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Wasn't feeling the whole Christmas thing this year so distracted myself with a few of my favourite things; aviation trinkets and my camera.
For the fresh upcoming round of "a tattared Page", 22769 ~ [bauwerk] gets inspired by the book "20000 Leagues under the Sea". And for this spcial theme we have created the Decoration Set "Remants of the Nautilus".
The complete set contains:
Nemos Sea Box - LI 2/2 Prims,
Nemos Lamp - LI 2/3 Prims - light on touch,
Nemos Deep Sea Helmet - LI 2/3 Prims (headsized -unrigged- version included),
Nemos Compass, Nemos Navigation Backstaff, Nemos Seachart and Nemos Logbook - each LI 1/1 Prim
The 22769 ~[bauwerk] Remants of the Nautilus Set will be available at the Libary and also at the 22769 ~ [bauwerk] Store.
The cabin's logbook with many a story to tell.
Kading Cabin. A U.S. Forest Service rental in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest, Montana.
Andrew signs the logbook in the Geologist Cabin. Most every cabin has a logbook. It's fun to read.
Butte Valley
Death Valley National Park
Well here it is in all its splender and Paul was hoping to have taken it under its own steam to Gaydon to show this amazing D series off but he is still waiting DVLA to issue a logbook -they seem to not be a 'customer' service anymore!
There was a small but interesting classic car show at Crich Tramway Village, May 2024. Predominantly MG cars, but a few others too. I hope you enjoy looking through them.
1969. MG B GT. Red. 1798 cc. Petrol. LNK 44H.
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued: 11 May 2024.
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Documenting his time as a pilot after his service in the war before he re-enlisted for Korea and made a career in the Navy.
The Library of Congress
I claim no rights other than colorizing this image if you wish to use let me know and always give due credit to The Library of Congress I have no commercial gain in publishing this image.
Title
Milne, H.C. 1905
Contributor Names
C.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer
Created / Published
[between August 1905 and January 1909]
Format Headings
Glass negatives.
Portrait photographs.
Genre
Portrait photographs
Glass negatives
Notes
- Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative.
- Date from photographer's logbook.
- Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975.
- General information about the C.M. Bell Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.bellcm
- Temp note: Batch 49.
Medium
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-B5- 58378-A [P&P]
Source Collection
C.M. Bell Studio Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
bellcm 23207 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/bellcm.23207
Library of Congress Control Number
2016710646
Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-bellcm-23207 (digital file from original)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions on publication.
Language
English
Online Format
image
Description
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Everything is ready
“Tutto è pronto: il mare, l’atlante, l’aria.Mi manca solo il quando un diario di bordo, il dove, le carte di navigazione, venti a favore il coraggio e qualcuno che mi ami come non so amarmi io” ...
"Everything is ready: the sea, the Atlantic, the air. Missing only when, a logbook, the where, the carted navigation, favorable wind, courage, and someone to love me, love me as I do not know"
J.A.Piqueras
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Registration KRA97
Make AUSTIN 10
Model DE LUXE
Date of first registration September 2001
Year of manufacture 1946
Cylinder capacity 1000cc - PETROL
Export marker No
Vehicle status SORN
Vehicle colour BLACK
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 13 August 2012
A rather early K10 Micra, spotted in an overgrown Surrey driveway! It looked to be in good nick, despite the fact that it hasn't been on the road since 2013. For some reason the SORN was put on retention in October 2018, despite no sign of an ownership change, with it apparently being a one owner car. Maybe a 'motor trader' currently owns it, which doesn't count as a new owner on the logbook or online.
Mileage in between MOTs - 28 Miles
Mileage at last MOT - 25,929 Miles
Last Ownership Change - 27th August 1985
C897 GGH
✗ Untaxed
Tax due: 06 October 2018
✗ No MOT
Expired: 28 August 2013
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Step onboard into a universe awash with astounding contrasts. In an invented space, between two water worlds... float away.Anchored at the Old Port of Montreal, Bota Bota, spa-sur-l'eau offers passengers the healing benefits of a spa coupled with the natural lulling movements of the St Lawrence River. Surrounded by enchanting decor, with Old Montreal as a magical backdrop, this mysterious and innovative floating spa offers privileged proximity to the river while enjoying the relaxing and energizing merits of the water circuit.
History: botabota.ca/en/category/logbook/about-spa-montreal-histor...
Sat at the top of our road!!
(On double yellows too!)
SAR 38..
