Word: 1900s
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...told TIME in 1948: "You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling." Certainly, many of his pictures have the poignancy of scenes glimpsed from a car or train. He never traveled very far, though. Apart from making the Paris trips expected of art students in the early 1900s, he mainly divided his time between New York City and New England, seeking out the unfashionable architecture and empty countryside that appealed to him. Having trained and worked as a commercial artist, Hopper had a methodical approach which may explain the deadpan air of his works. He didn't take...
...garners a mention in most guidebooks to the area (though tours are hard to come by, offered only twice a week to no more than 8 people.) The pristinely-tended gardens, hedges perfectly trimmed and grounds always swept clean, are considered one of the best surviving examples of early 1900s English and Italian gardens. (Berenson couldn’t decide if he wanted the Italian or English landscape style, so he made a bit of each...
Louis Albert traveled from Shostakovich, Russia, to Omaha, Neb., in the early 1900s at the age of 14. Life would be good in Omaha, assured an immigration officer in Galveston, Texas, where Louis initially landed. He was right. Ten years later, the newcomer had earned enough to get his sisters Celia, Dora and Riva to the States as well. Together they would form the roots of the Albert family tree in the nation's heartland--one with long branches that would eventually stretch from Los Angeles to Denver to Mendham...
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...have a taste for retro--clocks, barware, dinettes--try vintagevending.com The Ford Old Columbia Gumball Machine, a reproduction of an early 1900s model, takes pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Bags of Dubble Bubble sold separately...