they have been lit thus every night since Queen Victoria’s jubilation in the 19th C.E.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Jubilee
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from 2007
Tag: Photography
Landscape Abstraction – Red Bleach emulation
somewhere over Illinois, probably.
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blog hiatus is unintentional, just too much else to do at the moment.
Those Golden Memories of Yesterday
A Contractual Dispute
Grand, Erie or vicinity
[view large on black www.b12partners.net/photoblog/index.php?showimage=17 ]
MNDA is pending for several days now, starting to worry a bit
Leaning in the Wind – Ilford Delta
Rogers Park, Chicago
a little snow porn for your Friday amusement
You Have Seen Some Unbelievable Things
actual artist/title unknown.
Hubbard Street somewhere in the West Loop.
There are several variations on this stencil on various train underpasses near Hubbard Street
Cocktail hour redux
A (better) photo of my delicious Manhattan
Old Overholt Rye Whiskey, Angostura bitters, Cinzano “Rosso” vermouth
shaken over ice cubes for 20 seconds before pouring into a cocktail glass. And slurped down.
Screw that funky (music white boy) cherry thing. No seriously, Maraschino Cherries are not part of my everyday repertoire.
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Pistil
Flash: Off
I probably shouldn’t have made a third one1, but this week2 has been exceptionally stressful, and I need a bit of a respite from worrying about situations I cannot completely control the outcome of.
Footnotes:HipstaMatic Presidential Towers
Well, three of them anyway
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Pistil
Flash: Off
from last month’s archive
Strolling – Duotoned
near Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
from last fall
Family Planning protest w 50 foot Giant Virgin Mary
I only had a 70 mm zoom lens when I shot this, so this is a little hard to see, but it looks like a giant Virgin Mary statue is being set up to glare across the street at the family planning clinic on 659 W Washington. By the looks of the police barricades, I’d say a bevy of protesters is going to greet any woman unlucky enough to have an appointment today. I’d go over and get a closer shot, but I’d probably get into a fist fight with the fundies. Birth control is apparently their next target, btw.
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As ChicagoSage suggested in comments, we should build a 30 foot Flying Spaghetti Monster with noodley appendages next to this statue.
We Can Do It!
Other Title: Rosie the Riveter
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: NWDNS-179-WP-1563
From: Series: War Production Board, compiled 1942-1943 (Record Group 179)
Created by: Office for Emergency Management. War Production Board. (01/1942 – 11/03/1945)
Coverage Dates ca. 1942 – ca. 1943
Persistent URL: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=535413
Repository: Still Pictures Unit at the National Archives at College Park (College Park, MD)
For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the U.S. National Archives’ Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html.
Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. The U.S. National Archives maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html.
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
love this image
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.
Note: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Mathew Ahmann, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interrracial Justice, in a crowd.
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: NWDNS-306-SSM-4C(51)13
From: Series: Miscellaneous Subjects, Staff and Stringer Photographs, compiled 1961 – 1974 (Record Group 306)
Created by: U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. (ca. 1953 – ca. 1978)
Production Date: 08/28/1963
Persistent URL: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=542014
Repository: Still Pictures Unit at the National Archives at College Park (College Park, MD)
For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the U.S. National Archives’ Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html.
Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. The U.S. National Archives maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html.
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Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley at the White House
Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley at the White House, originally uploaded by The U.S. National Archives.
From: Series: Master Print File, compiled 1969-1974 (Collection RN-WHPO)
Created by: President (1969-1974 : Nixon). White House Photo Office. (1969 – 1974)
Production Date: 12/21/1970
Persistent URL: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=1634221
Repository: National Archives at College Park – Archives II (College Park, MD)
Nixon high on whatever he was high on (lies and duplicity, and maybe a little Scotch whisky) and Elvis Presley high on various prescription drugs…
“Top Women” at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana, Works, 1940-1945
“Top Women” at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana, Works, 1940-1945, originally uploaded by The U.S. National Archives.
Original Caption: Like Girls from Mars Are These “Top Women” at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana, Works. Their Job Is to Clean Up at Regular Intervals Around The Tops of Twelve Blast Furnaces. As A Safety Precaution, the Girls Wear Oxygen Masks., 1940 – 1945
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 86-WWT-33(58)
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945
Labor
Women
Persistent URL: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=522883
For more information about records related to women and women’s issues at the U.S. National Archives, visit:
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Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the U.S. National Archives’ Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html.
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Yay for more public access to the public’s photography collection!
Fumare Meats – Metra Market
Finally made it over to the long-awaited Metra Market. Favorable impression, we’ll be returning
www.frenchmarketchicago.com/vendor/fumare
Dick McCracken left banking to pursue his love of good food and sharing his culinary finds with others. Fumare (‘smoke’ in Italian) brings traditionally cured and smoked meats from local producers to Chicago French Market. Items include locally made prosciutto, hams, smoked sausages, bacons and other delights. Menu highlights include an old-fashioned, Montreal-style smoked meat (think pastrami) cured and naturally smoked, peppered and slow-cooked to a well-marbled tenderness.
am actually pretty hungry right now, wish the French Metra Market was open