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Welcome!

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Working on the Schuylkill Navy page for a Cornell University project

I saw that you did a lot of the heavy lifting on the Schuylkill Navy page. I am currently working on the page with a couple of my Cornell University classmates for our Online Communities class. Would you mind taking a look at what we have put up over the next couple days to make sure we are on the right track. Eddie and I, Andrew, row at Cornell, Eddie is a lightweight and I am a heavyweight. I rowed on Boathouse Row for 4 years in high school at The Shipley School, so we would love to get connected with someone else who is passionate about the sport.

Thanks! Andrew, Eddie, and Janice ~~~~

Last Will and Testament of George Washington

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Good job turning my stub into an article!

Thanks for your work on Christopher Sheels! — Sebastian 02:54, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I notice that you've been editing articles

that are on my watchlist and want to mention that if you write something, anything, on your user page than your UserName will appear in blue instead of red and you will almost automatically gain 27% more respect from the folks who watch the pages that you edit. Just a thought. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:24, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will continue double checking all your edits that appear on my watch page (quite a few, it turns out) until your name appears in blue. Carptrash (talk) 20:05, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of works by Thomas Eakins

Great work! Raul654 (talk) 14:55, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Categorization

Sure and it's my pleasure - glad to be of assistance. :-)

Oh...and history isn't boring. At least when you have a degree in it... :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:27, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia takes Philly

I've notice your edits at the NRHP list for Center City Philadelphia. Please keep it up!

I wonder if you've noticed Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philadelphia/Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia and Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/List of articles that need pictures in Philadelphia ? This is a good chance to make the Center City NRHP list fully illustrated, so I've put all unillustrated CC NRHPs on the list. I'd appreciate it if you could join in on the photography, but perhaps even more important (given your obvious knowledge of Philly) - could you check to see if all the unphotographed sites still exist (i.e. are not torn down). I'd think this is a problem especially in Chinatown. Well anything you could do would be a help. Thanks. Smallbones (talk) 04:32, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Any chance I'll see you there tomorrow? Smallbones (talk) 17:42, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand

Thank you so much for creating this. It's been on my list of articles to write for quite some time. I've nominated it for the main page 'Did You Know' spot (which should happen in a couple of weeks). Raul654 (talk) 20:26, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You may want to address Materialscientist's comments at Template_talk:Did_you_know regarding the the Fairman Rogers article -- there are several unreferenced paragraphs. Also, the hook is unreferenced.. I took care of the latter issue, but there are still unreferenced paragraphs. Raul654 (talk) 16:30, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand

On April 17, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 00:01, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I appreciate your letting me know. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:37, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ed Hamilton

Thank you for your excellent work on the Ed Hamilton article! Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 14:51, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. What it needs is more pictures of his sculptures. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:37, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Bridge

Thanks for adding this article. I'm not completely enthusiastic about the current title, but it does have to be a compromise among many competing names for this structure, and it shouldn't be changed without consensus. I'm posting some alternative suggestions in Talk:Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Bridge and asking for feedback.Martindelaware (talk) 07:25, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edit to the Skew arch article

Hello. I notice you've replaced the picture of Colorado Street bridge with one of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad's viaduct across the Schuylkill River. It's a good photograph but I'm afraid it's in the wrong section. Further down in the article you'll see a section entitled The ribbed skew arch, which actually contains a large paragraph on this very bridge. I wanted to include a photograph of it but could never find one, perhaps due to the fact that it didn't have an easily searchable name. That said, I believe the two existing photos of ribbed skew arches to be much better examples as they better show the stepped ribbed nature of their construction. While the ribbed skew arch is indeed one form of the false skew arch the photo is not representative of the general false skew arch, which is built with courses that run parallel with its abutments (as opposed to perpendicular to its faces). I'm therefore going to revert your edit but I think it only fair that I explain why. I will include a Wikilink to the Schuylkill bridge article. —MegaPedant 23:45, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Girard Avenue Bridge

On May 7, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Girard Avenue Bridge, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

St. Michael's Episcopal Church

Nice work on expanding St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Church, Parish House and Rectory from a stub. I notice it is not in the article, but the NRHP nomination form usually is a good source as well.

As the article name is fairly long, I wonder if moving it to a shorter one has ever been proposed (maybe just St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania). Niagara ^{Don't give up the ship} 00:43, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SEPTA Regional Rail bridge

Thank you for your comments on the Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Bridge title on User talk:Martindelaware. I have replied on talk pages. I have been working on creating or updating all the bridge articles in Philadelphia over the Schuylkill River, and now I am just starting on what is now called the SEPTA Regional Rail bridge in the list. This bridge was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1879-1881, and opened for freight April 25, 1881, as part of what was called the "Elevated Road" and later the Chinese wall when connected to the Broad Street Station. Before an article is created, I am seeking your advice on what to call this bridge. I am having difficulty finding enough information about it, but I may create a short stub with photos and hope that other editors can contribute more details. What would you advise?--DThomsen8 (talk) 13:49, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yesterday I visited the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, a very interesting place. I learned from a staff member that I can contact their library by email and they have experts who can definitely provide historical information about this bridge. I have ordered some books through the Inter-Library Loan program which also could be of help. I have quite a few photos of this bridge, and I will take a few more from the SEPTA 30th Street platforms, but I do not add photos to the Commons until I have the name and history of a building or bridge to include when I upload using the Commonist tool. While out in Lancaster County, I also took photos of three covered bridges, two of which I can identify in bridgehunter.com, and one is not there, probably because unlike the other two, it is now closed. Again, the photos only go up when I have reasonably good information about the bridges. --DThomsen8 (talk) 17:07, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Johnstown Flood

Hi BoringHistory Guy. The paragraph about the Johnstown Flood that you added recently to Main Line of Public Works is well-written and interesting, but it lacks in-line citations to reliable sources. Could you please add them? If you know what they are but don't know how to add them, I'd be glad to help. Finetooth (talk) 00:59, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So . . ... I have a lot

of sculpture related articles on my watchlist and you are slowly, one at a time, hitting them all. Because this is a good thing you have earned the seldom coveted Thumbs Up Award. Way to go. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 23:24, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

You might also check out the pix at Aden, Delaware on Commons.

I've got the feeling that Will Price and Rose Valley, Pennsylvania are/were among the most important articles in my area of interest that need the most re-writing - but I really don't know where to start! I will almost surely put Thunderbird Lodge into its own article however. If you want to do some more on these articles, I'll do more than just help. Thanks for the kind words. Smallbones (talk) 00:35, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great, you should take both Alice Barber Stephens and Thunderbird Lodge (Rose Valley, Pennsylvania) to DYK for a double - I'll see if I can think of a hook that has both of them in it. I'll certainly add something to Tbird lodge. Smallbones (talk) 01:27, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes,you are right - I've added the nomination forms from PHMC, and if I have time tonight will add material about the Olmsteds - it looks fairly important. BTW, from the name on the mailbox, their family still lives there. Smallbones (talk) 00:00, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you are an old friend of George Thomas, you are quite lucky. I haven't run into Nancy Webster before, but I'd guess the same applies. Pennsylvania nomination are "all available" on-line, but it is very strange. You need to use Internet Explorer to get them, which is difficult for me, but not impossible, even though I use a Mac. Go to https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/Project/CustomQueries/Wizard.asp, sign in with "public" and "public", then follow the AskRegis prompts in the order suggested. Once you've download the forms just substitute the "H number" into Format for a PHMC NRHP link.<ref>Carl E. Doebley, 19xx, [https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H001316_01H.pdf NRHP Nomination Form Adelphi School] Enter "public" for ID and "public" for password to access the site.</ref> to get a reference that doesn't need Internet Explorer. Smallbones (talk) 03:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alice Barber Stephens

Wow - I can't believe we didn't have an article about her yet. Excellent work; happy editing!

PS: you're not boring in the least. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:36, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Surely - you're quite welcome. Keep up the good work! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:41, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for The Pennsylvania State Memorial

On 23 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Pennsylvania State Memorial, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the two largest Gettysburg Battlefield monuments "Pennsylvania State Memorial" and "Eternal Light Peace Memorial" were dedicated, respectively, on the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, at battlefield reunion encampments? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 18:06, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

I try to just keep plugging along. If there are directions that you think I should plug along on, please let me know. Smallbones (talk) 05:08, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

the alarm

not at all, just creating public art stubs. if i see a pic and siris reference, i'll make one. thanks for improvement to Benjamin Franklin (Boyle). Slowking4 (talk) 15:43, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

you could also change it to John J. Boyle, (remember to change disambig page John Boyle). i am supremely indifferent to name changes, since it dosn't affect a google search. Slowking4 (talk) 16:04, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again

The inscriptions reads as follows, except in ALL CAPS (text in parens mine)

William Hickman Harte VSN (USN) Killed in action IVNE XVI (June 16) MDCCCLXII (1862) Aged XXXV years and Mary A Harte his wife Died September IX MCMVII (1907) - Aged LXXI years

I've got 2 other pix of the cross - full height of same side, ok but repetitious, and the other side probably more interesting but there are light problems.

All the best, Smallbones (talk) 22:17, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited to the Philadelphia Wiknic!

This message is being sent to inform you of a Wikipedia picnic that is being held in your area this Saturday, June 25. From 1 to 5 PM or any time in between, join your fellow volunteers for a get together in the Azalea Garden, just behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art 39°58′05″N 75°10′59″W / 39.96801°N 75.183156°W / 39.96801; -75.183156

Take along your friends (newbies permitted), your family and other free culture enthusiasts! You may also want to pack a blanket, some water or perhaps even a frisbee.

If you can, share what you're bringing at the discussion page.

Also, please remember that this is the picnic that anyone can edit so bring enough food to share!

Smallbones (talk) 16:58, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

van der Weyden

Hi, can you either activate your ability to recieve mail or email me so I can send a copy of the Tucker article. Ta. Ceoil (talk) 20:47, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It was my mail that wasn't enambled. Mail sent now. Ceoil (talk) 11:16, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I managed to salvage the article and it now lives here User:Carptrash/Josephine P. Widener. I'm hoping that we can turn it into something that will pass muster. EInar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:31, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Steuben Monument

I'm glad you found this article of interest. I am working with a group of photojournalism students this semester to create images and properly share them in Commons, so we should have a nice illustration of the sculpture soon. I also hope the stub can be expanded in time. It's great to learn of your work improving the encyclopedia's coverage of sculpture. Thank you! Jgmikulay (talk) 17:59, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback.

Getting a comment like that is always a pleasure!

Please do continue adding things - did you see the link to SlowKing's user page on the talk page. It has the "full SIRIS list" but does need some work. I've also been thinking about how to best organize the list.

As far as the Lincoln (Kemeys) statue - I think it's just a mistake on SIRIS. He generally didn't sculpt people, and there is no such statue on Kelly Drive or "East River Drive." But I'm just trying to make sure.

Thanks again.

Smallbones (talk) 22:32, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem - we just need a clear dividing line - maybe everything north of Eakins Oval? Smallbones (talk) 04:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll suggest leaving Fairmount Park as is for now, which will help in classifying all the B-Z's in the Smithsonian list that have yet to be classified. When it gets to be over 200 items, then we can split it off to its own article, and if necessary into smaller pieces. Smallbones (talk) 02:32, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

They call me the fastest gun in the east

(Not really.) And history is not boring.

Happy to be of help, as always - keep up the good work, and happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:46, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know...anyone who likes Randolph Rogers can't be that boring. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:55, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have a problem

and I have come up with a non-standard way of dealing with it. I am going to pitch my solution to half a dozen long term editors whom I respect and get some feedback. I am picking you of my watchlist, not why some of you are there. I am confused, sober and looking for answers and honesty. It all starts with the Ignore all rules postulate.

Over the years I have amassed a lot of documentary materials. My great-grandfather lived in China, my grandfather was born there. Both took pictures. My grandfather took pictures as a doctor in both WWI and WWII. I have become the family archivist and I call the collection the Carpchives. In an earlier wikipedia incarnation this collection was referred to as the eekives. It was involved in a quite heated discussion here [1] - Disputed Image section and eventually the picture was removed. By me, as I recall. The picture in question was of my father-in-law in the US Merchant Marines during WWII. Another picture taken during the Boxer rebellion has since been removed. It was a bit funky, for sure.

There are a number of signatures that I've added to articles, some from my family archives, some I've had signed, other turn up in used books. Some of this stuff that is already in wikipedia is here:

File:CZKSignature.jpg

I'm pretty sure there is more.

I also have a great collection of Corrado Parducci stuff, his "Job Book" written by him, copies of hundreds of photographs of his works in the plaster stage in his studio, a copy of his scrap book and more. I once had a project going to try and identify 75 sculptors in a photograph that was published in LIFE Magazine in 1949, located several of the artists still alive and corresponded with many children and grandchildren. Unfortunately much of that was lost in one of several dramatic computer and other failures in my life, but much remains. Then there is what I call the "my father (or grandfather) was a famous sculptor and..." syndrome. Through that I've collected a great CD filled with Rene Paul Chambellan's scrap books, as well as letter, papers, photographs and all sorts of that sort of things from a variety of other folks.

I always share. Well, almost always. So, I'd like to set up, on wikipedia, a Charpchives article or perhaps, a subpage of my user page or something, where these things could be referenced to and anyone who wanted to check up on something could contact me there.

