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Aaron Brick — אהרן בריק
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Historian of Mexico & California; Computer Science educator. Archives, manuscripts, graphics, document pipelines. Degrowth, frisbee, gardening, hi-fi.

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Please enjoy what SFGate called “California's Suprisingly Horny Abe Lincoln statue,” in the Spring Street Courthouse of Los Angeles. Its real name is “Young Lincoln.” The artist James Hansen explained: “Well, from a sculpturing standpoint, it’s better to show the […]

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Shirtless, hunky Abe Lincoln, loosening his waistband.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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The characteristic shape of river stones-cum-cobblestones. Tinos, Greece, 2023.
A path made of black river stones fixed in a road all have smoothly truncated tops where people's feet have passed over them for decades.
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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If anyone else is interested in Kalahari Surfers and the Voëlvry movement, turns out Warrick Swinney (Warrick Sony) earned his PhD with a dissertation called “Signal To Noise: sonic reflections on the South African transition period.” It's really an autobiographical […]

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On stage, Warrick Sony holds up a handwritten sign reading, “The S.A.P. are here to see that we all enjoy democracy.”
October 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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“Take it from the champs, graffiti is for chumps.”

Source: “Style Wars” (1983).

#archive #document #nyc #subway #graffiti
In a street scene, an older white man holds up a subway ad from an anti-graffiti campaign.
October 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Regalitos de la 30a reunión universitaria en Santiago de anoche, la cual no pude asistir. Nótese la ortografía preferida en nuestra augusta institución.

#universidad #chile #injenieria #beauchef
Pegatines y un saco inscritos con "U. de Chile Injeniería.”
October 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Cuando el archivero militar Dn. Anselmo Cortés se mostró ante el Egercito Trigarante, se certificó que “solo su adheccion a la Yndependencia pudo hacerle emprender una marcha de mas de noventa leguas....."

Fuente: University of Texas, San Antonio.

#documento […]

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Un documento del 1822 escrito en cursiva sobre el archivero citado. Es un gran párrafo solo con algunas curvas dibujadas en el margen.
October 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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El daño que hace la tinta ferrogálica: siendo ácida, come el soporte. Nótese que la tinta de la impresión es distinta, pero desconozco su composición. El año del documento es el 1822.

Fuente: Colección de decretos y bandos de la Regencia y Primer Imperio […]

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La rúbrica de Luis Quintanar muestra erosión del soporte en los lazos dibujados.
September 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Well that makes two of us who are “authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”

Source: https://www.discogs.com/release/29705710-Full-Force-Full-Force

#uspol
J-card from the Canadian cassette of the self-titled LP, “Full Force.”
September 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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@ai6yr Sorry not sorry. https://andscape.com/features/rapper-missy-elliotts-inflated-trash-bag-helped-create-new-space-for-women-in-hip-hop/
Fisheye still from Missy Elliot's “The Rain” video with her famous garbage bag outfit.
September 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Boleras de la independencia. Cantadas en el Teatro de la Imperial Ciudad de México la noche del 15 de Octubre de 1821, por toda la compañía de Opera del mismo.

El mosaico es un experimento que llevé a cabo con fotos informales.

Fuente: Sutro Library, PM385 doc. 53 […]

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Los nueve versos de una canción operática con coro, todo alabando al gran Iturbide que logró independizar a México.
September 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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FINALLY there was a traffic jam in just the right place on U.S. Route 101 and I got a half-decent photo of what may be my favorite graff, in Sargent, at the Santa Clara–San Benito county line. Viva AKWER, whoever you are!

#graffiti #lettering #sign #text #california
A dilapidated industrial building in a dry, hilly landscape has a giant graffiti sign in black letters spelling AKWER.
September 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Luis Valdez casts a wide net for literature for his upcoming anthology “Aztlan: an anthology of Mexican American literature” (Knopf, 1972).

Source: El Grito del Norte (Española, New Mexico), December 6, 1969.

#archive #document #chicano #literature #publishing #openletter
Luis Valdez, Director del Teatro Campesino, requests “in the true spirit of Carnalismo” submissions of Chicano literature, to be published in a 1970 anthology.
September 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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🥳 Me acabo de enterar, alegremente, que en diciembre la Revista de Historia de América (Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia) publicará mi último artículo sobre la Comisión de las Californias y la amenaza rusa, “The Geopolitics of Alta California in José […]

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Parte noroccidental de la carta esférica, mostrando el puerto de San Francisco y alrededores.
September 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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What is the double-underlined Russian word? A collaborator told me that it means “decorated” or “honored.” My best wrong reading is «кагратдей»... not apparently a word. Can anyone please correct me?

