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*Holiday* magazine, August 1960 #illustration #illustrationart #TrianonPalace #Versailles #garden #France #furniture #design #furnituredesign #Broyhill #interiordesign #interiordecoration

Photo Library of Congress @livingnewdeal.bsky.social #photography #photographers #RussellLee #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #FarmSecurityAdministration #FSA

Slate roof, #Greenbelt, #Maryland Carl Mydans (1907-2004), Resettlement Administration #Photography Project August 1936 #PhotographyIsArt #blackandwhitephotography #Photographer #CarlMydans #NewDeal #ResettlementAdministration #RA #housing #Construction #roofing #slate

image and words quaoted from galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-140130-b...

in the building and the others prepared to sleep on the sidewalks." An anonymous donor gave the veterans permission to use the building.’ #GreatDepression

plans & no arrangements for housing. According to the [Chicago] Tribune, "The marchers were weak from lack of food & rested on the curb while food was being prepared in an emergency kitchen inside. Only a small portion of the (300) veterans were able to find sleeping quarters ➡️

The #engineer in the machine room of the DO X operated the throttles of the 12 engines. 1930. Upper deck: cockpit, navigational office, engine control & radio rooms #Dornier #FlyingBoat #SeaPlane #photography #blackandwhitephotography #aviation #airtravel

The dining room, August 1930 3 decks. Main deck: smoking room with wet bar; a dining salon; seating/sleeping berths (for 66). Aft: all-electric galley; lavatories; cargo hold #Dornier #FlyingBoat #SeaPlane #photography #blackandwhitephotography #aviation #airtravel

the B.I.S. developed rigorous & systematic technical plans for #spaceexploration, complete also with rocket, lunar module & space suit, expanding on projects they had developed in the late 1930s (drawings & illustrations by #RASmith). #spacetravel #spacestation #BIS

30m-diameter habitation zone; 60m-diameter mirror (for ca. 1000 kW). Indeed, after #WW2 ➡️

In 1948 #HarryRoss and #RalphSmith of the #BritishInterplanetarySociety (B.I.S.) would design a space station to have a staff of 24 astronauts based on Noordung’s proposal:

First-ever detailed technical plans for a space station - 3 units linked by umbilical cables: habitation wheel (solar energy collected by concave mirror) whose centrifugal motion was to compensate for the lack of gravity; observatory; machine room (plans & illus. from Noordung).

Within, excerpts, presented for the first time in English, from electrical engineer & #astronautics theorist #HermannNoordung (= #HermanPotočnik 1892-1929), *Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums - der Raketen-Motor* (*The Problem of Space Travel - The Rocket Motor* 1928) ➡️

It's quite a fun story, and in this case the full issue can be found at at archive.org/details/coll..., so enjoy!

*The Saturday Evening Post*, August 3, 1957 #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DomLupo #GeneralTelephone #telecommunications

Hamlen Hunt, “Witness of Happiness” ‘Did he recognize her? Octavia wondered. Did he observe her life as she did his? Perhaps he would have liked to know her, too – and perhaps he had tried’ *Collier’s*, August 2, 1952 #HamlenHunt #mensfashion #womensfashion #1950s

In this friendly, freedom-loving land of ours – beer belongs . . . enjoy it!’ ‘America’s Beverage of Moderation’ United States Brewers Foundation *Collier’s*, August 2, 1952 #beer #ale #DouglassCrockwell #gardening #vegetablegarden #sweetcorn #mensfashion #womensfashion #1950s

3: ‘At evening, when the slaves drop wearily to rest, Val washes away the stains of toil and brushes his glossy hair. He makes himself in all ways different from his fellows. #PrinceValiant #HalFoster #HaroldFoster

2: ‘In the fields Val sets the pace; he laughs and sings and shouts encouragement. The hopeless slaves respond and work like men.’ #PrinceValiant #HalFoster #HaroldFoster #irrigation #farming

‘Each night he softly sings the romantic love-ballads of all the lands he has visited. Bernice hears; she leaves the women’s quarters and comes to a little window above the slave-compound to listen. She is interested, Val has gained the first step.’ #PrinceValiant #HalFoster