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At Night The Glitterng Lights of Fifty-Six Cities Far Below!

The Great Mount Lowe Trip
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Incline
Echo
1894 - World’s largest searchlight delivered to Echo Mountain
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3 levels Circular Bridge
Scenic Mt. Lowe Then and Now
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Railroad Boosters last run 1937
also the last hurrah
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The Angeles National Forest
and Mt. Lowe Committee Volunteer Group's
Annual Mt. Lowe Excursion December 03, 2005
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LA Transit Lines cars awaiting their fate at Wilmington
California Trolleys (fixed)
Harry Marnell (an abundance of California trolley links)
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Savant Passes

Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, known the world over as the discoverer of the formulae for making water gas and artificial ice, famous as an aeronaut during the Civil war, builder of the incline railroad up Mt. Lowe and a pioneer in Southern California enterprises, died at 4:45 o'clock this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Edna Wright, 280 South Euclid Avenue.
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At the time of his death Professor Lowe was working on plans for a dirigible balloon to be operated in Southern California.

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Images of Professor Thaddeus S. Lowe at LoC:

Lowe observing the battle from his balloon Intrepid
Fair Oaks Va. May 31, 1861

Lowe's "Balloon Camp" Gaines Mill, Va., May 1862

Prof. T.S.C. Lowe, Civil War balloonist

Lowe replenishing balloon Intrepid from balloon Constitution

Lowe prepares to ascend

Isolina Maldonado 1921 (detail)
Robert Henri
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Two Women 1924 (detail)
George Bellows
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Spring in Georgia 1942 (detail)
Andrée Ruellan
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Deirdre 1940 (detail)
Dorothea Tanning
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Georgia Museum of Art
Univ. of Georgia, Athens

Also:

Winslow Homer Butterflies
George Bellows The Picnic
Christian Bérard Portrait of Tamara Toumanova
Eugene Berman Perspective of Columns at Paestum

details:


Butterflies (The Butterfly Girl, Summer) 1878
Winslow Homer




The Picnic 1924
George Bellows


Portrait of Tamara Toumanova 1931
Christian Bérard


Perspective of Columns at Paestum 1959-60
Eugene Berman

Updated! With links, attributions, and more!
All images from the Library of Congress - search string: "dog"


Bathing beauties - 1913 (detail)
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Leonzo Bros. sensational artists and the great dog, Tiger (detail)
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Dogs teach us that love sees through the superficial.
I watched the original "The Fly" on cable Tuesday. A movie that scared me thoroughly as a boy.
Dogs - motoring September,1910
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Treed (detail)
full image here
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Na dachie (At the dacha) (detail)
Prokudin-Gorskii
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Space dogs Belka and Strelka, which safely
returned to Earth from the space ship (detail)
full image here
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O’er folded blooms
On swirls of musk,
The beetle booms adown the glooms
And bumps along the dusk.

The Beetle
James Whitcomb Riley

Riley surrounded by children and holding dog
Riley's the source of that "Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck..."
Riley at Gutenberg
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Theo. Roosevelt's children burying a dog in the sand
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Job Small and dog
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"Shep", a collie dog which chewed off his front legs when caught in a trap, walking upright with John Rattigan, Omaha, Nebraska 1930
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House proud
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Stoltzfus family with two dogs
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Very famous musical dog
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Dogs choosing their sleeping quarters for the night - Constantinople July 17, 1911
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Geraldine Farrar holding dog
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George Bakhmeteff standing alongside carriage on which his wife is seated, with dog. Washington, D.C. 1912.
Bakhmeteff was the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. under Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia.
Mrs. Bakhmeteff was the the sister of a man not unfamiliar with scandal.
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Mr. Oliver's school, Ras-el-Matn, Lebanon 1940-46
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Large dog resting front paws and head on footstool, chicken perched on dog's collar, small child seated on fur rug gazing at them
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Gratuitous chicken entry
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The capable hands of this craftsman belie the adage that an old dog cannot learn new tricks
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Dog show, East Hampton, Long Island between 1933 and 1942
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Charlie Chaplin with dog "Scraps" in A Dog's Life
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A little log cabin now occupied by a small family (F.T. Castle) who are gradually giving up farming and depending upon mining and odd jobs. Oct. 12, 1921. Location: Big Chimney, West Virginia
Photo by Lewis W. Hine
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Long Time Dog
Hidatsa Indian
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Boy and girl with two dogs and a wagon
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Gratuitous kitchen entry
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Gratuitous monument on the tomb of Hadzi-Husein-bek supplied by Tamerlane entry
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Gratuitous Bahamian recording expedition of Alan Lomax entry -
"She is 19 and what she calls fast."
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Fifth Avenue, New York City 1915
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sleeping dog
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Anna Roosevelt with "Chief of the Mohawk"