The dragon gave a great belch and crumpled on the rock.
Sigemund and the Fire Dragon
Beowulf Kamishibais
Student Work
Mrs. Lee's Literary Compendium
link Danny Yee
26.6.04
A man’s personality actuates and quickens his whole body. If anyone said it was unsuitable for the man’s power to be in the toe, he would be thought silly, because while granting that a man penetrates and actuates the whole of his body, he denied his presence in the part. Similarly, no one who admits the presence of the Word of God in the universe should think it unsuitable for him a single human body to be by him actuated and enlightened.
—Athanasius
The Disseminary
AKMA
Wealth Bondage, Saturday, June 26, 2004
The Beecher Tradition : Isabella Beecher Hooker
"She organized the first convention held in Connecticut to discuss women in government, and formed the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. In 1871 she organized the suffragist convention in Washington D.C. For seven years until its passage she submitted to the Connecticut legislature a bill to guarantee women the same property rights as their husbands."
25.6.04
"An art statement maybe, but until the islands were evacuated in 1934 this was how the islanders communicated with the outside world."
two—Sam Maynard on Steve Dilworth's commemoration of the evacuation of St Kilda
Hebrides.com
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St. Kilda mailboat
New Visions
National Maritime Museum/Royal Observatory Greenwich
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in Scotland or Scandinavia carried byPosting the mailboat in 1897
The Evacuation
St. Kilda
The National Trust for Scotland
24.6.04
Miraculous Monster Birth
The Home School For Nervous And Delicate Children
Christin Couture
Dabora Gallery
Linda Kearns- A Revolutionary Irish Woman
...her lifelong mission to achieve greater rights for the nursing profession of which she herself was a member, and the wide range of issues in which she became involved. These included conditions in prisons and the lot of prisoners, the plight of refugees, and the rights of women in general and of nurses in particular.
This fascinating biography tells of her capture in November, 1920, and her terrible beating at the hands of the Head Constable, nicknamed ‘Spud’ Murphy. She subsequently spent terms of imprisonment in Derry, Belfast, Armagh, Liverpool and Mountjoy.
"They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris."
Frida Kahlo
letter to Robert Muray February 16, 1939
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Illustrated letter from John Sloan in Santa Fe, to Walter Pach, June 9, 1920
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Everett Shinn, Robert Henri, and John Sloan relaxing in Henri's studio in Philadelphia, 1896
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The Duchamp Brothers 1914
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Monet's first studio and grounds in Giverny, ca. 1905-1906
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John Singer Sargent and Madame X
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Florence Knoll nterior design sketch
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Oscar Bluemner The Dance of Factory Life
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"I longed to be someone else, to be liked only for oneself, to live quietly and happily, without the burden that goes with riches."
vita brevis —Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
et ars longa Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri at artnet
et ars longa speakART/Youth2Youth at the Whitney Museum of American Art
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Archives of American Art
Smithsonian
The Parliament of Fowles
...
For out of olde feldes, as men seith,
Cometh al this newe corn fro yeer to yere;
And out of olde bokes, in good feith,
Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
But now to purpos as of this matere —
To rede forth hit gan me so delyte,
That al the day me thoughte but a lyte.
This book of which I make of mencioun,
Entitled was al thus, as I shal telle,
'Tullius of the dreme of Scipioun.';
Chapitres seven hit hadde, of hevene and helle,
And erthe, and soules that therinnr dwelle,
Of whiche, as shortly as I can hit trete,
Of his sentence I wol you seyn the grete.
...
Geoffrey Chaucer
Online Medieval and Classical Library
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Berkeley's White Horse Inn, the nation's second oldest gay bar
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Incunabula Collection
California Heritage Collection
The Bancroft Library
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Siberian Digital Photo Collection
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Jewish community of Libya
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University of California at Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
making shoddy
Scenes on the Pacific Coast
O redwood dedicated to the patrons of The Wasp
tree please let us underthree troublesome children
when we were young weBierce’s stinging denunciation of Oscar Wilde
Chinatown wires
dwarfed feet
used to goThe Binding Chair
under the redwood treeKathryn Harrison
Golden Gate Park. 1890s
Jean Stanley, one of the girls assaulted by the Spud Murphy Gang
Yue Qin
Chinese six-pack
California Cultures
Online Archive of California
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Permission to Drink Anything
Mark Twain's letters to Edward Pötzl
Friends of The Bancroft Library
"Don't fuck with the past, you might get pregnant"
—Silvia Gruner
Distant Relations
zone zero
you can't see what you can't see
Kesh pah hai
Willard Leroy Metcalf
The American Indian Observed: Selected Sketches and Documents
Exhibits Online
Archives of American Art
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other online exhibits in the exceedingly well-done Archives:
Getting the Picture: The Art of the Illustrated Letter
letter to Wil Barnet, 1956
John Von Wicht
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Wayne Thiebaud: Memories and Delights
In Sight: Portraits of Folk Artists by Chuck Rosenak
Frida Kahlo: Notas Sobre una Vida
Archivos Virtuales: The Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists
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Love's Imploration mp3
Six Musical Moods
A Celebration of The Piano
Smithsonian
Berck Plage
William Lionel Wyllie
Collections Online
National Maritime Museum, London
Human Miseries
Paul Gaugin
Maitres des Arts Graphiques
fine prints: original etchings, engravings, lithographs, and woodcuts
23.6.04
History
...turn, then turn again.
The general snores.
You will think it cold,
the way it fingers
open eyes, the darkened cheekbones,
the blood between the legs.
You will think it deaf...
Jan Zwicky
Poetry Daily
Jun.23.04
22.6.04
The Book Lover
A Literary Review (detail)
NASCAR Grocery
Black Purses
wool gathering
realising your dream of home
roofed with Marseilles Tiles
a naturally-earned six-pack
[The following lines were written on the return of L. Leichhardt, Esq.,
on the 25th March, 1846, from an Expedition through the Unexplored
Regions of Australia between Moreton Bay and Port Essington]—by E.K.S.
Thy footsteps have return'd again, thou wanderer of the wild,
Where Nature from her lonely throne, in giant beauty smiled.
Pilgrim of mighty wastes, untrod by foot before,
Triumphant o'er the wilderness, the weary journey's o'er!
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Proud man! In after ages, the story shall be told,
Of that advent'rous traveller, the generous, the bold,
Who scorning hope of selfish gain, disdaining soft repose,
First taught the howling wilderness to blossom like the rose.
The Shepheards Kalender
...between pride and humility, as the chaffe and the corn, for the chaffe is light and mounteth high, and the wind carrieth it about, and so is lost, and the corn which is heavy abideth low on the ground...
TICKET OF LEAVE
No. 28/102
Colonial Secretary's Office,
New South Wales.
16th May 1828
It is His Excellency the Governor's Pleasure to Dispense with the
Attendance at Government Work of William Anson
who was tried at Waterford Summer Assizes, 1823
Convict for Seven years, arrived per Ship Castle Forbes
Ord Master, in the Year 1824 and to permit him
to employ himself (off the Stores) in any lawful Occupation with the
District of Parramatta for his own Advantage during good Behaviour;
or, until His Excellency's further Pleasure shall be made known.
By His Excellency's Command.
Alexr. McLeay
The South Seas
Part I: The Marquesas
An Island Landfall
—Robert Louis Stevenson
For nearly ten years my health had been declining: and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had
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State Library of New South Wales
William Merritt Chase at vertechnic,
thanks,for services previously rendered...
21.6.04
Caliban
This tongue that I have mastered
has mastered me;
has taught me curses
in the language of the master
has taught me bondage
in the language of the master
I speak this dispossession
in the language of the master
Abena Busia
Poetry Daily
Jun.21.04
20.6.04
Johannes Pääsuke and Estonian Film
Johannes Pääsuke (1892-1918) who also was the author of the first Estonian feature film “Bear-Hunt in Pärnu District” (1914) and established the first estonian film studio “Estonia-Film” at Tartu in 1913.
[The images are so heavily watermarked they're like looking back through the century itself. Like he's sent them through the fires of two world wars and the noise and static of all that hectic inventing and mad hammering industry. It appeals to me that way, it's more accurate, though the nostalgia's gone, and the romance of it is flattened. You don't get the psychic hit of Estonian film pioneering, of this kid walking into the light, with all that hope and optimism of being 21 and having founded the first Estonian film studio. It's humbling, appropriate in a way. A reminder. It's not a show.
But it's still theft. The only people that have a right to proprietary disfigurement are the artists. Merchants have so blurred the distinction between artists as makers and owners, and simple ownership itself, that we have these ponderous absurd debates between champions of human endeavor and people who own art that they couldn't make with their small pinched souls if their lives depended on it. Music is not entertainment. That's a merchant's category, the naming itself is theft. It's as though anything not strictly necessary to maintain the body as an organism is extra, unnecessary.
Music is an essential human activity, as necessary to human survival as shitting and sleeping and fucking. As necessary as laughter.
Music was stolen from the people and sold back to them by predators whose only song is the clink and whisper of money changing hands.
Watermarking is theft, of something that has nothing to do with finance, a theft of the sacred. That's what open source is about. It's not childish idealism, it's human values going up against Leviathan, Moloch. It's mammals versus the machine. Watermarking is theft.]
Johannes Pääsuke
Man with Two Cameras
Narva Muuseum
"On 27 April 1912 he filmed, with a camera he made himself, the flight demonstration of the Russian aviator Sergei Utotchkin in Tartu."
two cameras—Ülle Lillak, The too short flight of Pääsuke
millyard 1913
Johannes Pääsuke
Viru-Nigula kihelkond vanadel fotodel
Pada küla
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Anna Angunova 1989
Aldo Luud
Komi Hingus
Eesti Rahva Muuseum
The Wallace
Scotland's Pages
"...almost one thousand years of Scotland's history via our interactive timeline..."
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