Mind-Bending And Funny Photo Mash-Ups By Stephen Mcmennamy. 

( PART 1)

Which one is your favourite ?

Emma Gutzeit and her Ford car Skeeter on the road just out of Taos, New Mexico

Photographer: Ellen A. Quillen

Date: 1926

Negative Number: 049234

Hollow in the Snow, 1869, Armand Guillaumin

https://www.wikiart.org/en/armand-guillaumin/hollow-in-the-snow-1869

It’s Map Monday in the Archives!

We are preparing for this month’s Hands-On Pop-Up exhibit. For April we are recognizing Earth Day and celebrating historic conservation efforts. A prominent figure in Wisconsin conservation history is Wilhelmine La Budde (1880-1955). She was a steadfast supporter of the forests, wildlife, and freshwater resources here in Wisconsin.

The Wilhelmine D. La Budde Papers, 1924-1956  contains 11 boxes of correspondence to and from people and organizations from all over the country. Among these was this letter from Mabel Wheeler, the Secretary of the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce dated June 11, 1936. On the back of this somewhat simple stationery is a map of the Monterey Bay Region in California.

This rare Map Monday from the Archives is a shout out to the American Geographical Society Library @agslibrary who will be joining in on the April Pop-Up running from April 24-26. There will be materials in the UW-Milwaukee Archives and in the AGS Library that represent local and national historic conservation efforts.

And a shout out to @montereybayaquarium whose puns have gotten us through many a rough day!

Oxen wagon, Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Photographer: Nicholas Brown

Date: 1869 - 1871?

Negative Number: 011255

Je suis VS J’en suis

Hi! I’ve been reading a book in French over the past few days (it’s pretty slow going) & there’s one grammar point that keeps confusing me. What’s the difference between je suis and j’en suis? From what I can work out from context, they seem the same? Please help! Thanks so much x

Hello,

Je suis :

J’en suis :

Hope this helps! x 

If you’ve never seen it intact

Feathursday Corvids!!

Give us Corvidae anyday!! This color plate is from a 1930 painting by the American animal artist Walter Alois Weber, published by the University of Minnesota Press in the 1934 book Bird Portraits in Color by the American physician and ornithologist Thomas Sadler Roberts. 

Walter A. Weber was a trained zoologist who held positions at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the National Park Service in Oklahoma, the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., and he was the chief nature artist at the National Geographic Society from 1949 to 1971.

Thomas S. Roberts was a practicing physician in Minneapolis with life-long personal and research interests in ornithology and natural history. His interests led him to become a professor of ornithology and director of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota. Two years prior to the publication of the book featured here, Roberts published the comprehensive, 2-volume The Birds of Minnesota, also published by the University of Minnesota, which included the same illustrations as Bird Portraits in Color.

Shown here from top to bottom are: Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia); American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos); Clark’s Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana); Northern Raven (Corvus corax).

View other portraits from this volume.

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Lorsque VS Pendant

Bonjour mamman! Tu pourrais m'expliquer quand est-ce qu'on utilise “lorsque” et “pendant”, s'il te plaît? Y a-t-il des différences? PS: J'adore ton blog 😘

Lorsque :

is a conjunction and can be used as : 

Pendant :

is a preposition and is used as :

Hope this helps! x 

Remembering Vietnam exhibit. Photo by National Archives photographer Jeff Reed.

Remembering “Remembering Vietnam”

By David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States and Vietnam veteran  | AOTUS Blog

Our exhibit commemorating the Vietnam War closed February 28 after a 15-month run in our Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery. We used the records in our holdings as well as interviews with historians, American and Vietnamese military and civilians to describe twelve critical episodes in the Vietnam War.

The title of the exhibit comes from the book by Vietnamese-American writer, Viet Thanh Nguyen—Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War—in which he reminds us that wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and once in memory.

That message was clearly reinforced in 15 months of programming supporting the exhibit, thousands of tourists visiting the exhibit, including Wounded Warrior visits, Honor Flight participants, students, families, and Vietnam Veterans.

Read more of this story at the AOTUS Blog

The reality about spoken french

Speaking of which, let’s stop before you all get disgusted and unfollow me. Remember this is spoken, private french and doesn’t apply to formal situations!

Le Bal de l'Opéra by Henri Gervex, 1886.

Encore VS toujours

Bonjour, can you please help me understand the differences between using toujours and encore? Merci mille fois d'avance 💕

Encore :

is an adverb of time and can be used as :

Toujours :

is an adverb of time and can be used as :

Hope this helps! x 

Last photo of the old Socorro County Courthouse, Socorro, New Mexico

Creator: New Mexico Tourism Bureau

Date: 1939

Negative Number: HP.2007.20.443

Hen House, Fiscavaig, Isle of Skye, Scotland by Rural Design Architects

Good wood - some prefab small home heaven for a rainy Saturday… courtesy of @prefabnsmallhomes

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