Or is this all just some mutation of perversion of original research? Or even hubris? The thing about this material is that little of it in mine, although some of that does appear too. this is not my blog. Or should I just put it all on my blog and forget using it on wikipedia?

I can't tell what date the IWW card is, but it's probably pre-1923 published copyright expired. You should learn what "published" means in this technical sense and also check out the rules for pre-1923 and pre-1978 PD. The cemetery receipt looks fine, and the signatures are ineligible for copyright. The Eskimo note is probably non-copyright, because of its simplicity.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bell

That looks fine; I've tweaked the language a bit. That was not the strongest part of the article, I'm glad you've made it more solid.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:31, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a bit concerned the image of the LBC exterior might confuse the reader.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:12, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's about as much detail as can be stood, remember it has to be at about the same scale as the rest of the article. Can you rephrase to avoid the term "visual axis"? I can guess what it means, but I'm not a city planner. Do the sources speak to whether one of the cites became the Constitution Center?--Wehwalt (talk) 09:24, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, news article titles in references should only be capitalized at the start and at proper nouns.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:22, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was checking out

your recent edit at Benjamin Franklin Parkway and thought the picture looked familiar, so looked at it closer and it was mine. Bringing a nice feeling. Thanks, Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:04, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's great! SO much better than the old picture. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 12:32, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Smile!

A smile for you

You’ve just received a random act of kindness! 66.87.7.141 (talk) 23:16, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work

at William Rudolf O'Donovan. Now you are the BoringSculptureGuy too. Which is a very good thing. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 02:57, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Boring" is not so bad. My daughters used to argue endlessly about whether I was a "dork" or a "nerd." I think that "boring" was a component of either. Of both. And really, we history folks know that, "Here he goes again." is just really a reflection of other people's ignorance. Among things. Carptrash (talk) 15:55, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also

(the rest - the first part of the answer is on my talk page) in the Dec 1940 edition of American Artist, one of my vintage magazines that I get when ever I can, the cover story on Edmond Amateis, mostly about his post office in Philadelphia, states, "Other works are: Pediment for the Buffalo Historical Society Building....." Carptrash (talk) 20:44, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

6 years, is it? Well as you know, people can only do things in the NOW, and then, given enough time, that NOW becomes history. Spooky, isn't it? Carptrash (talk) 02:33, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A reminder that neither Niehaus nor Ameteis carved the pediment, or, probably, anything except a thanksgiving turkey. They make clay and then plaster models from which carvers generate what we see. Sorry, but this is a pet peeve of mine. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:31, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to hear that someone notices. I just posted some more at List of monuments of the Gettysburg Battlefield that possibly could go on that other list you found. And thank you for following up on my "carved" weirdness. Carptrash (talk) 21:02, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am not quite sure where this link will get you, but it might be to post 3 of the Pioneer Women in Sculpture that has a detail from a Geo Washington monument that is almost as peculiar.
http://pioneerwomen.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-02-05T18:14:00-08:00&max-results=7
Carptrash (talk) 00:14, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

on your second Thumbs Up Award - (a record as far as I am aware) - this time for your awesome work on conceptualizing and actually using the concept on setting up and organizing the List of equestrian statues in the United States. My paltry attempts pale next to the perfection that you have produced. Perfect!! Carptrash (talk) 15:55, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. It's looking pretty good, and it's been very enjoyable. I knew next to nothing about Shrady, Neihaus, and Rohl-Smith, and now they're among my favorites. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:22, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am trying to get photo permission for some recent works and it is slow going. No one says "No", but they won't say "yes" either. I might just continue with the classics (that is pre-1923, or at least, not post 1980 or so). Carptrash (talk) 17:29, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Philadelphia Museum of Art

We've started a GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) project at Wikipedia:GLAM/Philadelphia Museum of Art. This should be exciting! Please sign up or contribute however you can.

Smallbones (talk) 05:07, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much on your very kind (and well-informed) comment. Also you might like the new Lipchitz "Government of the People" photo. Smallbones (talk) 14:07, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm hoping you could take a look at Philadelphia_Museum_of_Art#History and maybe edit it down somewhat, or add another source or two! It's obvious the article needed something, but my attempt to slog straight through it is missing something. Any help appreciated. Smallbones (talk) 21:53, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, it looks good. Smallbones (talk) 01:55, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to award you

