Category Archives: Things Past

Lead & Opium

Posted on June 3, 2015 by ubu507

what could go wrong?

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Mrs. Abraham Crouch (Sophia Jane Withers)

Posted on February 24, 2015 by ubu507

Artist: Unknown American Date: ca. 1805 Medium: watercolor The young wife of Abraham Crouch, Sophia died at age twenty-one and is buried in St. Philip’s churchyard. The portrait was probably painted ca. 1805 when Sophia was in her teens. Gibbes … Continue reading →

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Home Territory

Posted on February 10, 2015 by ubu507

It was my home territory, as I had said, and the lights along the waterfront shone with remembered promise, even if all it had led to was the present. — Ross Macdonald, The Blue Hammer

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Posted on February 7, 2015 by ubu507

Do you remember the day a bee fell in the fire It was don’t you remember the end of summer — Guillaume Apollinaire

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Edinburgh Castle from Greyfriars

Posted on January 10, 2015 by ubu507

1843-47 Robert Adamson. Scottish, 1821-1848 David Octavius Hill British; Scottish, 1802-1870 Salt print from paper negative RISD Musuem

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Technology used to be a lot more fun

Posted on October 14, 2014 by ubu507

Giovanni Mataloni Italian Incandescenza A Gas, 1897 Offset lithograph

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Her body is encircled by a snake

Posted on September 19, 2014 by ubu507

Country of Origin: India Date/Period: 2nd C BC – 2nd C AD / Eskenazi Collection Terracotta statue of serpent goddess / Werner Forman Archive / Bridgeman Images

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The Benghazi Venus

Posted on August 29, 2014 by ubu507

Aphrodite Anadyomene type but cut off (deliberately made this way) at upper thighs Graeco-Roman Provenience: Libya, Benghazi (uncertain) Period: Hellenistic Period Date Made: 150-100 BC Penn Museum

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Tracy Fabian

Posted on May 16, 2014 by ubu507
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Honors Reading Group

Posted on May 7, 2014 by ubu507
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