F O U N D W R K S

[back-then]

Trip to Mars. Quite cheap actually.

[heaveninawildflower]

‘Oak Leaf and Reel’ (Presentation Quilt).

Pieced and appliquéd cotton.  Pennsylvania ( 1845-1850 ).

Image and text courtesy LACMA. Costume and Textiles

[aonoco]

[todaysdocument]

[todaysdocument]

Drawing of Improvement in Skates, 01/22/1867

Series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911. Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978

Robert E. Ellerbeck applied for a patent for improved ice skates 150 years ago in 1867. He states in his application that straps are no longer needed because his improvement allows the skate to be attached securely to the shoe using clips.

(Don’t forget - January is National Ice Skating Month!)

[heaveninawildflower]

‘Willow Bough.’ Block-printed wallpaper designed 1887 by William Morris for       Morris & Company. Printed by Jeffrey & Co.

Image and text courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[nemfrog]

Edward Weston. Tomato Field, Monterey County. Land in California, the story of mission land, ranches, squatters, mining claims, railroad grants, land scrip, homesteads. 1948.

[mrphotojournalist]

Brebner boy on the homestead

[dame-de-pique]

Paul Lewis Anderson - The Brooklyn Bridge - Tug Boat, 1911

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Mark and Doug Starn :: from Attracted to Light project, 1996-2004 [Toned silver print on Thai mulberry paper] 

[punlovsin]

the train..

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[dame-de-pique]

Solar Eclipse Over Snowy Central Park NYC, 1925

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[last-picture-show]

Dennis Stock, Jesse Fuller with his Daughter, Oakland, California, 1958

San Francisco Bay Blues, 1968

[nemfrog]

“Willow-herb, often called fireweed.” The ABC of bee culture. 1901. #people standing in fields

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1900, [albumen portrait of Cherry Kearton standing on his brother Richard’s shoulders to take a picture of a bird’s nest]

The brothers were pioneers of wildlife photography, and in 1892, took the first ever photograph of a bird’s nest with eggs. In 1899 they published “With Nature and a Camera”, illustrated with 160 photographs. Richard went on to develop the ‘photographic hide’ after a series of experiments, one of which involved hiding in a stuffed ox in order to obtain better pictures.

via the National Media Museum, Royal Photographic Society