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Title: Letter from George Washington to John Hancock , 12/04/1775
Creator(s): Congress of the Confederation. (03/02/1781 - 03/04/1789)
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Letter from General George Washington to John Hancock, President of Congress, 12/04/1775 (ARC ID 824626); Series: Letters From General George Washington, 1775 - 1784; Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention, 1765 - 1821; Record Group 360, National Archives
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Swift & Co ad discusses their success delivering over 400 carloads of meat per week to the Army.
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Photo credit Bob Gundersen -(www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
Original Caption: Message of President Thomas Jefferson concerning the cession of the province of Louisiana to the United States and asking Congress to observe that some important conditions of the conventions with France can be executed only with the aid of the legislature, 10/21/1803
Created By: U.S. Senate.(03/04/1789 - )
From: Record Group/Collection: 46
From: Presidential Messages and Other Papers of the 8th Congress Regarding the Treaty and Conventions Between the United States and France Providing for the Cession of Louisiana to the United States, 04/1803 - 01/1804
Production Dates: 10/21/1803
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Reference Unit: Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building
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File name: 10_03_002201b
Binder label: Thread
Title: J & P. Coats thread, we shrink from no light. [back]
Created/Published: S. F. : Bancroft Lith.
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 8 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Clowns; Thread; Cotton
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Set of photos of pages from an old Special Traffic Notice detailing the arrangements in connection with the introduction of colour light signalling through East Croydon and Purley on the Brighton Main Line some 60 years ago in May 1955.
Fascinating stuff for me to see in the 18 page document including (in no particular order):-
Twelve hour clock.
Blackboards to be exhibited in prominent positions (page 2).
Yeovil Town to Gravesend Central milk train (page 2).
Coulsdon North station being open at weekends.
Victoria to provide brake van for Redhill portion of diverted 9.30pm Parcels from Victoria to Brighton (page 4).
Light engine movements to Bricklayers Arms Shed.
'Road motor' replacement for staff between various locations.
4.45am & 4.50am (Pass & News) from London Bridge being diverted via the Mid Kent line, Selsdon and Oxted as well as running south of East Grinstead to Horsted Keynes and then via Ardingly to Haywards Heath. (page 9).
5.15am (Pass & News) from East Croydon to Bognor Regis starting from London Bridge and running via the Mid Kent line, Oxted, Crowhurst Spur to Edenbridge, where a Turnover Engine (TE) took the train to Redhill where another 'TE' took the train on towards the Sussex coast '8 minutes later thence' (page 9).
9.28pm (Pass & Postal) from Margate to Cannon Street running via Edenbridge, Crowhurst Spur, Oxted, Selsdon and the Mid Kent line (page 10).
The interesting freight movements on pages 14 & 15 (including empty wooden mineral wagons to Merstham) with trains either being worked by Electric Locos (EL) or Steam Hauled (SH). Some of the freights were revised to run via Horsham and Shorehan by Sea via Steyning.
District Inspector Anscombe had a busy couple of nights being in attendance at Horsham Yard from 11.0pm Saturday and Three bridges Yard from 10.0pm Sunday.
For me I think the best part is the simplicity of it all, just an 18 page traffic notice for introduction of colour light signalling over one Saturday night. 60 years on of course and there would now be Project Managers and the like and the line would be shut all weekend. Still at least things are more efficient now aren't they!................
Original Caption: Message of President Thomas Jefferson concerning the success of the expedition of Lewis and Clark, 02/19/1806
Created By: U.S. Senate.(03/04/1789 - )
From: Record Group/Collection: 46
From: Presidential Messages to the Senate Suggesting Legislation to the 9th Congress, ca. 1805 - ca. 1807
Production Dates: 02/19/1806
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File name: 10_03_002113b
Binder label: Perfume/Hair Products
Title: Parker's Hair Balsam - not perfumed. [back]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 12 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Children; Hair preparations; Patent medicines
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Hiscox & Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Middlebury Register --
Friday, August 11, 1905, page 6 -
PROMINENT ARCHITECT
Sketch of late Clinton Smith, of Washington, D. C.
