Frank
Popper (Paris); John Sharkey;
Wolf Vostell (Cologne); Hon-
orary Secretary; Gustav Metzger.
I wish to participate in the 3-day
Symposium (fee ￡2.0.0.)
I wish to attend the last (public)
day of the Symposium, Sunday,
11th September.
I wish to present an Event, etc., as
part of the DIAS programme.
Please send me the full pro-
gramme.
Symposium Fee: ￡2 Symposium,
public day, admission 10s.
PAPERS: Maximum length 20
minutes. Please send a summary.
PLEASE WRITE TO: BM/DIAS,
LONDON, WC1.
Art and Artists
Volume One, Number Five
August 1966
Edited by Mario Amaya
London: Hansom Books, 1966
Private Collection of Mikihiko Hori
"Art & Artists", "August, 1966", "Mario Amaya", "Art magazine", "London", "England", "Gallery Guide", "Destruction In Art Symposium", "DIAS", "Gustav Metzger", "Roy Ascott", "Enrico Baj", "Bob Cobbing", "Ivor Davies", "Jim Haynes", "Dom Sylvester Houedard", "Milles", "Frank
Popper", "John Sharkey", "Wolf Vostell"
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"Destruction In Art Symposium (DIAS)" ad in "Gallery Guide" in "Art and Artists", August, 1966, Volume 1, No. 5 - 1
-- Page 40 & 41
DIAS
Destruction In Art
Symposium
9, 10, 11 September
1966
London
DIAS extends an invitation to all
artists who have employed the
element of DESTRUCTION
IN ART Symposium. If unable to
attend, artists are invited to send
documentation and photographs
for the exhibition.
DIAS also invites writers, psy-
chologists, sociologists and
others interested, to attend and
present papers that explore the re-
lations existing between aggres-
sion and destruction in society
and DESTRUCTION IN ART.
DIAS will sponsor a series of
events, Happenings, expendable
environments, films, music and
exhibitions that will take place in
London throughout September.
DIAS Honorary Committee:
Mario Amaya; Roy Ascott;
Enrico Baj (Milan); Bob Cobbing;
Ivor Davies; Jim Haynes; Dom
Sylvester Houedard; Milles; Frank
Popper (Paris); John Sharkey;
Wolf Vostell (Cologne); Hon-
orary Secretary; Gustav Metzger.
I wish to participate in the 3-day
Symposium (fee ￡2.0.0.)
I wish to attend the last (public)
day of the Symposium, Sunday,
11th September.
I wish to present an Event, etc., as
part of the DIAS programme.
Please send me the full pro-
gramme.
Symposium Fee: ￡2 Symposium,
public day, admission 10s.
PAPERS: Maximum length 20
minutes. Please send a summary.
PLEASE WRITE TO: BM/DIAS,
LONDON, WC1.
Art and Artists
Volume One, Number Five
August 1966
Edited by Mario Amaya
London: Hansom Books, 1966
Private Collection of Mikihiko Hori
When I met Annie in May, we decided to do a trade. I wanted to try her homemade soaps, and she wanted a woven scarf. She mailed me TEN soaps - 2 of each scent seen here! Now, I really need to finish her scarf :)
They all smell so heavenly!
On August 29 1914 New Zealand forces captured German Samoa after being asked to do so by Great Britain. When war broke out in Europe in August 1914, Britain asked New Zealand to seize German Samoa as a ‘great and urgent Imperial service’. New Zealand’s response was swift. Led by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Logan, the 1385-strong Samoa Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force landed at Apia on 29 August. There was no resistance from German officials or Samoa’s general population.
The German flag was lowered and all buildings and properties belonging to the previous administration were seized. In the presence of officers, troops and ‘leading Native chiefs’, the British flag was raised outside the government building in Apia. The document pictured is the orders Logan received from Colonel Braithwaite to seize German Samoa. Braithwaite was a British Army Officer who had been seconded to the New Zealand Military Forces from 1911 to 1917. Archives New Zealand holds the military personnel files for Colonel Robert Logan and Colonel William Braithwaite. These files are digitised and can be accessed from the following links:
Robert Logan - collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=R10920310
William Garnett Braithwaite - collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=R21005433
The image is from the following file: Expeditionary Force - Occupation of German Samoa by NZEF - 1914- 1915
Annibale Sebben, my grandfather, left Fonzaso, Italy at the age of 15 and sailed on the steamship Le Havre to begin a new life in America. He took the name David to start his new adventure as he passed by the Statue of Liberty and onto Ellis Island for processing. A small boy on an adventure of a lifetime. He held this in his very hand and to me, that is very special that we still have it.
