CKB - GRAND ARMY PLAZA SUBWAY STATION NYC

Cylinder seal from Babylonia

8th c. BC

Image from the Piedpont Morgan Library NYC

ANGEL ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO BAY

ANGEL ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO BAY

Known as the "Ellis Island of the West," Angel Island processed millions of immigrants between 1910 – 1940. Most of these immigrants were Asian, and were subjected to medical exams, interrogations, and even extended internment in their search for a new life in a new land. Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, millions of people - in numbers which have not been seen since - came to America in pursuit of a better, freer life. Immigrants from hundreds of countries were detained for days and in some cases years on Angel Island while trying to gain access to the United States.

ANGEL ARAGON -

ANGEL ARAGON

Angel Aragon was born on August 2, 1890, in Havana, Cuba. Aragon was 24 years old when he broke into the big leagues on August 20, 1914, with the New York Yankees where he played for three years.

ANGELS IN AMERICA

Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.

Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson

Cesare Vecellio - fore-edge painting 16th c.

A fore-edge painting is decoration painted on the edges of a book’s pages for beautification. The fore-edge of a book is the fourth edge - not the spine, the top, or the bottom edge, but the outside edge that a reader would use to thumb through the pages. Originally, this edge was only used for identification, to more easily spot a book when the edges faced outward.

Around the 16th century, an Italian artist named Cesare Vecellio (cousin of celebrated Renaissance painter Titian) began to use the fore-edge of books as a canvas, and took the opportunity to make books more beautiful. The first instances of decorative fore-edge paintings were applied outright on the edges of the leaves, easily visible to anyone who cared to look when the book was closed.

More info on Abe Books:

http://www.abebooks.com/books/RareBooks/fore-edge-paintings-antiquarian-book-arts.shtml?cm_mmc=nl-_-nl-_-110110-m00-foreedgeB-_-cta_button

this link sent to me by my friend Linda Moore