Vehicle make
ROLLS ROYCE
Date of first registration
March 1973
Year of manufacture
1973
Cylinder capacity
6750 cc
Fuel type
PETROL
Vehicle status
SORN
Vehicle colour
SILVER
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued
19 June 2019
Our walk in Saturday took us down to my old stomping ground, Old Portsmouth - this is the view from the end of my road (although the Spinnaker Tower wasn't there then!!). Here is some interesting info from Wikipedia:
Portsmouth Point, or "Spice Island", is part of Old Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on the southern coast of England. The name Spice Island comes from the area's seedy reputation, as it was known as the "Spice of Life". Men were easily found and press-ganged into Nelson's navy from Portsmouth Point due to its hostelries and for being where prostitutes plied their trade. The area forms the eastern side of the narrow entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, facing Gosport on the western side.
The Portsmouth Point name was commonly contracted to Po'm. P. when handwritten in ships logbooks to save time and space, which gave rise to the nickname of "Pompey" for Portsmouth Point. Pompey is also the present day nickname of the city of Portsmouth, the naval base and the professional football club - although there are many alternative theories of the Pompey nickname origin in these three contexts. (I'd not heard that idea before!)
Happy New Year folks and Minus 2c in the yard.
Working on the Mammoth Major and its looking in better shape since it arrived in July and i finally got the logbook too in Dec, it took all that time because they were saying it was an Import! and in the end i had to ask the Mc Callisters if they would do a letter conftiming it was from Northern Ireland! -what is it with the DVLA lately....
The last UK owner John Tweedy sent the logbook in saying it went to 'Northern, Ireland..
I had to turn the AEC around in the shed this morn so i took some snow pics before backing in and finding a nasty surprise -broken Half Shaft studs that were held in on one or two threads, no wonder it was leaking oil... -more work to do! ha ha
Vehicle Details
Vehicle makeLAGONDA
Date of first registrationAugust 1935
Year of manufacture1935
Cylinder capacity4314 cc
CO₂ emissionsNot available
Fuel typePETROL
Euro statusNot available
Real Driving Emissions (RDE)Not available
Export markerNo
Vehicle statusTaxed
Vehicle colourGREEN
Vehicle type approvalNot available
Wheelplan2 AXLE RIGID BODY
Revenue weightNot available
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued10 April 2012
Lagonda is a British luxury car brand established in 1906, which has been owned by Aston Martin since 1947. The trade-name has not had a continuous commercial existence, being dormant several times, most recently from 1995 to 2008, 2010 to 2013, and 2016 onward.
History
Establishment
12-24 LC 1925
2½-litre 16-65 1927.
2-litre 16-80 Weymann saloon c.1930.
4½-litre M45 sports tourer, 1934.
4½-litre V12 drophead coupé 1940.
The Lagonda company was founded in 1906 in the UK in Staines, Middlesex, by American-born Wilbur Gunn (1859–1920),[2] a former opera singer.[3] He became a British national in 1891 and worked as a speedboat and motorcycle engineer in Staines. He named the company after the Shawnee settlement of Lagonda in modern-day Springfield, Ohio, the town of his birth.[4][5] This is a glacially eroded limestone gorge of much beauty. Historically, the area played a major role in the Treaty of Easton and the aligning of the Shawnee tribe with the British during the French and Indian War.[6]
Gunn had built motorcycles on a small scale in the garden of his house in Staines[2] with reasonable success, including a win on the 1905 London–Edinburgh trial. In 1907 he launched his first car, the 20 hp, six-cylinder Torpedo, which he used to win the Moscow–St. Petersburg trial of 1910.[2] This success produced a healthy order for exports to Russia which continued until 1914. In 1913, Lagonda introduced an advanced small car, the 11.1, with a four-cylinder 1,099 cc engine, which, by 1914, featured a panhard rod suspension and a rivetted unibody body and the first ever fly-off[clarify] handbrake.[citation needed]
During the First World War the Lagonda company made artillery shells.[2]
Between the wars
After the end of the war the 11.1 continued with a larger, 1,400 cc, engine and standard electric lighting as the 11.9 until 1923 and the updated 12 until 1926. Following Wilbur Gunn's death in 1920, three existing directors headed by Colin Parbury took charge.[2] The first of the company's sports models was launched in 1925 as the 14/60 with a twin-cam 1,954 cc four-cylinder engine and hemispherical combustion chambers. The car was designed by Arthur Davidson who had come from Lea-Francis. A higher output engine came in 1927 with the two-litre Speed model which could be had supercharged in 1930. A lengthened chassis version, the 16/65, with a six-cylinder 2.4-litre engine, was available from 1926 to 1930. Their final car of the 1920s was the three-litre using a 2,931 cc six-cylinder engine.[7] This continued until 1933 when the engine grew to 3,181 cc and was also available with a complex eight-speed Maybach transmission as the Selector Special.
