#Akeley

[petsincollections]

Young man sitting on a bed with a cat, Akeley, Minnesota, ca. 1910

American Swedish Institute

[wyrmfedgrave]

BroadwayWorld.com: FRIGID New York to Present Radiotheatre's 14th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Festival

Frigid NY presents RadioTheatre's 14th HPL live Festival, with limited performances of Lovecraft's "Whisperer in Darkness."

The plot should be familiar to Howard's longtime readers.

Professor Wilmarth has come to the NY Psychical Society to get help in warning the world to prepare for alien enslavement!!

He relates the fate of his friend Henry Akeley, who 1st found the creatures setting up on remote Dark Mountain.

And, whose scouts are already among us...

The performance is a live drama - with a 21st century twist.

As always, they back up their actors with an original orchestra score, cinematic sound design - &, a # of projections!

This show will run from the 23rd til the 27th of July at Under St. Marks, 94th St. Marks Place, NYC 10009.

Tickets are: $30 for live admission. But, there's a better deal if you want to watch - thru streaming!!

That'll just cost $5 bucks!

The story is 85 minutes long but, you're warned to not come alone.

Please, bring your imagination - & fears along...

Enjoy.

[sleepereternal]

Masks Off

Well, the LLA is official. You all have seen my own struggles with them here. But the public announcement was made. And to think this was passed by the council, never would have thought I'd be aligned in principle with Councilman Akeley—ugh.

I'm small fish, but it seems they're already aggressively positioning themselves against the established leaders in the city. What's Magenez's end game here?

Here we are. The city has suffered a horrific tragedy, West Lovat is still a mess, bodies are being recovered daily, and she pushes through a private army?

I'm disgusted.

[shushmuckle]

Fighting African Elephants at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.

[vintagewildlife]

Two Tanzanian boys with their pet guenon By: Carl Akeley From: Natural History Magazine 1943

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

A Brewed Rebellion

On this day, December 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place, a significant event in American history. It was a political protest by the American colonists against British taxation without representation. The Tea Act of 1773 allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies. This undercutting of local merchants and enforcing a tax on tea was the catalyst for this protest.

On the night of the incident, a group of colonists, known as the Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk Indians to conceal their identities and boarded three British ships anchored in Boston Harbor. They threw 342 chests of tea, worth around the equivalent of one million dollars today, overboard into the harbor.

Samuel Adams primarily led the Boston Tea Party, which was organized by John Hancock. However, the identities of many of the participants remain a mystery. Notably, Francis Akeley is the only individual known to have been arrested and imprisoned for his role in the event. 

The images come from:

Dorothy Q: Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle by Oliver Wendell Holmes with illustrations by Howard Pyle, published in Boston by  Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1893.

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-Melissa, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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yuri

agreed

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[nofatclips]

Grandpappy's Gold by Bearaxe featuring Terry Moore, live on Band in Seattle

[fitsofgloom]

A curious and very ironic case of immortality for a gorilla that died over a century ago. This mountain gorilla was sadly killed sometime between 1905 and 1909 when the famed taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley had traveled to Africa to obtain museum specimens. By 1927, the stuffed and mounted creature was featured in a diorama in New York's American Museum of Natural History. It's still on display to this day. During the '60s, this image began turning up as a cheap scare gimmick -- typically depicting the sexual menacing of a human female and battling a square-jawed male opponent -- in movie posters and comic books both stateside, in Europe, and in South America. Cut to some eighty years after becoming a scientific artifact -- and casualty of the Big Game Hunter/Men of Daring era -- and this image is now ubiquitous as various postcards and souvenirs available in any number of Times Square tourist traps. Fittingly, it's now conflated with the legend of another great ape laid low by a cruel human society.

[one-with-the-tree]

"The father of modern taxidermy once fought a ferocious leopard with his bare hands and won" feels like a made up fact but it's very much real

[doolallymagpie]

love how we're just supposed to think the mi-go are evil little dudes just because they take people's brains out, and that Akeley's sudden shift of attitude is clearly because they did something to him, not because he, y'know, talked to them instead of shooting for once

like, this story is so funny with the context of Lovecraft being a raging bigot

[lindahall]

Carl Akeley – Scientist of the Day 

Carl Akeley, an American taxidermist, sculptor, and animal collector, died Nov. 17, 1926, at age 62.  

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[chuwush]

Grandpa Armstrong stuff makes me really happy.

He's a silly little grandpa and I love him.

[vintagewildlife]

Pet guenon By: Carl Akeley From: Natural History Magazine 1943

[thegodofhellfire]