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Ferris Wheels - a gallery on Flickr

2011-06-12T11:52:00.001+01:00

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The Lakes of Northern Italy

2011-06-12T11:26:00.001+01:00

From the book published in 1907 which can be found here

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The flowers and gardens of Madeira

2011-06-12T11:11:00.001+01:00

Illustrations by Ella Du Cane, and the book is here

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Florence as it used to be

2011-06-11T17:30:00.001+01:00

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New York in 1907 - Wikimedia Commons

2011-06-11T17:25:00.001+01:00

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Electric fountain Polack Bros. 20 big shows

2011-06-05T17:40:00.001+01:00

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Hikyoku no biwa no hana matsunami kengyō jitsuwa akushichibyōe

2011-06-04T17:38:00.001+01:00

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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)

2011-06-02T18:56:00.001+01:00

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Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection is a multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier.

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Algeria and Tunis by Frances E. Nesbitt

2011-05-30T20:19:00.001+01:00

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View from Round Top. Cloud scene looking east from Azimuth. Vertical wall just west of Azimuth in foreground. Blue Lakes on right Photo taken in 1879

2011-05-30T20:13:00.001+01:00

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Ermack Assistance

2011-05-29T17:47:00.001+01:00

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Bartram & Sons - Fernland

2011-05-29T17:45:00.001+01:00

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Queen of Batons Cary Collection of Playing Cards

2011-05-29T17:43:00.001+01:00

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NYPL Digital Gallery | Colourful insects

2011-05-28T23:36:00.001+01:00

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1. Entymus imperialis, Brésil; 2. Curculionide, Caracas; 3. Entymus splendidus, Brésil; 4. Curculionide, Brésil;

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NYPL Digital Gallery | Mr. Bland as the Ocean King.

2011-05-28T23:24:00.001+01:00

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A carte-de-visite of a baby in a bonnet

2011-05-28T23:07:00.001+01:00

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Zeppelin over St. Paul's

2011-05-28T22:58:00.001+01:00

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L’Eclipse, avril 1912

2011-05-28T22:54:00.001+01:00

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Æsop's fables illustrated by Arthur Rackham

2011-05-26T12:01:00.001+01:00

Published in 1916 all in public domain

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The Upper Engadine by John Hardwicke Lewis

2011-05-25T17:13:00.001+01:00

This book can be viewed here in all its glory

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Apollo 15 photos

2010-08-08T19:08:00.001+01:00

The Apollo 15 was the ninth Apollo manned emission (and the first one after I was born). These photos are from the NASA website and they are all PD. And now I feel like watching 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Kids of Old Japan

2010-08-07T18:24:00.001+01:00

Another delightful set by Okinawa Soba on Flickr, it is a must see and very informative. You can find it here.

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Photochroms of St. Peterburg

2010-08-06T15:32:00.001+01:00

These are old photochroms of St Peterburg before the Russian revolution. They come from the Library of Congress and can be seen here in a much higher resolution. These images have made me want to read "Anna Karenina" again.

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A Big Tree ca. 1857

2010-08-05T20:43:00.001+01:00

"Galen Clark first came upon a grove of some 200 giant sequoias in 1857 in what is now the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. He named it Mariposa Grove and dedicated the rest of his life to its preservation. This tree is one of the oldest living trees in the grove, estimated at 2,700 years old. The tallest is approximately 290 feet high and the largest measures approximately 40 feet in diameter. In total volume, the giant sequoia trees are the largest living things on earth."

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Steamboats

2010-08-05T20:27:00.001+01:00

Tonight the collection of old photos is completely dedicated to steamboats. The first steamer sailed on the Doubs River (between France and Switzerland) in 1776.

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Greetings from a vintage seaside

2010-08-04T20:09:00.001+01:00

These are just a few from a collection of over 700 vintage postcards of Staten Island. They can found on the New York Public Library's website in a much higher resolution.

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Sporting Sketches by Henry Thomas Alken

2010-08-04T19:53:00.003+01:00

Wikipedia says: "Henry Thomas Alken (October 12, 1785 – April 7, 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes.His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831."

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[Hunters before hunting.]

(June 1, 1817)

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Sporting Sketches by Henry Thomas Alken

2010-08-04T19:53:00.001+01:00

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[Hunters before hunting.]

(June 1, 1817)

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A rather strange Russian Animation

2010-08-03T20:58:00.001+01:00

It says underneath that it is by Pilot studio 1989. Directed by Igor Kovalyov with art direction by Alexander Tatarskyi

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Warning: Very good photos of Elephants.

