#1920 NY

[semioticapocalypse]

Ralph Steiner. Untitled (Clotheslines. Manhattan, New York. 1925

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Edward Hopper, Night Shadows, 1921. Etching on paper.

In Night Shadows, Edward Hopper creates an atmosphere of suspense by placing the audience at a high vantage point, looking down on a lone figure at night. The print demonstrates the vigorous cross-hatching, deeply bitten lines, and heavy inking that are typical of Hopper’s etchings. The starkly white paper and shades of black ink represent an effect called chiaroscuro, which is Italian for “light–dark.” The subjects most identified with Hopper are empty scenes—an isolated house, a vacant room, an abandoned street. These eerie settings, amplified by manipulation of shadow, unusual vantage points, and simple composition, add to the mystery and psychological tension in his work. When Hopper does include figures in his art, they are often alone, weighted by solitude or dwarfed by their modern environment. —Weisman Museum

Photo: Weisman Art Museum, Univ. of Minnesota

[lake-lady]

Looking out the window of an old warehouse

[blondebrainpowered]

Times Square, 1921

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Commercial Photo Finishing. Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY. 1928

[theshatterednotes]

American poet Hayden Carruth

[todaysdocument]

Plaintiff Exhibit X, Letter of Consent for Lou Gehrig. U.S. District Court. Hillerich & Bradsby Company versus The Hanna Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States Series: Equity Cases File Unit: Hillerich and Bradsby Co. vs Hanna Manufacturing Co.

[handwritten at top right] Lou Gehrig Plf [unclear: Ex] [deletion, unclear: N? W?] X [printed] 390 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE [T]o all persons to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: [portion of line hidden by ribbon] THIS I[S] [TO] CERTIFY that the annexed is a true copy from the records [portion of line hidden by ribbon] [word covered: in? of?] [t]his office [typed] of Letter of Consent, filed August 1, 1927, [portion of line hidden by ribbon] in th[e] [ma]tter of the [portion hidden by ribbon] [Tra]de Mark Registered by Hillerich & Bradsby Co., [portion hidden by ribbon] [No]vember 22, 1927, Number 235,598. [seal at left] [printing at right of seal] IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Patent Office to be affixed, at the City of Washington, this [typed] seventeenth [printed] day of [typed] May [printed] , in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three and of the Independence of the United States of American the one hundred and fifty-seventh. [printed below seal] ATTEST: [signature] D E Wilson [printed] Chief of Division. [signature at right] Thomas E. Robertson [printed] Commissioner of Patents. [small printing at bottom left] [unclear numbers: 11-5625] U. S. [unclear: GOVERNMENT] PRINTING [unclear] [unclear: numbers for year?]

[white on black background] [at top right] 391 [letterhead] HILLERICH & BRADSBY CO. INCORPORATED SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED [picture of manufacturing plant] [bat design below picture] [in circle at left of picture] Office & Factory 725-731 South Preston Street [in circle at right of picture] None Genuine Without Our Trade Mark Stamped On Each Bat [below bat design] LOUISVILLE SLUGGER BASE BALL BATS [handwritten at right] N. Y. Amer. [handwritten at left] $25[superiors, underscored]50 - 10/15/23 [crossed out: LOUISVILLE. KY.] [handwritten below] New York Oct 15/1923 [typed] For a valuable consideration, the receipt of which I hereby acknowledge, I, the undersigned, hereby agree to give to Hillerich & Bradsby Co., Incorporated of Louisville, Kentucky, the sole and exclusive rights to use my name and photograph on Base Ball Bats and in advertising same and it can be registered a their Trade Mark. [signature at right] Henry Louis Gehrig [printed] Witness: [signature] Walter C Pipp [signature at right] "Lou" Gehrig [section cut out or superimposed on first of several blank lines below] [handwritten at left] [unclear: Dic] [unclear: ??d] 10/27/23. [unclear: ?r?t] Schmitz Mfg. Co. 10/25/23. [handwritten at right] 252844 [printed at bottom] "USERS OF LOUISVILLE SLUGGER BATS ARE MEMBERS OF BASEBALL'S HALL OF FAME."

[new-york-central-official]

Informational pamphlet from the late 1920s full of photos of Niagara Falls, one of many beautiful locations accessible via the New York Central Lines.

