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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This photograph of the bollards that run down 2nd Street SE next to the Adams Building was taken in late 2010. What caught my eye was how the bollards with just a bit of snow on top reminded me of the paintings of ladies wearing powdered wigs and ruffs, collars, or fichu. At first I …
Posted in: John Adams Building, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
… [Eleanor Lambert] realized that the American fashion industry, along with the individual designers deserved to be treated as equals on the world stage. From that moment on, this idea would become her driving passion. (John Tiffany, Eleanor Lambert: Still Here, Pointed Leaf Press, c2011: p.19) On Thursday February 2, 2012 we are hosted a …
Posted in: Biography, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos, Women's History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
I pretty much see the same thing every time I look out of my office window. Except one day last week! That’s when I glanced out and saw these two men working on the roof of the Jefferson Building. This photo makes the photos in two previous Pic of the Week posts – one of …
Posted in: Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Disregard what you learned from the history books about the first sound movie, first color TV program, first stereo broadcast….because opera did it first! Some of the first synchronized sound movies were of opera arias shown at the Phono-Cinema-Theatre at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair. A sound movie of the complete opera Faust was released …
Posted in: Inventions, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos