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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NYPL_180815_01.JPG: Inscribed here are the words of an immigrant whose life was transformed by the Library and whose estate now encircles it. In Memory Martin Radtke 1883-1973 I had little opportunity for formal education as a young man in Lithuania, and I am deeply indebted to The New York Public Library for the opportunity to educate myself. In appreciation, I have given the Library my estate with the wish that it be used so that others can have the same opportunity made available to me.
2. NYPL_180815_04.JPG: The City of New York has erected this building to be maintained forever as a free library for the use of the people. Benefactors 1848-1918 John Jacob Astor ... Alexander Hamilton ... Samuel Jones Tilden ... Andrew Carnegie ...
3. NYPL_180815_11.JPG: In the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. Benefactors 1918-1948 ... Payne Whitney ... John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ... William Sloane ... George Arents ...
4. NYPL_180815_15.JPG: Benefactors 1958-1968 ... Rockefeller Brothers Fund Elihu Root Jr. ... The Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation ... Jerome Robbins ...
5. NYPL_180815_19.JPG: Benefactors 1948-1958 ... The Carnegie Corporation of New York The Rockefeller Foundation ... Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Louis Mayer Rabinowitz ...
6. NYPL_180815_24.JPG: Benefactors 1968-1978 ... Robert E. Lee ... Arthur Vining Davis ... The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ... Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger ... Arnold and Joan Saltzman
7. NYPL_180815_26.JPG: Benefactors 1978-1986 DeWitt Wallace Time Incorporated Laurance S. Rockefeller CBS, Inc. Billy Rose Foundation David Rockefeller Ford Foundation ... Enid Annenberg Haupt ... Miriam and Ira D. Wallach ... The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. ... Exxon Corporation ... The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation ... Barbara Wertheim Tuchman ... Manufacturers Hanover Corporation The Charles A. Dana Foundation The Pew Memorial Trust The Kresge Foundation ... AT&T
8. NYPL_180815_27.JPG: Benefactors 1992-2003 ... RJR Nabisco Chemical Bank Bill Blass ... Citibank ... Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. Paine Webber Group Inc. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company The Bank of New York Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. W.K. Kellogg Foundation Time Warner Inc. ... IBM Corporation ... The Louis Calder FOundation ... The Freedom Forum ... Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Grunwald The William Randolph Hearst Foundation ...
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2018 photos: Overnight trips this year: (February) Greenville, NC for a Civil War Trust conference,, (May/June) Newport News, VA for another CWT conference, (July) my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles), (August twice, October) three trips to New York City (including New York Comic-Con), and (September) Chicago, IL for my CWT swansong event. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.
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