Isle of Wight, England

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Every summer we can rent a cottage, in the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear –”When I’m Sixty-Four,” John Lennon & Paul McCartney

Title: [Shanklin, Chine, Isle of Wight, England] Date Created/Published: [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. Medium: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-09000 (digital file from original)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: LOT 13415, no. 1013 [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10338". Forms part of: Views of England in the Photochrom print collection.

Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Collections: Photochrom Prints. Part of: Views of England.

Coffee Day The Coffee Bearer

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Coffee Day The Coffee Bearer (1857), Orientalist painting by John Frederick Lewis July 14, 1804 – August 15, 1876. Lewis specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes and often worked in exquisitely detailed watercolour.

Lewis lived in Spain between 1832 and 1834. He lived in Cairo between 1841 and 1850, where he made numerous sketches that he turned into paintings even after his return to England in 1851. He lived in Walton-on-Thames until his death. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1859 and a member (an RA) in 1865.

International Coffee Day also known as Coffee Day or National Coffee Day is an annual event observed on September 29.

Orientalism is a term used by art historians and literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures (Eastern cultures) by writers, designers and artists in the West.

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Gotham City

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Meanwhile In Gotham City. looking south on 5th avenue from 46th street, Manhattan, New York City, New York.

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Earlier this week looking right down Broadway from west 68th street. image/editing/sookietex Public Domain Clip Art - http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/2013/09/gotham-city.html

Gotham City

Gotham City today. West 60th street looking southeast to Central Park South. image/editing/sookietex

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Some years ago, while visiting the cathedral of Notre-Dame, or, to speak more properly, exploring every corner of it, the author of this book discovered, in a dark corner in one of the towers, this word, engraven upon the wall,—

'ANATKH.

These Greek capitals, black with age and deeply cut into the stone, with certain peculiarities of form and posture belonging to the Gothic calligraphy, as if to declare that they had been traced there by some hand of the Middle Ages, — above all, the dismal and fatal meaning they conveyed,—struck the author forcibly.

He asked himself, he strove to conjecture, what soul in pain this might be that would not quit the world without stamping this stigma of crime or misfortune on the walls of the old cathedral.

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Claude Frollo restrains Quasimodo from violence



Quasimodo being offered water by Esmeralda

Nathan Hale executed as spy by the British

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Nathan Hale, Captain in regular army, U.S.A., executed as spy by the British, September 22, 1776. Date Created / Published: c1913. Medium: 1 item. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-48286 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication; no copyright renewal.

Call Number: LOT 4412-C [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Reproduction of mural painting by Albert Herter, copyrighted 1913. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Subjects: Hale, Nathan,--1755-1776. Hangings (Executions)--1770-1780. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand. September 22, 1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.

Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British and hanged. He is best remembered for his last words before being hanged: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."

Long Island Rail Road Locomotive #522 Railroad Cars

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Long Island Rail Road Locomotive #522, an EMD DM30AC. The EMD DE30AC and EMD DM30AC are 46 locomotives built in 1997-1998 by Electro-Motive Division in the Super Steel Plant in Schenectady NY for the Long Island Rail Road of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York.

Seen here at The West Side Yard (officially the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard) a rail yard owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. Used to store commuter rail trains operated by the Long Island Rail Road, the 26.17-acre yard sits between West 30th Street, West 33rd Street, Tenth Avenue and Twelfth Avenue.

The C3 is a bi-level coach railroad car built by Kawasaki. These cars began delivery in 1997, ordered by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) for the Long Island Rail Road. The rail cars are pulled by EMD DE30AC and EMD DM30AC over both electrified and non-electrified territory.

Badminton Shuttlecocks Birdie

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Nelson Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, with Shuttlecocks sculpture by Claes Oldenburg. Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. Related Names: Oldenburg, Claes, 1929- Date Created/Published: 2004 September 29. Medium: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, infrared. Summary: Photo shows the museum with "Shuttlecocks" on lawn, created by Claes Oldenburg, 1994. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-04151 (original digital file)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 04151 (ONLINE) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print.

Notes: Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Photographer's choice (America project). Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010:031). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Subjects: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Sculpture--Missouri--Kansas City--2000-2010. Shuttlecocks--Missouri--Kansas City--2000-2010. United States--Missouri--Kansas City.

Format: Digital photographs--Infrared--2000-2010. Collections: Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive. Part of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Voyager

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Voyager 1 was constructed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It has 16 hydrazine thrusters, three-axis stabilization gyroscopes, and referencing instruments (Sun sensor/Canopus Star Tracker) to keep the probe's radio antenna pointed toward Earth. Collectively these instruments are part of the Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem (AACS) along with redundant units of most instruments and 8 backup thrusters. The spacecraft also included 11 scientific instruments to study celestial objects such as planets as it travels through space.