Here is his passport. Born on January 30, 1895, he lived with his parents Antonio and Argenta Sebben in the picturesque town of Fonzaso in northern Italy. He departed with many aunts and uncles to find a better life in the United States.
He found work as a gardener for Mr. Marshall Field in Chicago, then moved on to Seymour,Iowa where he worked coal mines for many years. Imagine going to work in the dark, working in the dark, and going home when it was dark--six days a week. How depressing.
Sunday was a time for family. He was always dressed in a white shirt and tie and kept perfect shoes. He played the trumpet in an all-Italian band to pass what little free time he had.
Later in life, he moved to the Quad Cities and worked at John Deere until he passed away from black lung disease, contracted from working the coal mines of southern Iowa.
I never knew the man. I wished I had.
my favourites on the list ARE:
Bleeding Orgasm
AND
Sex In Disabled Toilets - mmmm...sounds dee-lish!
,Message in Italian from a postcard depicting a 1920s Whit Walk in Stevenson Square
Part of a collection of photographs loaned from a socioloinguistic project into the Italian community centred around Ancoats.
Jordan Kay at Twitter tweeted to say that "when Apple sends out their standard 'Make Your App Accessible' email", they link to my blog post on accessibility.
I asked him to forward me a copy, and sure enough, they do!
The full content of the email is quoted below.
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We are excited to hear about your interest in expanding your app's marketability by addressing the needs of individuals with disabilities. There are benefits for developers who choose to enhance their apps to take advantage of accessibility APIs that drive the VoiceOver feature in iOS including....
* Make your app stand out from the crowd
* Expand your user base (approximately 1 in 6 individuals in the US have some type of disability, but that doesn't preclude them from wanting to use your app. Even those that don’t identify themselves as disabled can also benefit from accessibility features)
* Improve User Interface testing through automation
* Easy to implement using Apple's developer tools
* Appropriate for almost every app
Read Matt Legend Gemmell’s blog post about his experience writing apps that support the visually impaired: Accessibility for iPhone and iPad apps
Here are some great resources to help you make your app more accessible. Please note many of these pages require an iDP developer account to access them.
1) The best place to start is with our iOS Accessibility page: developer.apple.com/technologies/ios/accessibility.html
2) Another great place to learn more about how to program your app for Accessibility is the Accessibility Programming Guide for iOS.
3) You can download the WWDC 2011 Session Videos for free by logging into WWDC 2011 Videos using your Apple ID and password. There you will find a few accessibility sessions which include podcasts and a copy of the presentation slides, but additionally, we would like to highlight the one below for iOS:
iOS Accessibility
Description: iOS devices are incredibly popular for blind and low vision users, and those with other disabilities. Learn how to make your apps accessible to everyone, as well as how to make apps that are tailored expressly for users with disabilities. This talk will cover new and existing UIAccessibility APIs, and it will provide tips and tricks for making all apps more usable by everyone.
4) On our public Apple website, we have a dedicated page discussing our commitment to Accessibility: www.apple.com/accessibility/
5) Finally, here are some great examples of apps that take advantage of VoiceOver:
* Shazam
* itunes.apple.com/us/app/dictionary.com-dictionary/id36474...
* Inkling
June 1995 fleet list of Green Bus (Warstone Motors Ltd) Great Wyrley. By this time most buses were fitted with Wayfarer ticket machines instead of the traditional Bell Punch system.
1995-06-June'95-FleetList-GBS
Fort Dansborg, locally called Danish Fort, is a Danish fort located in the shores of Bay of Bengal in Tharangambadi in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Fort Dansborg was built in the land ceded by Thanjavur king Ragunatha Nayak in an agreement with Danish Admiral Ove Gjedde in 1620 and acted as the base for Danish settlement in the region during the early 17th century. The fort is the second largest Danish fort after Kronborg. The fort was sold to the British in 1845 and along with Tharangambadi, the fort lost its significance as the town was not an active trading post for the British. After India's independence in 1947, the fort was used as an inspection bungalow by the state government till 1978 when the Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu took over the control of the fort. The fort is now used as a museum where the major artifacts of the fort and the Danish empire are displayed.
The fort was renovated twice in modern times, once by Tranquebar Association with the help of the Danish royal family and the State Archaeology Department in 2001 and secondly by a project named Destination Development of Tranquebar by the Department of Tourism of the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2011. The fort is one of the prominent tourist destinations in the region
Inspiring collection of quote from all over the world.
You can download and share image about funny heart touching quotes .
Below are another best quote from famous people :
Srijan Pal Singh, Kalam’s advisor in a heart warming post has documented his last moments he took resort to social media t...
On this day 23 October 1948 13 people died when their plane smashed into the side of Mt Ruapehu.
It was a regular NAC (National Airways Corporation) flight bound for Hamilton. The plane was a Lockheed Electra ZK-AGK Kaka, piloted by Commander Max Hare and Second Officer Brian Russell. On board were 11 passengers including professional gambler Fred Follas returning home from a day at the Trentham Races, Linley Andrews a 17 year old from Masterton who had been excited about her first flight, and four year old Keith Collinge travelling with his parents to visit family. They took off from Palmerston North at 1.15 pm into heavy rain and thunderstorms. It was later reported that it was the most severe electrical storm for many years. Flying on instruments in thick cloud, the plane lost contact with air traffic control and it was to be six days before the wreckage was found high above the snow line on the mountain.
Some of the dead had been thrown from the plane onto the slopes of the mountain, and the infant Keith Collinge was found lying in an airline cot. The victims’ watches had stopped at 2.10 revealing the time of impact. From the injuries sustained it was decided death would have been instantaneous. The New Zealand Army was brought in to coordinate the search. A team of 50 men had the grim task of getting the bodies off the mountain, carrying them down wrapped in blankets and parachute material. Before they could do this the mountain was besieged by sightseers and “press men” intent on getting the scoop on this sensational tragedy. Two journalists were found standing by the radio truck listening in to confidential information. Meanwhile others were scrambling towards the scene wearing inadequate clothes for the mountain environment.
The official inquiry into the crash found that the aircraft had gone off course due to pilot error. However 50 years later aviation historian Brian Waugh argued that the pilots were not solely to blame as the plane took off too close to Mt Ruapehu in extreme weather conditions, while the electrical disturbance distorted the radio compass being used by the pilots.
Shown here is part of the coroner’s inquest report into the cause of death of all 13 people involved in this aviation tragedy.
Archives New Zealand Reference: R23874676 collections.archives.govt.nz/en/web/arena/search#/?q=R238...
More information can be found here:
www.nzhistory.net.nz/page/mt-ruapehu-air-crash-kills-13
www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/72954470/Fl...
Amy Tomlinson was a volunteer nurse at Moor Park Hospital, Preston during the First World War. Whilst she was working there she collected the autographs and some information about the men who were patients in the hospital. The information includes some details of what had happened to the patients and dates when they were in the hospital. Amy didn't continue to be a nurse after the war but stayed living in Preston.
The album was contributed by Mr. William Pinder.
For more information about this and other WW1 collections visit the Europeana website at www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en
For more information about the Amy Tomlinson album click Here
Images and text reproduced under the terms of Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0
1912 postmarked postcard view of the Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Station in Logansport, Indiana. A train had stopped at the station and several passengers waited nearby. A hotel station wagon was parked beside the station at the left.
This view was looking east-northeast. The structure at the left edge of the postcard was a porch-like extension at the southeast corner of the Island View Hotel (per the 1911 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Logansport). The barely visible white façade just beyond the depot identified the location of the US Railway Mail Transfer Building. Beyond that was the Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA Building. The large circular tank farther east was a 100,000 cubic foot gas storage tank owned by Indiana Lighting Co. That tank was located on the south side of Erie Avenue between Oak and Elm Streets.
