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She embraces the scarlet stigma

One hundred twelve years in the snow

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.10611 — “Thomas Flyer participating in New York-to-Paris automobile race crossing a railroad bridge in Indiana during the winter,” 1908. Photograph by Spooner & Wells; Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017648792/. Post-processed to restore detail.

Clipping from The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette - Newspapers.com — Page 3

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To hold and bestow

Put your hands on your hips

Take big strides. Swing your left foot in front of your right foot, then your right foot in front of your left foot. Blank your face.

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In the air above you, your support group will be soaring.

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If Malevich had lived in Hawaii, he wouldn’t have painted “White on White”

With a chime and a flash, an event becomes historic

HEC/30400/30493a.tif — “Derailed trolley cars, Washington, D.C.,” between 1915 and 1923. Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016885443/. Post-processed for format, detail and contrast.

Clipping from Evening Star - Newspapers.com — The Evening Star (Washington), 5 January 1916, page 10

Where time sleeps with shadow

572148cuaidH — Lester Jones, August 24, 1940, “FIRST FLOOR, STAIRHALL – Shaker Centre Family Dwelling House (Third), North side of Village Road, North of Route 68 & State Route 33, Shakertown, Mercer County, KY.” Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ky0033.color.572148c/. Post-processed for color and detail. Additional data about this series of photographs are at https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ky0033.photos.071803p/.

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Commerce on an inland sea

4a25070aaid3DW — “Board of Commerce excursion, City of Cleveland, Detroit, Mich.,” between 1900 and 1915. Detroit Publishing Company Collectiom Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016810384/. Post-processed to recover contrast and detail.