Clinton Smith was born on the homestead farm of his family in the east part of this town May 6, 1846. He was the oldest son of George and Julia (Willmarth) Smith. He was descended from those who have been identified with the history of Vermont from the earliest times. His maternal ancestors made a record in the war of the Revolution and the war of 1812. His paternal grandfather came to Middlebury before the true site of the town was determined. His father George Smith will be remembered in Addison Co. as an educator and contracting builder. The subject of this sketch followed the same occupation.
Clinton Smith was the architect and builder of many of the best buildings in this town such as the court house, town hall, Methodist church, Baptist church, Beckwith block, Dyer block and many residences.
His first work of consequence was the erection of Shard Villa, the stone residence in Salisbury of Columbus Smith. He was widely known throughout the state also in adjacent parts of New Hampshire and New York, as a builder of churches and public buildings, among them the library annex to the Capitol building in Montpelier, and the asylum for the insane at Waterbury.
In 1891 he accepted a position in the War Department at Washington as Chief of Construction and Repair under Hon. Redfield Proctor, then secretary of War In Harrison’s administration, and with his family removed to the Capitol city where he has since resided. He served the government acceptably exactly fourteen years when he resigned his position partly on account of impaired health and partly from a wish to accept another position under Senator Redfield Proctor which offered him outside exercise and air of which so much desk work deprived him. His desk work, however, had been constantly alleviated by long trips to inspect buildings under construction at army posts and reservations in all parts of the United States, thus he became known to a wide circle of friends in every walk of life.
His resignation took effect June 1st., 1905 and he became one of the incorporators of “The Talpin Construction Co.”, in Washington and began the erection of its first building a large marble apartment house “The Champlain” on K street in that city. This furnished him congenial and absorbing occupation until he was stricken by an alarming illness on July 28 last. Two trained nurses and his family attended his bedside. All that medical skill could accomplish was employed in vain. His disease was pronounced typhoid fever of a virulent type. He suffered hemorrhage after hemorrhage yet made a gallant fight for life till weakness prostrated every faculty and he breathed his last on the evening of Wednesday, Aug 2d. This was his third attack of that dread disease. The first one was at the age of 14 years, the next 10 years later, and the third one was at this time. Each attack was exceptionally severe and heightened by complications. His funeral was attended at his suburban residence “Smitholm” Friday Aug. 4th. Floral offerings were heaped upon and around the casket. All of his children were present. His only daughter Helena, wife of Prof. Charles J. Bullock of Harvard, Delmar W, a contracting builder in Manila, P. I. at home on a visit, Clifton R. and Harold B. of Philadelphia and Leon N. who is still in school. The internment was in Middlebury, Vt. When the train bearing the remains drew into the station here it was met by a crowd of friends and relatives who followed to the cemetery in Foote street. At sunset the casket was lowered in the family lot, Rev. W. H. Washburn of the M. E. church officiating.
A wife and five children survive him as stated above also a sister, Mrs. Chas. B. Shedrick of Chimney Point formerly of Middlebury, a brother Elmer B. Smith of Springfield, electrical engineer of Jones and Lampson mechanical manufacturing works of that place, two young grandchildren and a large circle of more distant relatives.
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Dokumentet er hentet fra Trondhjems Magistrat: Olav Tryggvason-monumentet (Lnr. 979)
Manuscript title: Lex Romana Visigothorum, Lex Salica, Lex Alamannorum
Manuscript summary: The so-called Wandalgarius manuscript containing the "Lex Romana Visigothorum", the "Lex Salica" and the "Lex Alamannorum". An important legal manuscript, written and decorated with numerous colored initials and a miniature of a crowned lawgiver in the year 793 by the cleric Wandalgarius in Lyon. It contains the laws of the Visigoths (Lex Romana Visigothorum), the Salian Franks (Lex Salica) and the Alemanni (Lex Alamannorum). It is the oldest precisely dated manuscript in the Abbey Library of St. Gall.
Origin: Lyon (France)
Period: 8th century
Image source: St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731: Lex Romana Visigothorum, Lex Salica, Lex Alamannorum (www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0731)
Description: Enfranchised cookery : an offering from the enfranchised women whose names appear within to the Committee on Arrangements for the Forty-Seventh Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, December 14-15, 1915 / May Bartlett Shawhan Hoar, editor.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/012139407/catalog
Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian
The cover to a Sydney, NSW, bus timetable for 1946/7 - issued by the wonderfully named Commissioner for Road Transport & Tramways, NSW who formed part of the Department of that name! And 'omnibus time-tables' if you please!
