» 1940s http://nothing-is-new.com Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:41:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 AZ – IRENE’S BEADWORK. http://nothing-is-new.com/2010/07/01/irenes-beadwork/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2010/07/01/irenes-beadwork/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:13:29 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=4063

In real life I would boycott an Arizona tour but virtually I will admire its photograph collection. Apache woman, Irene, doing beadwork at Whiteriver, Arizona, 1940.
via Cline Library – Northern Arizona University

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Alaska is a beautiful land, with lush vibrant archives.
Thanks to Weird Friends for turning me onto the wonders of digital Alaska many months ago.

1. $1,250,000 clean up
2. A woman gathering walrus intestines
3. Masks on exhibit in display case with mounted birds on top
4. Robe
5. Lilly Abbot Nigh, Haines, Alaska, skin sewing, Alaska, Skin 1-2-47.
6. Pocahontas of the North

via Alaska’s Digital Archives

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Swimsuits. Out of water.
via Monroe County Library

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Calligraphy, gradients, marbling, photo-montage—it’s all so contemporary!
Displayed here are dust jackets from the 1940s collected by anonymous librarians.

Despite the fact that dust jackets often include useful information about a book and its author, including biographical notes and often a portrait, it has long been Research Libraries practice to remove the jackets from new books during processing for their permanent place in the stacks. However, from 1926 to 1947, anonymous librarians selected and saved interesting jackets from books of all sorts.

via NYPL Digital Gallery – Dust Jackets from American and European Books, 1926-1947

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Federal Art Project posters, 1930-1950.
Some of the posters I have no idea what they are talking about. Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief...???
Do you?
via Library of Congress

PS: Please excuse the lack of posts.
I’ve been busy weaving baskets, touring the NYPL, watching movies & hiking.
Offline livin’!

 

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Rural life in South Africa, 1946-1947. Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee. I’m reading Martha Quest by Doris Lessing which takes place on South African farmlands on the cusp of WWII. Maybe it looked something like this?
via Smithsonian Photography Initiative

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