Tag Archives: United States

Liberty

Mole and Thomas, The Human Liberty Bell, 25,000 Officers and Men at Camp Dix, New Jersey, 1918 (130.2003) Mole and Thomas, The Human U.S. Shield, 30,000 Officers and Men, Camp Cluster, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1918 (2013.2.1) Unidentified Photographer, [Soldier], ca. … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Preserving wilderness

Ansel Adams, Sierra Juniper – Mount Hooper, ca. 1929 (306.1991) Ansel Adams, Minarets, Iceberg Lake, ca. 1929 (315.1991) Ansel Adams, Sierra Club Party on Mount Ritter, ca. 1929 (319.1991) Ansel Adams, Mount Conness – Tenaya Lake, ca. 1929 (324.1991) Ansel … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Water is Life: Waterfalls

James Valentine, Seven Sisters Geirangerfjord, ca. 1867 (137.1980) John Edwards Saché, [Canyon and waterfall], 1870s (64.1999) George Barker, [Niagara Falls in Winter], ca. 1890 (2007.56.1) Ansel Adams, Rainbow Falls, Sierra Nevada, California, 1929 (312.1991) Minor White, [Waterfall], ca. 1970 (151.1980.7) … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Six Schools in Hiroshima, 1945

Unidentified Photographer, United States Government, [Interior damage to steel frame of Honkawa Grammar School Auditorium, Hiroshima], November 8, 1945 (2006.1.629) Ground Zero 1,100 Unidentified Photographer, United States Government, [Blast- and fire-damaged ruins of Takeya Grammar School, Hiroshima], October 28, 1945 … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Super Tintype Tuesday

Unidentified Photographer, [Horatio Seymour Campaign Buttons], 1868 (2008.16.1) Horatio Seymour (1810-1886) was a mayor of Utica, member of the New York House of Representatives, two nonconsecutive term New York state governor and unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate in 1868 against Ulysses … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

August 6, 1945

Carl Mydans, Hiroshima, directly after the fog cleared. Catholic Church in foreground, 1945 (1395.2005) Bernard Hoffman, [Residents wander cleared streets bisecting the ruins of buildings reduced to piles of rubble by the atomic bomb, dropped a few months earlier], 1945 (1784.2005) Unidentified … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Road Trip

Stephen Shore, Presidio, Texas, February 21, 1975 (2007.30.2) Lewis Baltz, Park City, interior, I, 1979 (863.1986) William Christenberry, The Bar-B-Q Inn, Greensboro, Alabama, 1977 (2010.23.2) William Eggleston, Memphis, ca. 1972 (226.2003) Lee Friedlander, Kansas City, 1965 (644.1984) The road trip … Continue reading

Posted in Fans in a Flashbulb | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment