The May Pole

Title: Photography as a fine art: the achievements and possibilities of photographic art in America. Author: Charles Henry Caffin. Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. Original from: Harvard University. Digitized: Jul 5, 2007. Length: 191 pages. Photo by Clarence Hudson White (April 8, 1871 – July 7, 1925) an American photographer and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement. He is recognized as a master of the art form for his sentimental portraits and for his excellence as a teacher of photography.

The maypole is a tall wooden pole traditionally of maple, hawthorn or birch erected to celebrate May Day. It may be a semi-permanent feature, standing year-round until it has to be repainted or replaced, or it may be temporary. It may be decorated with coloured ribbons suspended from the top, flowers, draped in greenery, hung with wreaths or other symbols or decorations, depending on local and regional traditions.

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Humpty Dumpty 2

Title: Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there. Volume: 1902 of Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll. Author: Lewis Carroll, Illustrated by: Peter Newell, Publisher: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Original: from the University of Michigan. Digitized: Dec 19, 2008, Length: 211 pages. Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell March 5, 1862 – January 15, 1924, American artist and author, born in McDonough County, Illinois. Newell often illustrated the works of other authors, such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, and Lewis Carroll.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again."

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Workers Memorial Day Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Workers Memorial Day Mary Harris "Mother" Jones 1830(?)-1930 "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." Public Domain: Materials created by the federal government are generally part of the public domain and may be used, reproduced and distributed without permission. Therefore, content on this Web site which is in the public domain may be used without the prior permission of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). However, such materials may not be used in a manner that implies any affiliation or endorsement by the DOL of your company, Web site or publication. You may properly credit public domain materials obtained from a DOL Web site to the U.S. Department of Labor and/or www.dol.gov.

Irish-born Mother Jones was a champion of the country's weakest and neediest during the period of America's great industrial growth. For countless workers she was both goad and inspiration in their struggles to organize for mutual protection. Her flaming rhetoric and fearless campaigning helped swell the ranks of the United Mine Workers who called her the Miners' Angel.

With the look of an angel and the tongue of a mule skinner, she tramped the land, venting her searing invective against the shame of child labor and those who exploited the working class. A magnificent scold, she was a ringing voice on behalf of workers and their families, a leader in the miners' colossal struggles in West Virginia, Colorado and Pennsylvania.

She met with Presidents, from McKinley to Coolidge, in support of her people, and suffered jailings, personal attacks, and unbelievable hardships for her efforts to ease their impoverished lives.

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The American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

The American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a common bird found throughout North America. Its scientific name means literally "short-billed crow", from Ancient Greek brachy- (βραχυ-) "short-" and rhynchos (ρυνχος) "bill".

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Title: Field book of wild birds and their music: a description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the eastern U.S.

Author: Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews, Publisher: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1906. Original from: Harvard University, Digitized: May 10, 2008, Length: 262 pages, Subjects: Birds, Birdsongs, Nature, Birds & Birdwatching.

This familiar American character has become a standard by which we calculate conditions, such as as black as a All the year crow," " as the crow flies," "as sharp as a crow," etc. No description of the bird's appearance is really necessary, but it may as well be said at once, that in the fullest sense of the word he is not black ! The entire plumage is characterized by an iridescent steel-blue or violet.

This is particularly noticeable on the neck, shoulders, wings, and tail. The feathers of the under parts are less metallic and lustrous than those of the upper parts. The nest is a clumsy affair, built of twigs, sticks, bark, grass, etc.; it is generally in the crotch of a bough fully thirty feet above ground. Egg a beautiful dull green-blue thickly speckled with brown; sometimes it is blue-white, or pale blue with sparse markings. The bird is distributed from the northern United States south to Florida, where it is represented by the Florida Crow.

Werner Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Equation

Werner Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Equation

the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that certain pairs of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be known to arbitrary precision. That is, the more precisely one property is known, the less precisely the other can be known.Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible,I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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Church near Junction City, Kansas

Digital ID: fsac 1a34277 Source: digital file from original slide Retrieve unedited JPEG version (113 kilobytes) John Vachon, 1914-1975, photographer. CREATED, PUBLISHED [1942 or 1943] NOTES Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.

