Wishing Wall New Year Times Square Confetti

Wishing Wall of New Year Times Square Confetti: People Share their hopes, dreams and resolutions for the New Year - then will watch them flutter down as part of the two tons confetti in Times Square on New Year's Eve!

You can submit your wish in person at the Times Square Information Center, housed in the landmarked Embassy Theater, which was the world’s first newsreel theater, or via online form. The wishes will be collected and added to the confetti that will flutter down onto Times Square at 12 o’clock on New Year’s Eve.

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One Times Square

One Times Square was originally completed in 1904 to serve as the new headquarters of The New York Times

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One Times Square, is also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, or the Times Tower, is a 25 story, 395 foot high skyscraper at 42nd Street and Broadway in New York City.

Santa Claus car 2

Title: Santa Claus car. Date Created / Published: c1913 Dec. 29. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Santa Claus in automobile decorated with Christmas trees, moose and deer heads, and other seasonal decorations. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-75215 (b and w film copy neg.) Call Number: SSF - Santa Claus--1913 [P and P]

Notes: J188487 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Gilbert Studio, Independence, Iowa. Subjects: Santa Claus--1910-1920. Christmas decorations--Iowa--Independence--1910-1920. Automobiles--Iowa--Independence--1910-1920. Format: Photographic prints--1910-1920. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand.

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Hawk at Strawberry Fields

December 17, 2012 10:30 am. Central Park West and 72d street. The Dakota 1 west 72d is 100 feet to our left and Strawberry Fields 100 feet to our right.. Image and editing by sookietex.

The Dakota, constructed from October 25, 1880 to October 27, 1884,[3] is a co-op apartment building located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 1 West 72nd Street, New York, NY 10023.

Strawberry Fields is a 2.5-acre landscaped section in New York City's Central Park that is dedicated to the memory of Beatles member John Lennon. It is named after The Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever".

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My Hanukkah menorah

My Hanukkah menorah - Looking out the window north up Broadway from west 77th street NY, NY. The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel

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Apollo 17 Gene Cernan beside LRV at start of EVA-3

Gene Cernan beside LRV at start of EVA-3. December 11, 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

At 2:35 p.m. Dec. 11, the commander and lunar module pilot entered the LM to prepare for descent to the lunar surface. At 6:55:42 p.m. Dec. 11, the LM was placed into an orbit with a perilune altitude of 6.2 nautical miles. Approximately 47 minutes later, the powered descent to the lunar surface began.

Landing occurred at 7:54:57 p.m. Dec. 11, at lunar latitude 20 degrees, 10 minutes north, and longitude 30 degrees 46 minutes east. Apollo 17 was the last lunar landing mission. Three extravehicular activities, or EVAs, lasted a total of 22 hours, four minutes on the lunar surface.

EVA No. 1 began at 11:54:49 p.m. Dec. 11, with Eugene Cernan egressing at 12:01 a.m. Dec. 12. The first EVA was seven hours, 12 minutes long and was completed at 7:06:42 a.m. Dec. 12. The second EVA began at 11:28:06 p.m. Dec. 12, and lasted seven hours, 37 minutes, ending at at 7:05:02 a.m. Dec. 13. The final EVA began at 10:25:48 p.m. Dec. 13, and ended at 5:40:56 a.m. Dec. 14.

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A kind of cat Paul Klee

A kind of cat, Eine Art Katze. Artist: Paul Klee. December 18, 1879 –  June 29, 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. Completion Date: 1937. Style: Expressionism. Period: Late Works/ Genre: animal painting. Dimensions: 21 x 26.7 cm.

Klee has been variously associated with Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction, but his pictures are difficult to classify. He generally worked in isolation from his peers, and interpreted new art trends in his own way. He was inventive in his methods and technique. Klee worked in many different media—oil paint, watercolor, ink, pastel, etching, and others. He often combined them into one work. He used canvas, burlap, muslin, linen, gauze, cardboard, metal foils, fabric, wallpaper, and newsprint. Klee employed spray paint, knife application, stamping, glazing, and impasto, and mixed media such as oil with watercolor, water color with pen and India ink, and oil with tempera.

