Posts Tagged ‘1905’
Haystacks or Les Meules by Kees Van Dongen 1904 to 1905
Another painting from the special exhibit at the Pittsburgh Frick museum included this painting from Kees Van Dongen. It is dated between 1904 and 1905 and goes by Haystacks or Les Meules. I love the use of brushstrokes in this painting to show the hay being lifted by the laborer. The painting overall is simple yet these…
Read MorePuck Magazine Thanksgiving 1905 by Carl Hassmann
Paquet Pernot Biscuits Ad circa 1905 by Leonetto Cappiello
Indoor Winter Garden – Nice, France Postcard circa 1890-1900
Biography – Nelson Stow, Inventor of the Flexible Shaft
BORN: Windsor, New York, on September 12, 1828 [as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 27 Nov. 1904-Apr. 1905. Article by Leon Mead] Like many other inventions, the flexible shaft was the product of suggestion or association of ideas. In the course of a chat with Nelson Stow just before his death, a few months ago,…
Read MoreProfile – John R. Freeman, President ASME circa 1905
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 27 Nov. 1904-Apr. 1905] It has been stated more than once, semi humorously, that an essential qualification for prominence in later life seems to be country birth and early education, away from the atmosphere of large towns, and that qualification Mr. Freeman has, having been born in the little…
Read MoreProfile – Albert William Smith, Director Sibley College, Cornell University
Born on August 30, 1856, he lived in Westmoreland, Oneida County, New York, until he entered Cornell University with the class of [18]78. His first position after graduation was with the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, at Providence, R. I. Next he was associated with Professor John E. Sweet at the Straight Line Engine Works,…
Read MoreMy Bed is a Boat by Robert Louis Stevenson
from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1919 My bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark; She girds me in my sailor’s coat And starts me in the dark. At night, I go on board and say Good-night to all my friends on shore; I shut…
Read MoreThe Little Land – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
The Little Land from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 When at home alone I sit And am very tired of it, I have just to shut my eyes To go sailing through the skies – To go sailing far away To the pleasant Land of Play; To the fairy land…
Read MorePicture Books in Winter – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
Picture Books in Winter Summer fading, winter comes – Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books. Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the flowing brooks In the picture story-books. All the pretty things put by, Wait upon the children’s eye, Sheep…
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