All from the Louise Nevelson Papers, 1903-1979. Part of my Archives of American Art vacation series.
Archive for the ‘collections’ Category
Archives of American Art, part 3: Louise Nevelson Papers
Thursday, October 1st, 2009Archives of American Art, part 2: Joseph Cornell Papers
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
All from the Joseph Cornell Papers, 1804-1986 . Part of my Archives of American Art vacation series.
Archives of American Art, part 1: Alexander Calder Papers
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
All from the Alexander Calder Papers, 1926-1967
(I decided to be very slightly lazy about preparing posts before I go on vacation, so this will be the first in a series featuring collections from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. Each post will follow my usual tendency to look for unique, possibly atypical but revealing items from a digitized collection)
Photos of non-traditional fire dogs, May 09 edition
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Barbara Mortenson, fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, New Hampshire, with Great Dane “Brenda”
“She keeps her dog on a leash because of porcupines.”
“She says that without her dog she could not hold down her job.”
via Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Photos of non-traditional fire dogs, April 09 edition
Thursday, April 9th, 2009See last month’s post for the origins of my new collection. This month’s photos, from 1929, feature Chicago Deputy Fire Marshal Daniel J. Carmody with two excellent Boston terriers.
Via Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933, Chicago History Museum.
New collection: photos of non-traditional fire dogs
Thursday, March 12th, 2009We suffer through a lot of pointless fire alarms at my workplace. It’s a combination of our perpetual state of construction and, I think, people nipping into the stairwells for a smoke. The fire station is a block north of us, so the firefighters are usually in and out within fifteen minutes.
One time they brought the fire dog! It was a black and white pit bull. It sat in the front of the fire truck with its head sticking out the window while the firefighters went in. I loved that it was not a Dalmatian, but still had the same color scheme. I’m starting this collection in honor of non-Dalmatian, I mean non-traditional,* fire dogs.
The first two photos in this collection have a secondary theme, which is “fire dogs wearing hats and smoking pipes”
via PitBulls on the Web:
via American Museum of Photography:
I have a few others to share, but let me know if you find more!
*Look, nothing personal if you love Dalmatians, but I don’t care for them. Plus they shouldn’t get all the credit for fighting fires.
Midge update
Monday, February 16th, 2009When Holly found out I have a new collection of characters named Midge, she pointed out that I was missing one must-have:
This Midge was Barbie’s less attractive BFF in the early 60s, until Barbie threw her over (for Francie, I guess).
It’s a well-known fact that Midges are usually sidekicks.
I knew Jon would want me to add Midge Ure, but I’m holding off on this acquisition because I think he’s out of scope for my collection: He’s a character, but not a fictional one.
New collection
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009I’m collecting characters named Midge:
Let me know if you see any!
Midge is also my 70-year old alter ego who lives in Palm Springs. She wears tangerine lipstick and drinks Tom Collins.