Love of mine some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark
If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the NOs on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
I Will Follow You Into The Dark | Death Cab For Cutie
Source: Scan of the original Edwardian booklet.
Ref: SWI.921.
Date: 1908.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
Christopher Columbus Statue
In 1473, Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) embarked on his first maritime voyage from his home near Genoa, Italy headed for the island of Khios in the Aegean Sea. Upon his return in 1476, he traveled in a convoy destined for England. Legend has it that pirates sunk Columbus's ship near the coast of Portugal. Columbus swam to shore and settled in Lisbon, where his brother Bartholomew worked as a cartographer.
Based on speculative maps, Columbus concluded that there was a quicker route to the markets of Asia than was yet known. Instead of heading south and circumnavigating Africa, Columbus proposed to sail west. In the 1480s, Columbus presented this proposal to the monarchs of Portugal and Spain. In April 1492, King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to sponsor Columbus's proposed voyage. On August 3, 1492, the three modest ships that comprised Columbus's party, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, set sail. They sighted land on October 12, 1492. The ships landed on Guanahani, an island in the Bahamas. Columbus claimed the land for the King of Spain and renamed the island San Salvador. Believing he had reached the West Indies, Columbus called the natives "los Indios," or Indians. The members of the expedition returned to Spain triumphantly on March 15, 1493. After receiving a title of nobility, Christopher Columbus immediately launched a larger expedition. On November 3, 1493, this fleet of 17 ships anchored near present day Puerto Rico. His third and fourth voyages set sail in 1498 and 1502.
Columbus's early descriptions of the Americas, as in his "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828) documented Columbus"s story. Focusing largely on his arrival in the Americas as opposed to the colonization of the area, Irving and others enshrined Columbus as a hero. His popular reputation ever after became that of the bold, courageous adventurer who enabled American civilization, and he is memorialized here and elsewhere as such.
About ten thousand people, including Italian, Spanish, and American dignitaries, gathered in Columbus Circle on October 12, 1892, the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus in the "New World." Together they dedicated the Columbus Monument, designed by Sicilian sculptor Gaetano Russo and donated to the City of New York by the Italian-American community. Gen. L.P. di Cesnola, the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spoke at the event, telling the audience that Columbus's "true monument is this great land, its institutions, its prosperity, its blessing, its lessons of advance for all humanity."
The monument consists of a statue of Columbus posed on a column mounted on a base surrounded by fountains; an allegorical figure depicting the Genius of Discovery stands on the base. Both Columbus and the latter figure are carved of Carrara marble. Bronze elements include two bas-reliefs portraying Columbus's journey, as well as an American bald eagle and lotus-shaped cresting. In addition, bronze ships' prows and anchors adorn the granite column. The total height of the plinth, pedestal, column and sculpture is 77 feet, enabling passerby to see the monument from miles away on a clear day.
Early in the 20th century, the monument was fortified with complex supports engineered for the new subway system to be tunneled beneath it. A lavish wrought-iron fence was installed encircling the monument. In 1965, the installation of fountains and illumination with funds from book publisher and philanthropist George T. Delacorte (1894-1991) enhanced the site. The fountains, designed by Douglas Leigh, were inspired by water displays in Rome. In 1990 and 1991, the monument underwent an extensive renovation funded by the Columbus Citizens Foundation, under the auspices of the Adopt-A-Monument Program, a joint venture of Parks, the Municipal Art Society, and the New York City Art Commission. George Delacorte and Arthur Ross donated additional funds for the restoration of the decorative fence. The Central Park Conservancy, through an endowment established by Mr. Delacorte's heirs, will continue to maintain the monument in the future.
Josiah Brown of the town and county of Madison, being duly sworn deposith and saith ”That he was a volunteer soldier in the militia of the State of Connecticut and entered the service of the United States in that capacity immediately on the alarm of the Battle of Lexington which was in the year One thousand and seventy-five—that he continued in that serve in the capacity of sargeant until the next year when he was appointed by Governor Trumbull an Ensign in which capacity he continued to serve his country until the winter of seventeen hundred and seventy seven, when he was appointed by the Continental Congress of the United States, a Lieutenant in the half battalion in the Connecticut line, which half battalion was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Miegs in a Regiment under the command of Colonel Henry Sherburne—that his captain was Elijah Blackman, in which capacity he served in the army of the United States until the spring of the years seventeen hundred and eighty at which time an application to General George Washington, he received by his order an honorable discharge at Morristown in the state of New Jersey.
