Posts tagged 19th century
"Lifting a wounded or sick soldier," photographer unknown, from United States Sanitary Commission records (1861-1865), NYPL Digital Gallery :: via Hoefler & Frere-Jones
From the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery, which has over 600,000 images from the NYPL's collections. I was searching around with keywords like gesture and posture, and found this: "Three soldiers carry a fourth to demonstrate one stage of the correct method to raise a soldier from a reclining position for carrying." It's clearly not so easy to hoist a comrade and then hold absolutely still for the many seconds necessary to make an 1860s photo.
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Wayne Ave., Dayton, Ohio
Wayne Ave., Dayton, Ohio
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Just a fragment from a longer Sunday "drive" I took around Dayton this morning. Much of the neighborhood around Wayne Street and Xenia Ave. seems down on its heels -- lots of boarded-up doors and windows -- but I liked both the remaining (and reasonably maintained) Victorian detail on this pair of houses, and the added patriotic bunting, which both fits in with the architecture and adds an ephemeral touch, a reminder that people are actively caring for this place.
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