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1. SIPGSC_090124_04.JPG: Thomas Edison's tin-foil phonograph. This early photograph, patented by Thomas Edison in 1878, gave the world the ability to replicate sound. Although an earlier machine by Charles Cross could record sound waves, Edison's invention was the first with the ability to play them back. This model, which Edison presented to the Smithsonian in 1916, used a tinfoil cylinder to capture the sound, a feature that was later replaced with wax.
2. SIPGSC_090124_30.JPG: Singer's sewing machine patent
3. SIPGSC_090425_04.JPG: Concord Minute Man of 1775: by Daniel Chester French, 1888, cast 1917: French modeled this statuette after his full-size "Minute Man," dedicated in 1875 in Concord, Massachusetts. The original statue was cast in bronze melted down from Civil War cannons and memorialized Captain Isaac Davis, the first officer killed in the historic battle at North Bridge. French borrowed the noble pose from a classical sculpture but clothed his figure in homespun. The humble and resolute farmer strides towards the enemy, his musket at the ready, leaving behind a plow that represents the land he fights for. Artists and writers in the 1870s and 1880s worked to heal the ravages of the Civil War by creating mythic images of the nation's founding. The minute man, the Pilgrim, and the Puritan were the most powerful and comforting symbols of an earlier era when America was united. The plow standing at the ready evokes a peaceful future, and the passage from Isaiah promises "they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
4. SIPGSC_090425_11.JPG: The Puritan: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, about 1899: Augustus Saint-Gaudens enlisted Chester Chapin, a sixth-generation descendant of Deacon Samuel Chapin of Springfield, Massachusetts, to pose for The Puritan. A billowing cape emphasizes the man's powerful stride and an enormous Bible evokes the austere faith that governed the Puritan colonies. After the Civil War, such images reinforced the idea that Anglo Saxon, Protestant convictions had guided the nation through its gravest crisis. Longfellow's New England, "old and yet ever new, and simple and beautiful always" reassured Americans dealing with industrialization and the flood of immigrants during the expansive years of the Golden Age. The Puritan was unveiled in Springfield on Thanksgiving Day, 1887, and Saint-Gaudens produced a number of smaller statues to meet the demand for replicas.
5. SIPGSC_090502_03.JPG: Dixie Guthrie @ Smithsonian American Art Museum
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2009 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs. I've also got a Nikon D90 and a newer Fuji -- the S200EHX -- both of which are nice but I still prefer the flexibility of the Fuji. Trips this year: Niagara Falls, NY, New York City, Civil War Trust conferences in Gettysburg, PA and Springfield, IL, and my 4th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles, Yosemite, Death Valley, Kings Canyon, Joshua Tree, etc). Ego strokes: I had a picture of a Lincoln-Obama cupcake sculpture published in Civil War Times and WUSA-9, the local CBS affiliate, ran a quick piece on me. A picture that I took at the annual Abraham Lincoln Symposium appeared in the National Archives' "Prologue" magazine. I became a volunteer with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Number of photos taken this year: 417,000.
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