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Parade 59th St.
1913 May 30 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows parade before the unveiling ceremonies for the memorial to the battleship Maine, which had exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War of 1898. In 1913, the monument was placed at the Columbus Circle and 59th Street entrance to Central Park in New York City. (Source: New York Times, Central Park Web site, and Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13047
Call Number: LC-B2- 2696-1
This is not just any book I am looking at. It is a photo book with write-ups about places in North America to travel with kids. Beyond that it is a book that a photo of MINE has been PUBLISHED! It just arrived this past week.
I must tell you I was blown away when I got the request to be paid to have a photo published in a book. (read my blog entry on it here). In addition to that they were paying me to have the photo in the book! AND... in addition to that they would send me a copy of it when it was in print - so here is my copy, in my hands.
See the next two photos in my stream to see the photo credits... and then too click one more photo further in my stream to see the page in the book with my photo printed on it!
Here is info about the book from an email that was written to me about the book when I was just learing about it. ... in case you are interested in getting a copy: Amazing Places to Take Your Kids in North America will be a large coffee table book that you'll be able to find in places like Wal Mart and on the bargain price bookshelves at places like Barnes & Noble. Travel agencies will also give them away as promotional items. About 10,000 copies will be printed.
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Wizard Productions srl, La Contrada - Teatro Stabile di Trieste, Joye Entertainment e Karl Sydow in associazione con Lionsgate e Magic Hour Productions presentano Dirty Dancing di Eleanor Bergstein
Il debutto assoluto italiano di “Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage” è previsto a Milano il 9 ottobre al Barclays Teatro Nazionale con repliche fino al 28 dicembre 2014.
Un concentrato di romanticismo, sensualità e musiche travolgenti.
“Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage” è la fedele trasposizione teatrale dell’omonimo successo cinematografico, e racconta l’inaspettato incontro tra la giovane Baby Houseman e l’affascinante maestro di ballo Johnny Castle nel resort per famiglie “Da Kellerman”.
Una romantica storia d’amore sbocciata nella tipica atmosfera estiva di un villaggio turistico, raccontata da musiche indimenticabili e balli sensuali.
La ricerca del cast da parte del team creativo inglese, affiancato da quello italiano, e con la supervisione di Eleanor Bergstein, si è conclusa dopo oltre tre mesi di lavoro, durante i quali sono state raccolte più di 1000 candidature. Saranno Sara Santostasi nel ruolo di Frances “Baby” Houseman e Gabrio Gentilini nel ruolo di Johnny Castle, a guidare il cast italiano composto da: Federica Capra (Penny Johnson), Simone Pieroni (Dr. Jake Houseman), Mimmo Chianese (Max Kellerman), Irene Urciuoli (Lisa Houseman), Natalia Magni (Marjorie Houseman), Rodolfo Ciulla (Neil Kellerman), Marco Stabile (Billy Kostecki, Renato Cortesi (Mr. Schumacher), Russell Russell (Tito Suarez), Giuseppe Verzicco (ensemble/Robbie Gould), Ilaria De Angelis (ensemble/Elizabeth), Pasquale Girone (ensemble/Jordan), Chiara Rosignoli (ensemble/Vivian Pressman), Aldo Esposito (ensemble/Moe Pressman), Lucia Blanco (ensemble), José Antonio Dominguez (ensemble), Sara Marinaccio (ensemble), Giusy Messina (ensemble), Paky Vicenti (ensemble), Azzurra Adinolfi (swing) e Thomas Signorelli (swing/dance captain).
Un’orchestra di otto elementi suonerà dal vivo le celebri musiche dello spettacolo “(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life”, vincitrice di un Premio Oscar e di un Golden Globe, è solo uno dei successi che compongono la straordinaria colonna sonora, che comprende hit internazionali come “Hungry Eyes”, “Do You Love Me?” e “Hey! Baby”. Rispetto alla versione inglese, nell’adattamento italiano verranno tradotti solo i dialoghi, mentre le canzoni resteranno in lingua originale.
This shot has been selected as a finalist in the Photographer's Forum 29th Annual Spring Photography contest; it will be published in the Best of Photography 2009 book! I will find out whether I'm an Honorable Mention or above in mid-August.
So excited!!
Published in the United States of America
Repository: Penn State Special Collections, University Park, PA, USA.
Looking for this photo at the Penn State Special Collections? You’ll find it in the Reva Kern Woodcut Bookplates and Woodblocks Collection
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 20th of May 1915.
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Two of my photos of Goshen, NY have been published in Hudson Valley, Magazine. April 2012 issue.
This is one of Main Street.
Published in January 1894 by The Historical Publishing Company, author J. W. Buel, this book contains 300 photographs of every aspect of the fair.
The World's Fair: Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492. At the core of the fair was an area that quickly became known as the White City for its buildings with white stucco siding and its streets illuminated by electric lights.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 18th of March 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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The Postcard
A postally unused Smart Novels Series postcard published prior to 1918. The card has a divided back.
Sir Squire Bancroft
Sir Squire Bancroft (14th. May 1841 – 19th. April 1926), born Squire White Butterfield in Rotherhithe, London, was an English actor-manager.
He and his wife Effie Bancroft instigated a new form of drama known as 'drawing-room comedy' or 'cup and saucer drama', owing to the realism of their stage sets.
Bancroft's first appearance on the stage was in 1861 in Birmingham, and he played in the provinces with success for several years.
His first London appearance was in 1865 as Jack Crawley in J. P. Wooler's 'A Winning Hazard' at the Prince of Wales's Theatre off Tottenham Court Road. This theatre was managed by Henry Byron and Effie Marie Wilton, whom Bancroft married in December 1867. After their marriage, the couple became joint managers of the theatre.
Mr and Mrs Bancroft produced and starred in all the Thomas William Robertson comedies beginning in 1865: 'Society' (1865), 'Ours' (1866), 'Caste' (1867), 'Play' (1868), 'School' (1869) and 'M.P.' (1870), and, after Robertson's death, in revivals of the old comedies, for which they surrounded themselves with an admired company.
The Bancrofts gave Robertson an unprecedented amount of directorial control over his plays, which was a key step to institutionalising the power that directors wield in the theatre today.
The Bancroft management at the Prince of Wales's Theatre constituted a new era in the development of the English stage, and had the effect of reviving London interest in modern drama.
They were also responsible for making fashionable the 'box set', which Lucia Elizabeth Vestris had first used at the Olympic Theatre in the 1830's – this consisted of rooms on stage which were dressed with sofas, curtains, chairs, and carpets on the stage floor. They also provided their actors with salaries and wardrobes.
Also, the Bancrofts redesigned their theatre to suit the increasingly upscale audience:
"The cheap benches near the stage,
where the rowdiest elements of the
audience used to sit, were replaced
by comfortable padded seats, carpets
were laid in the aisles, and the pit was
renamed the stalls."
Other plays they premiered or produced there were W. S. Gilbert's 'Allow Me To Explain' (1867) and his romantic comedy tribute to Robertson, 'Sweethearts' (1874), as well as 'Tame Cats' (1868), Lytton's 'Money' (1872), 'The School for Scandal' (1874), Boucicault's 'London Assurance' (1877), and 'Diplomacy' (1878), an adaptation of Sardou's 'Dora' by Clement Scott and B. C. Stephenson.
In the 1870's and 1880's, in addition to his management responsibilities, Bancroft continued to play leading roles in numerous contemporary plays, as well as in works by Shakespeare and Richard Brinsley Sheridan's and other classic plays, often opposite his wife.
In 1879, the Bancrofts moved to the Haymarket Theatre, where they produced or starred in a revival of 'Money', and in Sardou's 'Odette', 'Fedora', and Pinero's 'Lords and Commons', with revivals of previous successes.
Having made a considerable fortune, they retired from management in 1885, but Bancroft continued to act until 1918.
Bancroft was knighted in 1897. Between 1917, and his death in 1926, Bancroft maintained rooms at the fashionable Albany in Piccadilly. Both he and his wife are buried in Brompton Cemetery.
Bancroft wrote, in collaboration with his wife, two volumes of reminiscences called 'Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft On and Off the Stage', written by themselves (London, 1888) and 'The Bancrofts: Recollections of Sixty Years' (London: Dutton and Co., 1909).
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 7th of October 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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Trade PB - ISBN 0-246-13420-8 - Grafton Books - published in the U.K. - copyright 1988 - foreword by Brian Aldiss
Well Mr. Pringle has selected his 100 best fantasy novels all published during 1946-1987. He certainly expects us readers to fume and fret why this piece of tripe was included and our old favorite was omitted. Nonetheless agree or disagree his reviews provide a clear and concise plot synopsis and a short biographical sketch of the author.
I have acquired a number of these "best novels" collections and find them very helpful discovering novels I would never have read.
The Brian Aldiss foreword is quite entertaining as he muses why his favorites weren't included.
It's nice to have another Time Out cover under my belt. This one's out tomorrow. I'll post some more shots from the shoot soon.
This is my first picture i have had published and I'm absolutely oven the moon, really, no pun intended.
I can't even begin to explain how happy this has made me, I'm a total amateur, I'm not a professional photographer, i just like to get out there and take some pictures purely as a hobby when I have a spare 5 minutes, i only just bought my first DSLR 2 months before taking this picture on it.
I was paid for the picture, but the money actually means very little, what I'm really ecstatic about is the fact i now have a free copy of a magazine that has one of my pictures in it, money can't buy that.
3 years taking pictures when i could as a hobby and now i have a picture Published, need a say more ? I'm just so happy.
I don't necessarily agree with black & white photos and especially not night photos, but they paid for it, so the can use it how they like.
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Gaochang (Chinese: 高昌; pinyin: Gāochāng), also called Karakhoja, Qara-hoja, Kara-Khoja, or Karahoja (قاراغوجا in Uyghur), is the site of a ruined, ancient oasis city on the northern rim of the inhospitable Taklamakan Desert in present-day Xinjiang, China. The site is also known in published reports as Chotscho, Khocho, Qocho, or Qočo. During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Gaochang was referred to as "Halahezhuo" (哈拉和卓) (Qara-khoja) and Huozhou.
The ruins are located 30 km from Turpan. The archaeological remains are just outside the modern town of Gaochang, at a place called Idykut-schari or Idikutschari by local residents. (see the work of Albert Grünwedel in the external links below). Artistic depictions of the city have been published by Albert von Le Coq. Gaochang is considered in some sources to have been be a "Chinese colony", that is, it was located in a region otherwise occupied at the time by West Eurasian peoples.
A busy trading center, it was a stopping point for merchant traders traveling on the Silk Road. It was destroyed in wars during the 14th century, and old palace ruins and inside and outside cities can still be seen today. The ruins are located 30 km southeast of modern Turpan.
Near Gaochang is another major archeological site: the Astana tombs.
HISTORY
JUSHI JINGDOM AND EARLY HAN-CHINESE RULE
The earliest people known to have lived in the area were the Gushi (or Jushi). The region around Turfan was described during the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) as being occupied by the Jūshī, while control over the region swayed between the Han-Chinese and the Xiongnu.
Gaochang was built in the 1st century BC, it was an important site along the Silk Road. It played a key role as a transportation hub in western China. The Jushi leaders invited the Chinese Han dynasty to take over, and pledged their allegiance. In 327, the Gaochang Commandery (jùn) was created by the Former Liang under the Han Chinese ruler Zhang Gui. The Chinese set up a military colony/garrison, organized the land into multiple divisions and Han Chinese colonists from the Hexi region and the central plains also settled in the region.
After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, northern China split into multiple states, including the Central Asian oases. Gaochang was ruled by the Former Liang, Former Qin, and Northern Liang as part of a commandery. In 383 The General Lu Guang of the Former Qin seized control of the region.
In 439, remnants of the Northern Liang, led by Juqu Wuhui and Juqu Anzhou, fled to Gaochang where they would hold onto power until 460 when they were conquered by the Rouran Khaganate (which some scholars believe to have been the origin of the Avars).
ROURAN, GAOCHE AND GÖKTÜRK RULE
From the mid-5th century until the mid-7th century, there existed four independent statelets in the narrow Turpan basin. These were controlled by the Kan clan, Zhang clan, Ma clan, and Qu clan.
A the time of its conquest by the Rouran Khaganate, there were more than ten thousand Han Chinese households in Gaochang. The Rouran Khaganate, which was based in Mongolia, appointed a Han Chinese named Kan Bozhou to rule as King of Gaochang in 460, and it became a separate vassal kingdom of the Khaganate. Kan was dependent on Rouran backing. Yicheng and Shougui were the last two kings of the Chinese Kan family to rule Gaochang.
At this time the Gaoche (高車) was rising to challenge power of the Rouran in the Tarim Basin. The Gaoche king Afuzhiluo (阿伏至羅) killed King Kan Shougui, who was the nephew of Kan Bozhou. and appointed a Han from Dunhuang, named Zhang Mengming (張孟明), as his own vassal King of Gaochang. Gaochang thus passed under Gaoche rule.
Later, Zhang Mengming was killed in an uprising by the people of Gaochang and replaced by Ma Ru (馬儒). In 501, Ma Ru himself was overthrown and killed, and the people of Gaochang appointed Qu Jia (麴嘉) of Jincheng (in Gansu) as their king. Qu Jia hailed from the Zhong district of Jincheng commandery (金城, roughly corresponding to modern day Lanzhou, Gansu) Qu Jia at first pledged allegiance to the Rouran, but the Rouran khaghan was soon killed by the Gaoche, and he had to submit to Gaoche overlordship. During Qu rule, powerful families established marriage ties with each other and dominated the kingdom, they included the Zhang, Fan, Yin, Ma, Shi, and Xin families. Later, when the Göktürks emerged as the supreme power in the region, the Qu dynasty of Gaochang became vassals of the Göktürks.
While the material civilization of Kucha to its west in this period remained chiefly Indo-Iranian in character, in Goachang it gradually merged into the Tang aesthetics. In 607 the ruler of Gaochang Qu Boya paid tribute to the Sui Dynasty, but his attempt at sinicization provoked a coup which overthrew the Qu ruler. The Qu family was restored six years later, and the successor Qu Wentai welcomed the Tang pilgrim Xuanzang with great enthusiasm in 629 AD
TANG RULE
However, fearing Tang expansion, Qu Wentai later formed an alliance with the Western Turks and rebelled against Tang suzerainty. Emperor Taizong sent an army led by General Hou Junji against the kingdom in 640, and Qu Wentai apparently died of shock at news of the approaching army. Gaochang was annexed by the Chinese Tang dynasty and turned into a sub-prefecture of Xizhou (西州), and the seat of government of Anxi (安西). Before the Chinese conquered Gaochang, it was an impediment to Chinese access to Tarim and Transoxiania.
Under Tang rule, Gaochang was inhabited by Chinese, Sogdians, and Tocharians.
Tang dynasty became greatly weakened due to the An Lushan Rebellion, and in 755, the Chinese were forced to pull back their soldiers from the region. The area was first taken by the Tibetans, then finally by the Uyghurs in 803, who called the area Kocho (Qocho).
UYGHUR KINGDOM OF QOCHO
After 840 it then became occupied by Uyghurs fleeing Kirghiz invasion of their land. The Uyghurs established the Kingdom of Qocho (Kara-Khoja) in 850. The inhabitants of Qocho practiced Buddhism, Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity. The Uyghurs converted to Buddhism and sponsored building of temple caves in the nearby Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves where depictions of Uyghur sponsors may be seen. The Buddhist Uyghur kings, who called themselves idiquts, retained their nomadic lifestyle, residing in Qocho during the winter, but moved to the cooler Bishbalik near Urumchi in the summer.
Qocho later became a vassal state of the Kara-Khitans. However, In 1209, the idiqut Barchuq offered Genghis Khan the suzerainty of his kingdom, and went personally to Genghis Khan with a sizeable tribute when demanded in 1211. The Uyghurs thus went into the service of the Mongols, who later formed the Yuan Dynasty in China. The Uyghurs became bureaucrats (semu) of the Mongol Empire and their Uyghur script was modified for Mongolian. As far south as Quanzhou, preponderance of Gaochang Uyghur in Nestorian Christian inscriptions of the Yuan period attests to their importance in the Christian community there.
The Gaochang area was sieged by the Mongols of the Chagatai Khanate (not part of Yuan Dynasty) from 1275 to 1318 by as many as 120,000 troops.
BUDDHISM
Buddhism spread to China from India along the northern branch of the Silk Road predominantly in the 4th and 5th centuries as the Liang rulers were buddhists. The building of Buddhist grottos probably began during this period. There are clusters close to Gaochang, the largest being the Bezeklik grottos.