A new model for 1933 was the 16–80 using a two-litre Crossley engine with preselector gearbox from 1934. A new small car, the Rapier came along in 1934 with a 1,104 cc engine and pre-selector gearbox. This lasted until 1935 but more were made until 1938 by a separate company, D. Napier & Son of Hammersmith, London. At the other extreme was the near 100 mph (160 km/h) 4.5-litre M45 with a Meadows-supplied six-cylinder, 4,467 cc, engine. A true sporting version, the M45R Rapide, with a tuned M45 engine and a shorter chassis, achieved a controversial Le Mans victory in 1935.[8] Also in 1935 the three-litre grew to a 3.5-litre.
All was not well financially and the receiver was called in 1935,[9] but the company was bought by Alan P. Good, who just outbid Rolls-Royce.[2] He also persuaded W. O. Bentley to leave Rolls-Royce and join Lagonda as designer along with many of his racing department staff.[2] The 4.5-litre range now became the LG45 with lower but heavier bodies and also available in LG45R Rapide form. The LG45 came in three versions known as Sanction 1, 2 and 3 each with more Bentley touches to the engine. In 1938 the LG6, with independent front suspension by torsion bar and hydraulic brakes, came in.
Along with ex-Rolls-Royce employees, Stuart Tresillian and Charles Sewell, and design expert Frank Feeley, Bentley hid distaste for the primitive conditions of Lagonda's factory, and got to work on the new engine that was to become his masterpiece, the V-12, launched in 1937. The 4,480 cc engine delivered 180 bhp (130 kW) and was said to be capable of going from 7 to 105 mph (11 to 169 km/h) in top gear and to rev to 5,000 rpm. The car was exhibited at the 1939 New York Motor Show: "The highest price car in the show this year is tagged $8,900. It is a Lagonda, known as the "Rapide" model, imported from England. The power plant is a twelve-cylinder V engine developing 200 horsepower.". Wikipedia
Taked off the day around 4 pM from Charles de Gaulle airport, , the Air France's Boeinf landed a little before 9 am in Wuhan. This morning, the ceiling was very low and we did not discover this lake landscape until a few minutes before the wheels of the plane touch the runway.
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Parti la veille vers16 heures de Charles de Gaulle, le Boeing d'Air France atterri un peu avant neuf heurs à Wuhan. Ce matin là, le plafond était très bas et l'on ne découvrait ce paysage lacustre que quelques minutes avant que les roues de l'avion touchent la piste.
Logbook of the Úthaf Kvæði
October 27, 2024
Left Ólafsvík bound for Terranova. Crew of four: Jón and Eiríkur, quiet Icelanders; Luis, my old mentor; and Skuggi, a black cat, watchful on deck. Sea cold as iron; winds slap our faces like whips.
October 30, 2024
Fog thick as wool near Greenland’s waters. Luis says the sea itself feels angrier these days. Jón keeps to the stove’s heat, while Skuggi curls beside it, barely moving.
November 1, 2024
Near Labrador Sea. Bitter winds bite through our layers. Eiríkur and Luis share stories, their voices small in the vast dark. Skuggi paces the deck, a shadow against endless gray, Terranova still far beyond sight.
November 3, 2024
In the Labrador Sea now. Jón’s laugh rare but warming. Every face worn, yet Skuggi curls at our feet by night. Terranova’s coast draws close. The sea tests, but the Úthaf kvæði endures.
Photography and film processing; LC Nevermind(Luis Campillo) Artistic direction, MUAH, props, caption and model; Lis Xia Gear;
1937’s Rolleicord II, Carl Zeiss Triotar 75mm, expired Kodak Tri-X 400
Registration E624MPV
Make ROVER
Model STIRLING
Date of first registration January 1988
Date of first registration in UK November 2019
Year of manufacture 1988
Cylinder capacity 2494cc - PETROL
Export marker No
Vehicle status SORN
Vehicle colour RED
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 27 November 2019
There was a small but interesting classic car show at Crich Tramway Village, May 2024. Predominantly MG cars, but a few others too. I hope you enjoy looking through them.
