Allison C. Meier

@AllisonCMeier

Writer on culture, history, & other wonders. Cemetery guide & explorer. Oklahoma born.

Brooklyn, NY
Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2010.

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    Lost museum ephemera sighting from the Egyptian Museum on Broadway. Some of its collection is now according to this:

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    This 1872 tea set was apparently a wedding gift (in the silhouette show)

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    Love that among the beautiful Victorian hair art now there’s this plain box full of a tangle of John James Audubon’s hair & whiskers (cut by his wife after returning from his 1843 Western expedition)

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    The ghost house of Bond Street, a reminder that this was once one of the most luxurious streets of the early 19th century city.

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    This is a paper boat folded in 1861 by Nathaniel Hawthorne & somehow survived to be part of the

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    These strange designs also reveal a lot about Lequeu, working in a post-Revolution France. On the back of this 1794 concept for a Paris gate he wrote: “A drawing to save me from the guillotine. Everything for the fatherland.”

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    In 1792, Lequeu envisioned a tomb for the Etruscan king Lars Porsena built over an inescapable labyrinth (& included a compendium of famous historic labyrinths for ideas)

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    For his 1798-1802 Temple of Divination, Lequeu included a recipe for a sweet perfume to mask the smell of sulfur

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    Jean-Jacques Lequeu’s drawings now are packed with details on how his fantastic architecture would actually work, such as this 1804-11 temple for initiation into a secret society

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    Kryptos clue alert! (With some cool animations of the puzzling passages on the sculpture)

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    What are NYC’s greatest/spookiest/most historic trees? I’m returning to the tree beat for a new project (my previous legwork ) & looking for tips

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    This is said by the Museum to be a "witch whistle" meant to summon help when there was a plague of rats. Yes, that is a mummified rat's paw. 19th c.

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    Having to evacuate the theater because the space opera in an East Village basement set off the fire alarm is the best ending to a show I’ve experienced in a while.

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    Finally, made me (grimly) laugh to notice all the examples in Yongwoo Park’s memorial limestone cremain bricks were zoo animals

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    I’ve seen plenty of the “bury me under a tree” ideas, but Bade Stageberg Cox’s concept is visually exciting & reimagines the family crypt as a botanic garden

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    “EXIT Architecture: Speculations for the Hereafter” now has alternative designs for memorialization, such as Jason Vigneri-Beane’s prototype for an AR funerary landscape with digital monuments

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