The deponant further saith that in the year of 1796, while living near where he now resides his dwelling house accidentally caught fire, which together with its contents was consumed, that in it were his commissions, militia and continental, together with his discharge and all his military papers, consisting of journals, copies of orders, notes and memoranda of dates and every paper relating to his service in the Army of the United States, all of which were destroyed so that this deponant is unable from any document in his possession to be precise as to dates. Deponant is however from his recollection confident that he is correct as to years and seasons from his recollection. He is further confident that his continental commission was signed by John Hancock, president of congress.
This deponant further saith that he is now seventy-three years of age, is infirm and unable to support himself—that he has a second wife by whom he has four children, the oldest of whom is but fourteen years of age—that he has no property whatever and that for his own support and that of his family he has no reliance but upon his own labor and the assistance of his children by his first marriage, all of whom are in indigent circumstances and that he needs the sustenance of his country for his support. This deponant further saith that he has never received a pension from the United States nor has he ever until now applied for one and further saith not sworn and subscribed before me on this 9th day of April 1818
Erastus Cleveland, Judge, State of New York
Page of botany terms, with helpful, simplified drawings where appropriate. Click large to fully appreciate.
Direct scan from a salvaged leather-covered single-volume encyclopedia, "The Circle of Knowledge: A Classified, Simplified, Visualized Book of Answers." Editor-in-Chief: Henry W. Ruoff,, M.A., Lit.D., D.C.L. The Standard Publication Company, Boston. 1916, 1920, 1924.
Image from an Album belonging to Harry White, 1919-1947, documenting his career as a Naval Aviator.
SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Blocked with no opportunity for defense or recourse. Facebook's reporting policy sucks & that's why people abuse it daily. Violence is OK but a burlesque performer doing a tribute at an anti-violence public rally is not OK. Fuck that. I'm not staying quiet about your BS protection of cyber bullies. It's wrong & I stand up to that kind of injustice. I'm well known for my bold, hard stances on issues that are important to me.
They blocked me after a prude reported several of my pics as being obscene. It's a huge double standard on that site & there's zero recourse for photogs or other creative artists if anyone finds your work "offensive".
FB allowed a vid of a woman being beheaded, that was up for over a month. They won't remove pages that show animal or child abuse with graphic images. However if an empowered woman does a burlesque tribute performance at a public annual rally on government grounds (BC Legislature Building), photos of that are deemed obscene. I was blocked for that BS. I am not staying quiet either.
Their site allows bullies to sit behind computers & abuse the report feature. If you ask them for help if someone is harassing you or clearly attacking you from multiple accounts - they refuse to help unless you have a court order. Can we say FUCKED UP?
I document real life & if that is offensive, then we are all in a lot of trouble. What happened to me, can happen to anyone who uses that site if you dare to take a stand on your beliefs & values. I am not bowing down to a social media site that gives more power to bullies, than they do to the people being targeted by anon cowards.
Dimensional paper art by Ann Martin and calligraphy by Riva Brown of Living Letters Studio.
Blogged: www.allthingspaper.net/2015/05/quilled-marriage-certifica...
On October 23, 2014, Mayor Gray will host a signing ceremony for the Sustainable DC Healthcare Sector Pledge at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health.
The Mayor will be joined by over twenty healthcare sector leaders, hospital and clinic system CEOs, in signing the pledge that will create a resource and idea-sharing working group that meets quarterly to advance sustainability goals. This is the fourth in a series of sector pledges initiated by Sustainable DC, following the Colleges and Universities Sustainability Pledge, the Diplomatic Institution Sustainability Pledge, and the DC Smarter Business Challenge.
www.sustainabledc.org/in-dc/sector-pledges/
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See blog post: Photo Friday: Sustainable Washington, DC USA | Ted Eytan, MD
Original Caption: Susan B. Anthony petition for remission of fine imposed for voting, ca. 1874
Created By: U.S. House of Representatives.(03/04/1789 - )
From: Record Group/Collection: 233
From: Accompanying Papers of the 43rd Congress, 12/01/1873 - 03/03/1875
Production Dates: ca. 1874
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Reference Unit: Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building
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