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Estampe XII: activity at the edge of an emptiness
On November 16, 1919, someone named George B. Parks notified what was then called The New York Times Review of Books that a book purporting to be a war memoir was so factually inaccurate that it...
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Estampe XVII: Photoshop against encroaching decay
Source: Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994017520/PP/. Photoshopped.
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The express from Byzantium
In the Library of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994016929/PP/, this photograph has gone white with lost detail. We pretty much have to take the librarians’ word that it depicts a...
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“Disaster” means “ill star”
Source: “Elevated car falls to street 2/16/14.” George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002699891/. Photoshopped.
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Theory of art: through labor we become worthy of play
Miniature railway, Coney Island, New York, 1905. Source: Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/item/det1994015437/PP/. Photoshopped.
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Estampe XXIV: former transports
Source: Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/item/det1994000820/PP/. 1904. Photoshopped.
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Estampe XXVIII: American Pre-Raphaelite
Source: Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994006391/PP/. Photoshopped.
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Art deco 1943: silverware for the streamline age
Source: Rare Book Division,The New York Public Library. “Burlington Zephyrs” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1943....
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In 1910, she dreams
of 1910, which is less a time than a world which fully contains her life, giving it a body and clothes to shape and color it. Source: E. S. Yates, lithograph “Twentieth Century Transportation,” 1910....
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Product placement with revelation
As they soared over the junction where the streetcar track divided and transport could go two-way, it happened. Suddenly the beer bottle grew huge and the white man in the boater looked up in surprise...
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