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"Clouds - White Pass, Kings River Canyon (Proposed as a national park)," California, 1936, Ansel Adams // #art #arthistory #nationalparks #AnselAdams #photography #photographer #unitedstates #blackandwhite #KingsRiverCanyon #California #curiosity #interdisciplinary #interdisciplinarylearning

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Abu'l Hasan and Mansur Squirrels in a Plane Tree, ca. 1610, India Office Library and Records, London // #art #painting #publicdomain #wikimediacommons #17thCentury #17thCenturyArt #interdisciplinary #interdisciplinarylearing #curiosity (at London, United Kingdom)

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“Two Girls With A Basket Of Kittens,” c. 19th Century, Émile Munier // #art #painting #publicdomain #19thcentury #19thcenturyart #interdisciplinary #interdisciplinaryart #publicdomain #curiosity

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“Kou-kou,” oil on canvas, 1895, Georgios Jakobides // #art #painting #publicdomain #19thcentury #19thcenturyart #interdisciplinarylearning #interdisciplinary #curiosity

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“Two Girls,” 1907, by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner // #art #painting #20thcentury #20thcenturyart #publicdomain #interdisciplinary #interdisciplinarylearning

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“Girotondo,” oil on canvas, 1877, by Raffaelo Sorbi (1844-1931), private collection // #art #painting #19thcentury #19thcenturyart #publicdomain #interdisciplinary #interdisciplinarylearning #curiosity

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“Sew for Victory,” poster, c. 1941-3, Work Projects Administration, Library of Congress // #art #poster #propaganda #wwii #libraryofcongress #1940s #publicdomain #interdisciplinary #interdisciplinarylearning (at The Library of Congress)

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“Der Blasturm in Schwandorf (the blast tower in Schwandorf)” oil on paper mounted on canvas, c. 1870, by Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885), Museum Georg Schäfer // #painting #publicdomain #19thcentury #19thcenturyart #germany #bavaria #Schweinfurt #interdisciplinary #interdisciplinarylearning #curiosity (at Museum Georg Schäfer)

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SUBMISSION: Adam Hillman, Cream of the Crop, 2017

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#SlaveWrecks Preserves First Known Artifacts from a Slave Ship

“I think all Americans need to recognize that, as tragic and horrible as slavery was, as big an economic shadow as it cast, the one thing it didn’t do was strip people of their humanity. And I wish that all of us were as strong as the people that walked down those steps and got on those boats.” - Lonnie Bunch

Director Lonnie Bunch takes CBS’ Scott Pelley on a journey to Mozambique Island to discuss the ruins of the Sao Jose, a ship carrying cargo manifest records of 1,500 iron bars for ballast and more than 400 slaves bound for Brazil.

Read more on 60 Minutes. 

About the Slave Wrecks Project (SWP)

The Slave Wrecks Project (SWP) is a long-term collaboration between six core partners, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), the U.S. National Park Service Submerged Resources Center (NPS SRC) and its Southeast Archaeological Center (NPS SEAC), the George Washington University Capitol Archaeological Institute (GWU CAI), IZIKO Museums of South Africa, the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA), and Diving With a Purpose (DWP). The project integrates research, training and education in the pursuit of new scholarship on the global slave trade, utilizing the lens of slave shipwrecks as its unique point of entry.

Lanae S., Social Media Specialist, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

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The Des Moines Register, Iowa, March 28, 1916

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Johan Muller’s Principles of Physics and Meteorology published in 1848 has some great colored plates that will make you think more of 1960s op art movement than physics.

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Artist Chris Riddell has created gorgeous illustrations for Neil Gaiman poem, “Locks.” Check them out here!