The nearer of the two steeples in the background probably belonged to the First Presbyterian Church. That church was located at Spencer and Seventh Streets. A sign below the steeple appears to include the word FRUITS. That building was at least three stories tall. The 1911 map set shows the G. Caruso Fruit & Vegetable Warehouse in a three-story building on the northeast corner at Fifth and Canal Streets. The other steeple (above the right edge of the gas tank) probably belonged to the St. James Lutheran Church at Ninth and Spear Streets. The dome just above the train cars probably belonged to the Christian Church, located at Ninth and Spear Streets. The chimney to the left of the dome may have been the 70-foot-tall chimney at Obenchain & Boyer Chemical Co., located northwest of Berkley Street on Erie Avenue. The two-story white building that appears to be at the end of the track housed a restaurant and was used for boarding according to the 1911 map set.
A young man was standing between the tracks near the train. The word STAR was printed on the bag over his shoulder.
The postcard message was written by “Irish” to Miss Ollive [Olive?] Deineger at Donovan, Illinois. Irish said he was working at this depot and gave his address as 1210 Erie Avenue. A single-family dwelling was located at that address southwest of Twelfth Street.
From a private collection.
The other sided of this postcard can be seen here.
www.flickr.com/photos/hoosier_recollections/8755396911/in...
Copyright 2013-2014 by Hoosier Recollections. All rights reserved. This image is part of a creative package that includes the associated text, geodata and/or other information. Neither this package in its entirety nor any of the individual components may be downloaded, transmitted or reproduced without the prior written permission of Hoosier Recollections.
Experience cards are part of the installation asking the viewers to document their interaction with the matrix by marking which visualization they see first, look at the longest, think is most effective and this is least effective. Simple symbols are used to denote these.
The little details at Alec and Allissa’s wedding.
Some (most) readers might not know this, but I have been known to photograph weddings and events. Sometimes quite frequently. Although I rarely share any of this kind of stuff on this blog, I recently started thinking, “Why not?” So in the spirit of something different for a change I thought I’d post some photographs from a wedding I recently documented. Further, since many of you have been interested in my previous review of the amazing RX1, I further thought that it might be fun to showcase only the images taken with the RX1 during the wedding.
Photography in general, and wedding photography in particular, is about the little details. The dress, the shoes, the kiss the cake, etc. And what better camera to have with you for those little intimate moments than something sleek and unobtrusive but massively powerful at delivering incredible image quality, high sensitivity and that creamy, creamy bokeh that this kind of photography demands?
And if I were to have my pick of all weddings chock full of details for the RX1 to capture, it would be Alec and Allissa’s. A charming couple that also knows how to plan and throw an amazing wedding, they had details tucked away in all corners of this event. The fans/programs, invitations, desserts, centerpieces, everything was meticulously and tastefully designed. The aisle at the church was lined with pages from old books and framed by apothecary jars holding candles. Such a romantic and memorable setting.
I expected the RX1 to do marvelously at the little detail shots like the ones posted here, but what I didn’t expect was how versatile it would be as a second body for portraits and candids. Many wedding photographers walk around with a set of fast primes so having a 35mm f/2 on a huge, beautiful sensor in a tiny, compact body is just what the doctor ordered. I think Sony is really onto something here and I couldn’t help but imagine what a nice package a set of 24mm, 35mm and a 50mm RX1s would make for a wedding shooter.
Format: Kart
Dato / Date: ca. 1940 - 1945
Kartograf / Cartographer: Antatt Wehrmacht
Sted / Place: Nidarø, Trondheim
Google Street View: goo.gl/maps/gxDCS
Sigurd Rasmussen (red.): Barmhjertighetsfronten - Norges Røde Kors under krigen 1940 - 1945 (Oslo 1950)
Harald Eriksen: Røde Kors sykepleieskole i Trondheim: En 60-årsberetning (Trondheim 1966)
Eier / Owner Institution: Trondheim byarkiv, The Municipal Archives of Trondheim
Arkivreferanse / Archive reference: Oppgjørskontoret: Cecil Collin-Hansen (l.nr. 27 B)
Merknad: En stor del av det beslaglagte området var baneanlegget til Trondhjems Tennisklub på eiendommen Sommerro ved Ragnhilds gate. Eiendommen ble beslaglagt av Wehrmacht 01.08.1940.
The little details at Alec and Allissa’s wedding.
Some (most) readers might not know this, but I have been known to photograph weddings and events. Sometimes quite frequently. Although I rarely share any of this kind of stuff on this blog, I recently started thinking, “Why not?” So in the spirit of something different for a change I thought I’d post some photographs from a wedding I recently documented. Further, since many of you have been interested in my previous review of the amazing RX1, I further thought that it might be fun to showcase only the images taken with the RX1 during the wedding.
Photography in general, and wedding photography in particular, is about the little details. The dress, the shoes, the kiss the cake, etc. And what better camera to have with you for those little intimate moments than something sleek and unobtrusive but massively powerful at delivering incredible image quality, high sensitivity and that creamy, creamy bokeh that this kind of photography demands?
And if I were to have my pick of all weddings chock full of details for the RX1 to capture, it would be Alec and Allissa’s. A charming couple that also knows how to plan and throw an amazing wedding, they had details tucked away in all corners of this event. The fans/programs, invitations, desserts, centerpieces, everything was meticulously and tastefully designed. The aisle at the church was lined with pages from old books and framed by apothecary jars holding candles. Such a romantic and memorable setting.
I expected the RX1 to do marvelously at the little detail shots like the ones posted here, but what I didn’t expect was how versatile it would be as a second body for portraits and candids. Many wedding photographers walk around with a set of fast primes so having a 35mm f/2 on a huge, beautiful sensor in a tiny, compact body is just what the doctor ordered. I think Sony is really onto something here and I couldn’t help but imagine what a nice package a set of 24mm, 35mm and a 50mm RX1s would make for a wedding shooter.
Repository: California Historical Society
Creator: Farnham, Eliza Woodson Burhans, 1815-1864.
Date: 1849 February 20.
Publication Note: New York : Nesbitt, Printer, 1849.
Physical Description: 1 sheet ([1]p.) : ill. ; 25 x 20 cm.
General Note: "The death of my husband...at San Francisco...renders it expedient that I should visit California during the coming season. Having a desire to accomplish some greater good...believing that the presence of women would be one of the surest checks upon many of the evils that are apprehended there...a plan for organizing a party of such persons to emigrate to that country." Eliza Farnham then goes on to describe the company of women, not under twenty-five years of age, contributing two hundred and fifty dollars to and having the ability to enter some occupation upon arrival in California. The party shall also include six or eight respectable married men and their families. The New York built Packet Ship Angelique will be ready to sail from New York about the 12th or 15th of April.
Call Number: Vault B-004
Digital object ID: Vault_B-004.jpg
Preferred Citation: Ship Angelique: California Association of American Women, New York, February 20, 1849, by Eliza W. Farnham, Vault B-004, courtesy, California Historical Society, Vault_B-004.jpg.
For more CHS digital collections: digitallibrary.californiahistoricalsociety.org
my brother diagrammed my ornithomimus model, then tried to add japanese translations for each step description :) I don't know japanese so i don't know how many mistakes there are;
Format: Diplom i billedramme med glass
Dato / Date: 1944
Fotograf / Photographer: Ukjent
Sted / Place: Byåsen bane, Trondheim
Wikipedia: Jøssing
Wikipedia: Idrettsstreiken
Wikipedia: Sportsklubben Freidig
Eier / Owner Institution: Trondheim byarkiv, The Municipal Archives of Trondheim
Arkivreferanse / Archive reference: Tor.H49.B05.F28568
Jøssing-Cupen
på Byåsen Bane
1944
DIPLOM
tilfaller
Sp.klubben "Freidig"
som cupens seirende lag.
T. Wangberg [sign.]
Svein Bolsø [sign.]
Nils Aune [sign.]
Rolf S. Hansen [sign.]
Merknad:
Idretten ble en av de første arenaene for sivil motstand. Okkupasjonsmakten og Nasjonal Samling ønsket raskt å omorganisere norsk idrett i et felles nazifisert forbund. Dette førte til idrettsstreiken som understreket at ingen gode nordmenn skulle delta eller være publikum ved offisielle idrettsstevner. Denne streiken varte helt til frigjøringen. De eneste offisielle idrettsarrangementene som ble gjennomført under krigen var i regi av okkupasjonsmakten og nazimyndighetene.
Det foregikk derimot flere illegale stevner og konkurranser gjennom hele krigen. Jøssing-cupen var en av disse, som vi ikke minst kan se av navnet, da ”Jøssing” var en hedersbetont betegnelse på nordmenn som var motstandere av okkupasjonsmakten og Nasjonal Samling.
Hvordan arrangementet unnslapp myndighetenes søkelys er et mysterium, men utvilsomt en historie verdt å vite mer om.
Kilde: Arkivsenteret Doras utstilling 2015-2016
Above:
MDXIII
Leonis X Pont. max. anno primo eidibus nouembr.
Ex hispania fuit Romam aduectus puer natione Gallus annoru[m] xij
Monstrum in pectore gerens ad forma[m] perfecti pueruli acephali
brachijs tamen gracillimis sine manibus ostendentis caput suum
intra pectus pueri condidisse et per paruum collum a pectore
ip[s]ius dependere diuisis corporibus, ventribus inter se coherentibus
genua pueri uix pedibus attingentis. Quodq[ue] mirum dictu est
puer una cum monstro egerit, mingitq[ue], tamq[ue] cibo unius utriq[ue]
alimenta prestentur. Et si quid monstrum tetigerit, puer
statim sentit. H[a]ec non uulgaris fabula sed pleriq[ue] uiri fide digni
cum Rom[a]e, tum in Hispania & Gallia hunc puerum mo[n]striferu[m]
magnu[m] qu[a]estum facientem uiderunt.
[Early ms. inscription recording the appearance in Rome in 1513 of a twelve-year-old French boy with a conjoined twin.]
Beneath:
1 die veneris ija martij. 1515.
Adolescens monstrifer nom[en] Jaquet Floquet postea peragratis pluribus Italie
ciuitatibus questus causa genuam venit : ac hospitatus est in vicinia molis :
et que de eo superius scripta sunt : hodie verissima fore deprehendi : duobus exceptis.
nam monstrum ex stomaco : non ex pectore exit : nec egerit deficiente ano :
mingit t[ame]n : et membrum virile habet. preterea non sunt plures dies :
[que] monstrum h[abe]t tibias ita in poplitibus retractas : ut talis pedum suas nates
attingat. cur ei ita acciderit : pleriq[ue] credunt : [qui]a monstrum adhuc crescens
no[n] h[ab]ea[n]t solitum nutrime[n]tum : et ob hoc forte monstrifero breuiore[m] vita[m]
portendit : ut et[iam] in aspectu de monstrat moestus et pallidus incedens : t[ame]n
vultu modesto : et acco[m]modatis verbis : et quantum potui considerare
circiter etatis anno[rum] xvj videtur.
[Update in a different hand, dated 2 March 1515, on the anatomical peculiarities of the boy with the conjoined twin, here named Jaquet Floquet, whom the writer characterizes as gloomy and pale but also modest and well-spoken.]
Penn Libraries call number: Inc A-938 Folio
If you have been following the last 3 pictures or so, and accompanying description, you will understand that this was in the same envelope and letters and papers as the outlaw Frank James' things. It did not necessarily get sent in the same envelope but got saved with family papers which I received from descendants of Col. Chinn.
