Photochromatic glimpses into the 19th century at db annex.
Captions and links soon to follow.

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"Google Custom Search Engine"
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hello
Google Custom Search Engine
also this promising addition to the Google news search engine:
archive search
with a timeline

My Name

...the great distances open above me, and wondered
what I would become and where I would find myself,
and though I barely existed, I felt...

Mark Strand
Poetry Daily 23.Oct.06

This

Troglodytes or cave dwellers of extreme southern Tunisia. The interior of the Sheik's cave at Matmata showing his bed, jars for olive oil, the couscous covers and his lamp and gun.

was a lot like what it was like inside these

Bird's-eye view of Medenine photographed from minaret of mosque showing the odd cave-like dwellings of the inhabitants which serve two purposes; first as homes; secondly as safe deposit vaults for their goods and chattels during the months that these semi-nomadic people roam in the Arab country between here and the Mediterranean

F. Soler, photographer

Helen Keller reading

Whistler's yard sale

In Gorky Central Park of Culture and Rest on an autumn day, Moscow, 1960

Photo Fighter
Therese Bonney
loc
Women Come to the Front
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Therese Bonney chronology at St. Bonaventure University:

1923
- She helps to establish the European branch of the American Red Cross correspondence exchange between the children of Europe and The United States

1924
- She has her first photo essay printed, on how chic French dogs dress

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Thérèse Bonney at wikipedia

Monster

Yichu Chen
Kashya Hildebrand
link path conscientious > Tiina Itkonen

THERE IS NO HARM IN DANCING
by W.E. Penn
respectfully and kindly dedicated
to all Husbands, Fathers and Brothers
who love their Wives, Daughters and Sisters
by The Author

THEY MUST GO!THEY WILL GO! THEY DO GO!
THE BALL. THE HOP. THE DANCE. IT IS ALL THE SAME.
THE WRAPS ARE THERE
They will be answered then
Men will not dance by themselves
Samples of Fruit Found on the Tree of Dancing:
VERDICT.

Street gang - corner Margaret & Water Streets
Springfield, Massachusetts 4:30 P.M. June 27,1916
Lewis Hine

all images between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900 loc

The Pantheon and the rue Soufflot, Paris, France
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The Tuileries and Champs Elysees, Paris, France
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View of Notre Dame de la Garde and harbor, Marseilles, France
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Penzance--St. Michael's Mount
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that horse has too many legs

Drink Coca-Cola 5 cents detail
c. 1890
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Calls in Cranford detail
Frances Stebbins, 1900
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home of Wm. Mullens and family detail
Lewis Hines, 1921
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"Kitty Canutt"
champion lady rider of the world, on Winnemucca detail
c. 1919

Men and women tramps near the station
Three Siberian people
W.B. Moore, 1910

Two women walking along street, Natchez, Mississippi
Ben Shahn October, 1935

Nuns clamming on Long Island

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Quotation of the Day:

“It used to be a piece of good advice to all young writers to avoid alliteration; and the advice was sound, in so far as it prevented daubing. None the less for that, was it abominable nonsense, and the mere raving of those blindest of the blind who will not see. The beauty of the contents of a phrase, or of a sentence, depends implicitly upon alliteration and upon assonance.”

Robert Louis Stevenson
Garner's Usage Tip of the Day