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- Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.
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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:
- NYHS_190531_01.JPG: Childe Hassam
The Fourth of July, 1916 (The Greatest Display of the American Flag Ever Seen in New York, Climax of the Preparedness Parade in May), 1916
- NYHS_190531_08.JPG: Unidentified maker
Cannon worm excavated at Revolutionary War barracks
1760-1763
- NYHS_190531_12.JPG: Tobacco pipe fragments excavated from site of Lovelace Tavern, Pearl Street
- NYHS_191005_01.JPG: P&P Chair Co.
John F. Kennedy's rocking chair, ca 1962
On loan from the Waldorf Astoria New York/Anbang Insurance Group
President John F. Kennedy's high-back rocking chair is a subtle reminder of his private struggle with chronic lower back pain.
Kennedy downplayed his back troubles, attributing them to the rigors of youthful sporting and injuries sustained during the harrowing rescue of his PT boat crew from the waters of the South Pacific in World War II.
In 1955, Dr. Janet Travell, a New York back pain specialist, introduced Kennedy to this rocker style. He liked the low seat and curved back so much that he purchased more than a dozen examples over the years for deployment to frequent haunts like the family estate in Hyannis Port, Camp David, and of course the White House.
Tradition requires all Presidents staying at the Waldorf Astoria to leave a gift. Kennedy's rocker has commanded the Waldorf's Presidential Suite since its arrival in 1962. This chair, along with Cole Porter's piano and the Waldorf's grand lobby clock, arriving in the last summer 2019, are on display in the Smith Gallery during the hotel's renovation.
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- NYHS_191220_11.JPG: Augusta Savage (1892-1962)
Lift Every Voice and Sing, ca 1939
White metal cast with a black patina
Lift Every Voice and Sing is the signature work by Harlem Renaissance leader Augusta Savage. It takes the form of a harp: twelve young black singers wear robes whose folds became the strings of the harp and stand in the hand of God.
The original 16-foot sculpture was the only commission from a black woman artist at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Despite its extraordinary popularity, it was smashed by bulldozers at the fair's close. It survives only through small-scale replicas like the one seen here.
- NYHS_191220_14.JPG: Augusta Savage at work on Lift Every Voice and Sing, 1935-45.
- Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.)
I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com
and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
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