Bas-relief Morning, Present, Evening. Robert Garrison

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Bas-relief Morning, Present, Evening. Robert Garrison (American. 1895 - 1946) Bas-relief. Limestone. Each panel 21 feet long.

This was the first work of art commissioned for Rockefeller Center and ultimately set the stage for its renowned Art Deco style. The three limestone panels are allegories of time and evoke radio’s vast reach and never-ending transmission—an appropriate theme, since RCA was the first tenant in the building. At that time radio was just a recent development in America, and the Rockefellers, recognizing its worldwide importance, wanted to highlight its advent with these three bas-reliefs. - rockefellercenter.com/

the March on Washington, 1963

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the March on Washington, 1963.

Title: [Demonstrators marching in the street holding signs during the March on Washington, 1963] / MST. Creator(s): Trikosko, Marion S., photographer Date Created/Published: 1963 Aug. 28. Medium: 1 negative : film. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ds-04000 (digital file from original negative)

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Call Number: LC-U9- 10344-14 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Contact sheet folder caption: "Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. MST, 8/28/63." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10344, frame no. 14.

Subjects: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.) Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Activists--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Format: Film negatives--1960-1970. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand.

Publication and other forms of distribution: Per the deed of gift, the U.S. News & World Report, Inc., dedicated to the public all rights it held for the photographs in this collection upon its donation to the Library. The majority of the photographs in this collection were done for hire by U.S. News & World Report staff photographers, primarily Warren K. Leffler, Thomas J. O'Halloran, Marion S. Trikosko, John Bledsoe, and Chick Harrity identified on photographic captions by their initials --WKL, TOH, MST, JTB, and CWH. There are no known restrictions on their photographs.

Intelligence Awakening Mankind

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1250 Avenue of the Americas, Rockefeller Center. Mosaic Mural "Intelligence Awakening Mankind" 79 feet long, 14 feet high. by Barry Faulkner (American. 1881 - 1966).

This mosaic of small glass tiles (tesserae) is composed of over one million pieces in two hundred and fifty colors, each hand-cut and hand-set. The work is  allegorical concerning the triumph of knowledge over the evil of ignorance.

The central figure of 'Thought' (intelligence) stands above the world, controlling the action in the mosaic . The other two figures are messengers. The male figure represents writing, and the female represents the spoken word. Other figures symbolize creativity, ideas and intellectual efforts. The mosaic’s message is that thought will propagate new knowledge and advance civilization.

Macy's Herald Square

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Macy's Herald Square this morning looking north from 34th street. Herald Square is formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially named Avenue of the Americas) and 34th Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Lexington Avenue New York City

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Looking south on Lexington Avenue from Hunter College of The City University of New York at east 69th street, 08/16/13. image/editing/sookietex :)

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The Neil Simon Theater

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250 west 52nd street, NYC, NY, The Neil Simon Theater, formerly the Alvin welcoming a new tenant. Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, the developer, real estate mogul Alexander Pincus originally named it the "Alvin Theatre" as an amalgam of the names of producers ALex Aarons and VINton Freedley. With its address originally listed as 244-54 West 52nd Street, it opened on November 22, 1927 with George and Ira Gershwin's Funny Face starring Fred and Adele Astaire.

Overture, curtains, lights, This is it, the night of nights. No more rehearsing and nursing a part, we know every part by heart.

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Radio City Music Hall Architectural Art

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Radio City Music Hall Architectural Art - Dance, Drama design by Hildreth Meiers, execution by Oscar Bach, metal craftsman. c1932. On the facade of the Radio City Music Hall fronting on Fiftieth Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, sixty feet above the sidewalk eighteen feet in diameter.

These plaques are chromium steel, duraluminum, bronze, brass and copper. The colors that are part of this scheme are due to a special enameling process.

It is interesting to note that in recent Egyptian discoveries the enamels uncovered are in an almost perfect state of preservation, being as bright and shiny today as they were when they were made thousands of years ago.

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Image and editing by sookietex. Text by the New York Herald Tribune, November 13, 1932 via hildrethmeiere.com

Ringworld

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Ringworld comes to Broadway. Broadway at 49th street looking southeast from the Brill building 1619 Broadway in the Manhattan borough of New York City, just north of Times Square.

The year 2850 A.D. Earth. Louis Gridley Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday. Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition but is bored. He has experienced life thoroughly, and is thinking of taking a trip to and beyond the reaches of Known Space, all alone in a spaceship for a year or more.

He is confronted by Nessus, a Pierson's Puppeteer, and offered one of three open positions on an exploration voyage beyond Known Space. Speaker-to-Animals (Speaker), who is a Kzin, and Teela Brown, a young human woman, also join the voyage. - from Wikipedia.

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Booth Theatre Stage door Shubert Alley

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Booth Theatre Stage door, Shubert Alley. Shubert Alley is a pedestrian alley in the Broadway theater district of New York City. It splits the block, as it runs parallel to and between Eighth Avenue and Broadway, linking West 44th Street to West 45th Street.

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In 1930, its lunchtime scene was described: having the color of one of those street scenes from a tropical revue, churning with actors, Broadway reporters, chorus girls, and a soupcon of booking agents and costumers. A hurdy gurdy grinds out tunes, and often a street band adds oom-pahs to the medley.... There is good-natured shoving about, hoots, and back-patting. Stars are hailed by first name. Bootleggers are there with their order books. Also racing touts, with hot tips.

Petunias

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Just down the block on Broadway. Morning glory on the Upper Westside Manhattan 08/07/13 they are all up and down the meridian in the west 60s and 70s.

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Petunia is genus of 35 species of [1] flowering plants of South American origin, closely related to tobacco, cape gooseberries, tomatoes, deadly nightshades, potatoes and chili peppers; in the family Solanaceae

Orange Coneflowers Echinacea

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Orange Coneflowers Echinacea - Down the path to town on the Broadway meridian from about 70th to 60th the place is lousy with them. Fresh today :)

Echinacea the generic name is derived from the Greek word ἐχῖνος (echino), meaning "sea urchin," due to the spiny central disk. Some species are used in herbal medicines and some are cultivated in gardens for their showy flowers.

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The destruction of the Second Temple

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The destruction of the Second Temple August 4, 70 CE. The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus. The siege ended with the sacking of the city and the destruction of the Second Temple. The destruction of both the first and second temples are still mourned annually as the Jewish fast Tisha B'Av. The Arch of Titus, celebrating the Roman sack of Jerusalem and the Temple, still stands in Rome.

Destruction of Jerusalem Date: 1850 by David Roberts (1796–1864) Oil on canvas.

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Jupiter seen by Voyager 1 Animated Gif

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Jupiter seen by Voyager 1 probe (Animated Gif) with blue filter. One image was taken every Jupiter day (approximately 10 hours). These pictures were taken from 01/06 to 02/03, 1979 ; and Voyager 1 flew from 58 million to 31 million kilometers from Jupiter during that time. The small, round, dark spots appearing in some frames are the shadows cast by the moons passing between Jupiter and the Sun, while the small, white flashes around the planet, are the moons themselves.

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