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Facial casts of Nias islanders, J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan, 1910 – A Post-Colonial Simulacrum – Dutch History Exhibit – Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – Gaia Son

Sep 28th, 2014

Why do these men look so unhappy and violated?

After 1900, the colonial-military expansion of power in the Dutch East Indies opened it up as an unparalleled area of activity for Europeans. This also applied to the Dutch anthropologist J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan, who conducted research on the physical characteristics of ethnic groups. During a 1910 expedition on Nias he covered the faces of a group of living men with plaster to record their appearance. Numbered casts of these plaster moulds were made in the Netherlands. – Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Posted in: Gaia Son, Netherlands, Post-Colonialism.

Wholesale Grocers’ Sign Revealed on 55 Ludlow Street – Concord Painting Inc. – Glenn Adelson

Sep 25th, 2014

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Other Concord Painting signs featured on FAB:

Fortunoff’s Sign’s Wall Dog Revealed – November 12, 2009
1650 Broadway – The Best Known Address in the Entertainment World – Concord Sign Co. – August 22, 2011

Glenn Adelson
Rigger License # 5652
CONCORD PAINTING INC
212 382 1100
600 Third Avenue 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016
www.concordpainting.com

Posted in: Concord Painting & Sign Co, Fortunoff's, Grocers, Guest Contributor, Lower East Side, Wholesale Grocers.

James Ensor exhibit in the Gemeentemuseum – The Hague, NL – 2011

Sep 25th, 2014

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Courtesy of Gaia Son

The Despair of Pierrot (Jealous Pierrot) 1892

James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. – Wikipedia

Posted in: Art, Gaia Son, Lowlands Correspondent, Masks.

Handelshuis Hilvaria – Hilvaria Trading – Hilvarenbeek, NL – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son

Sep 23rd, 2014

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In the early twentieth century….came Kees Schijvens’ Hilvaria bicycle factory to Diessenweg. Besides bicycles Kees also sold Wertheim sewing machines. – Tilburg Regional Archive

Brides in the Eucharistic procession, followed by the St. Sebastian’s Guild.In the background Handelshuis Hilvaria, owned by the Schijvens family. 1948 – Tilburg Regional Archive

Posted in: Bicycles, Gaia Son, Hilvarenbeek NL, Lowlands Correspondent, Noord Brabant, Sewing Machines.

Jacobs Garage – Dr. Jim’s Lofts – 3450 SE Alder – Portland, OR – Pacific NW Correspondent, Howie Schechter

Sep 22nd, 2014

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Notes from an Early Assistance Appointment held in 2012 (EA 12-120164) identified the building being constructed in 1919 as a warehouse and/or garage, with a 1961 variance (VZ 38-61) allowing the building to be occupied as a nonconforming printing plant and warehouse. – City of Portland, Oregon – Bureau of Development Services – Land Use Services – April 5, 2013

Blueprints from the proposal to convert the existing nonconforming warehouse structure on the site to four dwelling units. – City of Portland http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bds/article/442832

According to the developer, Dr. Jim:

The Dr. Jim’s Lofts imaginatively adapted a turn-of-the-century Standard Dairy building into four single-family lofts ranging from an airy 2-bedroom to a cavernous 4-bedroom. CHANGING PORTLAND 3000^FT AT A TIME.

Posted in: Garages, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Howie Schechter, Pacific NW Correspondent, Portland OR.

Dragonfly Smiles On – International Peace Day – Oh, What Does She Know? #haiku

Sep 21st, 2014

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Posted in: Dragonfly, Haiku, International Day of Peace, NEPA, Poconos.

Electr. Lasschen – Electric Welding – Amsterdam, Centrum – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son

Sep 20th, 2014

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Lasschen is the old-fashioned way of writing ‘lassen’, which means ‘welding’. So ‘Electr. lasschen’ is electric welding.

I am rather overwhelmed with the fact that you are featuring me on your blog so many times in a row. Happy that you like my photos, honored to be your guest blogger! – Gaia Son

It is my pleasure to feature your outstanding photographs!

Posted in: Amsterdam, Gaia Son, Lowlands Correspondent, Welding.

Koffie Rombouts – Antwerpen, BE – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son

Sep 19th, 2014

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ANTWERP (Belgium). Bogie motor car type 7000 (1908-1975). With publicity of “Koffie Rombouts”. Postcard of VETRAMU/AMUTRA No. 39. Photo E. Keutgens. – The Traveler’s Drawer

Alles begint in Antwerpen, waar Frans Rombouts op een dag besluit een brandtrommel te huren om zijn eigen koffie te branden. – It all began in Antwerp, where Frans Rombouts decided one day to rent a coffee roasting drum to roast his own coffee. – Rombouts Website History