#bicentennial

[floridaboiler]

[nemfrog]

Stein and Goldstein. Carousel Horse, between 1912 and 1916, Brooklyn, New York. Polychromed wood, 71 inches long. The Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne American Folk Art Collection; National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

200 Years of American Sculpture. 1976.

A Bicentennial exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, shown from March 16 to September 26, 1976.

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[thingsfromthedirt]

[coolthingsguyslike]

[vintagehomecollection]

One of Duquette's 'Angel' figures, created for the Los Angeles Bicentennial.

The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995

[railwayhistorical]

Bicentennial Unit Comes to Town (1 of 4) Given my zeal for railroad subjects, my parents allowed me to skip school one day fifty years ago now—for the occurrence of the Illinois Central Gulf’s bicentennial unit coming through my hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. We began our chase of the unit southwest of town at the Richland Creek Viaduct. These two shots above, however, were taken north of that, between the famous trestle and the small town of Solsberry, Indiana.

I should have said, this was IC's line that ran from Effingham, on the main line, to Indianapolis. It was called the "Hi-Dry" for that trestle (and one other to come). I've posted images of it before, but I'll add one here below (didn't get a great shot with the Eagle upon it).

Three images by Richard Koenig; two taken on February 2nd 1976, with the inset photo above made later that year.

[fongus-the-ninth]

I cant get over just how hollow and fake the whole "America 250" celebration feels. They certainly didn't try to do all this in 1926 for America's 150th anniversary. All the people in power saw the bicentennial in 1976, and my generation (if the world doesn't end) will see the tricentennial in 2076.

It can't be more obvious just how spray-tan patriotic this whole thing is, just to appease a handful of narcissistic pedoph!les who know they are going to be leaving this world soon.

And you know they would have done this anyway if it was "America 225" or "America 275" also.

[doppleganger-rental]

1976 candle