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Wallabout Bay: 1770 - 1810

1. Ratzer Map (detail), Brooklyn Historical Society, 1770

2. Prison Ships Map, Brooklyn Historical Society, 1776

3. Deed Map of Wallabout Bay, New York State Archives, 1810

I heart wnycradiolab intensely.  

futurejournalismproject:

Friend Him: Isaac Newton is now Online

The University of Cambridge has  begun the process of posting its Sir Isaac Newton collection online. The digital library includes his college notebooks to later sketches, musings and drawings from his work on gravity, mathematics and optics.

Via the University of Cambridge:

The project aims to make Cambridge a digital library for the world and will move on from Newton to some of the University Library’s other world-class collections in the realms of science and faith. These include the archive of the celebrated Board of Longitude and the papers of Charles Darwin…

…Launching the website with more than 4,000 pages of its most important Newton material, the University Library will upload thousands of further pages over the next few months until almost all of its Newton collection is available to view and download anywhere in the world…

…In opening up Newton’s papers to the eyes of the world, the newly digitised archive reveals that not all his peers would have approved of his output being shared quite so openly.

Several of the manuscripts in the collection contain the handwritten line ‘not fit to be printed’, scrawled by Thomas Pellet, a Fellow of the Royal Society, who had been asked to go through Newton’s papers after his death and decide which ones should be published.

Of course, if Newton and Pellet knew then what we know now, nothing created quite remains private.

Cambridge Digital Library | Flickr

Sigh.

These papers are so beautiful.  Will anyone ever generate papers this beautiful again?  Or will the geniuses of our time leave behind a collection of late-night text messages, Excel spreadsheets, and drawings done on paper napkins ringed with Bud Light?

(Sorry. End of rant. Look at the papers, they are truly extremely cool.)

newyorker:

Social-Documentary Photography, Back in Context

Creased prints, poorly reproduced images, frayed publicity materials—not what one expects when one enters a fine-art gallery. “It is not a documentary image, but the documentary mode that we see here on journal pages and exhibition walls,” Maren Stange writes in her introduction to the catalogue for “Social Forces Visualized,” on view at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University.

- For a slide show of photographs from this exhibition: http://nyr.kr/tu8Vzd

All courtesy Community Service Society Records, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

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Launching of the USS Brooklyn, 11/27/1936.  National Archives and Records Administration - Northeast Region