Voyager 1, which is working with a finite power supply, has enough electrical power to keep operating the fields and particles science instruments through at least 2020, which will mark 43 years of continual operation. At that point, mission managers will have to start turning off these instruments one by one to conserve power, with the last one turning off around 2025.

Voyager 1 will continue sending engineering data for a few more years after the last science instrument is turned off, but after that it will be sailing on as a silent ambassador. In about 40,000 years, it will be closer to the star AC +79 3888 than our own sun. (AC +79 3888 is traveling toward us faster than we are traveling towards it, so while Alpha Centauri is the next closest star now, it won't be in 40,000 years.) And for the rest of time, Voyager 1 will continue orbiting around the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, with our sun but a tiny point of light among many. Credit: NASA/JPL

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Cat on a bench

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Cat on a bench in Locke, an unincorporated community in the Sacramento/San Joaqin River Delta in California. Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. Date Created / Published: 2012. Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-23102 (original digital file)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 23102 (ONLINE) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print.

Notes: Also known as the Locke Historic District, it was established after a fire broke out in the Chinese section of nearby Walnut Grove. Chinese merchants approached landowner George Locke and inquired if they could build on his land. He consented and the little town was laid out by Chinese architects. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Lovelace; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:063). Forms part of: Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Subjects: United States--California--Locke. Chinese. George Locke. America. Format: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020. Collections: Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive. Part of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

About the Carol M. Highsmith Archive

The online presentation of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive features photographs of landmark buildings and architectural renovation projects in Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States. The first 23 groups of photographs contain more than 2,500 images and date from 1980 to 2005, with many views in color as well as black-and-white. Extensive coverage of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building was added in 2007. The archive is expected to grow to more than 100,000 photographs covering all of the United States.

Highsmith, a distinguished and richly-published American photographer, has donated her work to the Library of Congress since 1992. Starting in 2002, Highsmith provided scans or photographs she shot digitally with new donations to allow rapid online access throughout the world. Her generosity in dedicating the rights to the American people for copyright free access also makes this Archive a very special visual resource.

Models Fashion Week New York City

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Models Fashion Week New York City 1. Workers retuning from the salt mines,  behind the runways, Fashion Week 09/09/13 #NYC image/editing/sookietex :) 2. Shift change at the foundry. Back stage Fashion Week #NYC image/editing/sookietex 3. Fashion Week backstage 09/09/13 #NYC image/editing/sookietex :)

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editors note: while no copyright is associated with this image these two points are relevant:

• Privacy rights protect living people from unauthorized use of their image that is intrusive or embarrassing. As John and Barbara Schultz point out that: “Photographs of private persons, who are not celebrities or public figures, can be published without their consent only in an editorial context. Even editorial use is perilous, however, if any individual who is depicted is held libeled, held up to ridicule, or misrepresented." Picture Research: A Practical Guide, by John Schultz and Barbara Schultz (N.Y.: Van Nostrand, 1991), p. 226. [call number: TR147.S38 1991 P&P]
• Publicity rights protects a person’s right to benefit from the commercial value connected with an individual’s name, image, or voice. John and Barbara Schultz point out that: " Not all well-known people have a right of publicity, since not all of them profit from the commercialization of their celebrity. Politicians, for instance, do not ordinarily require payment for the use of their images, although they are public figures ... As a rule, the right to publicity is enforced for commercial reproduction of the name or likeness of a celebrity, under the conditions outlined. The editorial use of a photograph of a celebrity, so long as it does not violate other laws concerning libel or slander, requires only the release of the holder of the copyright in the photograph." Picture Research: A Practical Guide, by John Schultz and Barbara Schultz (N.Y.: Van Nostrand, 1991), p. 225-6. [call number: TR147.S38 1991 P&P]

The Dakota Apartments

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The Dakota looking Northwest from Central Park.

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The Dakota is located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Constructed between October 25, 1880 to October 27, 1884 by the architectural firm of Henry Janeway Hardenbergh who was commissioned to create the design for Edward Clark, head of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The firm also designed the Plaza Hotel.

Blowing the Shofar Rosh Hashanah

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Shofar (by Alphonse Lévy) Caption says: "To a good year"

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A shofar [ʃoˈfaʁ] (Hebrew: שׁוֹפָר is a horn, traditionally that of a ram, used for Jewish religious purposes. Shofar blowing is incorporated in synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Shofars come in a variety of sizes.

Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

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Title: [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Group of miners talking at Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado] Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer. Date Created/Published: [1940 Sept.]

Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm. Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-012925-M4 (b&w film nitrate neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. U.S. Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Black & White Photographs.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.

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Call Number: LC-USF33- 012925-M4 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA. Notes: Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.)