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Card from Hassan Cork Tip Cigarettes circa 1909. Hassan was owned by the American Tobacco Company, one of the original 12 members of the Dow Jones. Anti-trust action was already under way, and in 1911 they were ordered to break up (along with Standard Oil) by the Supreme Court.
🐦 The birds of Washington
Seattle: The Occidental Pub. Co., 1909.
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"After today" artwork sold to @Crypto888crypto on @makersplaceco for 0.95 ETH ($1,909.98) 😀
It's a big honor to be in your collection! Thank you! 🙏
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ARTIST OF THE DAY: Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). Russian/French. ‘The Road To Murnau,’ 1909. He studied law & ecomics, & began painting at age 30. Expressionist & abstract pioneer. Famous quote, “Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
Here is a side by side to show how I get some of my inspiration. Sheet music from 1909. #catart
Snow babies were popular on #Christmas cards in the early C20th. Created in Germany as cake decorations, their popularity spread due to the belief that the North Pole was reached in 1909. It is now known the expedition ended up about 60 miles away. #FairyTaleTuesday #Edwardian
Albert Marquet - Vedette in Hamburg, 1909.
Yale University Art Gallery.
Sarah Dyke a suffragist (NUWSS Wolverhampton) from Bilston sent this postcard & others to friends 1908-1909. In them she talks about going to suffrage meetings & the Wolves football team scores! You can view them on her map entry thanks to @Mcintoshheidi Wolverhampton Archives.
#Cats on a Red Cloth, Franz Marc, 1909. #Caturday #CatsOfTwitter #watercolour
Irish-born artist Francis Bacon born #OnThisDay 1909. @ContempArtSoc presented Pope I (after #Velazaquez), 1951 @AbdnArtMuseums Figure IV, 1956 @agsa_adelaide Australia; Figure, 1956 @BM_AG & Figure no. 6, 1957 @HattonGallery Newcastle University #110yearsofdonationgreatart
'I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance'
Francis Bacon, born on this day in Dublin in 1909. Image: Self-Portrait 1971
"I believe in deeply ordered chaos." 🎨 The great painter #FrancisBacon was born #onthisday 28 October 1909. #Art #Painting
For this week’s #MagnificentWomenMonday offering, we shared 'Susanna and Sue' written by American writer and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens and N.C. Wyeth, printed by The Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass. in 1909. https://t.co/ykFbYtD3bD
"Odin & Fenrir," Dorothy Hardy, 1909.
You pay a price for only pretending to throw the ball.
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25 September 1909. The Lebaudy République, French semi-rigid airship, crashed after one of the metal propeller blades sheared off its shaft and pierced the envelope, which deflated catastrophically near the Château of Avrilly, killing all four men on board.