Merel Kennedy Design Blog

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Luna Park lighted windmill, Nov 1948, from Series 02: Sydney people & streets, 1948-1950, photographed by Brian Bird by State Library of New South Wales

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A regular worker (doffer) in Richmond Spinning Mills. Photo during working hours. Chattanooga, Tenn, December 1910 by The U.S. National Archives

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1910 Yale Whiffenpoofs by Peter Roome The Whiffenpoofs selected their first female member this month. My father was in the class of 1966, and I’m an honorary member myself. Feels like this is long overdue.

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A walk in wintry woods, Stockholm, Sweden by Swedish National Heritage Board   

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'The tapir sent from Bengkulu to Calcutta in 1816.' by The British Library

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Hazel Smothers_00173 by SDASM Archives Hazel Johnson at Dulles International Airport. 3.5x3.5 black-and-white photograph. Image from a scrapbook album belonging to Hazel Smothers, whose aviation highlights include copiloting her plane to 1st place in her class at the 1969 Powder Puff Derby air race, and flying search and rescue missions for the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department in her pink Bell 47 helicopter.

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Best. Santa. Ever.

AB546_Santa_3b by State Archives of North Carolina Raleigh, NC Child's crayon drawing of Santa Claus From AB.546: Account Books of the Thomas H. Briggs and Sons Hardware Company, Inc., 1865-1920, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC

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CF_06 36 by SDASM Archives Cliff Henderson Collection image. Clifford "Cliff" Henderson (1896-1984) was one of the early organizers of the National Air Races, and managed the races from 1928 through 1939.  San Diego Air and Space Museum

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Study of a small girl with a prize Scottish terrier dog, c. 1935 / by Sam Hood by State Library of New South Wales

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Student in the library, 1981 by LSE Library

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German guards at Vestre Fængsel (prison) by National Museum of Denmark

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Jane Fitzsimmons walking on sand dunes by OSU Special Collections & Archives 

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Sometimes these haphazard collages are created in The Commons on Flickr, and I’m struck by their poetry and beauty. Fun fact: I once cat sat for Socks for about 15 minutes!

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Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge Suspender Cables-October 7, 1914 by Museum of Photographic Arts Artist: Eugene de Salignac

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Completed escalators by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

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Schoonspringen, Natalia Kusnetsova by Nationaal Archief

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Borås, Västergötland, Sweden by Swedish National Heritage Board Via Flickr: Swimming pool in the old Swimming Baths of Borås.