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#OTD in 1869, the eastbound and westbound railroad tracks met at Utah's Promontory Summit, marking the completion of the #TranscontinentalRailroad. This engraving was created from a photograph that captured the historic moment. https://t.co/XoGikH8ukb #Transcontinental150
5月9日「アイスクリームの日」🍦
日本アイスクリーム協会が
1965(昭和40)年に制定。
1869(明治2)年、町田房蔵が
横浜の馬車通りに開いた
「氷水屋」で、
日本初のアイスクリーム
「あいすくりん」を製造・販売
したのがこの日です。
https://t.co/T1SZOEVQ71
#今日は何の日
#アイスクリームの日
A rare photograph of Philippines during the Spanish rule (1869, colorized)
Chars are Sherry (Spain) and Tapsi (Philippines) by @OfficialTPSPN
HD version (3900 x 3000 pixel) available for download on patreon: https://t.co/t97Eb2N087
#illustration #anime #spanking
Winter Night, 1869 https://t.co/RgmwQP23Dg #russianart #alekseysavrasov
Much of the Gothic artwork of Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) could double as illustrations for ‘Dracula’.
A German Romanticist (he studied under Caspar David Friedrich) he was also a physician, biologist, and philosopher.
This series of stamps issued in 1869 was the First Commemorative issue of the United States. Scott 121 P4a Est $700-900 (lot 1015) Join us for our dual exhibitions of Coins and Prints starting Sat April 27. Auction April 30. Catalogues at https://t.co/YLDmA7yKwU #stamps
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist - Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, c.1869. (National Gallery, London) #PuvisdeChavannes
Still doing art waiting for my new tablet cable.
Blue-red uniform of Barkenburg troops during the Lupian Wars of Consolidation, c. 1869
Imperial Vulpian standard uniform just before the revolution, c. 1911
“Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously...”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
Pic: Carl G Carus (1789-1869)
‘A Gondola on the Elbe near Dresden’ by Carl Gustav Carus German Romantic Painter (1789-1869) I’m posting a group of boats and boating but chose artists from the past.
The marriage of Napoleon to his second wife, Marie-Louise, Archduchess of Austria took place #OTD in 1810. Marie-Louise Painting by Georges Rouet (1784-1869).
"Diamond Snake", 1869. Illustrated by Helena Forde, in Krefft's "The Snakes of Australia". https://t.co/fcpxwQicau via @mayrlibrary @BioDivLibrary #DiamondPython (Morelia spilota spilota) #SciArt
Philip de László (1869-1937) (https://t.co/L2YqnKrn8e) was a talented figurative painter, who virtually cornered the market in European royalty and aristocracy portraits. The young "King Michael I of Romania" (1936) is wonderful. I love it.
#art #originalart #paintings #fineart
The "Black-headed Snake" exquisitely & expertly illustrated by Harriet Scott, in "The Snakes of Australia" (Krefft 1869). https://t.co/cllxbymNin via @mayrlibrary @BioDivLibrary #BlackheadedPython (Aspidites melanocephalus) #WomensHistoryMonth #HerNaturalHistory #WomenInScience