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Santa Claus Lord and Taylor Christmas window

Santa Claus Lord and Taylor Christmas window - Samuel Lord, an immigrant to the United States from England and George Washington Taylor, his wife's cousin, founded the store in 1826 on Catherine Street in Manhattan in order to sell hosiery, misses' wear and "elegant Cashmere shawls". By 1861, the store was located on Broadway at Grand Street, and in 1870 they moved to a newly constructed cast-iron building at Broadway and 20th Street,

Lord and Taylor opened its Starrett and van Vleck designed flagship store and headquarters on Fifth Avenue between 38th and 39th streets on February 24, 1914.

Among other firsts, it was the first store to present innovative Christmas windows filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise,

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Cat and Bird

Cat and Bird - Artist: Paul Klee. Style: Expressionism. Paul Klee, December 18, 1879 –  June 29, 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was also a student of orientalism.

Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered colour theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance art.

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The Tabby Le Chat Tigre

The Tabby Le Chat Tigre. Artist: Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910) born in Laval, France.

A post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.

Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of vanguard artists, starting with Picasso and including Jean Hugo, Léger, Beckmann and the Surrealists,"

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Vlad the Impaler

November 26, 1476 – Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.

Vlad the Impaler and the Turkish Envoys. Artist: Theodor Aman (1831–1891) Medium oil on canvas. Current location: Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României, Bucureşti

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Two Cats

Description: English: Two cats. Deutsch: Zwei Katzen. Artist: Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) Completion Date: 1909

Deutsch: Franz Marc (* 8. Februar 1880 in München, † 4. März 1916 im Krieg vor Verdun, Frankreich) war einer der bedeutendsten Maler des Expressionismus in Deutschland. English: Franz Marc (b. February 8, 1880, Munich - d. March 4, 1916, Verdun) was one of the principal painters of the German expressionist movement.

Franz Marc was born in 1880 Munich, then the capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His father, Wilhelm, was a professional landscape painter, his mother, Sophie, was a strict Calvinist. In 1900, Marc began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his teachers would include Gabriel von Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez. In 1903 and 1907 he spent time in France, particularly in Paris, visiting the city's museums and copying many paintings, a traditional way that artists studied and developed technique.

Title: Deutsch: Zwei Katzen, blau und gelb. English: Two Cats, blue and yellow
Date 1912. Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 74 x 98 cm. Current location: Kunstmuseum Basel.

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Merry Old Santa Claus

Thomas Nast's most famous drawing, "Merry Old Santa Claus", from the January 1, 1881 edition of Harper's Weekly.

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Thomas Nast immortalized Santa Claus' current look with an initial illustration in an 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly, as part of a large illustration titled "A Christmas Furlough" in which Nast set aside his regular news and political coverage to do a Santa Claus drawing. The popularity of that image prompted him to create another illustration in 1881.

Title: Santa Claus in camp. Date Created / Published: 1863. Medium: 1 print : wood engraving. Summary: Santa Claus giving gifts to soldiers in camp. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-122770 (b and w film copy neg.)

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Call Number: Illus. in AP2.H32 1863 (Case Y) [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes: Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, (1863 Jan. 3), p. 1.

Happy Thanksgiving Dinner Menu

USS Iowa Thanksgiving Dinner Menu 1943 Holiday Menus from Ship to Shore. USS Iowa, 1943. Commanding Officer - Captain John L. McCrea, U.S.N., Executive Officer - Commander T.J. Casey, U.S.N.

Thanksgiving Day, 25 November 1943, Dinner: citrus fruit cocktail - marashino, hearts of kalamazoo celery, pimiento stuffed olives, california ripe olives, essence of tomato bouillon, lemon, saltines, jellied fruit molds, french dressing, roast young vermont turkey, cranberry jelly, piquant dressing, giblet gravy, snowflake potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, new peas in butter, hot cheese biscuits, old fashioned mince pie, coffee.

Source: Iowa, USS file, ZC files, Navy Department Library. Related Source: USS Iowa BB-61 history, Dictionary of American Fighting Ships.

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Turkeys' morning exercise

Title: Turkeys' morning exercise. Date Created / Published: c1909 Aug. 9. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Girl in cart harnessed to two turkeys. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-66339 (b and w film copy neg.)

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Call Number: SSF - Wagons [item] [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: J130452 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Birds Turkeys; Children At play; Carts; Pets.

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Nuremberg Trials Defendants

November 20, 1945 – Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.

Nuremberg Trials. Defendants in their dock, circa 1945-1946. The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring (at the left edge on the first row of benches), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich after Hitler's death. (in front row, from left to right): Hermann Göring, Rudolf Heß, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel. (in second row, from left to right): Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel.

Creator(s): Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality. (05/02/1945 - 10/24/1946). Type(s) of Archival Materials: Photographs and other Graphic Materials

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Coverage Dates: ca. 1945 - ca. 1946. Part Of: Series: Photographs relating to Major Nuremberg Trials, compiled 1945 - 1946. Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted. Use Restriction(s): Unrestricted. General Note(s): Use War and Conflict Number 1297 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image. Variant Control Number(s): NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-238-NT-612

Three Cats

Three cats. Artist: Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) Date: 1913. Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 72 × 102 cm (28.3 × 40.2 in) Current location: Current location: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.

Franz Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.

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Francisco Pizarro Funeral of Atahualpa Inca Empire

November 14, 1533 – Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Empire.

Funeral of Atahualpa. Artist: Luis Montero (1828-1869). Date: 1868. Medium: oil on canvas. Current location: Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI)

One of the main events in the conquest of the Incan Empire was the death of Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca on 29 August 1533

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Thanksgiving taking home turkeys from raffle

Title: Thanksgiving - taking home (turkeys) turkies from raffle. Date Created / Published: 1912 Nov. 22. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Rear view of 3 men, each carrying a turkey over his shoulder, on road. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-70874 (b and w film copy neg.) Call Number: LOT 10932 [item] [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

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Notes: Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Birds Turkies; Holidays Thanksgiving; Holidays; Shelf.

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The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up

Title: The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up.  Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner April 23, 1775 – December 19, 1851. Date: 1839. Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 90.7 × 121.6 cm (35.7 × 47.9 in) Current location: National Gallery, Room 34. Accession number: NG524. Credit line: Turner Bequest, 1856

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up is an oil painting executed in 1839 by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. It depicts one of the last second-rate ships of the line which played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the 98-gun ship HMS Temeraire, being towed towards its final berth in Rotherhithe south east London in 1838 to be broken up for scrap. The painting hangs in the National Gallery, London, having been bequeathed to the nation by the artist in 1851.

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Vietnam Women's Memorial

The Vietnam Women's Memorial is probably the most popular tribute to women's contributions to the defense of the nation. It was designed by Glenna Goodacre and dedicated on November 11, 1993. It is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and is located on National Mall in Washington DC, a short distance south of The Wall, north of the Reflecting Pool. Photo by Rudi Williams (American Forces Press Service).

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Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay

Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, reading his speech to open the surrender ceremonies, on board USS Missouri (BB-63).

The representatives of the Allied Powers are behind him, including (from left to right): Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, RN, United Kingdom; Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko, Soviet Union; General Sir Thomas Blamey, Australia; Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canada; General Jacques LeClerc, France; Admiral Conrad E.L. Helfrich, The Netherlands and Air Vice Marshall Leonard M. Isitt, New Zealand. Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army, is just to the right of Air Vice Marshall Isitt. Off camera, to left, are the representative of China, General Hsu Yung-chang, and the U.S. representative, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN. Framed flag in upper left is that flown by Commodore Matthew C. Perry's flagship when she entered Tokyo Bay in 1853.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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Maine Coon Cat

The Maine Coon Cat, or American Longhair, is a breed of domestic cat with distinctive physical appearance and valued hunting skills. It is one of the oldest natural breeds in North America, native to Maine, it is the official State Cat.

Cirrus Minor, called Lara, Maine Coon Cat, female, blue silver tabby mackerel, 11 days before her 8th birthday. I, (Harald Wehner) the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: I (Harald Wehner) grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

Date: June 4, 2006. Source: Self made picture. Author: Harald Wehner. Permission: PD-self.

Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania

November 9, 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.

