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In 1950, a beautiful new leather was created specifically for Red Wing using a dye made from the bark of trees with a naturally red coloration. The leather was named “Oro Russet” for the richness of its color, a color that resembled the coat of an Irish Setter hunting dog, and was used to build some of the first 877 style boots.
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The First Flag to Fly over Denali
Guest Curator Angela Linn examines the flag Robert Tatum made during the first ascent of Denali in 1913. Tatum used materials from the team’s gear — bits of silk, strips of cotton, even a shoelace. The flag was flown at the summit of Denali on June 7, 1913.
The artifact arrived at the museum last week, along with the letter from Hudson Stuck inviting Tatum to join the expedition.The flag was thought to have been lost, but Linn tracked it down through family members to Doug Tatum, the great grandnephew of the first ascent team member. The family had it professional conserved and mounted. It had been hanging in Doug’s office.
Four climbers reached the summit of Denali together: Stuck, Tatum, Walter Harper, and Harry Karstens. The museum will tell their stories in the special exhibit, Denali Legacy: 100 Years on the Mountain. It opens in May.
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Ball Mason
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Posted on March 16, 2013 via Son of Origins with 187 notes
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The Story of an American Icon.
Levi’s As America : A Riveting Icon.
Pt. 1
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Levi’s As America : A Riveting Icon.
Pt. 2
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A National Arms Co. Single Shot No. 2 Derringer belonging to Pat Garrett, Sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico.
Posted on January 3, 2013 with 38 notes
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How much would you pay for a solitary hair inadvertently plucked from Mr. Dillinger’s mustache after his death? As it turns out, that auction gavel hammered down a wild $5,400
Following John Dillinger’s death at the hands of federal agents, thousands of people gathered at the Cook County, Chicago morgue to view his body. Sometime while his body was displayed, as many as four death masks of his face were made. During the casting process, one of his mustache hairs must have gotten stuck to the inside of the mold, and voila — here we are. For what it’s worth, the mustache hair was not a stand alone item. Included in the large frame is a typed note regarding Dillinger signed by FBI Agent Melvin Purvis, a portrait of Purvis, a reproduction wanted poster of Dillinger, and of course the aforementioned tiny hair. A very — well, unique — collectible to say the least.
It is worth noting that at the time Dillinger’s death masks were made, numerous “limited edition” runs of masks were molded from the originals.Posted on January 3, 2013 with 4 notes
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Portrait of Men with Cigars by Wisconsin Historical Images on Flickr.
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Disruptive Pattern Material: Blechman on Camouflage
When I researched Disruptive Pattern Material, my book on the history of camouflage, it became absolutely clear to me that camo is not a military invention. It comes from the study of natural history, which long ago recognised and categorised camouflage techniques used in nature by animals. In 1909, naturalist painter Abbott Thayer published a book, showing that animals are able to hide against the background by adopting four or five basic camouflage techniques. In art, until the introduction of Cubism in the early 20th century, painters generally used realism; artists could depict landscapes or forests, but they couldn’t perceive an abstract rendition of nature as a pattern. Thayer’s work made us realise that an abstract rendition of nature could be man made. When artists started practising this art form, they were recruited by the military and told to paint camouflage patterns for them. So the research for DPM really shows that camouflage has been hijacked by the military, taken from artists and scientists.But how and why was camo developed? Going back in time, for soldiers in the English army, red was the preferred uniform colour. In society, it was reserved for the upper class; poor people couldn’t afford to dye their clothes. This was a time when most ‘ordinary’ people were growing hemp in their back garden, wetting it and weaving it themselves and making heir own sack like cloth in natural colour. Then suddenly a guy walks down the road in bright red: ‘Wow, what a guy! What a hero!’ And outside of the upper classes, the military were the only people able to wear red. So, for a poor person, the army allure was strong; not only would you be well paid, you’d also get to wear this fabulous coat in a bright red. The military used the red coat, white trousers and black boots formula as recruitment for years. For the military, camouflage became important when long-range weaponry was developed. Before that, there was no need for it, but in the South African Boer wars, at the end of the 19th century, English soldiers wearing red suddenly got shot at more and more. Out of survival instinct they developed khaki – basically by dipping their red coats in tea or staining with them with dirt, anything to subdue their uniform because they were getting picked out due to the bright red.The first proper uniforms to come out after that were the grey uniforms in Germany, olive drab uniforms in the United States and khaki-sand uniforms in England. Often uniform developments are based on who we happen to be at war with at the moment – if we bring it right up to today, we now have an army pattern both the English and Americans wear, it’s the same uniform because we know where the fight is, we are only going to be fighting in the desert because that’s our target, so let’s not pretend that we are going to go and have a fight in a jungle anywhere or in the snow anywhere. There is only one uniform right now, they claim it’s “all terrain”, but to me it looks like a desert pattern and, funnily enough, it’s been like that since 1991. For army uniforms it all started getting interesting in 1929 the Italians invented the process of being able to print on fabric in multiple colours. And once again, after the red uniform colour had been discontinued, there was an opportunity for soldiers to feel special again, and that was a cool and that lasted a long time. It lasted until about 15 years ago when suddenly the military dumped so much surplus camo on the market that it got saturated. That’s when I got involved and camo started inspiring my work with Maharishi, and I began to reference it. Suddenly, camouflage became so popular within the civilian realm that soldiers once again weren’t feeling that special. It got to that point where we saw Osama Bin Laden on TV, filmed in some cave, and you say: ‘Isn’t that a US army jacket?’ ‘Yeah, in woodland camouflage’ and I’m like: ‘You fucking idiots sold it to him in one of your surplus stores!’Interview David Hellqvist
Photography Morgan O’DonovanDPM Disruptive Pattern Material Book - Hardy BlechmanPosted on December 6, 2012 with 17 notes
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It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
Of all things physical and metaphysical,
Of all things human and all things super-human,
Of all true manifestations of the head,
Of the heart, of the soul,
That the life is recognizable in its expression,
That form ever follows function. This is the law.
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