#historical collection

[starr-angelofnarnia]

I would sell my soul to have a pin for every single one of these precious girls. These are just the original 8. Also, I have the necklace somewhere...

(These were the pins from the Circle of Smiles summer activity book that Hallmark put out ages ago)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

The façade of Martin Peer's gray house - just like the owner's appearance - hides some surprises. Martin Peer is a well-known documentary filmmaker who has been documenting the lives of working-class people in Britain for over forty years. His collection is very different from most others.

A first look at the rooms can be disappointing. Here you will find salmon-colored walls and tattered furniture of the variety that inhabits millions of British homes. But that's not really what's going on here.

Peer is a diligent collector of certain objects: In the living and working rooms there are libraries laden with photos and books and in every corner are items of political memorabilia: The pictures of the cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin Valentina Tereshkova hang in the living room,

Statues of Lenin and the heroes of the Cultural  Revolution standing on the cornice of the fireplace.

He has all sorts of memorabilia.  

Next to the desk in the study, hangs a huge photo of a father and son.

Peer's choices are neither decorative nor aesthetic. They reflect his interests: politics, society, communism and art.

His displays aren’t pretty for a reason. 

In the glass cabinet in the kitchen doorway are placed colorful sneakers.    

Gadgets with the photographs of Mao, Saddam Hussein, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama are also on display.

He does not want to beautify reality, not even that of his life, but to present it as it is: Simple and meager but also rich and complex. Interesting. 

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[zamankaybolmaz]

[cccarchives-blog]

On Monday we got out our Early Photography Collection out to share with a Photo Foundations I class who came to visit, focusing on portraiture.

[starr-angelofnarnia]

Alright. So this is my American Girl collection to date:

I have Kaya, beforever Felicity and Caroline, Josephina, Kirsten, Addy, Samantha and Nellie, beforever Kit, Molly and Emily, and goty Marisol.

They've been up on this shelf for quite a while now and I want to get back into playing with them but they need some help. Kaya's hair is wonky from me trying to redo it, Kirsten is second hand and has a weird eye. And they're all kind of dusty and in need of some TLC.

What would those in the doll community think about where I should start?

[starr-angelofnarnia]

So I'm in St. Augustine, Florida this weekend and I've decided I need an American Girl doll for the early occupations

[insidegzu]

A. Scharfetter & A. Drescher: Collections from the Habsburg Monarchy – the historical heart of the University Herbarium of Graz (GZU), 17th  Meeting of Austrian Botanists, Vienna, Austria 2016.