De Leeuw, Rudolph M. Both Sides of Broadway, from Bowling Green to Central Park, New York City. New York City (The De Leeuw Riehl Pub. Co.) 1910. [46491]
In 1910, author-publisher-photographer Rudolph M. De Leeuw realized his entrepreneurial ambition of publishing a building-by-building sequential photographic survey of the most famous street in America. Both Sides of Broadway presented viewers near and far with a novel opportunity to stroll along the great New York City thoroughfare without so much as leaving their armchairs.
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Unique Dossier.- “Propaganda; British Frontier Service / 511. Vol. II: Opened 30-2-65, Closed 18 Jun 69.” [46337]
Front of DDR aerial propaganda leaflet: Alles Hat Seine Grenzen! Es gibt sie beim Minirock... (Everything has its limit! Even miniskirts...)
In the mid 1960s, a heated barrage of artillery over the inner German border (separating the Soviet and Western occupation zones) delivered neither explosives nor shrapnel, but aerial propaganda leaflets. This was, after all, the cold war, and neither side wanted to risk an incident that could lead to World War III. From Lübeck and Schmidekopf, British Frontier Service operatives deployed to monitor and ameliorate tensions between the two sides kept a tidy, no-nonsense record of the exchange, thereby documenting its remarkable absurdities. [click to continue…]
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Contra,
DDR,
Gaby Seyfert,
Hilde Benjamin,
Nationale Volksarmee,
NVA,
propaganda balloons,
propaganda rockets,
The Demarcation Line
Stein, Aurel. Serindia. Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China. 5 vols. Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1921. [46224]
Serindia, Vol. IV, Plates: Silk painting (Ch. xxviii 006) representing thousand-armed Avalokitesvara (Kuan-Yin) with attendant divinities, from 'Thousand Buddhas', Tun-Huang.
In the early 1900s, Wang Yuanlu, a Taoist priest acting as the self-appointed abbot of the Buddhist cave shrines at Dunhuang, made a startling discovery. A crack in one of the cave’s brilliantly painted frescoes had revealed a previously walled-up, locked door. Behind it lay a rock-cut chapel filled with thousands of ancient manuscripts, paintings and printed texts, undisturbed for more than 900 years. Among them lay the oldest dated example of a printed book known to exist.
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