2010-08-02T20:54:00.001+01:00

The article is quite long and gives lots of advice on how to take good photos of elephants. Not that I do that a lot in South West London but you never know.

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Peeps at royal palaces of Great Britain by Beatrice Home

2010-08-02T16:28:00.001+01:00

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Koldo Barroso's Kooky Pets

2010-08-01T09:12:00.001+01:00

I love this kind of stuff :)

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Strange book of the day

2010-07-30T20:46:00.001+01:00

Lots of colourful fish, book published in 1719. You can view it online.

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In 100 plates containing 460 brilliantly colored engravings that represent a dazzling multitude of fishes, along with crustaceans, grasshoppers, a dugong, and a mermaid, Louis Renard’s Fishes, crayfishes and crabs, of diverse coloration and extraordinary form displays the most fantastic evocation of exotic aquatic life ever produced.

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Korea by J.D. Coulson

2010-07-30T20:26:00.001+01:00

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If you don't see me I'm reading comics

2010-07-29T19:03:00.001+01:00

Occasionally I do remember that Comics.com exists and then I am hooked. My childhood dream was to spend a lazy summer afternoon with a huge pile of comics next to me. With a laptop and Comics.com that dream comes true :)

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Four kids when smiling wasn't trendy

2010-07-28T20:30:00.001+01:00

Shame that this blog is not updated more often. If you are into history or old photos it is an interesting read.

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This photograph shows four children, probably siblings, carefully posed by the photographer on and around a couple wooden chairs — the younger boy kneeling on a kitchen chair, and the youngest girl seated in a high-chair. Despite the photographer’s best efforts, the expressions on the children are of suspicion and confusion. The older girl has one hand draped around the forearm of the younger boy, while the older boy holds one of the little girls hands — both quite awkwardly. The children neither understand nor approve of these arrangements, but Momma is probably off to one side, urging them to behave, so they try their best.

I don’t know who the photographer was, or exactly where this was taken, but I have noted that it was taken in December of 1851. It is a fine daguerreotype from just a dozen years after the introduction of photography to the public, so there was still a lot of experimenting going on to find pleasing poses. This photographer didn’t bother with any props beyond the chairs needed to raise the younger children to the heights of their standing siblings. This image provides a good view of children’s clothing from the early 1850s.
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Panama by Edith A. Browne

2010-07-28T20:20:00.001+01:00

This book, published in 1913, is here

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The Inns of court by Gordon Home

2010-07-27T20:03:00.001+01:00

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More about social networks

2010-07-26T20:15:00.001+01:00

This time we are mostly talking about those online. I am not an expert but in the past 14 years online (even before social media as such) I've been watching the ways people interact, forms groups and develop loyalties online, in my case entirely with the on and off curiosity of a layman. So I can just imagine the amount of material that is available to psychologists and social scientists.

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Now the study of human behaviour is heading the same way. Social scientists have long had to rely on crude questionnaires or interviews to gather data to test their theories; methods marred by reporting bias and small survey sizes. For decades, the field has been looked down upon by some as a poor cousin to the hard sciences. The digital age is changing all that - practically overnight, the study of human behaviour and social interactions has switched, from having virtually no hard data to drowning in the stuff. As a result, an entirely different approach to social science has emerged, and studies based on it are appearing with increasing frequency. The impact has been remarkable.
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Mulberry Street, New York City

2010-07-26T19:21:00.001+01:00

I love old photos and this is a very good old photo :)

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This photolithograph from the Detroit Publishing Company documents the busy street life of New York City’s Lower East Side at the start of the 20th century. Between 1870 and 1915, New York’s population more than tripled, from 1.5 million to 5 million. In 1900, when this photo was taken, foreign-born immigrants and their children constituted a staggering 76 percent of the city’s population. Often described as the Main Street of Little Italy, Mulberry Street was dominated from the 1890s by immigrants from Italy. These immigrants jostled for space and economic opportunity with other recent arrivals to the city, including Jewish, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian immigrants, as well as native-born and older immigrant groups such as the Dutch, English, Irish, and Germans.
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The high-road of empire ; water-colour and pen-and-ink sketches in India (1905)

2010-07-26T17:40:00.002+01:00

The entire book can be viewed here
And this is also my test of posting to Amplify by email :)

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The Chemistry of Social Networks (Video)

2010-07-25T20:55:00.001+01:00

A more general look at social networks (not just those on the internet)

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The Chemistry of Social Networks

Nicholas Christakis

Physician & Social Scientist, Harvard

Like atoms in a molecule, we’re all linked together. Studying the complex matrix that results can illuminate everything from bucket brigades to Bernie Madoff.

