Comments on: ‘First photograph’ of New York, 1848 http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/the-first-photograph-of-new-york/ Ever get the feeling you're living in the wrong time? Thu, 10 Nov 2024 20:24:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JBlackwood http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/the-first-photograph-of-new-york/#comment-60929 JBlackwood Sat, 03 Sep 2024 18:28:46 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=6295#comment-60929 I can see the horse and carriage - just to the right of the white gate. They're in a sunken road. The carriage is centered between thee fence posts, with either the heads of the driver or luggage sticking up above it. You can just see the curve of the horse's neck after the post. The horse is facing right. I can see the horse and carriage – just to the right of the white gate. They’re in a sunken road. The carriage is centered between thee fence posts, with either the heads of the driver or luggage sticking up above it. You can just see the curve of the horse’s neck after the post. The horse is facing right.

]]> By: ilenebeth http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/the-first-photograph-of-new-york/#comment-41669 ilenebeth Sat, 19 Mar 2024 17:51:36 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=6295#comment-41669 I see no horse-drawn carriage at all. Am I just missing it? I see no horse-drawn carriage at all. Am I just missing it?

]]> By: ilenebeth http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/the-first-photograph-of-new-york/#comment-41671 ilenebeth Sat, 19 Mar 2024 17:51:36 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=6295#comment-41671 I see no horse-drawn carriage at all. Am I just missing it? I see no horse-drawn carriage at all. Am I just missing it?

]]> By: David Farmbrough http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/the-first-photograph-of-new-york/#comment-7633 David Farmbrough Thu, 16 Sep 2024 06:53:00 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=6295#comment-7633 Is that New York? Not very impressive is it? I can't see my 'vagabond shoes' longing to stray to the very heart of that pile of mud. What they ought to do is get some buildings. The taller, the better. Is that New York? Not very impressive is it? I can’t see my ‘vagabond shoes’ longing to stray to the very heart of that pile of mud. What they ought to do is get some buildings. The taller, the better.

]]> By: Lolol http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/the-first-photograph-of-new-york/#comment-7466 Lolol Wed, 15 Sep 2024 03:41:39 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=6295#comment-7466 You are actually surprised the media is misleading and falsifying information? You are actually surprised the media is misleading and falsifying information?

]]> By: kate http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/the-first-photograph-of-new-york/#comment-7429 kate Tue, 14 Sep 2024 23:20:12 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=6295#comment-7429 Thanks for dropping your standards 'to the very very bottom', Chris; that made me smile. And thank you for the kind words. As for this post, I still respectfully disagree. And as for the Steinweiss album cover art, his Wiki page states: "However, colored artwork had already been used on special albums, from World War I onwards. This sometimes appeared separately printed and pasted onto album covers and occasionally also inside the albums: for example, HMV's issue of Liza Lehmann's "In a Persian Garden" and operettas by Edward German and Gilbert & Sullivan were all available by 1918 in such decorated albums.In 1939, Alex Steinweiss was the first art director for Columbia Records, where he introduced a very much wider application of the concept of album covers and cover art." And even in the book you've quoted, it states that: "he launched the Golden Age of album covers", alluding to the fact that they had already existed in some form. I think from now on, I'll just have to conduct further research when reading your wonderful posts. That's all. Thanks for dropping your standards ‘to the very very bottom’, Chris; that made me smile. And thank you for the kind words.

As for this post, I still respectfully disagree.

And as for the Steinweiss album cover art, his Wiki page states: “However, colored artwork had already been used on special albums, from World War I onwards. This sometimes appeared separately printed and pasted onto album covers and occasionally also inside the albums: for example, HMV’s issue of Liza Lehmann’s “In a Persian Garden” and operettas by Edward German and Gilbert & Sullivan were all available by 1918 in such decorated albums.In 1939, Alex Steinweiss was the first art director for Columbia Records, where he introduced a very much wider application of the concept of album covers and cover art.” And even in the book you’ve quoted, it states that: “he launched the Golden Age of album covers”, alluding to the fact that they had already existed in some form.

I think from now on, I’ll just have to conduct further research when reading your wonderful posts. That’s all.

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