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Letter from family in Russia to Henry Wedel
The letter that is attached was sent in 1934.
I have no idea if these people were relatives of the Wedel family or what. For some reason this packet was saved.
Bust of Antinous, called “Antinous Ecouen”
18th century
Provenance: Île-de-France?
H. 74 cm
This marble bust of the lover of the emperor Hadrian (AD 117–138) was present in the Louvre’s Salle des Antiques in 1793. It was long confused with a bronze sculpture confiscated from the Château d’Écouen in the same year, then transferred to Versailles before later joining the Louvre. Both sculptures reproduce a bust found during the Remaissance that probably came from the Villa Hadriana and is itself very similar to a bust in the Spanish royal collections (Museo Nacional del Prado). The Louvre bust comes from the French royal collections and is an 18th-century copy.
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
French Royal collections
By the 16th century, Italian antiquities were being sent to the kings of France as diplomatic gifts. In 1604, Henri IV assembled most of this early collection in the Louvre’s Salle des Antiques. First Colbert, then Louvois, set about extending the royal collection on Louis XIV’s behalf. A few marble statues were obtained with difficulty from Italy. To these were fortunately added antiquities offered to the king by French collectors or obtained through diplomats in the eastern Mediterranean. Antiquities from the royal residences were confiscated with the property of the Crown in 1792 and put on display at the Louvre.
Requests for Documents from the WSP are filled out on a form like this (or by email or online form as well).
Relação dos bens destruídos durante o ataque. Documento da Comissão Especial do Poder Legislativo, que realizou visita a área um dia após o ataque. O restante da lista está na imagem ao lado.
Photographed at the California Automotive Museum, Sacramento, CA
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The ciphered letter is from the Cleveland Public Library’s Fine Arts and Special Collections Department’s East India Manuscript Company Collection. The letter was written to Thomas Grenville by George Barlow. At the time the letter was written (February 12, 1807), Barlow was the acting Governor-General of India and Grenville was the President of the Board of Control, the Company’s chief official in London.
The document consists of nineteen pages. The majority of the content is ciphered numerically. Pages three through eight are available on the Cleveland Public Library’s Fine Arts and Special Collections’ Flickr page. The original letter is available at the Special Collections, under the title “Two letters to Thomas Grenville (in cipher) and to George Tierney on affairs in India.” The call number is 091.92 B249t2, and the items can be accessed through the catalog (http://cpl.org/).
For more information or questions contact Special Collections at special.collections@cpl.org or 216-623-2818.
bo-kaap, cape town, western cape- kramat of tuan sayeed alawie, in the tana baru cemetery
It is this extraordinary man, who after a prison sentence of 12 years could forgive his goaler and help him keep law and order in the very city to which he was banished. Such a man was Tuan Sayed Alawi. He became a policeman in Cape Town. He obviously had a motive in becoming a policeman. The job gave him access to the slaves, and hence an opportunity to teach them Islam.
Tuan Sayed Alawi was a citizen of Mocca in Yemen, the southern portion of the Arbian peninsula. There is no certainty as to whether he was brought here directly from Mocca, or from Indonesia where he was a missionary. Nonetheless, he and a fellow prisoner, Haji Matarism arrived at the Cape in 1744. They were classified as Mohammedaansche Priesters, who had to be kept in chains for the rest of their lives.
When Tuan Sayed Alawi died in 1803, he was buried in the Muslim cemetery at the top end of Longmarket Street. Those who loved him erected around his grave a simple wall. It was a structure very much Cape in origin, but symbolical of the simplicity of his life. The tombstone of Robben Island slate was wrapped with white cloth, stained with the oils of the atars and other scents which his devoted followers sprinkled on it.
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A Kramat is a shrine or mausoleum that has been built over the burial place of a Muslim who's particular piety and practice of the teachings of Islam is recognised by the community. I have been engaged in documenting these sites around Cape Town over several visits at different times over the last few years. They range widely from graves marked by an edge of stones to more elaborate tombs sheltered by buildings of various styles. They are cultural markers that speak of a culture was shaped by life at the Cape and that infuses Cape Town at large.
In my searches used the guide put out by the Cape Masaar Society as a basic guide to locate some recognised sites. Even so some were not that easy to find.
In the context of the Muslims at the Cape, historically the kramats represented places of focus for the faithful and were/are often places of local pilgrimage. When the Dutch and the VOC (United East India Company aka Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) set up a refuelling station and a settlement at the Cape, Muslims from their territories in the East Indies and Batavia were with them from the start as soldiers, slaves and “Vryswarten" (freemen). As the settlement established itself as a colony the Cape became a useful place to banish political opponents from the heart of their eastern empire. Some exiles were of royal lineage and there were also scholars amongst them. One of the most well known of these exiles was Sheik Yusuf who was cordially received by Govenor van der Stel as befitted his rank (he and his entourage where eventually housed on an estate away from the main settlement so that he was less likely to have an influence over the local population), others were imprisoned for a time both in Cape Town and on Robben island. It is said that the first Koran in the Cape was first written out from memory by Sheik Yusuf after his arrival. There were several Islamic scholars in his retinue and these men encouraged something of an Islamic revival amoung the isolated community. Their influence over the enslaved “Malay” population who were already nominally Muslim was considerable and through the ministrations of other teachers to the underclasses the influence of Islam became quite marked. As political opponents to the governing powers the teachers became focus points for escaped slaves in the outlying areas.
Under the VOC it was forbidden to practice any other faith other than Christianity in public which meant that there was no provision for mosques or madrasas. The faith was maintained informally until the end of the C18th when plans were made for the first mosque and promises of land to be granted for a specific burial ground in the Bo Kaap were given in negotiations for support against an imminent British invasion. These promises were honoured by the British after their victory.
There is talk of a prophecy of a protective circle of Islam that would surround Cape Town. I cannot find the specifics of this prophecy but the 27 kramats of the “Auliyah” or friends of Allah, as these honoured individuals are known, do form a loose circle of saints. Some of the Auliyah are credited with miraculous powers in legends that speak of their life and works. Within the folk tradition some are believed to be able to intercede on behalf of supplicants (even though this more part of a mystical philosophy (keramat) and is not strictly accepted in mainstream contemporary Islamic teaching) and even today some visitors may offer special prayers at their grave sites in much the same way as Christians might direct prayer at the shrine of a particular saint.
Just a bit of documented photography for my new set, I will start to add photos of the more 'natural' nature to it.
This is Lydia, we had such a laugh that day!
This is a photojournalism series I shot on the subject of teenage smoking. For the shoot, I followed a small group of teenagers, gaining an in-depth understanding of why people smoke, and an insight as to how they went about it, within a school that banned the practice. I documented them whilst they were smoking and also whilst they were not. It was especially important to my work that I captured the series in the most truthful way, and through doing this, defined the purpose and message behind the photography. I wanted to portray a contrast between the innocence and youth of the people I shot, as well as the dangerous long-term health risks associated with smoking. By combining these two concepts together, I managed to enhance the reason and meaning behind the image.
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This volume containing the Book of Common Prayer and Psalms, belonged to the author of The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley.
Charles Kingsley was the second son of the Rev. Charles Kingsley and his wife Mary, neé Lucas. The prayerbook records the marriage of Mary and Charles and the births of their first four children.
Mary Lucas was the daughter of Nathan Lucas, a judge who had inherited slave-run sugar plantations in Barbados. He married Mary's mother Mary Crookenden at St Philip's church, Barbados in 1785.
Mary Crookeden herself was born in Barbados, the daughter of Potts Crookenden who was born in London, probably in 1727.
The prayerbook has copies manuscript notes including accounts of travelling from Barbados to England and births and marriages in Barbados which can be confirmed from church records.
The prayerbook has been owned by the public library service in Plymouth, England, since the late 1940s and is now in the care of the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office.
Use Gesso, and the quote.
I was tired of seeing the same quote 500 times, so I changed it. Gesso is the white spots.
Norwich Education Committee
George White Junior School
Scholar's Report
Document scan using the Epson Perfection V500 Photo.
We started with an image from a vintage Saab 99 Turbo ad.
We then added the variety of imagery that we felt captured the history, spirit, and unique qualities of the Saab 99 Turbo.
The poster was designed to include all the classic Saab 99 Turbo colors:
* - Black
* - Red
* - Silver
* - Gray
* - White
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