From the Codex Vigilano Albeldense, detail of folio 428 of the same.
976 Date c 976 AD Author: Unknown

The king opened the synod by claiming he had heard news of Jews overthrowing their Christian rulers and that Iberian Jews were conspiring to end the Christian religion. The council decreed in its eight canon that all Jews, except those in Narbonensis, were to be deprived of their property, which was to be given to their Christian slaves, and enslaved themselves. Their slavekeepers were chosen by the king and were to be contractually obligated to never allow the practice of the Jewish religion again.

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Castle Dracula

Abraham "Bram" Stoker November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912, was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

From Dracula: "In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns.

This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it. I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., I must ask the Count all about them.)"

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Image and Text Credit: Title: Dracula: A Mystery Story. International adventure library. Author: Bram Stoker. Publisher: W. R. Caldwell, 1897. Length: 378 pages. Subjects: Fiction › Horror Fiction / Horror

New York City After Hurricane Sandy

11/02/12 last Friday morning, five days post Sandy, New York City. Looking toward the south from 59th street along a eerily deserted and barricaded 7th avenue..  This Monday morning (11/05/12) i still have friends with no electricity or heat in Manhattan and gas is hard to find. #NYC #architecture #HurricaneSandy #Sandy #NewYorkCity

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Time Warner Center Blue Sky

Time Warner Center. General information. Status: Complete. Location: 10 Columbus Circle, New York City, New York, U.S. Coordinates: 40.768735°N 73.982938°W. Construction started: November 2, 2000. Completed: 2003. Opening: October 4, 2003. Height. Roof: 750 ft (230 m). Technical details: Floor count 55. Elevators: 7.

Design and construction: Architect: David Childs of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Structural engineer: WSP Cantor Seinuk.

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Puss in Boots Caturday

Puss in Boots, illustration c1890 by Carl Offterdinger, January 8, 1829 - January 12, 1889.

Master Cat or, The Booted Cat, commonly known as "Puss in Boots", is a French literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.

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Happy Halloween Friends Matrix zombies, ghouls and demons

Happy Halloween Friends Matrix - Happy Halloween everybody, off to the salt mine see you all later, stay safe and sane. :)

Everybody loves zombies, ghouls and their demon friends on the UWS of Manhattan, West End Avenue at 90th street, 10/26/12. i hope the undead made it through sandy.

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Hurricane Sandy New york City

Hurricane Sandy bids a fond farewell to New york City Looking North from Riverside Park at about 74th street up the Hudson River with New Jersey in the background. 10:00 AM 10/30/12.

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Indian Corn Autumn Harvest

Indian corn Autumn Harvest at "The famous (or infamous, as the case may be) Fairway Market at W. 74th Street and Broadway." New York City, New York. Image and editing by sookietex using GIMP and XnView.

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Autumn Colors Central Park, New York City

Central Park, New York City, New York. 10/26/12, on the west drive at about 65th street looking south with buildings of Columbus Circle in the background.

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This cat escapes the Senate

Title: This cat escapes the Senate with a few of its nine lives left; - will it lose them in the House?  /  J.S.P. Creator(s): Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909, artist. Date Created/Published: N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1902 April 2. Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph.

Summary: Illustration shows a view in the Senate chamber at the U.S. Capitol of a large cat with papers tied around its waist labeled "Ship Subsidy Bill"; it is making a mad dash for a door as senators throw ink pots and books at it while Mark Hanna tries to get them to stop. Senators Vest and Tillman are identified in the foreground as being in opposition to the bill. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-25623 (digital file from original print)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: Illus. in AP101.P7 1902 (Case X) [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print.

Notes: Title from item. Illus. in: Puck, v. 51, no. 1309 (1902 April 2), centerfold. Copyright 1902 by Keppler and Schwarzmann.

Subjects: Hanna, Marcus Alonzo,--1837-1904. Tillman, Benjamin R.--(Benjamin Ryan),--1847-1918. Vest, George Graham,--1830-1904. United States.--Congress.--Senate. Assistance--1900-1910. Boat & ship industry--United States--1900-1910. Legislation--1900-1910. Cats--1900-1910.