#russian #cyrillic #paleography #cursive #document #русский
Photo of parts of two handwritten documents containing a mystery Russian word.
September 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Historieta “El cuarto reich... la reserva de occidente!” de José Palomo, 1983.

Fuente: la revista chilena “Analisis: una opinión libre,” 13—27 septiembre de 1983. José Palomo hizo el “humor” de la edición. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%C3%A1lisis_(revista) […]

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Dos historietas a base de carabineros parados en línea charlando entre si mientras el pueblo les grita.
September 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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I was really pleased and impressed with Chris Miskiewicz and Noah Van Sciver's non-fiction graphic novel “Grateful Dead Origins.” It's a really careful and joyful project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead_Origins

#sanfrancisco #california #music #history #comic
A colorful comic panel of the Grateful Dead onstage at a show with an announcer speaking: “The Kool-Aide on the left is the 'Electric Kool-Aide.' And the Kool-Aide on the right is for kids. Everyone dig what I'm saying?"
September 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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“El Peje que bimoz semesava a estos aun que no devisamos si tenia escama o no, que parescia la color de tonina: lo demas tenia ni mas ni menos: los brazos e maos mostrusos por que vimos le vantarse en ayre fuera de la mar.”

Imagen publicado con la “Relacion del […]

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Bosquejo de dos criaturas tipo sirena, que no queda muy claro si son humanoides o peciformes, las dos mirando hacia la izquierda.
September 4, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Duster and Seen painted this graffiti mural flat on a NYC rooftop for the cover of the 1984 LP “Wotupski!?!”. Horizontal seams are visible between three bolts of canvas, so probably the mural was a little under 5 meters feet on a side. Sorry about the HDR effect on […]

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Hip-hop graffiti mural with bubble letters and metallic effects with “Jellybean,” “Wotupski!?!,” and “Bronx” possibly the only three legible words.
August 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Trying to be distracted for some reason. And fondly remembering the fake branding I put on my old truck.The text is from a late 1800s factory in Ohio.

Source: https://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/2009/06/woolsey-wheel-company.html

#ohio #typography #lettering #sign
Close-up of the side of a white pickup truck with lettering on the door that reads “WOOLSEY WHEEL CO.”
August 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Can any fellow scholar get me a copy of this article? My usually very good library has given up.

>>> Карпенко З.Г. // Работные люди Российско-американской компании // Архивы Кузбасса [Кемерово], № 1 (4), 2002, 49–64.

The article seems to be posthumous, as the […]

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Black and white headshot photograph of Karpenko, a Soviet historian, circa 1960s.
August 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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“Los Doyers” de Jake Prendez.

Fuente: https://www.jakeprendez.com/product-page/los-doyers

#beisbol #chicano #mexicano #california #losangeles
Un pelotero mesoamericano que viste el uniforme de los L.A. Dodgers y se ha pivoteado con macuahuitl en lugar de bate.
August 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Reseña jornalistica del campus universitario que en la guerra civil española se convertió en un campo de batalla con parapetos hechos de libros […]

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Un viejo libro perforado por un balazo. Fuente: Biblioteca Histórica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
August 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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I've ended up owning three midcentury acetate or aluminum 12" records, which are one-and-done field recordings, too weird and fragile to keep with my music collection. They are unique but carry very little metadata. Might any archive or library want to accession and […]

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The center of an acetate disc with the characteristic four hole pattern. The main text reads “Soundcraft full spectrum.”
August 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Las firmas del acuerdo entre mexicanos y rusos en la Fuerte Ross, 1822. El comisionado imperial fue Agustín Fernández de San Vicente; el comandante de la fuerte fue Karl Schmidt.

Fuente: Veselago Collection, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

#documento #archivo #rusia #mexico #california
Firmas españolas en la izquierda y rusas en la derecha.
July 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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“Train Wreck 59.”

Photo by Carl Lobozza (1959). Source: Ferguson Library. https://www.fergusonlibraryarchive.org/document/FL.lobozza.631

#archive #document #photo #train #wreck #accident #connecticut
Firefighters spray water onto a huge jumble of wrecked train cars in an industrial city.
June 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM