Utterly different, glorious
During 1944 and 1945, this advertisement ran in many American newspapers. I’ve colorized it.
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Saturnalia
Cosmodrome; departure
Worshipful we
“Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel.” Silver, Mesopotamian, between 3100 and 2900 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329074.
Microcosm*
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Allow nine seconds to view this modified image of the American financier Hetty Green (1834-1916). During the Gilded Age she was the richest woman in the United States, famed for that and notorious for her miserliness. The unmodified image can be found online, but I haven’t yet located information about the original photograph beyond a claim that it dates from 1913.
Monument commemorating the spirit of compromise*
* The man in the white shirt is Wilhelm Furtwängler.
Morning hymn
