Robert F. Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy Looking Back 1968 Photograph By Burt Glinn

Photograph by Burt Glinn

Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy in rear-view mirror, 1968

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Actress Shelley Duvall' Braids Her Hair For Coolness And Curlerless Curl'

Actress Shelley Duvall, age 27. (1976)

Title: Actress Shelley Duvall, portrait, 1976
Published caption: BRAIDED FOR SUMMER--Actress Shelley Duvall braids hair for coolness and curlerless curl.
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: May 10, 1976
Subjects: Duvall, Shelley, 1949-
Motion picture actors and actresses--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Genre: News photographs
Phys. descr.: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 35 mm.
Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Photo ID: uclalat_1429_b776_283064A-1
Copyright contact: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988

Changing Times: Los Angeles In Photographs, 1920-1990 UCLA/LOs Angeles Photo Archive

Percussionist Alvin Taylor Gets Processed, LA Times, 1974

At this time, Taylor played drums for The Eric Burdon Band

See also: Rev. Al Sharpton, Little Richard.


Title: Percussionist Alvin Taylor at a salon getting a perm in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974
Published caption: UPTIGHT RELAXER--Alvin Taylor, a rock drummer, gets his relaxed hair body-curled at Ikoyi.
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: December 19, 1974
Subjects: African American men--Clothing & dress--California--Los Angeles--1970-1980
Hairdressing of African Americans--California--Los Angeles--1970-1980
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Taylor, Alvin
Genre: News photographs
Phys. descr.: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 5 x 5 cm.
Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Photo ID: uclalat_1429_b741_279553A-1
Copyright contact: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988

Changing Times: Los Angeles In Photographs, 1920-1990UCLA/Los Angeles Times Photo Archive

Evelyn Nesbit, Victorian Photographic Portrait By Gertrude Käsebier c. 1901

I am fascinated by the conflicting symbolism that I see in these things. I have a reading list about Victorian portraiture of women and such, but I haven't gotten the chance to do any pondering yet.

New York circa 1901. "Evelyn Nesbit, age 16, brought to the studio by Stanford White." A chorus girl turned artists' model, Evelyn Nesbit was at the center of a huge scandal in 1906 when her husband killed her former lover, the architect Stanford White. 8x10 glass negative by Gertrude Käsebier.

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Marilyn Monroe And Arthur Miller-Los Angeles, 1959

Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Los Angeles, 1959.

via: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (UCLA)

Psychic Edgar Cayce--On Dreams Harmon H. Bro (Edited by Hugh Lynn Cayce)

I'm beginning this thing today, and it should be an interesting addition to the bits that I've read over the years about him, and the anecdotal fragments I got from his nephew moons ago when I was a middle-school tyke. This cat was a teacher/headmaster at the school I attended from ages 10-15. In his native Hopkinsville/Kentucky drawl, he pronounced his uncle's name "Ed-Gah". I have also known some interesting people who were also from Hopkinsville, Kentucky. When I think of "Hop-Town", as natives call it, I have this, (unsubstantiated), romantic notion that it's a micro version of Savannah, Georgia, as it was presented in Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil. (The movie). I have not been to Savannah, so I cannot say, (nor do I think), that it's an accurate rendering. It's a nice vision nonetheless.  I even have a friend whose brother committed murder in the heat of passion in Hopkinsville. The story is really frighteningly screenplay-ish.

Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) (pronounced /ˈkeɪsiː/) was an American psychic. He is said to have demonstrated an ability to channel answers to questions on subjects such as health or Atlantis, while in a self-induced trance. Though Cayce considered himself a devout Christian and lived before the emergence of the New Age Movement, some believe he was the founder of the movement and had influence on its teachings.[1]

Cayce became a celebrity toward the end of his life, and the publicity given to his prophecies has overshadowed what to him were usually considered the more important parts of his work, such as healing (the vast majority of his readings were given for people who were sick) and theology (Cayce was a lifelong, devout member of the Disciples of Christ). Skeptics[2] challenge the statement that Cayce demonstrated psychic abilities, and conventional Christians also question his unorthodox answers on religious matters (such as reincarnation and Akashic records). He may have been the source for the idea that California would fall into the Pacific Ocean (though he never said exactly this).[citation needed]

Today there are tens of thousands of Cayce students. Most are located in the United States and Canada, but Edgar Cayce Centers are now found in 25 other countries. The Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE), headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is the major organization promoting interest in Cayce.

Source: Wikipedia

Zoologists Tracking Peruvian Vultures In The 1960s

Zoologist James A. Fowler capturing vulture to place small transistor on its back enabling scientists to study nesting habits.
Location: Peru
Date taken: 1968
Photographer: John Dominis
Size: 883 x 1280 pixels (12.3 x 17.8 inches)

LIFE Magazine Photo Archives

Being Useless Again

This is my virtual airplane (Click on the picture for a larger view). My 21” monitor, the Core Duo Quad computer, the digital 3D joystick, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 9, “A Century of Flight,” is loaded. What you see on the monitor is the control panel of the cockpit of a Boeing 757. I am flying somewhere at night, alone in the dark sky with my virtual colleagues. Actually, this is a corner of my dining room, the place I prefer to work and have my primary computer set up. But in the virtual world, it is the nerve center of a powerful commercial airliner zipping along at 25,000 feet while the earth sleeps below.