1969. MG B GT. Yellow. 1798 cc. Petrol. YPE 4G.
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued: 24 September 2019
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Blue Circle Cement tipper in the care of Statfold Country Park (I believe previously part of the Science Museum reserve collection at Wroughton). FIrst registered 1957, last logbook issued 1984. Statfold has a vast collection of narrow gauge locomotives and other vintage transport.
There was a small but interesting classic car show at Crich Tramway Village, May 2024. Predominantly MG cars, but a few others too. I hope you enjoy looking through them.
1969. MG B GT. Red. 1798 cc. Petrol. LNK 44H.
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued: 11 May 2024.
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Never tired of contemplating the clouds through an airplane window...
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Jamais lassé de contempler les nuages à travers le hublot d'un avion...
Southern Memories - in this shot we see vintage 4-SUB unit 4719 arriving at the platform at Effingham Junction station on service '82' heading for Sutton. From my logbook notes, I jumped on after taking this shot and with my great friend Tim Proudman superb50002 managed to cadge a cab ride all the way to Epsom (in driving coach S12778S) transferring to the cushions where we continued on to Sutton :)
We used to keep very fit in those days - taking photos such as this, and then legging it down the stairs to board the train :)
And here are Tim's notes from the day:
We did various units in the morning before heading over to bash the Selsdon for the very last time.
Morning Highlights include -
4SUB 4719 cab ride Bookham to Epsom, where we alighted and continued on to Sutton....for
4EPB 5425 cab ride Sutton to Wimbledon ("Wall of Death")
and haulage behind 5763, 5725 on the Selsdon line.
We did - Elmers End to Bingham, Bingham to Elmers End, then to Coombe Road and Sanderstead, back to Elmers End, back to Selsdon to Elmers End, back to Sanderstead, and back to Elmers End. This was the last move / last train, formed 5720 and 5209.
4-SUB bashing! In the summer of 1983, whilst enjoying my first year as a Geography undergraduate at Kingston Polytechnic, me and my good friends Tim Proudman and the sadly late Llew Griffith spent many happy hours riding around the rails of the Southern Region! One of our top targets was to get some 4-SUB rides before the demise of the class in October 1983. This day was one of those occasions.
My bashing friends and I spent some time clearing all the passenger routes on the Southern Region when we were at Kingston Polytechnic back in 1982-1985. During this period, we had many a ride on the old 4-SUB units which were finally withdrawn from service in 1983. We noticed a collection of the units withdrawn in the old Hither Green Continental Sidings, and managed to gain entrance for a good look around one day in the late autumn of 1983. ***I still have a full set of 4-SUB stencils in my garage - courtesy of Llew Griffith (FOR SALE if anyone's interested!) - and our raid on Hither Green sidings in November 1983 - see comments section below :)***
History of individual units
4621-4754 4-Sub 1949–1951 DMBTO+TT+TT+DMBTO Most cars had new bodies on old frames, though some were entirely new build. 4667-4754 included an Augmentation trailer from withdrawn units.
More information on the old 4-SUB units here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Class_4Sub
Photos that were nearly lost to oblivion!
The original slide was rescued from a box of 'duds' that I could never quite bring myself to throw away - now I am glad that I kept them ;)
Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original slide with minimal digital restoration
You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
MOT expiry date - 18.12.201
Road Tax Status - Vehicle has a SORN
V5C ( Logbook ) Issue Date - 14 August 2012
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M.O.T fail
DateResultDetails
07/12/2015 14:03
Fail
Mileage:
133,853 miles
+ 10,026 miles travelled since last MOT.
Refusal Notices
Hazard warning lamps inoperative (1.4.b.1b)
Horn not working (1.6.2a)
Nearside front headlamp aim beam image obviously incorrect (1.8.a.1b)
Nearside front suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.a.3)
Offside front seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded (5.2.6)
Offside front suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.a.3)
Offside rear coil spring fractured (2.4.c.1a)
Offside rear rear parking brake recording little or no effort (3.7.b.6a)
Offside rear suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.a.3)
Parking brake: efficiency below requirements (3.7.b.7)
Advisory Notices
Unable to check all seat belts due to car being loaded
Registration XFJ928S
Make LEYLAND CARS
Model MAXI 1750
Date of first registration March 1978
Year of manufacture 1978
Cylinder capacity 1748cc - PETROL
Export marker No
Vehicle status Untaxed - Tax due 1 April 1989
Vehicle colour GREEN
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 4 March 1987
SCRAP / DESTRUCTION CERTIFICATE - Yes
SCRAP / DESTRUCTION CERTIFICATE DATE - 30-03-1989
Just few hours before to take off to Paris CDG after a 46 days of world tour ……
I'm installed in a cosy saloon, at the top of the hotel, close to Colombus Circle … Note the sandwich, the cap on my head and the backpack at my side … Ready to go …
Read more on :
jeanpaulmargnac.net/2015/11/22/a-world-tour-in-brief/
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Durant ce tour du monde d'un mois et demi, j'ai tenu un blog qui était publié sur Internet dès que j'avais un accès au réseau.
