Way Over Yonder

Maxfield Parrish (American 1870-1966)

"Dusk," 1942

A photo from “My Name Is New York,” showing Woody Guthrie playing while he gets his shoes shined.

My name is New York, I’m a brick on a brick I’m a hundred folks running, and ten dying sick I’m a saint, I’m a sinner, a whore and her pimp Your ocean’s the mirror I look in to primp. —“My Name Is New York,” Woody Guthrie

"This Land Is Your Land" was written at a small rooming house on 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue on February 23, 1940, within a few days of his arrival.

Photo: Eric Schaal via the NY Times

heyyyy to all the women out there i hope you get to have a pasta dinner soon. to men i hope you are repenting

"But cheese does not abandon me, neither in summer nor in autumn, nor at the end of winter:"

--Theocritus Idyll XI.36-7

Holiday Affair (1949) dir. Don Hartman

NOTORIOUS (1946) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

r.crumb, 1967

'Krampus with cat' by Mac Jaffe, 1901

A horse tells ghost stories to another horse. The Animal story book. 1896.

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Eric Sloane (American, 1905-1985) -

New Hampshire in January

Freeman’s

Mayor Wagner feted Harlem's own Althea Gibson after she won the U.S. Open's Women's Singles title in Forest Hills, September 8, 1957. She had already won at Wimbledon, and was the first Black player to win a major championship (let alone two).

Photo: Harry Harris for the AP

Vincent Van Gogh, Landscape with Houses, 1853

Happy Labor Day