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At Work: Prints from the Great Depression at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Thomas Hart Benton, Island Hay, 1945, lithograph via artdaily.org
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write…
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.Alvin Toffler
Warsaw, 1946
Extremely poignant and sad picture from 1946Ruins left after 1944 Warsaw uprising (hardly anything at all was left of the city):via
“I see no possibility of a worldwide Luddite rebellion that will smash all machinery to bits…”
I see no possibility of a worldwide Luddite rebellion that will smash all machinery to bits, so we might as well sit back and see what is happening and what will happen to us in a cybernetic world. Resenting a new technology will not halt its prog…
Louis Armstrong at the Pyramids, 1961
‘Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, atop a camel, enchants the ancient sphinx and pyramids at Giza, near Cairo, Egypt, on January 28, 1961. His wife Lucille, lower left, records the scene on film. The Armstrongs are on a U.S. State Department-sponsored Go…
Infamous 1953 Austin-Healey “100” sells for world record £843,000
An Austin-Healey racing car in pristine condition at a pre-race scrutineering soon before it was involved in a historic crash during a race in Le Mans, France, 1955. The disaster at the Le Mans 24-hour race resulted in 84 people being killed after…
Streets of New York, 1950s, by Vivian Maier
‘Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American amateur street photographer who worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago. During those years she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes most often in Chicago, althou…
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