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Electricidad de Caracas

Jesús Emilio Franco

1973, Venezuela

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Suprematist pattern design by Olga Rozanova, ca.1917-18, Moscow [source]

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Roy A Gallant - Man’s Reach into Space, 1959

Artwork by Lee J Ames

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Gustav Klimt – Die Tänzerin (The Dancer), 1916

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Paul Klee – Place Signs, 1926

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Egypt - Giza , Canal de Suez, Nil, Alexandrie

Egypt by Zangaki brothers, 1870-1890

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Antiquities of Egypt. The salvation of Pharaoh Ramses II

Relocating the Egyptian Temples of Abu Simbel, 1964-1968

Abu Simbel Temples relocation 1966 (video)

Le sauvetage d'Abou Simbel

L'appel à la sauvegarde des monuments de la Nubie fut lancé de l'UNESCO le 8 mars 1960. Ainsi naquit la notion de « patrimoine mondial ». Le principe essentiel était de déplacer les sanctuaires hors des lieux menacés pour les exposer à nouveau, le plus près de leur site d'origine dans la même orientation, à l'abri des eaux du futur lac Nasser.

Le chantier est commencé en mars 1964, les temples d’Abou Simbel furent inaugurés en septembre 1968. L'égyptologue française Christiane Desroches Noblecourt a beaucoup œuvré pour le sauvetage de ces temples. Jean Bourgoin, ingénieur, a été le chef de projet pour l'UNESCO de cette mission de sauvetage.

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a collection of vintage lesbian protest pins

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Three-horned Chameleon moving by night, Living Monsters, Linda Gamlin 1978

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Vogue magazine (1945, Jul 01). Vogue, 106, 55-55.

Vogue’s online archives are one of many electronic resources available for use from the library’s computers

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Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp’s friend and collaborator and the one who lent the Large Glass to MOMA, where the photo was taken, wrote a letter to the museum’s director of Painting and Sculpture, James Johnson Sweeney, expressing shock and dismay at the museum’s misuse of Duchamp’s work.

Dreier said, “One cannot blame Vogue for they run true to form, but one can only be amazed and shocked that you should advise your Trustees to so flippant and devastating a presentation of important works of art in the collection and loans of the Museum for Commerical purposes…But apparently the desire for notoriety preceeds [sic] any reverence for art.”

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If you’re bored and enjoy looking through old primary documents while contributing to human knowledge, consider volunteering to help transcribe the Smithsonian’s digital collection of journals, notebooks, and papers.

Right now many of the projects are on women scientists’ letters and notes, but they’re always adding more documents and looking for new volunteers :)

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Here’s some other ongoing citizen science transcription projects if the Smithsonian document queue is low (sorry in advance that these are American-centric, I learned about them while working in DC on EMMO):

- The National Archives: This has everything: historic newspapers, media, letters, military reports, telegrams, propaganda documents…

- The Library of Congress: Letters and legal documents

- Paper of the War Department: A project transcribing the early US military history records, from 1784 - 1800

Special Projects:

- Newberry American Letters Project: Letters and diaries from the 19th century

- Last Seen/Information Wanted: A project examining post-Civil War American newspaper ads where former slaves used the “information wanted” announcements to search for their separated family members and friends. One of my favorite ongoing historical research projects.

- The Virginia History Collection: letters and documents mostly related to social and political movements in VA history.

- Folgerpedia has a list of citizen science transcription projects. Many of them are complete, but a few are still asking for volunteers.