Marble female figure-This sculpture is one of the largest female figures of the folded arm type known. Early Cycladic, now the Cyclades of Greece. 132 cm tall. (ca. 2700–2300 BC)[2467x2992]

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A trip to Walmart. (Early 1970's. Midwestern United States.)[1400x1246]

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My proudest recreation of an iconic photo of American History. Had a split second to take the photo on the right from the bus before the angle would change. Photo on left is 1904, on right is 2015.

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My Great Grandma, probably at Coney Island (ca. 1920's)

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Tete-a-tete. 1850-60. John Henry Belter. German. Made in New York. Part of a Suite of furniture now in the Met Museum, New York. Rosewood, ash, pine, and walnut woods. [3811x3049]

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One of my favorite places in New York City. The Winter Garden Atrium at what is now called Brookfield Place, but I call The World Financial Center. Has stores I've never shopped at, but the views overlooking the Hudson River and what you see right here are one in a million. [1584x2816]

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Ring with Cat and Kittens ca. 1295–664 B.C. Ramesside/Third Intermediate Period. Faience. [1200x1200]

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Out of all the rooms and locations in The Shining, this is the only shot I get unexpectedly strange vibes from.

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Terracotta hydria (water jar.) 4th century B.C. Greek. Terracotta; black-glaze, gilding. [4000x4000]

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Broad Collar of Wah ca. 1981–1975 B.C. Middle Kingdom, Egypt. Faience. Most of the stringing is original too. [3913x3457]

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Living Room 2

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Animal Pen with Figures. 1st–early 3rd century. Chinese. Eastern Han dynasty. [3805x3143]

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A Northern Saw-whet Owl, held by me. This is part of a banding program, and it was released within an hour or 2.

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The Mantelpiece from the demolished Vanderbilt Mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York. [4032x3024] [OC]

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The Muses in Hercules (1997) during I Won't Say (I'm in Love) are depicted as busts that are arranged like the singing busts in Disney's Haunted Mansion Ride.

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Claude Monet in his home studio painting one of his Water Lily paintings, 1920.

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Sofa, ca. 1820. American, made in New York. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [2032x956]

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Chalice- Possibly made by Otto Meier. Gold, enamel, gemstones. German. (1608)[3768×8160]

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I got to see Nadja's real painting today. I've just started watching WWDITS this week and loving it, I was sort of surprised to run into it at the Met.

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Aren't they pretty? On my old college campus. Two birches and a red maple (I think).

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Opinions on Julie? I felt she was done dirty by Rachel, but it was so early in the series that for the Ross/Rachel storyline, it just couldn't be. I liked her with Ross though, one of his best girlfriends.

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The original Light Court of the Rookery Building, Chicago. 1886-1905. Parts of this are still there, but hiding beneath the renovation by Frank Lloyd Wright, where they may remain hidden.

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One of the most impressive movie sets undertaken in my opinion, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) was a full scale construction with a few fully furnished apartments, light changes that mimic changing weather and times of day, and even making it rain. Here's a photo where you can take it all in.

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Shabti of Seti I. ca. 1294-1279 B.C. New Kingdom. Faience. Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Seti I. KV 17. Upper Egypt. [4032x3024]

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Model of a Slaughterhouse. Dynasty 12. early reign of Amenemhat I. ca. 1981–1975 B.C Wood, paint, and plaster. [4032x3024]

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Limestone bearded head with a Corinthian helmet. Cypro-Archaic II. Early 5th century B.C. [3237x4000]

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Bedroom from the Sagredo Palaceca. ca. 1720. Stuccowork probably by Abbondio Stazio. Italian. Mossagno, near Lugano 1663–1745 Venice. [9248x6936]

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Lucky Toy Pig (ca. 1911)- The musical pig belonged to Edith Rosenbaum, who boarded the RMS Titanic at Cherbourg. Edith took the musical pig into the crowded Lifeboat 11 and she comforted children on board with the music from the pig during and the hours after the sinking. [1280x960]

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Coin cabinet-Designed by Charles Percier. French. (ca. 1809-1819) Mahogany, applied and inlaid silver. [3802x3791]

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Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's apsrtment in color (from the classic I Love Lucy.)

