#walter briggs

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1932 illustration by Walter Biggs by totallymystified Via Flickr: For the story Peter Beloved by Florence Brent Thompson. From Good Housekeeping.

[musicalcuriosity]

Friday, February 3rd, 1899- The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Two newsboys were involved in a knife fight. The fight was said to have resulted from a feud between Italian newsboys and various groups of other newsboys. Michael Lemadica, the boy charged with assault, claimed that Walter Briggs (the boy he stabbed) had first struck him several times. 

People:

Michael Lemadica, age 14, newsboy

Walter Briggs, age 14, newsboy-- stabbed by Michael with a penknife

Places:

107 Roebling St. (Michael’s home)

Lee Avenue Police Court 

170 S. 2nd Street (Walter’s home)

Broadway ferries’ entrance

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (where Michael was committed)

[heraldphoto-blog]

Something Unexpected

When a moth landed on the mossy forest floor, I got close as possible to it with a 65mm macro lens and built-in 5x variable extension. Then it did something weird. Appearing to look straight into the lens, it began flapping all its wings hard and fast. But, like a Chinook helicopter warming up on a helipad, it didn’t fly off. I wondered if it saw its own reflection in the lens, which was only an inch or two away, and experienced an involuntary, genetic reflex of some kind. To see the whole project click here. Photo by Dan Bates / The Herald