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An alternative history of art

2010-07-25T20:23:00.001+01:00

I'm trying to read this at the moment, it basically states that there has been a plot to hide some of the art that came out between 1850 and 1910 although the author claims is some of the best art ever. Obviously it is not talking about the Impressionists. I am still sceptical at this stage but I am reading on.

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Animals in the First World War

2010-07-25T20:08:00.001+01:00

There are 124 photos of the forgotten and accidental heroes of the Great War.

You can see them all here.

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British soldier playing with mascot cat
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Austria and Hungary by G.E. Mitton (1914)

2010-07-25T19:40:00.001+01:00

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Birds of Britain illustrated by H.E. Dresser

2010-07-19T22:19:00.001+01:00

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The faces of the Chinese opera.

2010-07-19T11:20:00.001+01:00

You must see this .pdf, you'll be amazed. http://www.wdl.org/static/c/3023/service/3023.pdf

There are 97 plates with paintings of characters of the traditional Chinese opera.

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A History of the World in 100 objects

2010-07-18T20:31:00.001+01:00

Has anyone followed this? We are now at object # 70 but all the previous podcasts are availble here http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ahow/all

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A 100 part series by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, exploring world history from two million years ago to the present
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An image of Tasmania

2010-07-18T19:43:00.001+01:00

I found this photo which I think is very amazing and I wanted to share it. That's it.

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France illustrated by Nico Jungman

2010-07-18T15:53:00.001+01:00

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Can companies make more money by being more socially responsible?

2010-07-17T22:04:00.001+01:00

There are a few ideas in favour of 'shared social responsibility', some food for thought anyway

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In October 2007, the British band Radiohead released their seventh album – In Rainbows – as a digital download that customers could pay whatever they liked for. The results of this risky venture are a guarded secret, but the album’s popularity was clear. It topped the charts and allegedly sold 1.2 million copies in the first day alone. Even though many fans paid nothing (the average contribution ranged from $2.26 to around $8 depending on the survey), the band still earned more money from In Rainbows than their previous album, Hail to the Thief. But according to a new study, Radiohead could have earned even more money by adding a slight twist to their plan – telling people that half their voluntary payments would go to charity.
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What's stopping you from becoming a freelancer

2010-07-17T21:13:00.001+01:00

I've done quite a bit of freelancing but for the same two clients in a way that it was basically contract work from home. I would like to go fully freelance and those are my main fears. The article is mainly about designers which I'm not but the issues are the same. As usual for this type of articles it makes everything sounds so easy.

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You’re afraid you won’t be able to find clients

You’re afraid you won’t be able to make enough money

You’re afraid you’ll hate dealing with clients

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 – 1938)

2010-07-17T20:15:00.001+01:00

German painter, read more on Wikipedia

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Social media as a way to learn?

2010-07-16T20:05:00.001+01:00

Just a thought.

I discover every day lots of new things which are shared by the people I follow

But I also learn tons of new things when looking for things to share or blog about. As I just don't share articles from Google Reader automatically my sharing often includes some research and browsing which I think is a very good way to learn (even at my nearly advanced age :)).

And sharing gives me the motivation to look for more as we all like to share what we have found (not only us humans my cat also does it with less savoury items).

Any thoughts on this?

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Max Slevogt (1868 –1932)

2010-07-16T08:34:00.001+01:00

German impressionist painter, read more on Wikipedia

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The secrets of changing the world

2010-07-16T08:27:00.001+01:00

Some of the attributes necessary to be innovative and make a differences in the world can be very annoying indeed, especially the extremely large ego. But even the outrageous optimism or the passion beyond reason could become irritating if I had to live with that person :) There are people that I can respect and admire what they have achieved but I am not sure I would like to share a house with them :)

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Transforming society is a feat that only a select few of us will ever accomplish. In the second of a series of articles about innovation, Stephen Sackur looks for common qualities that unite the genuine revolutionaries he has encountered.
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Facts about lightning

2010-07-15T20:46:00.001+01:00

So I was not too paranoid when I unplugged my PC during a thunderstorm? Ok it was still in those days when PC were really expensive and I remember reading that PCs could be damaged by a power surge during a storm.
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Scientists have been studying lightning for hundreds of years. Although they have a pretty good idea about what causes it, there is still more to learn about these mysterious sparks of electricity.
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Give a second life to abandoned places

2010-07-15T20:13:00.001+01:00

I would like that someone did something with our Battersea Power Station. They seem to have again another proposal at the moment, you can watch the video here.
http://www.battersea-powerstation.com/#/home
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Phone calls and visitors and, yes, dreams from around the world are pouring into the small offices of the Friends of the High Line on West 20th Street in Manhattan these days.

Detroit is thinking big about an abandoned train station. Jersey City and Philadelphia have defunct railroad beds, and Chicago has old train tracks that don’t look like much now, but maybe they too...
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Painter of the day

2010-07-14T22:36:00.001+01:00

Eilif Peterssen (1852-1928) a Norwegian painter
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

2010-07-14T08:28:00.001+01:00

I never realised this talk existed, better late than never I suppose.
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Ship's cats

2010-07-12T21:05:00.001+01:00

In this article there is also a long list of famous ship's cats and feline personalities. This is, for instance, the story of Simon the cat of HMS Amethyst
http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/simon.html
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The ship's cat has been a common sight on many trading, exploration, and naval ships, and is a phenomenon that goes back to ancient times. Cats have been carried on ships for a number of reasons, the most important being to catch mice and rats. These rodents, when aboard, could cause considerable damage to ropes and woodwork. More serious was the threat they posed to the stores the ship carried. Not only could they devour the foodstuff carried to feed the crew, they could cause economic damage if the ship was carrying grain or similar substances as part of its cargo. Rats and mice were also sources of disease, an important consideration for ships which could be at sea for long periods of time. Cats naturally attack and kill these rodents.^[1]
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The Hovercraft (Video)

2010-07-12T15:28:00.001+01:00

They were so endearingly optimistic those days when talking of a cross-Atlantic hovercraft service :) They no longer cross the Channel and the only service I know is between Portsmouth and Ryde in the Isle of Wight which, if I am not mistaken, takes about 10 minutes. Hardly a cross-oceanic voyage.
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Good Morning

2010-07-12T08:52:00.001+01:00

This is the rather famous "The Tetons and the Snake River" by Ansel Adams and I thought it would be the perfect way to start the week.
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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON The Early Work (Video)

2010-07-11T21:26:00.001+01:00

"Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "real life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed."
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Lindsey Carr for Gulf Fundraiser

2010-07-11T20:30:00.001+01:00

I had to post this powerful and poignant image.
It's by Lindsey Carr for Gulf Fundraiser and I searched her name on Google and found that she lives in Scotland and has a blog with lots of art and illustration. http://pickle-town.typepad.com/lindsey_carr/
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camille Silvy (1834-1910)

2010-07-10T15:52:00.001+01:00

All these pjhotos are by Camille Silvy. if you are in London in the next few months from 15 July to 24 October 2010 there is an exhibition of his workat the National Portrait Gallery.
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Camille Silvy was one of the photographic pioneers who burst on the scene in the 1850s.
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Malta by Vittorio Boron

2010-07-10T15:21:00.001+01:00

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Images of Old Europe

2010-07-09T20:08:00.001+01:00

A beautiful sets with some photos over 100 years old. You'll find anything from the Shetland Islands to Russia. It is courtesy of the Swedish National Heritage Board.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Poet

2010-07-08T17:13:00.001+01:00

He died today in 1822
"Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's passive resistance were influenced and inspired by Shelley's nonviolence in protest and political action.[19] It is known that Gandhi would often quote Shelley's Masque of Anarchy.[20], which has been called "perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance."
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Sitter associated with 8 portraits
The poet and novelist Shelley was sent down from Oxford in 1811 for professing his atheism. Believing in individual liberty and the perfection of humanity, he was an uncompromising idealist throughout his short life. Queen Mab (1813), promoting radical social change, was Shelley's first major poem. Later forced to flee his creditors, he and his wife Mary Shelley escaped to Italy in 1818. It was there that he produced some of his best work, including Ode to the West Wind (1819) and Adonais, a pastoral elegy inspired by Keats's death in 1821. Returning from visiting Byron and Leigh Hunt in Pisa, he was drowned in a storm at sea.
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The Smallest Car in the Largest City in the World (1913)

2010-07-07T20:32:00.001+01:00

Amazing stuff :)
"Queen Alexandra ordered a miniature Cadillac car for Crown Prince Olav (later King) of Norway and not one to miss an advertising opportunity the manufacturers have arranged filming of the car's departure from the factory where it is waved out by an enthusiastic male crowd.
This mini marvel continues its jubilant journey through the streets of London – past the Bank of England, around Trafalgar Square and on to Hyde Park. As crowds cheer and leap in front of the camera, desperate to be preserved on film, the driver's composure and deadpan facial expression remains one of the most entertaining aspects of this Edwardian glimpse of British pride."
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Milo Winter

2010-07-07T18:39:00.001+01:00

All these illustrations are in the public domain.

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British Castles by Charles H. Ashdown

2010-07-06T20:51:00.001+01:00

Book can be viewed here

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Some Victorian bicycles

2010-07-06T13:28:00.001+01:00

The forerunner of the bicycle was invented by Baron Karl von Drais in 1817 and you basically run on it. You can see an example here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_horse It was just marvelous :) It makes the bicycles in the photos below look really advanced.
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The Dolomites

2010-07-05T20:15:00.001+01:00

When it gets really hot and stuffy this is where I would like to be :) It is one of those places that look unreal.
Wikipedia tells us that:
"The name "Dolomites" is derived from the famous French mineralogist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu who was the first to describe the rock, dolomite, a type of carbonate rock which is responsible for the characteristic shapes and colour of these mountains; previously they were called the "pale mountains," and it was only in the early 19th century that the name was Frenchified.
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The Lights of London

2010-07-05T19:31:00.001+01:00

I like history and I often search the archives to find something that catches my attention or sometimes just something weird or unusual. This illustration dated 1882 has quite a lot of atmosphere, it was probably another Friday night in London. It can be seen in a larger version on the British Library's website.
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This beautiful illustration depicts the noisy and crowded streets of London. This would probably have been a real street or area well known for hawkers and barrow sellers where people could have purchased potatoes, ice cream, fruit, vegetables, beer, medicines, cheap jewellery, clothing and all manner of goods. The illustration depicts London as a busy and noisy city with hawkers shouting their wares to customers, horses and carts trundling past and the general hustle and bustle of daily life. The Princess's Theatre was one of Queen Victoria's favourite theatres and this piece of music, like many popular ballads, was taken from a production performed there.

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The Beauty of Maps

2010-07-05T19:17:00.000+01:00

If you have not seen it yet I recommend you to visit the BBC's The Beauty of Maps. There are several historical and digital maps and a few videos

Sir John Soane's Museum - London UK

2010-07-04T18:54:00.001+01:00

If you come to London this is a good museum to visit and it's free to get in. If you are not planning to come to London soon you can watch this video which is quite informative. Or here you can read more here or listen to an introduction to the museum by Stephen Fry. http://www.soane.org/
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Russian Health Posters

2010-07-04T13:08:00.001+01:00

I don't know what they are saying but there are lovely. There are a lot more on the Images from the History of Medicine's website.
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Scottish Lochs: Loch Ericht - a gallery on Flickr

2010-07-03T16:57:00.001+01:00

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Scotland by William Smith and John Fulleylove

2010-07-03T16:37:00.002+01:00

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Clothing & dress -- England -- London

2010-07-02T15:53:00.001+01:00

Street fashion from the early decades of the 19th century courtesy of the NYPL Digital Library where you can find a lot more and in a higher resolution.

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Adam Adolf Oberländer

2010-07-02T15:45:00.003+01:00

Lovely collection found on the NYPL Digital Gallery

From Wikipedia: "Adam Adolf Oberländer (October 1, 1845, Regensburg—May 29, 1923, Munich) was a German caricaturist." Read more

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The Spell of Switzerland

2010-07-02T15:45:00.001+01:00

Book published in 1913 that can be viewed here

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Waterfalls in the UK

2010-07-02T15:33:00.001+01:00

Waterfall on Allt Bhreacnais

Waterfall near Street-gate Farm

Waterfall on the Allt Grannda

Waterfall on the Balmenoch Burn

Blea Gill Waterfall

Windspray at waterfall

Upper Ddwli Waterfall

Waterfall on Mull

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John Elwood Bundy (1853 – 1933)

2010-06-25T15:38:00.001+01:00

American impressionist painter, read more on Wikipedia

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The homes of Tennyson, painted by Helen Allingham

2010-06-24T17:44:00.001+01:00

The book can be found here in all its glory

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Victorian / Edwardian Paintings: Edmund Blair Leighton - My Next Door Neighbour

2010-06-24T08:04:00.001+01:00

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200 years in art: 1764

2010-06-23T17:01:00.001+01:00

Pietro Longhi

Martin van Meytens

John Singleton Copley

Jan Josef Horemans

Alexey Petrovich Antropov

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Seville on Google Street View

2010-06-22T08:38:00.001+01:00

Seville is over 200 years old, it was a Roman City. In the Middle Ages it was taken by the Moors who left signs that are evident even on Google Street View. It is the fourth largest city in Spain and the capital of Andalusia.

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The New Forest by Mrs Willingham Rawnsley

2010-06-21T20:28:00.001+01:00

You can view this book in full here

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Paris in 1900 - Exposition Universelle [Rare Footage]

2010-06-20T17:04:00.001+01:00

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