Là, je raconte la toute dernière étape du tour du monde, mon court séjour à new York…
Dans quelques heures, je m'envolerai pour Paris CDG …
Picture by LM Classics Leicester.
Taxed Tax due 1 January 2024
MOT Expires 6 May 2023
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued - 9 April 2012
MOT History shows little use each year.
thunderstorm builds over the palisade region, kings canyon national park, california
© 2014 All Rights Reserved
'I am suddenly close to something very great and very large, something containing me and all this around me, something I only dimly perceive, and understand not at all. Perhaps if I am here, aware, and perceptive, long enough I will.'
~ Randy Morgenson, McClure Meadow logbook, 1973, Kings Canyon National Park
This Volvo 480 is immaculate, and I love the pop up headlights. Still carrying its original dealer plates, which look in beautiful condition still! Last logbook change was on the 1st February 2019.
Seen at the Stony Stratford classic car show.
The Library of Congress Grace La Rue
I claim no rights to this image just the colorization.
Title: Grace La Rue
Creator(s): C.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer
Date Created/Published: [between March 1905 and August 1906]
Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-bellcm-21344 (digital file from original)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: LC-B5- 56298 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative.
Date from photographer's logbook.
Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975.
General information about the C.M. Bell Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.bellcm
Temp note: Batch 44.
Format:
Glass negatives.
Portrait photographs.
Part of: C.M. Bell Studio Collection (Library of Congress)
Very clean looking Maestro van at the show, have not seen one of these for a while! Taxed until the 1st of September 2022 and MOT'ed until the 9th of December 2022. Currently sits at around 108,071 miles, covering around 1,000 miles each year. The last logbook change was 1st of October 2019.
Seen at the Stony Stratford Classic Car Show
The name Manhattan derives from the Munsee Lenape language term manaháhtaan (where manah- means "gather", -aht- means "bow", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we get bows" or "place for gathering the (wood to make) bows". According to a Munsee tradition recorded by Albert Seqaqkind Anthony in the 19th century, the island was named so for a grove of hickory trees at the lower end that was considered ideal for the making of bows. It was first recorded in writing as Manna-hata, in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). A 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River). Alternative etymologies in folklore include "island of many hills", "the island where we all became intoxicated" and simply "island", as well as a phrase descriptive of the whirlpool at Hell Gate.
It is thought that Manhattoe originally only referred to a location at the very southern tip of Manhattan, and came to signifiy the whole island to the Dutch through pars pro tot
The Castello Plan showing the Dutch colonial city of New Amsterdam in 1660 – then confined to the southern tip of Manhattan Island
The area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape and Wappinger Indians. In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of King Francis I of France – became the first documented European to visit the area that would become New York City. He entered the tidal strait now known as The Narrows and named the land around Upper New York Harbor New Angoulême, in reference to the family name of King Francis I that was derived from Angoulême in France; he sailed far enough into the harbor to sight the Hudson River, which he referred to in his report to the French king as a "very big river"; and he named the Bay of Santa Margarita – what is now Upper New York Bay – after Marguerite de Navarre, the elder sister of the king.
It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, that the area was mapped.Hudson came across Manhattan Island and the native people living there in 1609, and continued up the river that would later bear his name, the Hudson River, until he arrived at the site of present-day Albany.
A permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624, with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam), in what is now Lower Manhattan. The 1625 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City.
According to a letter by Pieter Janszoon Schagen, Peter Minuit and Dutch colonists acquired Manhattan on May 24, 1626, from unnamed native people, who are believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Manhattoe, in exchange for traded goods worth 60 guilders, often said to be worth US$24. The figure of 60 guilders comes from a letter by a representative of the Dutch Estates General and member of the board of the Dutch West India Company, Pieter Janszoon Schagen, to the Estates General in November 1626. In 1846, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 (or 60 guilders) to US$24 (he arrived at $24 = Fl 60/2.5, because the US dollar was erroneously equated with the Dutch rijksdaalder having a standard value of 2.5 guilders). variable-rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty-four dollars," as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York. Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006 and $963 in 2020, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam. Based on the price of silver, "The Straight Dope" newspaper column calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992. Historians James and Michelle Nevius revisited the issue in 2014, suggesting that using the prices of beer and brandy as monetary equivalencies, the price Minuit paid would have the purchasing power of somewhere between $2,600 and $15,600 in current dollars. According to the writer Nathaniel Benchley, Minuit conducted the transaction with Seyseys, chief of the Canarsee, who were willing to accept valuable merchandise in exchange for the island that was mostly controlled by the Weckquaesgeeks, a band of the Wappinger.
In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony. New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2, 1653. In 1674, the English bought New Netherland, after Holland lost rentable sugar business in Brazil, and renamed it "New York" after the English Duke of York and Albany, the future King James II. The Dutch, under Director General Stuyvesant, successfully negotiated with the English to produce 24 articles of provisional transfer, which sought to retain for the extant citizens of New Netherland their previously attained liberties (including freedom of religion) under their new English rulers
The Dutch Republic re-captured the city in August 1673, renaming it "New Orange". New Netherland was ultimately ceded to the English in November 1674 through the Treaty of Westminster.
This statue of President Washington stands in front of Federal Hall (on Wall Street) where he was inaugurated as the first U.S. president in 1789 sculptor, John Quincy Adams Ward
American Revolution and the early United States
Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of major battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16, 1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British military and political center of operations in North America for the remainder of the war. The military center for the colonists was established in New Jersey. British occupation lasted until November 25, 1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city.
From January 11, 1785, to the fall of 1788, New York City was the fifth of five capitals of the United States under the Articles of Confederation, with the Continental Congress meeting at New York City Hall (then at Fraunces Tavern). New York was the first capital under the newly enacted Constitution of the United States, from March 4, 1789, to August 12, 1790, at Federal Hall. Federal Hall was also the site where the United States Supreme Court met for the first tim the United States Bill of Rights were drafted and ratified, and where the Northwest Ordinance was adopted, establishing measures for adding new states to the Union.
New York grew as an economic center, first as a result of Alexander Hamilton's policies and practices as the first Secretary of the Treasury and, later, with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which connected the Atlantic port to the vast agricultural markets of the Midwestern United States and Canada. By 1810, New York City, then confined to Manhattan, had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States. The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 laid out the island of Manhattan in its familiar grid plan.
Tammany Hall, a Democratic Party political machine, began to grow in influence with the support of many of the immigrant Irish, culminating in the election of the first Tammany mayor, Fernando Wood, in 1854. Tammany Hall dominated local politics for decades. Central Park, which opened to the public in 1858, became the first landscaped public park in an American city.
New York City played a complex role in the American Civil War. The city's strong commercial ties to the southern United States existed for many reasons, including the industrial power of the Hudson River, which allowed trade with stops such as the West Point Foundry, one of the great manufacturing operations in the early United States; and the city's Atlantic Ocean ports, rendering New York City the American powerhouse in terms of industrial trade between the northern and southern United States. Anger arose about conscription, with resentment at those who could afford to pay $300 to avoid service leading to resentment against Lincoln's war policies and fomenting paranoia about free Blacks taking the poor immigrants' jobs, culminating in the three-day-long New York Draft Riots of July 1863. These intense war-time riots are counted among the worst incidents of civil disorder in American history, with an estimated 119 participants and passersby massacred
The rate of immigration from Europe grew steeply after the Civil War, and Manhattan became the first stop for millions seeking a new life in the United States, a role acknowledged by the dedication of the Statue of Liberty on October 28, 1886, a gift from the people of France. New York's growing immigrant population, which had earlier consisted mainly of German and Irish immigrants, began in the late 1800s to include waves of impoverished Italians and Central and Eastern European Jews flowing in en masse. This new European immigration brought further social upheaval. In a city of tenements packed with poorly paid laborers from dozens of nations, the city became a hotbed of revolution (including anarchists and communists among others), syndicalism, racketeering, and unionization.
In 1883, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge established a road connection to Brooklyn, across the East River. In 1874, the western portion of the present Bronx County was transferred to New York County from Westchester County, and in 1895 the remainder of the present Bronx County was annexed. In 1898, when New York City consolidated with three neighboring counties to form "the City of Greater New York", Manhattan and the Bronx, though still one county, were established as two separate boroughs. On January 1, 1914, the New York State Legislature created Bronx County and New York County was reduced to its present boundaries.