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Il trio che ha conquistato le platee internazionali, trionfato al Festival di Sanremo, si è aggiudicato il doppio disco di platino per l’album “Sanremo Grande Amore” e ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Alla luce dello straordinario successo del tour estivo con 12 sold out già registrati a meno di un mese dalla prima data, nel 2016 i ragazzi de Il Volo saranno protagonisti dei principali palasport con “Il Volo 2016 Live nei Palasport”, il tour con cui il celebre trio porterà la sua musica dal respiro internazionale e le sue straordinarie doti canore nelle più importanti città italiane.
Il singolo “Grande Amore” e l’album “Sanremo Grande Amore” hanno conquistato le charts iTunes dei Paesi eurovisivi. Il grande affetto della gente è stato dimostrato anche dagli ascolti durante l’esibizione del trio nella finale, che risulta essere la più vista della serata. Non solo il pubblico, ma anche la critica musicale si è espressa in suo favore, conferendogli il prestigioso Marcel Besançon Award 2015 della stampa internazionale.
Il Volo è un gruppo musicale italiano costituito da due tenori e un baritono: Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto e Gianluca Ginoble.
Sono stati i primi artisti italiani ad aver firmato un contratto diretto con una major statunitense. Interpretano brani perlopiù appartenenti alla tradizione classica italiana e internazionale, con stile e arrangiamenti moderni, e brani pop in chiave classica. Hanno inciso anche brani in lingua spagnola, inglese, francese, tedesca e latina.
Nonostante la giovane età, la carriera de Il Volo, il trio, che ha scalato le classifiche di tutto il mondo, è già costellata di record: sono stati i primi italiani nella storia a sottoscrivere un contratto con una major discografica in USA, unici artisti italiani invitati da Quincy Jones a “We Are The World for Haiti” insieme a 80 star internazionali, un disco di debutto che conquista il platino in Italia ed entra in una sola settimana nella Top10 di “Billboard 200” dedicata agli album più venduti negli Stati Uniti, milioni di copie vendute su scala mondiale, due nomination ai Latin Grammy Awards come “Best new artist” e “Best pop album by a duo or group with vocal”, tournèe e live in tutto il mondo, esibizioni nei più importanti show (“Tonight Show”, “American Idol e “Ellen De Generes Show” per citarne alcuni), numerose collaborazioni con star internazionali (tra cui Barbara Streisand, di cui sono stati Special Guests duettando in 12 date del suo tour nel 2012), vincitori del Latin Billboard Award come “Miglior artista dell’anno Duo/Gruppo interprete di album latino”.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 5th of February 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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Bain News Service,, publisher.
Troops at Galveston
1911 Feb. 24 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Photo probably by Joseph Maurer. See related image: PAN US MILITARY - Camps no. 44, copyrighted in 1911.
"Maurer Photo" on negative.
On negative: Maurer Photo.
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Galveston
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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Call Number: LC-B2- 2222-15
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 24th of November 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was a French botanist. He was born to a well-to-do family in Aix-en-Provence. Tournefort initially took up studies in theology. However, as he had a marked inclination towards natural sciences, he turned to medicine. He completed his studies at the University of Montpellier. In 1681, he was in Barcelona doing research in botany. In 1694 Tournefort published his first three-volume work, in which he classified 8846 plants. In 1698 he became Doctor in Medicine of the University of Paris. At that time his treatise was also translated into Latin. Tournefort became a famous physician and naturalist. He travelled extensively in Western Europe (Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, England). He had published a number of works on botany, and had acquired a fabulous collection of nearly 50.000 books, as well as costumes, arms, minerals, shells and various curiosities. Thus, he already had a very important career behind him when Louis XIV entrusted him with the mission to bring new plants to the Royal Botanical Garden.
Tournefort started out on his voyage to the Near East in the spring of 1700, at the age of 44, accompanied by a painter and a doctor. He visited thirty-eight islands of the Greek archipelago, as well as Northern Anatolia, Pontus and Armenia, and reached Tiflis in Georgia. Tournefort returned to Marseilles in June 1702.
His manuscript, composed of his letters to the Minister of the Exterior Count de Pontchartain, was published posthumously in 1717. A number of re-editions followed, while his work was also translated into English, German and Flemish. There is also a Greek translation of the first part. The fact that Tournefort had discovered new plants in his journey led him to publish a supplement to his main work of botanical classification in 1703. He taught Botany in the Académie, while continuing to practice medicine; at the same time, he was in charge of the Royal Gardens, where many plants he brought from his travels were cultivated with success. Having survived a multitude of adventures, Tournefort died of an accident in 1708. He did not live to see the publication of his travel chronicle, which in the following three centuries became the basic manual to all travellers to these regions. Until today, researchers from numerous fields turn to Tournefort’s text, as it remains an invaluable source of information. He describes the places he visited in a particular systematic manner.
The systematic way he organizes his information on topography, economy, administration, ethnic composition, customs and habits of everyday life shows how one can arrive at truth and knowledge through research, methodical study, classification and generalisation. To document his research, Tournefort cites a hundred and thirty-five texts by Greek and Latin authors as well as Byzantine writers, Humanists, and earlier travel accounts.
He methodically narrates his visit to each island, and describes the locations as well as events that he witnessed and encounters with locals. He then continues with the island’s history from ancient times to the current age, citing the corresponding myths, and comparing with the information provided by ancient coins. Subsequently, he writes on the island’s administration and taxes, commerce, products and prices thereof. An entire chapter is dedicated to the Greek church. Tournefort also writes on monasteries and churches, house architecture and caves. He also describes the customs, the dress and the occupations of the inhabitants. He concludes his chapters with geographical observations from the highest point of each main region.
Naturally, his work includes engravings of city views, locations and monuments as well as plants, instruments and costumes. The text becomes alive with vivid descriptions of his encounters with islanders, be it Turks, Franks, Greeks or privateers. Of special interest are his descriptions of fortresses, ports, safe havens and his information on map drawing.
The second volume is a publication of his thoroughly documented manuscripts. It was not edited by Tournefort himself as had happened with the first. On numerous occasions he refers to the politics, administration and ethnic composition of the Ottoman Empire. He continues with his journey on the southern coast of the Black Sea to Armenia. The work closes with a short description of Smyrna and Ephesus.
Tournefort is considered the first to have shown the islands of the Archipelago to be “travel material”, as he offered information which inspired the interest for further research, and also highlighed each location’s wealth and uniqueness.
Written by Ioli Vingopoulou
Fransız botanikçi Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) Aix-en-Provence'da varlıklı bir aile içinde doğar, ilk önce tanrıbilim (teoloji) dersleri izler ancak genç yaştan beri doğa bilimlerine eğilim gösterir. Bu yüzden Montpellier'de tıp öğrenimi görüp 1681'de botanik araştırmaları yapmak üzere Barcelona'ya gelir. 1694 yılında üç ciltlik ve 8.846 bitkinin sınıflandırmasına ilişkin ilk eserini yayınlar; 1698'de Paris Tıp Fakültesinden doktor unvanını alır ve bu kazanımı yapıtının latince çevirisi izler. Doktor ve doğa bilimcisi olarak ün salmış, Batı Avrupa'da (İspanya, Portekiz, Hollanda, İngiltere'ye) seyahat etmiş, botanoloji ile ilgili kitaplar yayınlamış, 50.000'e yakın kitaptan meydana gelen bir kitaplık oluşturmuş, ayrıca yerel kıyafet, silah, mineral, deniz kabuğu ve daha başka ilginç şeylerden oluşan hayranlık uyandıran koleksiyonlar sahibi olmuşken, kral 14. Louis ona Kraliyet Botanik Bahçesine yeni bitkiler getirme görevini verir. Tournefort 1700 yılının ilkbaharında, 44 yaşındayken, yanına yoldaş olarak bir ressam ve bir doktor alarak Yakın Doğu'ya doğru yola çıkar.
Ege adalarından 38 tanesini ziyaret eder, Kuzey Anadolu'nun her tarafını gezip Karadeniz ve Ermenistan yörelerine gelir, Tiflis'e varır. Tournefort, 1702 yılının Haziran ayında Marsilya'da karaya ayak basar.
Kaleme aldığı metin (Dışişleri bakanı Kont de Pontchartain'e yolladığı mektuplar biçiminde) ilk olarak 1717'de yayınlanır, bu ilk yayını bir çok yeni baskı izler ve eser ingilizce, almanca ve flamanca gibi dillere- ilk kısmı yunancaya da - çevrilir. Yeni keşfettiği bitkilerin daha önce belirlemiş olduğu sınıflandırma sistemine eklenmesi sonucu olarak 1703'te yeni bir cilt yayınlar. Tournefort botanik profesörü sıfatıyla Akademide dersler verir, doktorluk mesleğini ve bunlara koşut olarak Kraliyet Bahçesinin sorumluluğu görevini sürdürür. Gezilerinden getirmiş olduğu birçok yeni bitki bu bahçede başarılı bir şekilde yetiştirilir. Tournefort geçirdiği birçok maceradan kefeni yırtmışken, üç asır boyunca her gezginin bu bölge için başucu kitabı olacak seyahatnamesinin yayınlanmasını göremeden 1708'de bir kaza sonucu ölür. Bugün hâlâ çeşitli dallardan araştırmacılar Tournefort'un metnine başvurup son derece değerli bilgilerinden faydalanmak durumundalar. Eseri anında ingilizce, hollandaca ve almancaya çevrilmişti.
Gezdiği yerleri betimlerken belirli bir yöntem izleyerek topoğrafya, ekonomi, yönetim, milletler sentezi ve günlük yaşamdaki örf ve adetlere ilişkin bilgiler verirken, Tournefort, bilginin gerçeğe uyup uymadığı konusuna araştırma, düzenli okuma, sınıflandırma ve genelleştirme yoluyla yanaşılabileceğini kanıtlıyor. Kanıtlayıcı belgeleri arasında antik Yunan ve Latin yazarlarından, ayrıca Bizans yazarlarından ve daha eski hümanist bilgin ve gezginlerden 135 tane metin bulunmakta.
Ziyaret ettiği her ada için düzenli olarak ziyaretini anlatıp birçok yeri ve olayı hatta yerlilerle olan görüşmelerini de betimler. Bunlara ek olarak, adanın eski çağlardan gününe dek tarihi ve bununla ilintili efsaneler, sikkeler hakkında, yönetim, vergilendirme usulleri, ticaret, ürünler ve fiyatları hakkında bilgiler verir. Ayrıca Yunanistan'ın dinî (kilise) yaşamına başlıbaşına bir bölüm ayırır. Manastırlar, kiliseler, evlerin mimarisi, mağaralar hakkında yazar, adetler ve kıyafetleri betimleyip halkın uğraşlarından sözeder ve önemli yörelerin her birinin en yüksek irtifasından yaptığı coğrafya gözlemleri ile anlatımını bitirir.
Doğal olarak eserinde şehir, yer, anıt, bitki, alet, ve kıyafet görünümleri ile ilgili gravürler de yer almakta. Ayrıca metni ada halkıyla (Türkler, Latinler, Yunanlılar, korsanlarla) ilişkilerinden çarpıcı betimlemelerle de çeşitlenir. Kitabında hisarlar, gemi barınakları, güvenli limanlar hakkında yaptığı betimlemeler ve harita çizimi ile ilgili verdiği bilgiler özel ilgi uyandıran kısımlar arasındadır.
Eserinin birinci cildinin yayına hazırlığını kendisi denetlemişken ikinci cilt kendi ayrıntılı yazılarına sadık kalınarak basılır. Bu cildin başındaki birçok bölüm Osmanlıların siyasal, yönetimsel ve etnografik durumuna ayrılmıştır. Bunun devamında Karadeniz'in güney kıyılarında yaptığı Ermenistan'a kadar varan yolculuğunu anlatıp kitabı İzmir ve Efes'in kısa bir betimlemesi ile bitirir.
Böylece Tournefort, başkalarında arayış isteğini besleyecek nitelikte malzeme sağlamanın yanısıra, gördüğü her yerin sonsuz zengiliğini ve kendine özgü niteliklerini yüzeye çıkarması açısından Ege adalarına bir "yolculuk uknumu" veren ilk şahıs olarak bilinir.
Yazan: İoli Vingopoulou
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Photograph published 9th December 1918
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognize anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published in Great Britain prior to June 1918. The photography was by Bassano.
The following is printed on the divided back of the card:
'"My Queen" & "Romance"
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Jan Kubelík
Jan Kubelík (5th. July 1880 – 5th. December 1940) was a Czech violinist and composer.
-- Jan Kubelík - The Early Years
Jan was born in Michle (now part of Prague). His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist.
He taught his two sons the violin, and after discovering the talent of Jan, who was aged five at the time, arranged for him to study with Karel Weber and Karel Ondříček.
At the age of eight Jan studied at the Prague Conservatory with Otakar Ševčík, of whose technique he became the most famous representative. As a child, he used to practise for 10 to 12 hours a day, or "until my fingers started to bleed."
In 1898 he toured as a soloist, soon becoming renowned for his great virtuosity and flawless intonation, and his very full and noble tone. He played a Guarneri del Gesù and also two Stradivarius violins: he acquired the 1715 Stradivarius Emperor in 1910.
-- Jan Kubelík's Musical Career
After great success following his debut in Vienna, and in London (where he first appeared at a Hans Richter concert in 1900), Kubelík toured in the USA in 1901 for the first time.
Jan made his first appearance with the Royal Philharmonic Society, London in the season of 1901–2, and in 1902 was awarded the Society's Gold Medal. In 1902 he brought the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra to London, having assisted it financially in the previous year.
In 1903 he married Countess Anna Julie Marie Széll von Bessenyö (born on the 1st. March 1880 in Budapest), niece of former Prime Minister of Hungary Kálmán Széll, with whom he had eight children, five violinist daughters and three sons, among them the conductor Rafael Kubelík.
Kubelík made a number of recordings for The Gramophone Company, and for Fonotipia/Polydor. The Gramophone Company recorded him as obbligato to Dame Nellie Melba in 1904, a match which reflected the classical phrasing and tonal purity of his art, and which was an ideal complement to Dame Nellie.
Their early version of the Bach-Gounod 'Ave Maria' was recorded twice, in October 1904 and again in February 1905; it became one of the great early classics of the gramophone, and was one of those records which made the instrument a popular success, even though the double celebrity single-sided title retailed at one guinea.
Nine years later (when recording technology had improved) the partnership was reformed to re-make the record in May 1913 with organ accompaniment, and again in October 1913. It was the latter version which then survived in the inter-war catalogue in two-sided form. Jan's 1935 Carnegie Hall concert was also recorded, and has been reissued.
Jan wrote music, including six violin concertos, and continued to perform in public until his death, with a pause between the end of the Great War and 1920, during which period he composed.
In 1920 Jan resumed his concert career, but with the advent of Jascha Heifetz, his career dwindled somewhat.
-- The Death of Jan Kubelík
Jan died in Prague in 1940, at the young age of 60.
-- Critical Reception and Legacy of Jan Kubelík
In 1907, reviewing a concert by Kubelík at New York's massive Hippodrome Theatre, the New York Times wrote:
"Mr. Kubelík's artistry is of the most remarkable
kind. He is not a deeply moving player; he has
not the power of touching profoundly and
immediately the hearts of his listeners, nor of
laying hold of the inner mystery of the greatest
music.
There is something aloof in him as he plays it;
yet few have the power of so ravishing the
senses with the sheer beauty of his tone, the
charm of his cantilena, the elegance and ease
with which he masters all the technical difficulties
of what he is playing so that they no longer suggest
themselves as difficulties.
Octaves, thirds and sixths drop from his instrument
in a tone of honeyed sweetness and oily smoothness;
not a large tone, but one of indescribable roundness
and purity; his runs and passages of all sorts are as
pearls from his hands.
There is something of feminine grace and charm in
Mr. Kubelík's playing, and he seldom compels by its
authority or stirs by its passion and virility, but in its
way it is wholly delightful".
In 1903 Kubelík's portrait was painted by Philip de László, and a 1912 Cubist painting by Georges Braque incorporates a handbill featuring the words "Mozart Kubelick" (sic).
Carl Sandburg mentions Jan Kubelík in his Chicago Poems (1916).
He is adored by the sisters in Sally Benson's collected short stories, which later became the film 'Meet Me in St. Louis' (1944).
Kubelik is also referred to in Robert Ludlum's 2002 novel 'The Janson Directive'.