Once more, with feeling.
Babe Ruth, and other amazing old photos of New York. Click for more.
Savvy.
nypl:
John Milisenda’s photographs of Manhattan’s Lower East Side during the 1960s will be on display at the Grand Central Library through June 20.
His photos are a candid portrait of everyday experiences, balanced between romanticism and mean streets. Many of these images were made when he was a teenager and even before he studied art at the Pratt Institute.
John Milisenda lives in Brooklyn. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others.
“Futility,” Morgan Robertson, 1898 (14 years before the Titanic set sail)
SEVENTY-FIVE thousand tons — dead-weight — rushing through the fog at the rate of fifty feet a second, had hurled itself at an iceberg. Had the impact been received by a perpendicular wall the elastic resistance of bending plates and frames would have overcome the momentum with no more damage to the passengers than a severe shaking up, and to the ship than the crushing in of her bows and the killing, to a man, of the watch below. She would have backed off, and slightly down by the head, finished the voyage at reduced speed to rebuild on insurance money, and benefit, largely, in the end, by the consequent advertising of her indestructibility. But a low beach, possibly formed by the recent overturning of the berg, received the Titan, and with her keel cutting the ice like the steel runner of an iceboat, and her great weight resting on the starboard bilge, she rose out of the sea, higher and higher — until the propellers in the stern were half exposed — then, meeting an easy, spiral rise in the ice under her port bow, she heeled, overbalanced, and crashed down on her side, to starboard.
1892 Boston BBC. One of the 10 Most Wanted Missing National Baseball Treasures.
Build a bridge
Civil War soldier
World rivers and mountains, 1853
Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge cables, 1914
Titanic lunch menu up for auction
I’d like to go back in time and attend a ball.
I was a history major so I should be ahead of the game, right?
“In a rare pro-Democrat cartoon, presidential aspirant George McClellan is portrayed as the intermediary between Abraham Lincoln and Confederate president Jefferson Davis. McClellan is in the center acting as a go-between in a tug-of-war over a “Map of the United States” involving Lincoln (left) and Davis. He holds the two men by their lapels and asserts, “The Union must be preserved at all hazards!” Lincoln tugs at the northern side of the map, saying, “No peace without abolition.” Davis pulls at the southern portion, advocating, “No peace without Separation!!”
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