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The General Motors Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair, AKA 'Futurama,' also the source of the name Matt Groening gave his show from visiting the futuristic attraction as a kid. Torn down after the fair ended, 1965.

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Happy 90th Birthday to an icon of architecture! The Empire State Building opened to the public on May 1st, 1931. [1500x2690]

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Mary Pickford in Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland(1933). A few photos survive from costume tests for what could have been Disney's first feature film. Because another studio was making an Alice movie, Disney ditched the idea for decades to begin production on another film: Snow White.

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In a matter of months, this orange grove would become the site of Disneyland. Anaheim, ca. 1954.

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Larkin Administration Building by Frank Lloyd Wright, Buffalo, New York, 1906. Demolished 1950, now a parking lot. Pieces of fence on the left survive with a plaque indicating what stood here.

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The Library of Alexandria, hosting up to 100 scholars and hundreds of thousands of written works of the Ancient World. While said to have been burnt in 48 BCE, it is unclear how much was damaged if at all. In reality, it took hundreds of years for the Library to cease operating.

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Isamu Noguchi's News at 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. News is the first heroic-sized sculpture ever cast in stainless steel and the only time Noguchi employed stainless steel as an artistic medium. Designed in 1938.

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Elizabeth II reigned for so long that Lucy Ricardo wanted to see her in an I Love Lucy episode, Lucy Meets the Queen. The episode aired in January of 1956.

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Automaton Clock in the Form of Diana on Her Chariot. 1610. Augsburg, South Germany. [4032x3024][OC]

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My friend, a Northern Saw-Whet, during a banding program. It stayed on my hand a few minutes before flying back into the Adirondack wilderness.

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Electric Utilities pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Looks like the exit to Rapture.

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The Capitol Building's original dome before the modern one that makes it recognizable was built. Charles Bulfinch, 1823. Replaced in 1863.

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Alto Saxophone built by Adolph Sax (ca. 1855). When the saxophone was patented in 1846, the wind family lacked a robust lower voice. The saxophone achieved universal popularity through jazz and pop, two genres that, ironically, did not exist until long after its invention. [2992x2992]

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Brooch with painted image of a lover's eyes. Neither the person in possession or painted here have been identified. On the other side is a lock of hair sealed in glass behind the pin. Watercolor on ivory, ca. 1840. American. [2978x3722]

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William, the unofficial mascot of the Met. 1961-1878 B.C. Faience. Tomb of Senbi. Early Middle Kingdom. [2955x2487][OC]

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Real 80's and early 90's living rooms. Picture 1 looks like my parent's living room when I was a little kid.

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The Empire State Building opened 90 years ago on May 1st. Here's the lobby on opening day.

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Nothing, I repeat, nothing in this photo of Midland Beach in Staten Island, New York remains. Torn down probably before WWI, any building that did survive was severely affected by the 1938 Hurricane, economic hardship, or general stagnation of the area when the borough became residential.

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Bed valances and side curtains. ca. 1700 French. Really a combination of French artifacts spanning the 17th Century, with some foreign items being included to depict aesthetics of exoticism at the time.[4032x3024][OC]

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The One Where Everybody Finds Out is so well written that I just now realized we get a rare fourth wall shot of the apartment. I think you can even see the end of the set on the left there.

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The greenhouse of Sailors' Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York. Photo taken 1899, with the greenhouse definitely demolished before 1950.

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“Leopard-skin” robe of the priest, Harnedjitef. Roman Period, probably 1st century. Fastened over a shoulder or hanging down the back, the leopard skin served as a powerful symbol of regeneration. Most of these robes that survive were actually made with linen and paint.[2789x4000]

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IBM Pavilion The Egg, 1964 World's Fair. Charles and Ray Eames architects.

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Edwards Huntington Cinema, Los Angeles. Opened 1964. Closed 1998.

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A diorama of the original and unused plan for the T-Rex exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Imagine if it were really set up like this. 1915.

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Gustav Klimt- Medicine (1907)

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it's always sunny in Philadelphia(2005) premiered the year after Friends ended(2004). It has outlasted Friends by 5 seasons and new episodes are still on the way.

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Statuette intended to contain a mummified cat. 332-30 BC. Leaded bronze. Ptolemaic Period. [3000x4000]

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Tower of the Four Winds, a massive 120 foot tall whirligig sculpture that served as the centerpiece of the Pepsi Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Designed by Disney Imagineer Rolly Crump. Demolished after the fair ended.

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Here's where Clam Fishing gets serious!

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Dexter's Lab, 1984.

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Smith Infirmary, Staten Island, New York.1890-2012. Alfred E. Barlow, architect.

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La Roque Mansion. Astoria, Queens, New York City. Constructed 1850, Demolished 1965. A room is installed at the Metropolitan Museum, with another in storage.

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Entrance to Coney Island's Dreamland Amusement Park. Constructed 1904. Closed 1911, demolished soon after.

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Unused album art for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. David A. Hardy. 1973.

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Italy Pavilion, 1939 World's Fair. Michele Busiri Vici.

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Hawaii Kai on Broadway in Manhattan, opened 1962, closed early 1990's, used in Goodfellas as The Bamboo Lounge.

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Queen Elizabeth II's mother was born while Queen Victoria was on the throne, and died the year after 9/11, the year Apple introduced iTunes, and the year her daughter had been on the throne for 50 years.

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A picture snapped during filming of the young Henry scenes of Goodfellas(1990) in Astoria, Queens. Robert De Niro in the center.

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The Bowery Theatre. Constructed 1845. Demolished after fire in 1929. Manhattan, New York City. Architect John M. Trimble.

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Wooden Gable–topped chest and linens ca. 1492–1473 B.C. Early 18th Dynasty from the Tomb of Hatnefer. Has some of the finest surviving linen fabrics from any period of Ancient Egyptian History, including a child's shirt with fringe. [1905 x 1525] Among other amazing finds is well preserved food.

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Ceiling painting from the Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza, Italy. Domenico Brusasorzi in a building designed by Andrea Palladio. 16th Century. [3648x2736]

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Louis Penfield House, Willoughby Hills, Ohio. Louis Penfield, a painter and acquaintance of Wright, commissioned the architect to design a house that would accommodate his 6-foot-8-inch (2.03 m) frame. [994x733]

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Glass perfume bottle. 1st century. Roman. [2963x4000]

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Federal Hall on Wall Street, New York City. Built from 1699 to 1703, remodeled by Pierre Charles L'Enfant in 1788. Demolished 1812 or 1813.

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🔥 Mangroves (swamp or marsh growing trees typically associated with tropical environments) have leaves with glands that allow it to excrete salt because of the brackish water it lives in.

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An evolution of New York City's Chrysler Building, showing the added height to compete for title of world's tallest building at the time. 1920's. William Van Alen.

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The last formal photograph of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner, February 5th, 1865. [1280x1466]

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Eldridge Street Synagogue, New York City. Constructed 1887. [2917x3226]

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There is just one person recorded alive now who was alive before modern aviation.

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Cleopatra's Needle, now standing in NYC's Central Park, as it stood in Alexandria Egypt. It stood in this spot for nearly 2000 years, before being placed in a ship in a magnificent fashion that took it to Manhattan. The obelisk had no connection to Cleopatra until it was moved to the Caesareum here.

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The Hanging Figure at Disney's Haunted Mansion, which you only see in the stretching room from below and for just a few seconds in any ride.

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Jon and Don Sculpture outside the real Time Life Building in New York City. Nearing the finale in 2015.

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Louis Comfort Tiffany, Week 13. Wisteria Lamp. ca.1905.

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Gigantic Amethyst geode at the American Museum of Natural History. At least 10 feet (3m) tall. It must be priceless.

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Staircase from Chicago Stock Exchange Building, Chicago. Louis Henry Sullivan. 1893. Now a functional staircase in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum. [4032x3024] [OC]

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This tile pattern in my Grandparent's home, a 1950's Ranch they've lived in most of their married life.

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Elgin Botanic Garden, New York. The first public Botanical Garden of the United States. Greenhouse built before 1802, abandoned or demolished before 1850. Now the site of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.

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Various designs by Dior for the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum from the late 1940's and later.

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The posthumous birthday party of Nadine Earles at her resting place. Her father was building her a playhouse for Christmas, but she was dying from a severe case of diptheria. The playhouse was built on her grave, and her parents lovingly upkept it until their own deaths. They were buried near her.

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In S8E8 of Downton Abbey (2011), Matthew mentions a Broadway Show flop which he recalls being named Zip Goes a Million. This is the name of the 1951 adaptation of a lesser known play by the name of Brewster's Millions, which premiered in 1906, which is the name of what he really saw.

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Dress of Empress Maria Feodorovna. French, 1880-81. House of Fromont.

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The story Molly Brown tells at the dinner party in Titanic (1997) of how her drunken husband lit the stove she had hidden money in is depicted in The Unsinkable Molly Brown. (1964) The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a musical comedy about her own rags to riches story.

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Jean Desses. Evening Dress, Fall/Winter 1953-54. French. Silk.

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Loaf of Bread. Found in a basket of food from the Tomb of Hatnefer. Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. New Kingdom. Ramose was the father and Hatnefer the mother of Senenmut, one of the most important state officials under the reign of Hatshepsut. (ca. 1492–1473 B.C.)[4000x2667]

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How they did animated scenes from the 1964 classic Mary Poppins. This is when Mary and Bert are carried over the pond by turtles during Jolly Holiday. Innovative special effects earned Petro Vlahos an Oscar for creating the Sodium Vapor Process, a predecessor of Green Screen.

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Callot Soeurs, evening dress, 1909-1913. Silk satin metallic tulle and silk tulle.

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Francis Cugat- Celestial Eyes. 1924. In the Princeton University Library Collection.

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Pencil test from the transformation scene in Walt Disney's Cinderella before they were copied over and painted. Drawn late 1940's or exactly 1950. Animation in comments.

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House of Parliament, new design after the fire destroyed the original. St. James Park, London. Joseph Michael Gandy. 1835.

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Hoping you unfolded a vinyl tubed chaise lounge right so you don't have a violent drop/roll if one of the stands folds back as you try to sit on it.

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Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphoraca. ca. 530 B.C. Attributed to the Euphiletos Painter. Excavated in Vulci, Italy. [1560x2000]

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Hoffman Auto Showroom, a Frank Lloyd Wright designed showroom in 430 Park Avenue in New York City. Installed 1954, demolished 2013 for a TD Bank Branch Office.

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Tyrannosaurus Rex, AMNH 5027. Discovered 1908 by Barnum Brown. This skeleton is the basis for the silhouette used on the cover of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and later the film series. About half complete. Hell Creek Formation, Montana.

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The Death Certificate Prop used in The Wizard of Oz (1939) for the Wicked Witch of the East.

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Christian Dior, Junon Dress.Fall/Winter 1949-50.

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Grand Piano. 1720. Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian. Oldest Known Piano in Existence. [4000x3000]

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Marble Statue of a Lion. ca. 400-390 B.C. Greek. This statue likely guarded a tomb, and was taken to Rome during the Imperial Period. [4032x3024]

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A fragment of silk dyed with Perkin's Mauvine, which would be one of the first synthetic, aniline, and commercially mass-produced fabric dyes. Before this, a bright purple dye was practically impossible to produce naturally. 1860. [1755x600]

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Kentuck Knob in Southwestern Pennsylvania, not far from the more famous Fallingwater. Built 1956 by a couple who were friends with the owners of Fallingwater and got in touch with Wright to build a home for them. [1920x1280]

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This A & W probably hasn't changed since it was built, including the number of customers. Wilmington, NY.

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The pastel/floral/abstract aesthetic of living rooms in the late 80's, early 1990's. My parents, aunts, and grandparents all had ones similar to what is seen here. Complete the look with a marble pattern couch you sink into, a calla lily lamp, a few wall mirrors, and a pink carpet.

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A little beat up, but proud to get anyway.

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Fortuny Delphos Gown with murano glass beadwork. 1910.

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I'm appreciating the attention to detail of this movie since I usually focus on the story. I notice the stained glass of the First Class smoking room through the revolving doors, although I notice that yellow tube is for making the movie. That also explains why people keep going through the doors.

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Floating cabins by Frank Lloyd Wright for Lake Tahoe, for the Tahoe Summer Colony. 1923.

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The Dining Room Mural of the RMS Queen Mary, 1930. Partially a clock, with passengers also able to track their location on the Atlantic. Clearly a difference between the Art Deco and Modern New World compared to the Renaissance Old World. The Queen Mary is now a Hotel in Long Beach, California.

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Somewhere that's green!

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Evening Coat, 1905-1910. Liberty & Co. Ltd.

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Found this fascinating painting, I think Fresco, on the net from Herculaneum, possibly based on a Greek original. Does anyone know how much of our knowledge of Ancient Greece comes from copies like this?

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That design for the Theme Building at LAX? Part of a larger plan for the entire airport. Los Angeles, California. 1952. Pereira and Luckman.

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People chatting and relaxing at 1964 World's Fair, New York City.

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Frank A. Nankivell, The Manless Girl. (1902) Printed in Puck Magazine.

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Norman Rockwell. The Facts of Life. 1949-51. Study for work that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.

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Letter allowing production of The Wizard of Oz to go forward, with adjustments to comply with the Hays Code. (1938) [1145x1400]

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My Grandma likes to Go for it, go for it, with her friend.

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Paramount Theater in Staten Island, New York. Opened as a movie palace in 1930. Closed as a rock venue in the '70s. Redevelopers always seem to do something with it, but nothing's happened.

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Living room from a house designed by John S. Bradstreet, 1904. Originally from the Prindle House in Duluth, Minnesota, relocated to The Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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Hasn't everyone been down this hallway before?

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Louis Comfort Tiffany purple sapphire necklace, ca. 1910. On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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The original concept for Disneyland from 1953. The lands are located in different spots, and there were more lands to visit. The iconic castle is more accurate to Neuschwanstein Castle, the source of inspiration for Sleeping Beauty Castle that stands. Rob Ryman and Walt Disney.

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Mummy Mask. Cartonnage, plaster, paint, plant fibers. 60–70, Roman Period.Egypt; Possibly from Middle Egypt, Meir. [1848x4000]

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Silver jar and Gold straw from the Royal Tomb at Ur, Mesopotamia, Iraq. 2450 B.C. Used to get beneath the foam of beer and straight to the good stuff. [1400x933] Probably one of the oldest surviving drinking straws.

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A map of Manhattan with an extensive proposal of more bridge crossings, especially across the Hudson River to New Jersey. From the New York Tribune, 1911. Note the eventually built Hell Gate Bridge as well.

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Cross section of a 1000+Sequoia tree at the Museum of Natural History, New York.

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Jersey City, New Jersey, looking across the Hudson River from the World Financial Center Marina. I've always liked the Colgate clock. [4000x1828]

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Massive Star Sapphires, including the Midnight Star.

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New York Central's Railroad Spur in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Now known as the High Line. Joel Sternfield, 2000. [1900x1500]

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children. 1616-17. Marble. [6936x9248]

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22 YO Steven Spielberg directing his first work in Hollywood, Roger Serling's TV Film and pilot The Night Gallery. Joan Crawford was the first actress he had to direct. November 1969. [1430x1800]

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Dad's class picture from almost 52 years ago now. Lots of groovy styles.1969.

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