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[dinosaurwithablog]

I love the cars!! The entrance to the park looks so lonely compared to what it looks like now. Trees grow a lot in 100 years. 😁 It's a beautiful arch, isn't it? I used to go to this park a lot in the 70s and 80s. I love the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. It's always a great time!!!

E.O. Hoppe. Washington Square Park. 1920s

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Tony Sarg, The Flatiron Building. From the book Tony Sarg's New York, 1927.

Other posts with illustrations from this book:

The Great White Way

Washington Market

The Stock Exchange

Jefferson Market Police Court

Columbus Circle

Museum of Natural History

City Hall

Source: The Cary Collection

[siffrins-therapist]

👾censoredmandibiles Follow

OK time to settle something

EDIT: this post WAY ended up breaking containment. GO CLUTCH YOUR PEARLS ELSEWHERE

🦑tentacleovi Follow

YO FREE BLOCKLIST IN THE NOTES HOLY SHIT

#RIP OP's notifs #i don't go here but i suggest making popcorn before diving into those notes #some of it is puritan bs you'd expect #some of it is discourse i never even knew existed

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🕷️friendofcharlotte

I think a painting my friend got at a thrift store was painted by Mr. Italy Veneziano? Is there a way to authenticate it? Google isn't helping.

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Try here. Turns out my nan's portrait of her farmhouse was originally painted by Mr. Romano when he was living in NY during the 1920's.

🕷️friendofcharlotte

THANK YOU

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📽️bisexuallightinggoggles Follow

hey yo so the US rep put like 100 hours into playing that game Spiritfarer just this week... anyone want to go check on the guy??

💿newagepirate Follow

There are literally government workers who's literal job it is to check on him

⛰️lesbianmothernature Follow

how tf do you know he put 100 hours into playing a game anyway????

📽️bisexuallightinggoggles Follow

We're friends on Steam. He adds like everyone who asks.

And for everyone in the notes asking what Spiritfarer is it's one of those cozy simulator games here's the trailer.

#isn't the 'deathiversary' of his friend Davie this week? #i'm definitely not the first person to think of that #okay looking at the notes was a mistake #like i'm not one of those ppl who puts #'DNI if your username makes fun of davies death' but #immortal or not #even if it happend centuries ago #you can still be sad your FUCKING FRIEND DIED

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So if I become a citizen of Ladonia can he just... visit me through my computer?

🦝trashypanda Follow

He gets mad when you summon him :(

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"summon him" Like a fucking demon?

🫒shrekbignaturals Follow

We are NOT rehashing that old discourse.

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Oh god I just revived my blog after escaping x/twitter and last time I saw that disk hoarse, my dash was just post after post of this for DAYS

🪄magictrio-dropout

#was there actual discourse about whether the nation-people were demons? #cuz the discourse i saw on my dash was #whether tales of things like demons vampires and #other immortal or 'came back to life' creatures #were born from when the nation-people resurrecting #or like #doing creepy stuff

IDK about tumblr or the first bit (I've personally never heard that at least not from anyone being serious) but the other stuff has been debated in academia for decades! One of my literature professors is ADAMANT that the vampire myth can be traced to old folklore about the reps and them reviving and possibly the blood-drinking comes from an evolution of the myth when before, old stories talked about blood soaking the earth where vampires rose. If anyone's interested, here's where you can find my professor's paper about it.

🎃warongayxmas

So like. *grabs a bat and slowly approaches a hornet's nest* Then does the Jesus story have the same roots then?

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WE 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 RE 👏 HASHING 👏 THAT 👏 DISCOURSE👏

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Wtf happened to my post???

#so did OP become a Ladonian citizen or what?

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MY DAD GOT TO SEE MR ENGLAND LIVE BACK WHEN HE WAS IN A PUNK BAND

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TUMBLR WTF HOW TF DOES THIS VIOLATE GUIDELINES

🏴dinotonugget-deactivated

Finally. Proof that the site runs so shittily bc Mr. Eyebrows works for staff

🫎moosecrossing Follow

Spoke the truth and got fucking killed for it

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[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Balopticons and Accessories. With a Foreword on Visual Education. Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, NY. 1927.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Theater manners, 1927.

Daily News, New York, June 12, 1927

[theshatterednotes]

US poet Richard Wilbur

[escapismsworld]

Fisherman at Saint Ives

1891

Etching

Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA