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artist-eakins:

William Rush Carving The Allegorical Figure Of The Schuylkill, Thomas Eakins

https://www.wikiart.org/en/thomas-eakins/william-rush-carving-the-allegorical-figure-of-the-schuylkill

jumy-m:

水平線までの距離 / Distance to The Horizon #4
- Jumy-M

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route22ny:

Second Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, probably looking north from 78th Street, as seen in a circa 1900 postcard view.  The neighborhood, virtually a suburb at this time, underwent some street name changes after 1906 as real estate speculation associated with the anticipated arrival of the subway system spurred a drive to burnish the area’s image.  Second Avenue was renamed Ridge Boulevard and First Avenue was renamed Colonial Road.

“There is a move on foot to change the names of First and Second avenues, in the Bay Ridge end of the borough,” the Brooklyn Eagle reported on January 4, 1906, “and if the old time residents in that locality are not wide awake, they will see painted upon the lamp posts and fences names that perhaps would not be in keeping with the old settlement.”

“It had been told around Bay Ridge,” the paper continued, “that the section, so far as its advantages as a residential place are concerned, would be greatly improved should the names of the avenues be changed.”

This wasn’t an uncommon tactic for 20th-century Brooklyn developers to use, hoping to attract new buyers: in Gravesend, Avenue R is “Highlawn Avenue” for a spell; in today’s “Ditmas Park,” names like Stratford, Westminster and Marlborough were assigned in 1901 to lend faux British dignity to E. 11th through E. 15th streets. And so on.

More info at the source for the above image & quoted text here.

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