Best viewed pretty large. It will show th embossed seal from the Adjutant General's Office of the State of Kentucky. The date was 1902. The Adjutant General who signed the order was David R. Murray. It was to go from Harrodsburg, KY. to Mammoth Cave, Ky. and return. The bottom line, in red colored pencil says "Fill in Road of Embarkation"
An interesting story about this piece of paper, is that I had called the Missouri Archives about 30 years ago, looking to get some photocopies made of some genealogical records of my family. I was told by the lady who answered the phone that, "Oh no, we couldn't possibly do that. All the photocopying and lights and bending back the spine of the records just ruins them." I allowed as to how I had possession of some letters, a newspaper story of Frank James' Funeral Oration, and a Transportation Order as I have described above. She said that Frank & Jesse James were folk heroes in Missouri, and that the State of Missour had been trying for years to confirm a connection between them and Quantrill's Raiders. She thought the Transportation Order to Col. Chinn might help do that. I said I would donate a copy, not the original, to the State of Missouri. Her next words were, "How many photocopies would you like of your family records?"
What I am finding out is that sometimes I see Quantrill spelled Quantrell, but the former is correct. His full name was William Clarke Quantrill, and he did not actually live very long on this earth. It was his name apparently that was applied to various bands of raiders long after the Civil War had ended. Some say his followers were guerrillas (which I have also seen spelled guerillas), and others say, "Don't call them guerrillas in Missouri! Call them Raiders!
P.S. I joined Find A Grave, both the group here on Flickr and the www.findagrave.com one, and found Mrs. Frank James' name was Ann Ralston James and I found her tombstone photograph. There is still another little interesting tidbit about Ann and her marriage to Frank which I will be trying to find, and post here.
(mrsfrankjamescolonelkitchinnordersplainsifter)
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Tenuous Link: Chin >> Chinn
Title / Titre :
New Brunswick Cotton Mills, Mess'rs William Parks & Son, Portland—St. John, New Brunswick, October 1880 /
Manufactures de coton du Nouveau Brunswick, Mess’rs William Parks & Son, Portland – Saint John, Nouveau Brunswick, octobre 1880
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Unknown / Inconnu
Date(s) : October 1880 / octobre 1880
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : MIKAN 3933038
collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&...
Location / Lieu : Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada / Saint John, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Chas. E. Goad
. Library and Archives Canada, e010771512 /
Chas. E. Goad
. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, e010771512
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Up at 5.30 for a day in London; cycle to Digbeth for a coach to Victoria (£9.40 return, and my folding bike in its bag accepted as luggage) then a District Line Underground to Kew, with a packed lunch from Lin.
The British Protectorate of the Ionian Islands, including Corfu, was headed by thirteen governors or rather a 'Commissioner' changed to 'Lord High Commissioners' - Sir James Campbell in 1814; half a century and twelve commissioners later, Sir Henry Storks, and overseeing the transition to union - enosis, Ένωσις - in 1864 with the Hellenic monarchy, the Greek Count Dimitrios Nikolaou Karousos. The formal and informal writings, official reports, petitions, newspaper extracts, copies of letters sent and received (those in French, Greek and Italian translated into English) along with marginal comments are bound in heavy volumes bearing the impress of the Colonial Office can be studied in the Reading Room of The National Archives at Kew, which I visited for the first time yesterday, in pursuit of unsatisfied curiosity about what Robert Holland and Diana Markides call The Abandonment of the Ionian Protectorate 1859-1864 in their fascinating history - The British and the Hellenes.
I'm also on a long delayed errand following the letter I got from Thanassis Spingos and Kostas Apergis in Ano Korakiana in December 2007:
Dear Simon. It is said that before the Union of the Ionian Islands with Greece (1864), inhabitants of Ano Korakiana signed a 'paper' asking the British Government to keep the islands under Britain...We have been looking for this paper for years at the Greek archives without result. We wonder if you can help us by searching this paper in British archives (Parliament, Colonies archives, Foreign Office etc). We are sure that one of the names that signed the paper is Panos, Panayiotis or Panagiotis Metallinos (Μετταλινος). He was the 'leader'. A similar paper has been signed by inhabitants of Kinopiastes (another village in Corfu) and one village in Zakynthos island...
When I see Kostas or Thannassis I feel embarrassed at my delay. I think I've feared not finding the document they asked me about - through lack of diligence; through not being able to read the language in which it may be couched. After five hours hefting requested books from the locker allocated me in the Reading Room to my allocated desk I'd had a fascinating dip into original sources, gaining confidence as I went along, especially as all documents in Greek or Italian have an English translation attached. Only some of the handwriting is hard to follow.
I'd arrived as an ingénue. The staff at the National Archives are pros - bright, unpatronising. The place teems with people who know their way - veteran researchers - and others, like me, there for the first time.
First step was leaving my folding bicycle and bag in a cloakroom chained 'keep your key...put your laptop and pencils - no pens - in a transparent plastic bag.' Then came the daily briefing for newbies on how to get started - 20 minutes helpful guidance; then to 'The Learning Zone', a few yards away on the same floor where a bank of helpers, screens on-line to the archives, gave hints on catalogue searching. To see Ionian Protectorate documents I'd need a reader's card. That involved five minutes being photographed and showing ID - driving licence and a utility bill.
I haven't done original text research for so long, it was like going back to school without the trepidation. Finally I strolled through a polite security check, swiped my new card and came to the Reading Room where I asked for the documents suggested by Eleni Calligas, the young scholar who knows her way around these sources as well as anyone, an expert in Ionian politics and Hellenic nationalism:
I would suggest that the best place to look is the High Commissioner's Correspondence at the Colonial Office archive of the Protection, housed in the Public Record Office, now re-named National Archives but still held at the Kew. I would look at the last couple of years, from 1862 onwards - probably starting from CO136/177 to /184. If such a petition does exist and is signed by inhabitants of the village, it would be interesting to identify the local figure of importance, as the initiative probably emanated from there.
I found no petition from Ano Korakiana nor any of the senior names of the village - Savvanis, Vradis, Mandilas, Ionas, Markos, Metallinos, Laskaris, Kaloudis, Linosporis, Reggis, Balatsinos, Kendarchos or Kefallonitis - nor from Kinopiastes - about 6 miles south of Corfu Town - nor, indeed, from any village on the island.
This does not really surprise me. I understand from Kostas and Thannassis that the two villages on Corfu, and another whose name I don't know on Zakinthos, were opposed to enosis, and even today, of the island's eighteen bands, the philharmonic orchestras of Korakiana and Kinopiastes do not play at the celebrations of Unification Day held in Corfu each 21 May.
It's possible the petition, if it was a petition on paper rather than a representation delivered orally to Sir Henry, has disappeared from the record, or was never allowed to appear on it. Given the profile of enthusiasm displayed for enosis and the denigration of pro-English sentiments reported by Sir Henry Stork, it's possible that opposition was expressed a lot more privately than support.
I shall search the Storks files again, and look also at Foreign Office files, but it may be that I need to go back to the extraordinary tenure of the High Commissioner's Palace, William Gladstone, over seven weeks between the 24 November 1858 and the 19 February 1859. Perhaps it was during those weeks, before enosis seemed quite so foregone a conclusion, that the elders of Ano Korakiana and others delivered petitions against the ending of the Protectorate.
Such opinions may be unrealistic; they are still expressed, thus Harry Tsoukalas, a business man on the island, planning to stand in the 2009 EU elections in a week: "These things are anathema to say but the truth is that unification with Greece was the darkest day in our history. It was a huge mistake that we have regretted ever since." In Chapter two of their book, Holland and Markides, report Gladstone visiting Athens as part of his Ionian mission. While there he sounded out Ionian and Greek politician on the idea of unification:
This analysis stressed 'a divided sentiment' in Greek thinking on the matter, so that union was 'feared as well as desired'.The desire sprang from a natural inclination to cohabit with fellow Hellenes; the fear from the prospect of incorporating a branch of their race whose competitive abilities and education were so finely honed. In sum, the Greeks of the kingdom were fearful that union would turn out to be 'an annexation of Greece to the Islands, not of the Island's to Greece. (p.32)
In a letter to the Duke of Newcastle, Colonial Office Minister, dated 23.12.1862, received in London, Sir Henry Storks includes a translation of an unsigned note in Greek found in Corfu Town:
May the curses of St Spixidion(?)* light on him, who cries long live union with Greece.
*Almost certainly St.Spyridon, the island's protective patron saint.
Title: General affadavit of Harriet Tubman relating to her claim for a pension, ca.1898
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