The "Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York", commonly known as the Viele Map, was created by Egbert Ludovicus Viele in 1865
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The construction of the New York City Subway, which opened in 1904, helped bind the new city together, as did additional bridges to Brooklyn. In the 1920s Manhattan experienced large arrivals of African-Americans as part of the Great Migration from the southern United States, and the Harlem Renaissance, part of a larger boom time in the Prohibition era that included new skyscrapers competing for the skyline. New York City became the most populous city in the world in 1925, overtaking London, which had reigned for a century. Manhattan's majority white ethnic group declined from 98.7% in 1900 to 58.3% by 1990.
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village killed 146 garment workers. The disaster eventually led to overhauls of the city's fire department, building codes, and workplace regulations.
The period between the World Wars saw the election of reformist mayor Fiorello La Guardia and the fall of Tammany Hall after 80 years of political dominance. As the city's demographics stabilized, labor unionization brought new protections and affluence to the working class, the city's government and infrastructure underwent a dramatic overhaul under La Guardia. Despite the Great Depression, some of the world's tallest skyscrapers were completed in Manhattan during the 1930s, including numerous Art Deco masterpieces that are still part of the city's skyline, most notably the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the 30 Rockefeller Plaza
Returning World War II veterans created a postwar economic boom, which led to the development of huge housing developments targeted at returning veterans, the largest being Peter Cooper Village-Stuyvesant Town, which opened in 1947. In 1951–1952, the United Nations relocated to a new headquarters the East Side of Manhattan
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movemen and the modern fight for LGBT rights.
In the 1970s, job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York City, including Manhattan, to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates. While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through the decade and into the beginning of the 1990s.
The 1980s saw a rebirth of Wall Street, and Manhattan reclaimed its role at the center of the worldwide financial industry. The 1980s also saw Manhattan at the heart of the AIDS crisis, with Greenwich Village at its epicenter. The organizations Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) were founded to advocate on behalf of those stricken with the disease.
By the 1990s crime rates started to drop dramatically due to revised police strategies, improving economic opportunities, gentrification, and new residents, both American transplants and new immigrants from Asia and Latin America. Murder rates that had reached 2,245 in 1990 plummeted to 537 by 2008, and the crack epidemic and its associated drug-related violence came under greater control The outflow of population turned around, as the city once again became the destination of immigrants from around the world, joining with low interest rates and Wall Street bonuses to fuel the growth of the real estate market. Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley, emerged in Manhattan's economy
On September 11, 2001, two of four hijacked planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center, and the towers subsequently collapsed. 7 World Trade Center collapsed due to fires and structural damage caused by heavy debris falling from the collapse of the Twin Towers. The other buildings within the World Trade Center complex were damaged beyond repair and soon after demolished. The collapse of the Twin Towers caused extensive damage to other surrounding buildings and skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan, and resulted in the deaths of 2,606 people, in addition to those on the planes. Since 2001, most of Lower Manhattan has been restored, although there has been controversy surrounding the rebuilding. Many rescue workers and residents of the area developed several life-threatening illnesses that have led to some of their subsequent deaths. A memorial at the site was opened to the public on September 11, 2011, and the museum opened in 2014. In 2014, the new One World Trade Center, at 1,776 feet (541 m) and formerly known as the Freedom Tower, became the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, while other skyscrapers were under construction at the site.
The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and spawning the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide.
On October 29 and 30, 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused extensive destruction in the borough, ravaging portions of Lower Manhattan with record-high storm surge from New York Harbor, severe flooding, and high winds, causing power outages for hundreds of thousands of city residents and leading to gasoline shortages and disruption of mass transit systems.The storm and its profound impacts have prompted the discussion of constructing seawalls and other coastal barriers around the shorelines of the borough and the metropolitan area to minimize the risk of destructive consequences from another such event in the future Around 15 percent of the borough is considered to be in flood-risk zones.
On October 31, 2017, a terrorist took a rental pickup truck and deliberately drove down a bike path alongside the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan, killing eight people and injuring a dozen others before crashing into a school bus.
Southern Memories - in this shot we see a rare view from the cab of vintage 4-SUB unit 4719 approaching Epsom station on service '82' heading for Sutton. The fine L.B.&S.C.R. signal box is clearly in view!cFrom my logbook notes, I jumped on at Bookham and with my great friend Tim Proudman superb50002 managed to cadge a cab ride all the way to Epsom (in driving coach S12778S) transferring to the cushions where we continued on to Sutton :)
This shot monochrome due to dodgy colour balance on the original slide!!!
And here are Tim's notes from the day:
We did various units in the morning before heading over to bash the Selsdon for the very last time.
Morning Highlights include -
4SUB 4719 cab ride Bookham to Epsom, where we alighted and continued on to Sutton....for
4EPB 5425 cab ride Sutton to Wimbledon ("Wall of Death")
and haulage behind 5763, 5725 on the Selsdon line.
We did - Elmers End to Bingham, Bingham to Elmers End, then to Coombe Road and Sanderstead, back to Elmers End, back to Selsdon to Elmers End, back to Sanderstead, and back to Elmers End. This was the last move / last train, formed 5720 and 5209.
4-SUB bashing! In the summer of 1983, whilst enjoying my first year as a Geography undergraduate at Kingston Polytechnic, me and my good friends Tim Proudman and the sadly late Llew Griffith spent many happy hours riding around the rails of the Southern Region! One of our top targets was to get some 4-SUB rides before the demise of the class in October 1983. This day was one of those occasions.
My bashing friends and I spent some time clearing all the passenger routes on the Southern Region when we were at Kingston Polytechnic back in 1982-1985. During this period, we had many a ride on the old 4-SUB units which were finally withdrawn from service in 1983.
More information on the old 4-SUB units here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR_Class_4Sub
Photos that were nearly lost to oblivion!
The original slide was rescued from a box of 'duds' that I could never quite bring myself to throw away - now I am glad that I kept them ;)
Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original slide with minimal digital restoration
You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
Scanned From my Grandfather Byron S. Cramblet's negatives labeled Paris 1944.
According to Byron’s pilot logbook he arrived in Paris on Nov. 1, 1944 and left on Nov. 3. He was the commander of a C-54 transport aircraft.
Processing /workflow notes:
Flatbed Scan 3 times - Highlights/ Mid tones /Shadows
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All 80's Renaults are incredibly rare in the UK, and the Fuego is no exception. There is only 19 with MOT on our roads! These have a very stylish design and are very pretty, and I particularly like the blue it is in and those yellow fog lights! It has been very inconsistent with MOT's in previous years, being without one between 2013-2021! Currently has no MOT although it is exempt as it is over 40 years old now but it does have tax. Currently sits at 30,047 miles. Last logbook change was on the 1st of June 2021.
Seen at the NEC Classic car show
The Library Congress Miss A. Heald
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Title
Heald, Miss A.
Contributor Names
C.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer
Created / Published
[between February 1901 and December 1903]
Format Headings
Glass negatives.
Portrait photographs.
Genre
Portrait photographs
Glass negatives
Notes
- Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative.
- Date from photographer's logbook.
- Notation on neg. sleeve: 6 st. 3.
- Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975.
- General information about the C.M. Bell Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.bellcm
- Temp note: Batch 30.
Medium
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-B5- 49535C [P&P]
Source Collection
C.M. Bell Studio Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
bellcm 14284 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/bellcm.14284
Library of Congress Control Number
2016701723
Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-bellcm-14284 (digital file from original)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions on publication.
Online Format
image
Description
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
LCCN Permalink
Registration XWK740X
Make LAND ROVER
Date of first registration May 1982
Year of manufacture 1982
Cylinder capacity 2286cc - PETROL
Export marker No
Vehicle status Untaxed - Tax due 1 March 2014
Vehicle colour BROWN
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued 16 October 2013
Logbook Entry – Úthaf Kvæði
November 9, 2024
Aboard the old but reliable hull Úthaf Kvæði, an endless dusk lays upon us as we drift towards Greenland’s coast, the skies bleeding soft light into the vast, unbroken horizon. Beneath the chill, there’s a rare freedom—a melancholy beauty as the hull groans and rises to meet the endless sea. Out here, we are eternal drifters, and each wave, each breath, feels like it might be the last taste of freedom or the beginning of a new exile. Beneath the dim, weary sun, we fish in silence, souls bound to the waves yet drifting free, always yearning, dreaming, forever unbound.
Photography and film processing; LC Nevermind(Luis Campillo) Artistic direction, MUAH, props, caption and model; Lis Xia Gear;
1937’s Rolleicord II, Carl Zeiss Triotar 75mm, expired Kodak Tri-X 400