Old Pictures

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Brooklyn Supreme was the world's largest horse

and it weighed 3,200 pounds

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Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland,  on the set of Captain Blood, 1935.

Amazing to think that she just passed 2 years ago at age 104,  (July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020)

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Several years ago when we went to see Mount Rushmore I learned from a Park Service Ranger about the Hall of Records. No one is allowed to go there, which seems ... wrong. When I told the Ranger that, he said that's the law and walked off. I hate it everytime I learn that there are places in America that we support with taxpayer money that we aren't allowed to frickin see or even get near ... anyway, before I rant:

Gutzon Borglum had long dreamed of creating a written description to accompany the giant sculpture on Mount Rushmore. The original idea for the memorial included a large inscription or entablature to be carved alongside the figures. The entablature would describe the nine most important events in the history of the United States from 1776 to 1906 (From Washington to Roosevelt. It was to be about 80 by 120 feet in the shape of the Louisiana Purchase. This plan failed for two critical reasons. First, the text could not be made large enough to read at such a great distance. Also, after relocating the Jefferson head, that section of the mountain was needed for the Lincoln head. Because of these difficulties, another more lasting plan was developed.
Borglum next planned to create a large room within the mountain. This chamber would hold the documents and artifacts most central to American democratic history. The proposed large room, 80 by 100 feet was to be drilled into the north wall of the small canyon behind the faces. His scheme also called for an 800-foot granite stairway to reach the room. The steps would begin near his studio, rise gradually to meet the canyon mouth behind Lincoln’s head, and then lead to the entrance of the great hall.
The recesses inside this hall would house bronze and glass cabinets containing important historical documents, such as the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Also included in the hall would be busts of famous Americans and a list of U.S. contributions to the world in science, industry and the arts.
The entrance would be 20 feet high by 14 feet wide with cast glass doors opening into a higher chamber. A bronze eagle, with a wingspread of 38 feet, would be placed above the door. Words inscribed over the eagle would read: "America’s Onward March" and "The Hall of Records."
Construction of the hall took place between July 1938 and July 1939, when a 70-foot tunnel was blasted into the mountain. It remains very rough cut, and tapers to a point at the back. Work halted in 1939 when Congress directed that construction should be executed only on the faces. With Borglum’s death in 1941 and American involvement in World War II, all work on the memorial came to a close on October 31, 1941.
Although Borglum’s grand scheme for the Hall of Records had to be abandoned, the idea remained. On August 9, 1998, Gutzon Borglum’s dream was completed when a repository of records was placed in the floor of the hall entry. This repository consists of a teakwood box, inside a titanium vault, covered by a granite capstone. Etched on the capstone is the following quote by Gutzon Borglum:
"...let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away."
The repository contains sixteen porcelain enamel panels. Inscribed on the panels is the story of how Mount Rushmore came to be carved, who carved it, the reasons for selecting the four presidents depicted on the mountain and a short history of the United States. This repository is not accessible to visitors but is left as a record for people thousands of years from now who may wonder how and why Mount Rushmore was carved.

[VinD]

On 11/10/2022 at 3:06 PM, pipedreams said:

Colourised images show the joy amidst the horror of the Blitz during WWII.

Colourised by Angelina Karpunina

Dancer Ena Squire-Brown leaving a bombed house to marry RAF officer J. C. Martin on November 5, 1940 in London. This 82-year-old image has been colourised for the first time by Angelina Karpunina

 

An unknown woman pictured drinking tea on a pile of rubble. Colourist Angelina Karpunina.

My Wife is Swiss but grew up in England, "when all else fails have a cuppa", when things are bad "have a cuppa" tea is the answer to all!

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Pastor’s and sisters’ residences, St. George’s Church, 1890

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A team of two horses is harnessed to a highly polished carriage with a side lamp, 1890

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Five High Wheeler Bicycle Riders, 1890.

Grand Avenue Congregational Church is in the background.

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Poisoned Glen Church ~ Ireland

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Cologne Cathedral or Kölner Dom,

the tallest twin-spired church in the world.

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Bricklayer 1929

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[janice6]

4 hours ago, pipedreams said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KEhWTnWvE

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A-10 X-Wing Prototype

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Amanda Young was about 18 when she was photographed with her hair loose and flowing — a rare sight in the waning years of the 19th century. Born Aug. 24, 1875, in Cuffy’s Cove, Calif., she moved from California with her family by covered wagon, arriving in Mossyrock in 1882. While traveling to this area, the family carried $2,000 in gold coins concealed in the ashes of the family’s cooking equipment. Amanda later married George Harvey Landes of Mossyrock. She died in 1965 at age 89.

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Photograph shows Anne Louisa Ide Cockran, wife of William Bourke Cockran holding a

M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle outside of an event to raise money for the war effort during World War I.