Photos from The Claude C. Matlack Collection.
Snapshots by Jean Thomas, The Traipsin' Woman.
Photos of Africville by Bob Brooks.
Near the Cross: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta.
Botanical and cartographical drawings by Alida Withoos.
A "social history of collecting," entitled Collect: Obsessive, Passionate, Visionary.
Ice, Fire, and Northern Myths.
An exhibition of works by Salvatore C. DiMarco and Gilbert J. Tucker of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Nova Scotia Bird Watercolors by S. Edgar Marsh.
(The illustration at top is from The Panorama Effect.)
but no hope?
ReplyDeletePlenty of hope, but no time!
ReplyDeleteI dug up some hope for you to post.
ReplyDeleteVirgin Airlines to (test)fly on biofuel:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/04/MN6VUQIL9.DTL
New super efficient bike light:
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/02/05/bike_light_that_saved_the_world/
Iraq ratifies Kyoto:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/iraqi-government-tackles-global-warming/index.html
Maybe more later, but there's a start.
With respect to Alida Withoos, all of the plates of the Atlas Moninckx (based on the specimens at the famous Amsterdam Medicus Hortus) to which Withoos contributed, are more easily accessible here (thumbs)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mike! I'll use 'em this week, if I possibly can.
ReplyDeleteThanks to you too, Peacay...that site's a big improvement over mine.