July 12, 2007
Summer Home
A cabin in the redwoods.
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February 14, 2007
Vessel passing Hudson, 2006
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February 08, 2007
Brooklyn, 1820
Coldly apropos, Winter Scene in Brooklyn
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Columbia County, 1851
"Columbia County, taken from Albany in 1786: its greatest length on the E. line 36, medium breadth 18 miles. Centrally distant N. from New York 125, from Albany, SE., 34 miles. The surface of the county is considerably diversified, though no part can be called mountainous. Ranges of small hillocks are interspersed with extensive plains or valleys, and much of rich alluvion. There are some excellent lands, and much of the larger portion may be, by judicious culture, rendered highly productive. Nature, in the abundant beds of lime, has furnished the means, as if by a special providence, of tempering the cold and ungrateful constituents of the clay; and in many places the lime in the form of marl does not require burning to become a stimulant. Scarce any portion of the state is better adapted to the raising of sheep, and the profits from this source, already great, are yearly increasing. This county is famed for the quantity and quality of its Indian corn. Lead and iron ore are found in this county. It is divided into 19 towns."
Past and Present, John Barber. Clark Albien & Co, 1851
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Visscher Map, 1690
Hudson area detail.
New York area detail.
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Mohawk Indian Deed, 1732
"The deed conveys a tract of land adjacent to the Mohawk River and East Canada Creek to the Reverend Petrus Van Driesen, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church at Albany, and to the Reverend Johannes Ehl, a Dutch Reformed minister in the Palatine District of the Mohawk Valley."
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October 31, 2006
Ghost House
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October 30, 2006
Dubrovnik Croatia
Old city on the Adriatic, the 15th century freestate, The Republic of Ragusa.
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Lublin Poland
Settled since the 9th century, its only sister city is Lublin, Wisconsin. No airport nor highways now lead to Lublin. Played host in 2002 to the XVIIth International Congress on Sexual Plant Reproduction
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October 13, 2006
قفصة
Gafsa, Tunisia. Part of the Place Spirit project.
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Tarascon Suspension Bridge
Completed in 1829 & designed by Marc Seguin, it connects Tarascon on the left bank & Beaucaire on the right of the Rhône, in the south of France. It was partially bombed in 1944. It is now demolished.
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Mosque of Hammouda Pacha
Minaret (مئذنة) roughly means lighthouse. Rue de la Kasbah - Tunis, Tunisia.
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August 18, 2006
A Favorite Place
Flea postcard of beauty, correspondence below.
La Tremblade, Quai de l'Atelier
November 12, 1924
"At Summer we take a walk every day after supper all along this road and river. it is named the alleis of sighs. (is it not a nice name)"
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August 16, 2006
Wayne New Jersey
Sunnybank House & driveway predemolition, home of writer Albert Terhune.
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August 14, 2006
Airport Arrival September 1960
Flea market finds, on the Arrival ... some thoughts on airport architecture from the Transfer archives, circa 2004.
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July 20, 2006
Stoop Style, 1940's
flea photo, unknown.
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Stockholm City Hall, July 1954
Built by Ragnar Östberg, completed in 1923 using 8 million bricks. flea photo.
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June 05, 2006
Fresh Faced
The UN, newly built.
scanned from a great book,
The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment by Reyner Banham.
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Liberty's First Apartment in Paris
Before the lady had a waterfront condo.
scanned from a great book,
Paris, Capital of Modernity by David Harvey.
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April 03, 2006
Brooklyn Livin
Why nobody can sweat the East Bay,
trailer livin,
and haunted houses.
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March 29, 2006
Back In the Day
"Play Streets: These streets are set aside for children to play in; no traffic is permitted except vehicles having business in such streets. Signs at each end of block indicate such areas." 1939 WPA Guide to New York City
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March 26, 2006
St. George Hotel
from New York in the 1930's by Samuel Fuller, Hazan 1987.
Suffered by financial problems most of its existence, and a devastating fire in 1995, the St George, is an unpolished diamond in the midst of Heights swank. Recently expanded (this) as a boutique hotel reno, but me thinks its still used exclusively as a dorm. Can't seem to make a reservations in the newly added structure. A Times article from 1982 talking about co-op conversations in the grand dame. Now those are prices.
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March 20, 2006
Pre Scraper GE
WPA Guide to New York City (1939) New Press Ed.
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March 17, 2006
Pre Scraper Rock
from OUP American Buildings and their Architects Vol 5, 1972 edition.
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Pre BQE Heights
from the wonderful book Old Brooklyn Heights by Clay Lancaster. Tuttle, 1961 edition.
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March 15, 2006
Brooklyns New Wards
From the NYTimes Archive.
March 31st, 1895
Brooklyns First Suburbs
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Open Spaces
from Man-Made America: Chaos or Control? Yale 1966
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Prewar Postwar
Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Mailed in 1915 Hotel Chatham NYC.
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Rhinelander Gardens
scans from Man-Made America: Chaos or Control? Yale, 1966 4th ed.
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Cloister Aug 1947
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January 15, 2006
Gruyere Switzerland
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January 14, 2006
Mesa Verde 1956
1200-1300AD. World Heritage Site.
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SFGG
Golden Gate 1950s?
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January 11, 2006
Transfer Green Zone
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January 09, 2006
October 1971
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Unknown
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January 08, 2006
Golden Gate 1975
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Teardrop Circle
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December 29, 2005
Blocks of Radium
"Manhattan at twilight: floating gardens of tender neon, the lavender towers where each window glittered at sundown with reflected incandescence, where each crosstown street became at evening a gash of golden fire, and the endless flow of the endless traffic on the West Side Highway resembled a luminous necklace strung on the island's shoulders...On winter evenings when the sun went down early and all the office lights stayed lit, the giant glass buildings across the river glowed like blocks of radium with a cool soft Venusian radiance, magnetic and fatal. And above them all stood the Vampire State Building with its twin beams stroking through the mist and the red spider eyes on the radio mast blinking off and on, off and on, all through the New York night."
- Edward Abbey
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December 28, 2005
Jai Alai Palace, Tijuana
Built in the 1930's by San Diego architect Eugene Hoffman. This photos date is unknown.
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Lift
Circa October 1972. The chairlift wikipedia entry.
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Mormon Shrine, Salt Lake City
Circa 1948. Cabin of a Mormon family, enshrined for all the lovers of the Latter Day.
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Peruvian Rail Station
Circa 1960. A brief history of railroads in Peru.
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Penataquit Creek, Bay Shore Long Island
The Indians called it Penataquit, which meant "crooked creek." A current landuse/maritime summary of this waterfront. Photo of the fishing boat "Joan", from the east side of the creek.
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December 27, 2005
The Lags Round Here
Yes, the postings have been light, but anyone who has worked with engineers can attest - they're a demanding bunch of nerds - suffice to say, this website has taken a back seat these past two months. I know you want more, and dammit, more is what I'm bringin to you kracka ass Transfer fans.
What better way, then by inaugurating a new category – a bona fide category of depth & breadth, for which I've got some posts queued up. The Place Spirit.
Crudely scanned images of vintage vernacular; architecture, landscape, & urban space culled from the flea markets, antique shops, stoop sales, garbage bins, thrift stores, and dust bins of photographic detritus across this great continent. For my pleasure, and hopefully yours. No slick modern Prada stores or impish design shots. No, this is the psychfolk revolution in space. Credit due the unknown photographers who have captured these places in time.
The Presidential Palace at Brasilia, Brazil - Sept 1960.
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