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We were exploring the area around Ocala National forest, and headed home when we passed by this plane. The Pan Am logo grabbed my eye and my very patient wife did not object to my turning around to make a second pass in order to take a few photos. After returning home I searched the internet and was able to find an article about this plane posted by the Orlando Sentinel in April 2013. The plane was brought to Apopka Airport by LeRoy H. Brown who flew for Pan Am. The plane never actually flew for Pan Am, but the logo still grabs attention. The plane actually flew passengers for American Airlines from 1949 to 1959. Later it flew for Mohawk airlines according to the article. Sadly, the picture in the article from just 3 short years ago shows the plane well cared for and looking sharp. Today it looks weathered and abandoned. Mr. Brown, who was 92 at the time the article was written, was attempting to preserve this piece of history. I wonder how long it will languish there, and if someone else will pick up the torch and preserve it. Here is a link to the article: articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-04-12/news/os-old-pan-a...
Description: This image was taken c. 1907-1930.
Creator/Photographer: Edward S. Curtis
Birth Date: 1868
Death Date: 1952
Medium: Photogravure
Culture: American Indian
Date: Prior to 1930
Persistent URL: www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imagegalaxy_imageDetail.cfm?id...
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: The North American Indian Photography of Edward Curtis - Edward S. Curtis, a professional photographer in Seattle, devoted his life to documenting what was perceived to be a vanishing race. His monumental publication The North American Indian presented to the public an extensive ethnographical study of numerous tribes, and his photographs remain memorable icons of the American Indian. The Smithsonian Libraries holds a complete set of this work, which includes photogravures on tissue, donated by Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, whose husband had conducted an expedition to Alaska with Curtis in 1899.
Accession number: SIL7-58-03
Location: Ybor City Historic District, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States of America.
Ybor City is a historic district within the city of Tampa. Ybor was a neighborhood primarily inhabited by immigrants from Cuba, Spain, Germany, and Italy seeking jobs in the cigar factories. The district was founded by Vicente Martínez-Ybor in 1885 and was annexed by Tampa in 1887. The diversity stemming from the immigrant population distinguished Tampa from other cities in the Southern United States.
Ybor City was also favorable to Cuban independence from Spain. The independence activist José Martí lobbied the locals for support.
Later the district gentrified and is now a tourist and nightclub district.
Ubicación: Distrito Histórico Ciudad Ybor, Tampa, Condado Hillsborough, Florida, Estados Unidos de América.
La Cuidad Ybor es un distrito antiguo de la cuidad de Tampa. Cuidad Ybor antes fue el barrio inmigrante de Cubanos, Españoles, Italianos, Chinos, y Alemanes que se mudaron a Tampa buscando empleo en las plantas de cigarro. Lo estableció Vicente Martínez Ybor en 1885, y junto a Tampa en el 1887. La diversidad de inmigrantes forréanos distinguió Tampa de otras ciudades en el sur dentro los Estados Unidos.
La Cuidad Ybor fue un centro favorable a la independencia Cubana de España. El independista Cubano José Martí iba al barrio para buscar apoyo.
La Cuidad Ybor era mas próspera en los 1920s, con mecanización y la Gran Depresión derrotando la industria que la comunidad dependía. La comunidad después de emigración masiva que ocurrió durante el colapso de la industria tuvo gentrificación en los 1980s. Ybor se convierto a un distrito turístico y de discotecas.
Source/Recurso: web.archive.org/web/20201220060118/https://www.nps.gov/nr...
District Map/Mapa del Districto: web.archive.org/web/20201220053639/https://www.tampa.gov/...
Wacinton (to have understanding)
Artist: Sculptor Peter Toth
Material: hand chiseled from a Red Oak
Place: Bob Noble Park, Paducah, Kentucky
Dedicated: May 26, 1985
A placque next to this wooden sculpture in Western Kentucky states:
"Hand chiseled from a local 56,000 pound Red Oak to honor the Chickasaw Indians who lived and hunted in this area until the Jackson Purchase, 1818."
The Jackson Purchase is the purchase of the far western part of Kentucky that sticks out on the state’s otherwise straight as an arrow southern border. Purchasing the land allowed the United States, and Kentucky, to contiguously connect to the important Mississippi River that runs as a major waterway from Minnesota down to the Gulf of Mexico. When Kentucky broke off from Virginia to become a state in 1792, this area that had the Mississippi River as its western border was included as part of Kentucky; however, there was a problem. The land belonged to the Chickasaw. Decades later, in the 1818 Treaty of Tuscaloosa, the U.S. government, as negotiated by the Andrew Jackson administration, paid $300,000 to the Chickasaw to own this western tab of Kentucky and West Tennessee.
The Chickasaw joined the Cherokee, Chocktow, and other tribes on the Trail of Tears to their appointed new home in Oklahoma.
Fort Donelson National Military Park and Cemetery are contained within a 554-acre tract of land located approximately one mile west of Dover, county seat of Stewart County, Tennessee. The National Cemetery was established under the War Department in 1867 and Fort Donelson became a National Military Park on March 26, 1928. In 1933, responsibility for the care and protection of the Park and Cemetery passed from the War Department to the National Park Service. Based on information provided in the original documents submitted to the National Register of Historic Places, Fort Donelson is eligible for listing consideration based on three criteria: A - property that is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; B - property that is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; and C - property that embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. Fort Donelson's commemorative history is evident in the designed memorial landscape of the national cemetery and in the well-preserved earthworks, buildings, and monuments erected and protected on this 130-year-old battlefield. The oldest features of the battlefield are the original earthworks associated with the Civil War and the Dover Hotel, with both of these historic resources also being listed in the NRHP.
Fort Donelson was officially listed on the NRHP on October 15, 1966. All information above was taken from the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/be7de9eb-cec0-4ef2-940d-8...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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I've uploaded both these photos as I'm not sure which one is better? I like the way the light catches both the flag and the sign........
The Key West Heritage House Museum and Robert Frost Cottage, also known as the Jessie Porter's Heritage House Museum and Robert Frost Cottage, was a museum located at 410 Caroline Street, Key West, Florida. The Key West Heritage House, purchased by Jessie Porter in 1934 and opened as a museum in 1995, closed on April 17, 2010.
Once the home of Key West hostess and preservationist Jessie Porter, the Heritage House contains hundreds of mementos from Key West's early days, when shipwreck salvaging made it the richest city per capita in the United States. Visitors learn about the property's role as a gathering place for writers including Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Frost.
Starting in 1945, poet Robert Frost spent 16 consecutive winters in the cottage behind the house, which now bears his name.
On Hampstead Hill, the ridge where the Pagoda now stands, Baltimoreans rallied on September 12, 1814 to protect the city from the threat of a British invasion. Urban myth suggests that from this vantage point the glow from the fire at the Capitol and the White House could be seen as the opposition marched through the nation’s capital. By water the British entered the Patapsco River and bombarded Fort McHenry. By land they amassed forces at North Point. As they marched on to Baltimore they were able to look up to Hampstead Hill and see Rodger’s Bastion - 100 cannons and 20,000 troops. The British returned to their ships and sailed away.
The remnants of the civil war era steamship Madison. All that remains of the original wreck, which was scuttled in the run, are pieces of the keel.
Troy Springs State Park
Branford Florida
Sealife DC 1200
Florida State Parks: Troy Springs
Explore: Aug 28, 2013 #295
US Navy in Antarctica. International Geophysical Year (IGY) 1957/8.
Setting up McMurdo Base
Some of the thousand or so 4x5" and 6x6cm images (negs) I saved from destruction 30 years ago.
The owner gave me permission to save them as the new buyer of his photo studio didn't want the old photo library.
These are from around 5,000 images that were in a pile on the dirty concrete floor waiting to be taken to the rubbish tip. Many are in poor condition as they are suffering from the 'vinegar effect' but I've been scanning and restoring these for many years now.
Images include New Zealand and US Antarctic bases in the IGY 1957/8, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Bob Hamilton and much much more.
This is a decades long project (already) and I will probably never be fully finished.
These original images were shot by Guy Mannering (deceased) and onsold to Warren Jacobs as part of the photo library attached to the business Warren bought. In the mid 1990's, when Warren retired, some friends and I (other photographers), helped him clean up the business for the incoming new owner who didn't want this old library.
When I asked Warren, he agreed that I could have them rather than sending them to the rubbish tip. (Thanks Warren)
If you live close to a beach that isn't wall to wall people, count yourself lucky, and don't tell anyone where it is LOL.
At the corner of F and 10th Streets NW, the former flagship of Woodward & Lothrop—affectionately known as “Woodies”—still commands attention. Built in stages from 1887 to 1926 and expanded over time, this Beaux-Arts masterpiece boasts elaborate terra cotta detailing, neoclassical ornamentation, and a powerful presence in the heart of Washington, D.C. The building now houses government and commercial tenants, yet retains the splendor of its retail heyday. American flags fly proudly over richly ornamented entrances, while the morning sun crowns the cornice. Pedestrians and cyclists animate the historic intersection, weaving modern life into the enduring tapestry of this DC icon.
The morning of February 14 dawned cold and quiet. Early in the afternoon a furious roar broke the stillness, and the earth began to shake. Andrew H. Foote's Union gunboat fleet, consisting of the ironclads St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Louisville, and Carondolet, and the timberclads Conestoga and Tyler, had arrived from Fort Henry via the Tennessee and Ohio Rivers and were exchanging "iron valentines" with the eleven big guns in the Southern water batteries. During this one and one-half hour duel the Confederates wounded Foote and inflicted such extensive damage upon the gunboats that they were forced to retreat. The hills and hollows echoed with cheers from the southern soldiers.
The Confederate generals-John Floyd, Gideon Pillow, Simon Buckner and Bushrod Johnson-also rejoiced; but sober reflection revealed another danger. Grant was receiving reinforcements daily and had extended his right flank almost to Lick Creek to complete the encirclement of the Southerners. If the Confederates did not move quickly, they would be starved into submission. Accordingly, they massed their troops against the Union right, hoping to clear a route to Nashville and safety. Both Confederate and Union soldiers fought furiously on the morning of February 15; the Union Army grudgingly retreated by the afternoon. Just as it seemed the way was clear, the Southern troops were ordered to return to their entrenchments-a result of confusion and indecision among the Confederate commanders. Grant immediately launched a vigorous counterattack, retaking most of the lost ground and gaining new positions as well. The way of escape was closed once more.
Floyd and Pillow turned over command of Fort Donelson to Buckner and slipped away to Nashville with about 2,000 men. Others followed cavalryman Lt. Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest across swollen Lick Creek. That morning, February 16, Buckner asked Grant for terms. Grant's answer was short and direct: "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." Buckner surrendered.
Soon after the surrender, civilians and relief agencies rushed to assist the Union Army. The U.S. Sanitary Commission was one of the first to provide food, medical supplies, and hospital ships to transport the wounded. Many civilians came in search of loved ones or to offer support. Although not officially recognized as nurses, women such as Mary Bickerdyke and Mary Newcomb, cared for and comforted sick and wounded soldiers.
With the capture of Fort Donelson and its sister fort, Henry, the North had not only won its first great victory, it had also gained a new hero--"Unconditional Surrender" Grant, who was promoted to major general. Subsequent victories at Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga would lead to his appointment as lieutenant general and commander of all Union Armies. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox would send Grant to the White House.
After the fall of Fort Donelson, the South was forced to give up southern Kentucky and much of Middle and West Tennessee. The Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, and railroads in the area, became vital Federal supply lines. Nashville was developed into a huge supply depot for the Union army in the west. The heartland of the Confederacy was opened, and the Federals would press on until the "Union" became a fact once more.
"Fort Donelson will hereafter be marked in Capitals on the maps of our United Country..."
~Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant was becoming quite famous as he wrote these words following the surrender of Confederate Fort Donelson on Sunday, February 16, 1862. The Union victory at Fort Donelson elated the North, and stunned the South. Within days of the surrender, Clarksville and Nashville would fall into Union hands. Grant and his troops had created a pathway to victory for the Union.
Information above borrowed from the National Park Services website for Fort Donelson found here:
www.nps.gov/fodo/planyourvisit/thebattleforfortdonelson.htm
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the link below:
Reenactor troops of U.S. Major General Alexander McCook's I Corp, a single corp of the Army of the Ohio, march to battle position. This was the Battle of Perryville, considered to be the Civil War's battle for Kentucky. It was the Confederate's Heartland Offensive, a bold campaign to take the offensive to the north instead of being in a chronic losing defensive posture in Tennessee against the United States. The plan by the Confederacy was to invade and control neutral Kentucky. The Confederate's Army of the Mississippi under Braxton Bragg battled a corp of Major General Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio here in the hills around Perryville, Kentucky.
McCook's corp was able to bring the Army of Mississippi to a standstill but eventually his troops were pushed back by a mile. When Confederate General Bragg learned that he had been up against a single Union corp, and that thousands upon thousands of Union troops under General Buell had not been aware of the battle and were now marching there, the Confederate Army decided to withdraw.
The Confederacy considered the battle a tactical victory since they pushed the Union's I-Corp back a mile. In contrast, the Union considered it a strategic victory since the Army of the Mississippi withdrew from Kentucky back to defend Middle Tennessee.
Union troops were in pursuit and in December, the Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee between Buell's renamed U.S. Army of the Cumberland, which included many Kentuckians and eastern Tennesseans, and Bragg's renamed Confederate Army of Tennessee took place. The Confederate Army lost the Battle of Stones River. The next challenge by Bragg's army was to stop the Union army from reaching farther into south-central Tennessee and Chattanooga. It did not.
My guess is that someone finally realized that a Daughters of Confederacy sign was bad for market business in a city growing in tourism. Real bad.
The Confederate Museum has gone incognito. In previous years, the Daughters of Confederacy sign on the second floor announced the Confederate Museum. But now it prepares for the new millennium. As of March of this year, the Confederate Museum wants to be rebranded as the Museum at Market Hall. The old Confederacy sign has been taken down.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy signed a lease in 2001 with the city of Charleston to pay a dollar a year for 99 years in this multi-million dollar, newly renovated building in one of the municipality's premier locations. The museum was shuttered during the Covid pandemic but now it is open. It should be pointed out that 2020 was a year of terrible race riots and demonstrations throughout America. Confederate statues were splashed with paint and came down.
For history buffs out there, the Confederate Museum upstairs is now open one afternoon a week, Saturday from 1 pm until 4 pm. Unfortunately, I missed that time slot.
I do not expect to see a statue here to the great general of the United States, General William Tecumseh Sherman, who helped turn the tide of the Civil War by marching U.S. troops through Confederate generals and troops across Georgia and South Carolina. Rather, I understand that the Museum at Market Hall has the hair locks of Virginian Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia. I doubt if they have anything of the other impressive native Virginian general, U.S. general George Henry Thomas, who won the first victory for the U.S. at Mill Springs in Kentucky, was one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater, and won one of the most decisive victories of the Civil War in destroying the Army of Tennessee at Nashville.
The museum does have an exhibit that shows the first Confederate flag that flew over the starting point of the war, the nearby U.S. fort of Fort Sumter, and its last Confederate flag to fly there. I hope the museum has exhibits of prominent southern blacks who played a part in the Civil War. I'd like to see that–and the flags.
This cemetery holds more than 6,100 Union soldiers are buried, including 2,562 unknown soldiers. The cemetery also contains the remains of nearly 1,000 veterans and family members from post-Civil War conflicts. The Confederate dead from the battle were not buried in the national cemetery, but rather in a memorial plot in Evergreen Cemetery called Confederate Circle.
With full can of XXXX in each…
consumed with half a kilo of Tiger prawns from Costco, the rest for tomorrow...
on Welcome to the Enlightenment!
on Silence Dogood Essay #3
yousuf on Benjamin Franklin’s Birthplace
Sites @ Suffolk University
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
It is commonly mistaken that Franklin once said, “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” However, Franklin apparently did not like beer very much and was much more of a wine lover. The quote originally came from a letter that Franklin wrote to his friend André Morellet while he was in France. He stated,
“Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy!”
www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/singlehtml.htm
Although Franklin does love wine, here, he may be referring to the greatness of God and the wonders of the rain and the vineyards, rather than the greatness of wine. However, either way, the quote never had anything to do with beer.
It is still unknown who started this rumor, or when his words got twisted since it it so hard to trace the roots to a rumor that started so long ago. However, according to beer.about.com/od/historyofbeer, the rumor may have spread so broadly because so many people commonly use the quote, and after hearing it so often, it is automatically is believed to be true. Also, since Franklin is known to have a satirical side to him, it would not be preposterous to believe that he may have said such a thing. However, today the false quote is still printed on-shirts all around the world.
WE LIVE IN DEEDS NOT YEARS
IN THOUGHTS NOT BREATH
IN FEELINGS NOT FIGURES ON A DIAL
WE SHOULD COUNT TIME BY HEART THROBS
HE MOST LIVES
WHO THINKS MOST
FEELS THE NOBLEST
ACTS THE BEST
Fort Randall Chapel, at the former Fort Randall, South Dakota.
Built in 1875, it is the only remaining structure from the fort, which was established in 1856 and closed in 1892.
Photographed April 1998.
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Fort Randall, Missouri National Recreational River
www.nps.gov/mnrr/learn/historyculture/fortrandall.htm
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(Scanned 35mm color film negative)
St. Augustine, FL ~ #159 in Explore 8/25/13
Dow House main entrance-way fountain,
iron gates, statues and courtyard (above).
The Dow Museum of Historic Houses combines interactive experiences, exhibitions and objects to tell the story of Florida's historical and cultural development. This noteworthy Museum is made up of nine historic homes, dating from 1790 to 1910, as well as the collections of museum benefactor Kenneth Worcester Dow. The property highlights both St. Augustine and Florida history making it the perfect place for visitors to begin their tour of America's Oldest City. (Formerly known as Old St. Augustine Village.)
The historic one-square-block area displays a rich collection of architecture, architectural ornaments, antiques, and fine art on display. Through self-guided or conducted tours, visitors have the chance to learn about the lives of the original occupants placed in context within the greater story of the development of Florida from the Colonial to the Territorial Period, and from Statehood to the Flagler Era.
The second-oldest structure on the property is the Dow House (courtyard above). The house was constructed by Antonio Canova in 1839, and was originally located where the William Dean Howells House currently stands on St. George Street.
In 1906, the Dow House was moved to its current Bridge Street location by Mary Hayden, the widow of a prosperous hotel proprietor. She moved the structure so she could build the Howells and the Rose Houses as winter cottages for St. Augustine visitors.
Mr. Dow purchased the Dow House in 1941 from the oldest living resident in the city, Sarah McKinnon. At the time, Sarah McKinnon was 98 years old and the deal stated that Mr. Dow would grant her life tenancy in the house in exchange for ownership. The agreement was approved and Ms. McKinnon lived to be 103.
The Pinta, one of the Columbus Replica Ships, as it approaches Vero Beach. It is slightly larger than the original in order to accommodate group activities.
The Pinta, one of the Columbus Replica Ships, as it approaches Vero Beach. It is slightly larger than the original in order to accommodate group activities.
This postcard image of Liberty Island (formerly Bedloe's Island) and the Statue of Liberty ca. late 1930's, shows the buildings of the Fort Wood Garrison Post. The 11-pointed star fortification at the statue's base, completed in 1811, helped to defend New York Harbor from attack during the War of 1812. However, the U.S. Army maintained a presence on the island until after World War II, long after the last cannon were removed (around 1900). The garrison structures pictured, all demolished by 1950, are as follows.
1 Barracks
2 Officers Quarters
3 Lieutenants Quarters
4 Captains Quarters
5 Hospital
6 Post Exchange (Store)
7 Radio Towers
8 Commanding Officer's Quarters
9 Non-Commissioned Officers Qrtrs
10 Warehouse
11 Power House
For more information on the history of the island, fort and of course the "Lady of the Harbor," visit www.nps.gov/stli.
And please visit (and contribute to) the National Park Service Flickr group "Statue of Liberty National Monument," for images of both Liberty and Ellis Islands at www.flickr.com/groups/1203720@N21/.
The home of Abraham Lincoln from 1844 until he became President in 1861. This was the only home that Lincoln ever owned. The Springfield neighborhood Lincoln lived in has been preserved as the Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
History Saved From Destruction
US Navy in Antarctica. International Geophysical Year (IGY) 1957/8.
Setting up McMurdo Base
Some of the thousand or so 4x5" and 6x6cm images (negs) I saved from destruction 30 years ago.
The owner gave me permission to save them as the new buyer of his photo studio didn't want the old photo library.
These are from around 5,000 images that were in a pile on the dirty concrete floor waiting to be taken to the rubbish tip. Many are in poor condition as they are suffering from the 'vinegar effect' but I've been scanning and restoring these for many years now.
Images include New Zealand and US Antarctic bases in the IGY 1957/8, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Bob Hamilton and much much more.
This is a decades long project (already) and I will probably never be fully finished.
These original images were shot by Guy Mannering (deceased) and onsold to Warren Jacobs as part of the photo library attached to the business Warren bought. In the mid 1990's, when Warren retired, some friends and I (other photographers), helped him clean up the business for the incoming new owner who didn't want this old library.
When I asked Warren, he agreed that I could have them rather than sending them to the rubbish tip. (Thanks Warren)
The USS Arizona took on a full load of fuel the day before it sank in 1941, and it's still leaking into the waters of Pearl Harbor. A reminder of the history resting just beneath the surface, repeating itself in small ways every day.
I like how this photo shows important aspects of Tredegar, Richmond and it's history.. The canon for its impact on the Civil War, the water wheel for its impact on the iron and manufacturing needs of the US in the 1800's and the brick gateway a nod to Richmond'soften referenced title "Gateway to the South" and the railroad tracks in the distance, another very important aspect of Richmond's impact on the Civil War.