If I had a dollar for every hour I have spent flying the simulator, I could probably buy a new house. I have been doing this since the mid 80’s, but I haven’t grown tired of it. I used to play a lot of the “fight-sim” air combat games – dogfights everywhere from Guadalcanal to outer space, but I realized that all of that shooting down and being shot down, bailing out into the ocean and the like was really just a nerve-wracking hassle, and it was not what I really enjoyed about the computer flying games. What I enjoyed was the flying itself. Lifting off from LAX and landing in Denver in a driving snow storm is plenty enough of a life-and-death challenge for me. I don’t need anyone shooting at me to raise my pulse rate.  Click here for the rest of the article

By Tom Gauld: Characters For An Epic Tale

You Will Be Assimilated:

By Tom Gauld, via: Preik

THE O'SULLIVAN SISTERS (Christmas)

"it has now become tradition for riona and i to snap a shot for christmas,
here is one of the more serene stills!"

Cara O'Sullivan

I Heart It.

Quote of the Day – Justice William O. Douglas

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will --- Justice William O. Douglas

Laetitia Sadler-Photograph By Pavla Kopecna

©copyright, Photo By Pavla Kopecna Pavlunka dot com

Laetitia Sadler


My former SO was crushed after she and the dudes of the band in which she was a member were befriended by the kids in Stereolab at Lollapalooza, and then summarily de-friended by them by the next time they met in Europe. Show-Bidness is cruel, eh?

I really love this portrait.

Woman With Basket On Head Louis-Camille D'olivier, circa 1857 George Eastman House "Sexist/Girlie" Category

Olivier, Louis-Camille D'
French (1827-after 1870)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Figure de genre
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Woman with basket on head

1853-1857
PUBLISHER: Societe Photographique, Paris
salted paper print
7.1 x 5.6 cm.
Museum Collection, by exchange
GEH NEG: 36120
85:1008:0003

NON-GEH NUMBER: N. 16

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "An Unknown Master: Louis-Camille d'Olivier", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Corridor, January 5 - March 1, 1987.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(stamped on mount below image) "Exchange No._____" (written on stamp) "2092" (stamped on mount below image) "Depot Legal Seine No._____ 1857" (written on stamp) "4877" (stamped on image and mount) "Biblioth. Imperiale est" (handwritten above image) "N. 16"

NOTES: Museum exchange with Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Cataloged 7/85, DZ. Title from acquisition records, description of image in parentheses.

SUBJECTS:
genre, domestic
dress, ethnic

George Eastman House

The Best Nest, P. D. Eastman, (1968), Beginner Books Random House

The Best Nest, P. D. Eastman, (1968), Beginner Books Random House

Acquired 12-20 with:

Dr. Seuss's A-B-C (1966) BB-Random House
How Your Body Works, (1950)
Edgar Cayce-On Dreams, Harmon Bro Phd.
Pooh Corner, (below), (1961) A.A. Milne/Ernest Shepard, Dutton

A woman tried to wrestle, beg, or buy the Pooh from me before I even had a chance to pay for the pile!

Yard Sale: House At Pooh Corner A.A. Milne (1961 Edition) Decorations By Ernest H. Shepard

House At Pooh Corner A.A. Milne (1961 Edition) Decorations By Ernest H. Shepard

E.P. Dutton & Co, Inc. New York

Annotated by 'Laurel' (Yard Sale)

Fort Duffield

Fort Duffield was a Union installation set on seven steep hills overlooking West Point, Kentucky. It guarded the Union supply depot at West Point on the Ohio River. At one point, a full brigade of troops was garrisoned here, mostly Michigan regulars, although there were elements from Wisconsin and Indiana. We went up there to shoot pictures. I had assumed, before I climbed the hill, that the canons at the fort would be aimed at the river, but they weren’t. There are no canons at the fort now, but during the war, the redoubt faced inland and the canons were aimed toward Kentucky. In the War Between the States, Kentucky was largely sympathetic to the South, although the legislature refused to vote for secession. The mission of Fort Duffield was to protect the supply depot and the Louisville-Nashville turnpike from the Confederates….

…Local ghost hunters AfterDark have done “investigations” on Fort Duffield and believe that the site is haunted. I didn’t see any ghosts when I was up there, but I like to keep an open mind on such things. I do think there is more to this world than meets the eye. Whenever a place is the site of great suffering, death, sorrow or other intense human emotions, it retains an image or echo of that energy. Sensitive persons can feel it, and if you want to call that a haunting, I’m OK with that….

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Circus Knie, Photographed By Lawrence Migdale, (1976) George Eastman House Collection

Migdale, Lawrence
American (b. South Africa, 1951-)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of Male Circus Performer-Circus Knie

1976
gelatin silver print
13.6 x 20.1 cm.
Museum Purchase
77:0019:0008

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Lawrence Migdale", England, London, Half Moon Gallery, July - August, 1976.//
copyright, Lawrence Migdale
NOTES: Circus Knie is the Swiss National Circus. Catalogued 5/90, MMC.
SUBJECT: portrait, male

George Eastman House

Circus Knie, Photographed By Lawrence Migdale, (1976) George Eastman House

There were Circus types before Lawrence Migdale. Before Mary Ellen Mark, before Diane Arbus. Plenty enough to go around.

Migdale, Lawrence 
American (b. South Africa, 1951-)
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Circus Midget at Scenic Overlook-Circus Knie
1976 
gelatin silver print 
13.4 x 19.1 cm. 
Museum Purchase 
77:0019:0031
EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Lawrence Migdale", England, London, Half Moon Gallery, July - August, 1976.//
copyright, Lawrence Migdale
NOTES: Circus Knie is the Swiss National Circus. Catalogued 5/90, MMC.
SUBJECTS: 
occupation, circus performer 
landscape, aerial perspective


George Eastman House Collection