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Feb 5 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
(Please share if you like it!) Colorized by me: 🇵🇷 Plaza de Armas of San Juan, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1903. This is one of the main squares in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico.
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📸 Detroit Publishing Co.
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Jan 14
In 1939, just months before the war would eventually come, Gandhi decided to write a letter and make an appeal to Adolf Hitler: "Dear friend, friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity."
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(...) "But I have resisted their request, because of the feeling that any letter from me would be an impertinence.

Something tells me that I must not calculate and that I must make my appeal for whatever it may be worth.
It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state.

Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be?
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Jan 12
Swedish physician Dr. Gustav Zander helped pioneer “mechanotherapy”. He would further develop these devices, going on to win a gold medal at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia for his exercise machines.
Movement as a therapeutic agent did already have its proponents—Zander was a follower of the movement cure promoted by an earlier pioneer of exercise Per Henrik Ling.
By the time the edition of his book, Dr. G. Zander’s medico-mechanische Gymnastik was published in 1892, he was well on his way to establishing Zander Institutes across the globe.
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Dec 23, 2021
Colorized by me: Children looking at Xmas toys in a shop window. New York, circa 1910.

🎅🏻 Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Dec 18, 2021
Colorized by me: South end of Bowery, Coney Island, New York, 1903.

The Bowery was a raucous area where police frequently looked the other way as drinking, gambling, music and shows took place well into the night.
Coney Island's appeal was that anyone could find the type of experience they desired. For those looking for more variety and fun, and less refinement, the Bowery stood head and shoulders above Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach.
Original by Detroit Publishing co.
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Dec 17, 2021
Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz met in 1916. Her presence revitalized Stieglitz’s photography, which he had neglected in favor of the journal Camera Work and his gallery.

She first posed for him in the spring of 1917.
Over the next 20 years, he made over 300 portraits of her—nude and clothed, performing mundane tasks and posing dramatically in front of her paintings, showing her entire body as well as isolated views of her neck, hands, breasts, and feet.
O’Keeffe wrote that Stieglitz’s “idea of a portrait was not just one picture”; instead, it was a composite of pictures addressing an idea and personality too large to fit in a single photograph.
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Dec 15, 2021
I just came across this love letter between two 12th-century nuns. It's hauntingly beautiful.

"To C, sweeter than honey, B sends all the love there is to her love. You who are unique and special, why do you make delay so long, so far away?"
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"Why do you want your only one to die, who as you know, loves you with soul and body, who sighs for you at every hour, at every moment, like a hungry little bird.

Since I’ve had to be without your sweetest presence, I have not wished to hear or see any other human being...
... but as the turtle-dove, having lost its mate, perches forever on its little dried up branch, so I lament endlessly till I shall enjoy your trust again. I look about and do not find my lover — she does not comfort me even with a single word.
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