Click here to view original web page at www.stlamerican.com Tamara Lanier and Benjamin Crump, her co-lead counsel A Connecticut woman has accused Harvard University of the wrongful seizure, possession and monetization of photographic images of her family’s patriarch, an enslaved African man named Renty, and his daughter, Delia, according to a filing in Middlesex County […]
No Pumpkin Or Cat Silhouette Images, Please
I went scavenging at Pixabay.com for images to use on this blog this month, October, and quickly became bored with orange pumpkins, cutout silhouettes of cats, and depictions of ugly crone witches. So I found some images that are not unique or totally original, but that have a truth of season in them. Foggy field. With orange, […]
Friday Find – Photo Watermark by Ifunia
I am returning to my old ways. Sounds scary no? Actually it just means a bit more organization for me and predictability for you. I used to do Wednesday App of the Week. But today is Thursday and this post will go live tomorrow. So Wednesday App of the Week is transforming into a Friday […]
Along the Way Were Images of Rainboots and Love
I have to tell you that I have fallen in love with the place my step-daughter lives… and some of the material items with which she has almost accidentally decorated her home. Above you see the loveliness that may be found on her front porch. Sometimes materialism gets a bad rap. Material items reflect our […]
More Victorian-era "Eastern" Graphics
Yesterday I found some Japanese designs from 1860, today I’m sharing some 1890s illustrations that are definitely western interpretations of eastern subjects. These two graphics, that I have altered for my purposes, are from a book entitled Gospel of Buddha published in 1894 and reprinted in 1917. The lotus and ivy frame appeared on a […]
Old Book Images
I love ’em. What can I say? It reminds me of pouring over printed pages and illustrations from old books that my parents stored away. They were textbooks and pulp novels from the late 19th Century through the early 20th. Even if I did not want to read the book cover to cover, I would […]