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Pancho Villa José Doroteo Arango Arámbula

Pancho Villa Date Created, Published: [between 1908 and 1919] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller Part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-npcc-19554 (digital file from original) JPEG (56kb) || JPEG (134kb) || TIFF (24mb)

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Pancho Villa

José Doroteo Arango Arámbula (5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923), Pancho Villa, was one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals.

Volcano Eruption Eyjafjallajokull Iceland

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The eruption of a volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier of Iceland on Wednesday, April 14, sent ripple effects around the globe as it halted international flights to and from Northern Europe. Airborne volcanic ash posed a threat to jet engines, and to prevent disaster, air traffic controllers grounded planes.

From the earliest moments of the eruption, a global network of Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers began monitoring the ash plume and the appropriate centers issued advisories about flow of the ash through the atmosphere. There are nine such centers, each responsible for a defined geographic region.

NOAA operates two Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers that are poised to take action should a volcano spew ash into the atmosphere. One covers Alaska, and the other the rest of the United States, including U.S. Pacific territories, as well as the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America.

NOAA’s U.S. Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers issued nearly 2,000 Advisories over the last year and a half. “That means volcanic ash is frequently in the air,” says Barbara Stunder, a NOAA Research meteorologist with the Air Resources Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md. “We have to be prepared.”

Although most eruptions effect limited local areas, the potential for one to suspend air traffic is always present. The Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program maintains a database of 1,585 named volcanoes around the world. In the United States, Mount St. Helens in Washington, Redoubt in Alaska, and Anatahan in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific, have all threatened lives and property.

The Air Resources Laboratory developed a computer model for tracking where smoke, chemicals and other particulates — such as volcanic ash — travel and disperse with the winds. The model, known as HYSPLIT (Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory) is one key component of NOAA’s volcano preparedness.

Another key ingredient is satellite imagery. NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service provides snapshots of volcanic ash plumes from space. These images show the actual progress of ash over time.

When alerted to a large volcanic eruption threatening the U.S. Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers’ geographic areas of responsibility, experts with NOAA’s National Weather Service run the HYSPLIT model. Armed with satellite images and model data, the appropriate Volcanic Ash Advisory Center will issue advisories which describe the current ash location and project where the ash plume will be in 6, 12, and 18 hours.

NOAA’s role is part of a larger National Volcanic Ash Operations Plan for Aviation for the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Geological Survey, and NASA are also partners in protecting U.S. lives and property.

Chichester Canal Joseph Mallord William Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Chichester Canal circa 1828 Oil on canvas. Current location: Tate Gallery. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, England.

Chichester Canal's vivid colors may have been influenced by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815.

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Paul Revere's Ride

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere on horseback before the battles of Lexington and Concord. His famous "Midnight Ride" occurred on the night of April 18, April 19, 1775, when he and William Dawes were instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren to ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the movements of the British Army, which was beginning a march from Boston to Lexington, to arrest Hancock and Adams and seize the weapons stores in Concord.

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Paul Revere's ride ARC Identifier 535721 / Local Identifier 208-FS-3200-5 Item from Record Group 208: Records of the Office of War Information, 1926 - 1951.

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Creator(s): Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. Picture Division. (1942 - 1945) Type(s) of Archival Materials: Photographs and other Graphic Materials.

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o Revere, Paul, 1735-1818

Dancing couples

Title: [Dancing couples, no. 2] Creator: Anne Harriet Fish, 1890-1964 artist. Date Created/Published: 1921 Mar. [publication date] Medium: 1 drawing : India and sepia inks, gouache, watercolor, silver paint, and pencil on off-white wove paper ; 72.5 x 55.1 cm. (sheet) View Larger || JPEG (65kb) || TIFF (4mb) MARC Record Line 540 - No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright Office. Summary: Several couples dance in a nightclub. Others are seated at tables around the dance floor. A band plays between the two groups. Part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature & cartoon (Library of Congress)

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The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor The Boston Tea Party

Title: Destruction of tea at Boston Harbor. Creator: N. Currier (Firm) Date Created/Published: [New York] : N. Currier, 1846. Medium: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-523 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-9 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZC2-2251 (color film copy slide) LC-USZCN4-164 (color film copy neg.)

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The Boston Tea Party was an action of protest by colonists in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the government. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into the Harbor.

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John Wilkes Booth

Title: [John Wilkes Booth] / Alex. Gardner, photographer to the Army of the Potomac. Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 photographer, Date Created/Published: Washington, D.C.: Philp & Solomons; [ca. 1865] Medium: 1 photographic print : albumen, on carte de visite mount ; 10 x 6 cm. Summary: Photograph showing portrait of John Wilkes Booth, seated, holding pipe. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-19233 (digital file from original recto) LC-DIG-ppmsca-19234 (digital file from original version) JPEG (43kb) || JPEG (121kb) || TIFF (65mb)

John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838–April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.

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Fashionably Dressed Flapper

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Fashionably Dressed Flapper "Where there's smoke there's fire" by American artist Russell Patterson (1893-1977). Full-length illustration of a fashionably dressed flapper standing with one hand on her hip and a cigarette in the other hand. A stream of smoke from the cigarette forms a curving, twisting, decorative line. 1 drawing: India, red and brown inks, with watercolor on illustration board, 45.1 x 59.2 cm. (sheet). Exhibited at "American beauties: drawings from the golden age of illustration", Swann Gallery, Library of Congress, 2002.

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Title: Where there's smoke there's fire. Creator: Patterson, Russell, 1893-1977 artist. Date Created, Published: [192-?] Medium: 1 drawing : India, red and brown inks, with watercolor on illustration board ; 45.1 x 59.2 cm. (sheet) JPEG (39kb) || JPEG (131kb) || TIFF (4mb)

Frédéric Chopin

The only known photograph of Frédéric Chopin March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849 by Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814–1876). Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a French-expatriate father and Polish mother. He was considered a child-prodigy. This Image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1923 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923, in this case 1849, are now in the public domain.

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"Helping Mother" young boy threading needle for his mother

Title: "Helping Mother" [young boy threading needle for his mother] Creator: Norman Rockwell, 1894-1978 artist. Date Created, Published: 1917. Medium: 1 photomechancial print : halftone, color. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-697 (color film copy transparency) JPEG (41kb) || TIFF (4mb) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: Illus. in AP2.L52 1917 (Case Y) [P&P] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

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* Title and other information transcribed from caption card.
* Color halftone reproduction of painting by Norman Rockwell.
* Illus. in: Leslie's illustrated weekly newspaper, vol. 124, no. 3204 (1917 Feb. 1), p. 117 (cover).
* Caption card tracings: Cartoons, U.S.--1916-19; Rockwell, Norman--Works; Children; Sewing.

Yakama Native American Mother and Child

Title: Yakima [i.e. Yakama] squaw with her pappoose [i.e. papoose] on her back. Other Title: Yakima squaw with her pappoose on her back Yakama squaw with her papoose on her back. No. 94, A Yakima [i.e. Yakama] squaw and her pappoose [i.e. papoose] Date Created/Published: [between ca. 1900 and ca. 1930] Medium: 1 photographic print. JPEG (36kb) || JPEG (92kb) || TIFF (16mb) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-02278 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Access Advisory: No known restrictions on reproduction. Call Number: LOT 11453-2, no. 6 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. MARC Record Line 540 - No known restrictions on publication.

the Battle of Waterloo by William Sadler II

Battle of Waterloo painted by William Sadler (1782-1839). This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

William Sadler II was the son of the portrait painter and engraver William Sadler. Two of his sons became painters, the eldest being William Sadler III. (The numbers after each name are merely used to distinguish one from another).

The Little Mermaid

Stories from Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875), with illustrations by Edmund Dulac (October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953), London, Hodder & Stoughton,Ltd., 1911. This Image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1923 are copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 (in this case 1871) are now in the public domain.

His limbs were numbed, his beautiful eyes were closing, and he must have died if the little mermaid had not come to the rescue.

It was not long before one of the maidens came up to him. At first she seemed quite frightened, but only for a moment, and then she fetched several others, and the mermaid saw that the prince was coming to life, and that he smiled at all those around him, but he never smiled at her. You see he did not know that she had saved him. She felt so sad that when he was led away into the great building she dived sorrowfully into the water and made her way home to her father's palace.

Always silent and thoughtful, she became more so now than ever. Her sisters often asked her what she had seen on her first visit to the surface, but she never would tell them anything.

Many an evening and many a morning she would rise to the place where she had left the prince. She saw the fruit in the garden ripen, and then gathered, she saw the snow melt on the mountain-tops, but she never saw the prince, so she always went home still sadder than before. At home her only consolation was to sit in her little garden with her arms twined round the handsome marble statue which reminded her of the prince. It was all in gloomy shade now, as she had ceased to tend her flowers, and the garden had become a neglected wilderness of long stalks and leaves entangled with the branches of the tree.

At last she could not bear it any longer, so she told one of her sisters, and from her it soon spread to the others, but to no one else except to one or two other mermaids who only told their dearest friends. One of these knew all about the prince; she had also seen the festivities on the ship; she knew where he came from and where his kingdom was situated.

The Resurrection

Title: The resurrection Creator: Currier & Ives. Date Created, Published: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] Medium: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-2956 (color film copy slide) Call Number: PGA - Currier & Ives--Resurrection (A size) [P&P] Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (4 mb) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

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The doctrine of the resurrection is a very interesting one. It is a matter of deep anxiety as to where we shall spend eternity, and how and with whom. There is no other subject or doctrine in all the range of the imagination, thought, reason, or revelation that is fraught with such tremendous consequences. To the saints it will be a time of joy unspeakable and full of glory; to the wicked a time of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

The resurrection of Christ from the dead is the crowning work of human redemption. When Jesus expired upon the cross, and his body lay in the grave, the powers of darkness seemed to hold sway for a little season. The Light that was brought from heaven went out. The enemies of righteousness had triumphed. He of whom it was expected that he would deliver Israel and the world as well, lay silent in the chamber of death. The hope of Israel faded away.

Heaven was awed at the scene. There was silence in heaven ; a mantle of gloom and darkness shrouded the earth, and the foundations of the earth were shaken at the awful conflict and sacrifice of the " Godhead " for the redemption of the human race.

The resurrection by J. S. Mohler

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Title Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there Authors: Lewis Carroll, Sir John Tenniel Illustrated by: Sir John Tenniel Edition: 61 Publisher: Henry Altemus, 1897 (first published (1871) Original from: the University of Michigan Digitized: Jul 11, 2005 Length: 218 pages

Tweedledum and Tweedledee are characters in a nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom.

They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other's neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had 'DUM' embroidered on his collar, and the other 'DEE.' "I suppose they've each got 'TWEEDLE' round at the back of the collar," she said to herself.

They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she was just looking round to see if the word 'TWEEDLE' was written at the back of each collar, when she was startled by a voice coming from the one marked 'DUM.'

"If you think we're wax-works," he said, '- you ought to pay, you know. Wax-works weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!"

"Contrariwise," added the one marked ' DEE,' " if you think we're alive, you ought to speak."

"I'm sure I'm very sorry," was all Alice could say; for the words of the old song kept ringing through her head like the ticking of a clock, and she could hardly help saying them out loud:

Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.

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The Little Mermaid

Fab out in the sea the water is as blue as the petals of the most beautiful corn-flower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very deep, deeper than any cable will sound ; many steeples must be placed one above the other to reach from the bottom to the surface of the water. And down there live the sea people. Title: Fairy tales and other stories Author: Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) , Editors: Sir William Alexander Craigie, Jessie K. Craigie Translated by: Sir William Alexander Craigie, Jessie K. Craigie Publisher: H. Milford, 1914 and first published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen 7 April 1837 Original from: the University of Virginia Digitized: Jul 28, 2008 Length: 663 pages.

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Home Sweet Home

Title: Home sweet home Creator: Currier & Ives. Date Created/Published: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. Medium: 1 print : lithograph. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-2589 (color film copy slide) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Call Number: PGA - Currier & Ives--Home sweet home (A size) [P&P]

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In 1857, Nathaniel Currier and James Ives became publishing partners in what was to become one of America's most historically significant chroniclers of American history from the 1850's to the 1880's. Currier & Ives recorded a wide range of subjects, events, and common happenings of American life. The firm employed many well known artists, but only a few of them are credited as the creator of their own images. The hand colored prints have become highly collectible and are found in many museums. The business closed in 1907 as new printing technologies and changing tastes emerged.

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'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

John Howard Payne (9 June 1791 – 10 April 1852) from his 1823 opera Clari, Maid of Milan.

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This TEXT is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris in this case John Howard Payne (9 June 1791 – 10 April 1852) and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from December 31 of that year.