Boboli Firenze – Pleached Allee
Mix and match — and what do you get? Niches, seals, and terrace gardens? What about pots full of citrus, oleander, azaleas, and oranges baking in the sun? What about the Vatican? And what in the wonderful world is a pleached allee!
Delightful and inspiring, yes, it’s a new set for Flickr Commons full of slides from Italy… So take a tour if you love a gorgeous grotto c/o Michelangelo, box hedges in Boboli, fountains in Firenze, Pitti palace palazzo.
Arbor between orchard garden and rose garden
Bushy shrubs, pots of pansies, shade trees, and border of begonias may add splendor to the spring garden — but in the middle of the winter in Oregon we need four things:
The clouds and light bulbs may be absent from the “Garden art in its many forms” set, but it is overflowing with flowers and chock full o’ art.
Revel in the mix of materials, variety in styles, delightful modernity, and verve of the late 1940s!
Our newest addition to the Arthur Peck Collection in Flickr Commons, “Perfect pools and crazy courtyards,” relishes clean lines and curvy brick paths, savors sprawling lawns and rolling hills, and celebrates a bunch of snappy dressers in smart outfits…
Enjoy!
… and the hustle and bustle of a full campus!
Though we’ve made it to the second week of classes and things are settling down a bit on campus …
The leaves are turning and fluttering down through crisp fall mornings …
In the OSU Archives it’s another wild and wacky Wednesday!
Are you asking “why is it wacky?” (or “where is that fountain?!“) Well, while we returned to Oregon last month for our Flickr Commons releases, with two great sets from the Pendleton Round-Up, this month we are really back home!
Though we’re still looking at lantern slides from the Visual Instruction Department Collection — the one that keeps on giving — we’ve found a lovely set of images from the days of yore at OAC (OSU for you newbies).
Meander around our campus, and if you want a 2.0 trip, check out our historical walking tour, aptly named
BeaverTracks.
And make sure to stop, take a breath, and enjoy.
If you’ve been following this blog or a regular site-seer to our Flickr Commons site, you know that any set with an image of a man riding backwards on a mule is a set to spend some time looking through … The second release in the Pendleton Round-up collection will not disappoint you!
There’s action!
Aerial shots!
People falling off!
More racing!
And some Champion Cow Girls!
Enjoy the ride.
We left you hanging with new online exhibits, new collection guides, and some mountains in the Holy Lands — and yes, that was a long, long time ago …
So what has been going on in the Archives since then? New students have been hired and others have finished their internship projects, vacations have been taken, public school children have returned to their scholarly pursuits, and we are all jazzed up to start another great academic school year with Benny the Beaver finding historical materials and all those in Beaver Land lining up to do some research!
Elizabeth has continued to produce great collections guides, as we now fully expect that she will every month… You can read about them all in the August 2010 Finding Aid file.
We also added one last set, Rivers of the World, to the Take a Trip: Traveling and touring with the Visual Instruction Lantern Slides Collection.
And to start off the month right (or to celebrate the middle of the month right?), we’re celebrating what was billed in 1910 to be “a frontier exhibition of picturesque pastimes, Indian and military spectacles, cowboy racing and bronco busting for the championship of the Northwest.” Oh yes, I’m talking about the 100th Anniversary of the Pendleton Round-Up.
Gorgeous images of women in their fullest regalia!
Ladies in a line!
Men on bucking broncos!
A man and his mule?
There is something for everyone in this set. And for those who want even more — isn’t there always even more to be wanted?
Oregon Public Broadcasting has a new Oregon Experience piece entitled “Oregon Experience: The Wild West Way.”And yes, you can now watch it online!
OregonLive has a great group of blog posts pertaining to the Round-Up.
There is a nice Wikipedia article on the Round-Up for those who want a short synopsis, a few pictures, and lots of links to rodeo related articles.
And, as you might expect, the Round-Up site itself has a great history section …
As they say “Let ‘er buck!” — oh, and enjoy the images!
Great cities, gobs of glaciers, and a whole bunch of new collection guides? Must be another busy couple of weeks of work in the OSU Archives.
Since we always start with Flickr, this week we’ll kick off with fabulous finding aids. Lots of fun collections you can now read about online, including the Oregon State University Historical Motion Picture Films from 1921 to 1969, a Put Up the Gates Campaign Scrapbook from 1940, and 60 fabulous images added to the Women’s Athletics Photograph Collection from 1899 to 1958. See them all here.
And what about our tremendous travels? Two opposite extremes over the past couple of weeks, from Great Cities of the World to Great Gobs of Glaciers of the Globe.
In the Great Cities of the World set you can see the streets of Cairo, Chicago, and Calcutta.
And are you curious to see the Androssy Strasse in Budapest at the turn of the last century? Or the beautiful bridges in Osaka and the Danube Canal in Vienna?
And Prague, glorious Prague …
And Leningrad, lovely Leningrad …
And, of course, Paris!
And if you want an assignment, can you figure out which cities have changed their names since the early part of the 20th century? And why didn’t the Visual Instruction Department instructors include Corvallis, Oregon?
Not content sticking to a continent, the Gosh Golly — Gobs of Glaciers! set travels around the globe showing off shots of glaciers!
From floating icebergs to glacial scratches, maps of yore to cave-like crevasses?
And what about those lovely colorful pictures of picaresque lodges or stately train stations?
And a big bump?
Enjoy them all!
We’ve made good use of our virtual frequent flier miles over the past few weeks! Jetting from Japan to Denmark for two great big new Flickr Commons sets.
The first set of images from Japan, taken and used in lectures during the early part of the 20th century, are both gorgeously hand-colored and delightfully informative!
There are some amazing images of Tokyo and city life, but you’ll also find some shots of the countryside — including that famous Mt. Fuji!
There are also bridges and a even a few Buddhas.
There are people learning & people in costumes, people playing & people worshiping. You’ll also find lovely images of Geishas and Buddhist priests, as well as historic art pictures (mainly pottery).
Quite a few things made me happy in the Archives, but the second set — hand-colored slides from Denmark — topped the list this week…
It’s an eclectic collection from the early portion of the 20th century, but one that really captures the spirit of a beautiful country. And who doesn’t love a windmill?
Want to see a Technicolor yellow of a restaurant scene?
Or the thatched roofs of countryside homes or a transplanted house from Iceland? Factories for butter, eggs, bacon? Yes, we have shots of those! You’ll also find cows, farms, fertilizer, and a few fields of sugar beets…
Schools, principals, libraries? You’ll find those as well!
Speaking of learning, check out a wonderful statue of Hans Christian Andersen
or the Lyngby Agricultural Museum
Remember, all the image descriptions and titles are taken straight from the lecture booklet used by instructors in the 1920s and 1930s, so if you know anything more please share!
Want to watch a movie? Take a trip? Do some research? There are plenty of things going on in the OSU Archives this month! In addition to the general buzz around exciting summer projects, we’re all a flutter over lazy, gorgeous summer days … Check out what we’ve been up to!
More new sets in Flickr Commons! We’ve been to Australia & Ireland over the past couple of weeks (care of the Visual Instruction Lantern Slide Collection, of course), with lots of gorgeous historical shots from both sides of the equator.
We’ve also had several films transferred to DVD for your viewing pleasure!
Finally, we can’t ignore our 12 fabulous new finding aids for June! Included are another collection of moving images in the Media Services Moving Images, 1957-2002 (FV P 119) records; the Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Corvallis Branch, 1971-1974; the Pacific Northwest Seed and Nursery Catalog Collection, 1992-2009; the President’s Office Photographs, 1923-1998 (P 092); and the Voices of Oregon State University Oral History Collection, 1995-2010 (OH 09).
We just can’t get enough of the Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slide Collection this summer … So we’re planning to release a set every week. Yes, I know, sun and a weekly release is almost too much!
Since summer is finally heating up in Oregon, and not to be outdone by the last “take a trip” set from Palestine & Syria, this week we’re heading to Argentina.
Views from the harbor and from the city, scenes from the streets and from the gardens, this set is full of beautiful historic images from Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Chaco, Mar del Plato, and La Plata.
It showcases the city, rich with history and chock full of monuments!
Want to travel to the Plaza Lavalle to see the Lavelle Monument and Colon Theatre, stroll down the Avenida de Mayo, catch a streetcar on the Paseo Colon? Care to catch a play in the open air theater for children? Horses at the Hippodrome? And did we mention the monuments, cathedrals, and capital buildings?
Don’t worry, there are hotels and subway train station shots for those who like to plan!
So pack your bags and join us for the trip — and make sure you stick around to see the cowboys … (Seriously, there are pictures of cowboys.)
Enjoy!