Format: Cartoons (Commentary) --1900-1910. Chromolithographs--Color--1900-1910. Periodical illustrations--1900-1910. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History, located at Central Park West and 77th street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located on park grounds across the street from Central Park, the Museum comprises 25 interconnected buildings that house 46 permanent exhibition halls, research laboratories, and its renowned library.

The collections contain over 32 million specimens, The Museum has a scientific staff of more than 200, sponsors over 100 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually.

The entrance on Central Park West, the New York State Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, completed by John Russell Pope in 1936, is an overscaled Beaux-Arts monument. (IMAGE 1)

In 1874, the cornerstone was laid for the Museum's first building, which is now hidden from view by the many buildings in the complex The original Victorian Gothic building, which was opened in 1877, was designed by Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould, both already closely identified with the architecture of Central Park It was soon eclipsed by the south range of the Museum, designed by J. Cleaveland Cady, an exercise in rusticated brownstone neo-Romanesque, influenced by H. H. Richardson. It extends 700 feet along West 77th Street, with corner towers 150 feet (46 m) tall. (IMAGE 2)

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Women's Suffrage parade, NYC 1915

October 23, 1915 – Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.

Women's Suffrage parade, NYC 1915. Title: Suffrage parade, NYC, Oct. 23, 1915. Date Created/Published: 1915 Oct. 23. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Photograph shows four women carrying ballot boxes on a stretcher during a suffrage parade in New York City, New York. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-132968 (b and w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: LOT 11052-4 [item] [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Bain News Service photograph. Title from item. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects: Women's suffrage--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. Political parades and rallies--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. Ballot boxes--1910-1920. Litters--1910-1920. Format: Photographic prints--1910-1920. Collections: Bain Collection.

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Lincoln Douglas Debates

Lincoln Douglas Debates. Image 1 Title: [Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president, three-quarter length portrait, before delivering his Cooper Union address in New York City]  /  Brady, N.Y. Creator(s): Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1822 – January 15, 1896), photographer. Date Created  / Published: 1860 February 27 [printed later] Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver.

Summary: Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly right. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-5803 (b and w film copy neg.) LC-BH8277-242 (b and w film copy neg.) Call Number: Illus. in E457.6 M58 [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York, Privately printed, 1911, p. 51. Ostendorf, no. 17 Meserve, no. 20. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Lincoln, Abraham Portraits Meserve no. 20.

An original carte de visite with the Cooper Union portrait is in: Civil War photograph album, James Wadsworth Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, "...the most famous of the beardless poses, taken by Mathew B. Brady on Monday morning, February 27, 1860, only a few hours before Lincoln delivered his Cooper Union address. That speech and this portrait, Lincoln afterwards said, put him in the White House." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 34-5) Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 34-5.

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Image 2 Title: Stephen A. Douglas. Date Created/Published: [between 1855 and 1865]. Medium: 1 negative : glass, wet collodion. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-00882 (digital file from original neg.)

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Call Number: LC-BH82- 2460 C. [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives--1850-1870. Portrait photographs--1850-1870. Collections: Brady-Handy Collection

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The Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory, oil on canvas painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner April 23, 1775 – December 19, 1851, c. 1806. Medium: oil on canvas. Current location: Tate Gallery, London.

October 21, 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signals almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain's navy unchallenged until the 20th century.

The Battle of Trafalgar ( October 21, 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).

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Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder "Landscape with the Dream of Jacob" by Michael Leopold Lucas Willmann (September 27, 1630 – August 26, 1706) born in Königsberg, Duchy of Prussia. Date ~ 1691. Medium oil on canvas. Dimensions 87 × 106 cm (34.3 × 41.7 in) Current location Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie

Jacob's Ladder (Hebrew: Sulam Yaakov סולם יעקב) is a ladder to heaven that the biblical Patriarch Jacob dreams about during his flight from his brother Esau. It is described in the Book of Genesis.

Genesis 28:10–12 Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. 11. And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. 12. And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

October 18, 1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.

Title: [The interior of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Holy Land] Date Created / Published: [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900] Medium: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02693 (digital file from original)

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Call Number: LOT 13424, no. 055 [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 Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "15013". Forms part of: Views of the Holy Land in the Photochrom print collection.

Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Collections: Photochrom Prints. Part of: Views of the Holy Land

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Cyrus the Great

October 17, 39 BC – Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile. Cyrus allows the Jews to return to Yehud Medinata (Aramaic for "the province of Judah"), and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

What is sometimes referred to as the Edict of Restoration (actually two edicts) described in the Bible as being made by Cyrus the Great left a lasting legacy on the Jewish religion where because of his policies in Babylonia, he is referred to by the people of the Jewish faith, as "the anointed of the Lord" or a "Messiah".

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This is a depction of the biblical character, Emperor Cyrus the Great of Persia, who permitted the Hebrews to return to the Holy Land and rebuild God's Temple. By Jean Fouquet (1420–1481) Date: circa 1470.

Blindfold test

Title: Albany, California. U.S. Department of Agriculture western regional agricultural research laboratory. Blindfold test for flavor of cooked dehydrated spinach. Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer. Date Created / Published: 1942 June. Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-003818-D (b and w film neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Black and White Photographs.

Call Number: LC-USW3- 003818-D [P and P] Other Number: J 58 Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. Notes: Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. LOT 0130 (Location of corresponding print.) Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

Film copy on SIS roll 2, frame 975. Subjects: United States--California--Alameda County--Albany. Format: Safety film negatives. Collections: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives. Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

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Domestic cat

Title: [Domestic cat] Date: Created / Published: [1878?] Medium: 1 drawing : ink ; 6.1 x 9.2 (image), 7.8 x 11.2 cm (sheet) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-jpd-01121 (digital file from original print).

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Access Advisory: Restricted access; material extremely fragile; please use online digital image. Call Number: FP 2 - JPD, no. 1040 (A size) [P and P]. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Social life" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Subjects: Cats--Japan--1870-1880. Manners & customs--Japan--1870-1880. Format: Ink drawings--Japanese--1870-1880. Collections: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915.

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How to Build a FLYING SAUCER

How to Build a FLYING SAUCER - Recently declassified records from the Aeronautical Systems Division, USAF (RG 342 – Records of United States Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations) reveal some surprising, perhaps never-before-seen images.

The below illustration was discovered in the pages of a document titled “Project 1794, Final Development Summary Report” (d.1956) The caption reads “USAF Project 1794”. However, the Air Force had contracted the work out to a Canadian company, Avro Aircraft Limited in Ontario, to construct the disk-shaped craft. According to the same report, it was designed to be a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) plane designed to reach a top speed of Mach 4, with a ceiling of over 100,000 feet, and a range of over 1,000 nautical miles.

This file is a work of an Airman or employee of the United States Air Force, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

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TEXT CREDIT: National Declassification Center (NDC) Blog: by ncarmichael on September 20, 2012. Aero Sys Div, 1969 (RG 342 UD-UP 138; NND 63253; Boxes 35 and 58) By Michael Rhodes.

Cyclist Léon Georget on Bicycle (Track Bike)

Cyclist Léon Georget on Bicycle Track bike. Title: Cyclist L. Georget, Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher. Date Created / Published: 12/1/09 (date created or published later by Bain). Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-04379 (digital file from original neg.) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: LC-B2- 924-3 [P andP] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Notes: Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Format: Glass negatives. Collections: Bain Collection

Rights and Restrictions Information: Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730.

There are no known restrictions on the photographs in the George Grantham Bain Collection.

Access: Permitted; subject to P&P policy on serving originals. Reproduction (photocopying, hand-held camera copying, photoduplication and other forms of copying allowed by "fair use"): Permitted; subject to P&P policy on copying.

Publication and other forms of distribution: No known restrictions. Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-B2-1234]

Leon Georget (October 2, 1879 – November 5, 1949) was a racing cyclist from Preuilly-sur-Claise, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was known as The Father of the Bol d'Or, having won the race nine times between 1903 and 1919 in Paris. He was also nicknamed Big Red or The Brute.

Leon's younger brother Emile was also a very successful cyclist, winning the Bordeaux–Paris and nine stages of the Tour de France. His son Pierre Georget won silver (1000 metres) and bronze medals (tandem) at the 1936 Summer Olympics.