a third Thumbs Up Award, but fearful that it might go to your head, reluctantly opted not to. However your recent work at Heinz Warneke has changed it from my feeble attempt to get rid of red ink on that Philly art list into a real article. Hopefully I'll be able to at least try and keep up with you but real life might not co-operate. Carptrash (talk) 15:36, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The story of art is best told in the images. Also,we have to either keep in mind or ignore the US's lack of Freedom of Panorama with some of these. Carptrash (talk) 15:55, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I would not use the "J" word. I have had probably 100s of pictures removed, some by other editors and some by me in a fit of pique. I find the USA's lack of freedom of panorama to be draconian in the extreme, and there are ways to get around it. I am about to write an article about a photograph just to be able to use it. We tr to keep moving forward and if at times we have to go sideways or even back, so be it. Carptrash (talk) 17:21, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a long day

one of several in a row. The Dixon annual Fun Run was today, I was the official time keeper scribe, then the Pathetics played at the Blue Heron Brewery, so I got all the free beer that was good for me and more. Tomorrow is more of the same, with Holly's Follies replacing the Pathetics. of course none of this means anything to you, perhaps I'll explain it when I'm sober. Now about Imprimis - the link that you sent me. I get it mailed to me every month and HATE it but only stay on their mailing list to cost them $.27 a month. Hillsdale College is the home of the anti-Christ, etc. I will send you something about them from ny sacred LIFE Magazine, June 20, 1949 that will sent the table for what will follow. But enough. the fact is, from my POV we do not know how to make memorials anymore but I refuse to agree with anything printed in Imprimis as a general principle. it's sort of like Pravda used to be, only different. More later, Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 04:08, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bell

BTW I was in Philly last week. As I was going to TLA on South Street and staying at the Holiday Inn at 4th and Arch, I not unnaturally went to pay my respects to the Bell. Didn't go in as there was a long line but looked from the outside. One of these days I need to go back to the NPS library and see if they have a PD image of the Pavilion (1976-2003). And the Mint was closed to the public dammit I wanted to take a picture of Peter (eagle)--Wehwalt (talk) 08:34, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Rudolph Schwarz

[2] Disambiguation from what? Dru of Id (talk) 14:56, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your quick reply. His first name is different, so no further disambiguation is necessary for him, and the Rudolf Schwarz page already by necessity exists and disambiguates the other two. I was getting frustrated looking for one which had been deleted. As it's currently unnecessary to disambiguate him, please consider moving him back. Dru of Id (talk) 20:20, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Crucifixion Diptych

Its actually quite close to GA, if you are interested. A small amount of work needed, nothing major. I saw some random person nomed it there last week. I found a few sources recently, just havnt gotten round to it yet. Anyway. Ceoil (talk) 21:49, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two things - I'd move the other crucifixions gallery to the foot of the page. I think it breaks the flow of the article, and its not exactly central to the discussion. Second, I agree that the provedence section should be para rather than bullet points. Again, its a preference, but bullet points are abrupt and bare, and often with provedence as you dig into it, a story reveals itself. Not saying that necessarly here...to be more honest, bullet points are for powerpoint ;) It just doesnt look right with such a relatively polished article. I'll do the conversion if your not opposed. Anyway, keep up the good work, and best of luck with the GA. Ceoil (talk) 19:10, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You should spin out the material on the Escorial Crucifixion into a seperate article. I have a few sources, if your up for it. Ceoil (talk) 12:48, 28 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Love to get your reaction

Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Register_of_Historic_Places#WLM_Android_App_from_WMF Maybe my talkpage would be the best place to respond

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 03:33, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GLAM: Philadelphia Museum of Art update

Hi GLAM PMA folks! I wanted to update you about some recent events related to our fantastic Museum. I met Jessica Milby, PMA Collections Information Project Manager, at Wikimania in July. Jessica was looking for ways to improve articles on Wikipedia about the Museum and its artists/collections. We followed up a few weeks later at the Perelman Building in downtown Philadelphia where we discussed ways to increase participation in the GLAM/PMA project.

The first idea is to do some outreach to the GLAM:PMA project members, including mass messages updating you all about plans and, seeking feedback about new ideas, and hearing your thoughts about what's in the works.
The next step is a drive to improve the main Philadelphia Museum of Art article. The article is currently 'B-Class', but Jessica was confident that with the abundance of high quality sources about the Museum that it could be improved even further. Jessica recommended this extensive source from the Museum's website.
Another idea that came out of the meeting was a project within the Museum to assess which PMA-related topics are missing articles on Wikipedia.
One of Jessica's ideas is to have the knowledgeable curators of the Museum provide recommended reading lists for PMA-related articles. That should be a great first step to guiding editors towards the information they need to expand and improve that content.
Also raised for discussion were some ideas about how to engage the broader community. There is interest in setting up a tour/edit-a-thon, but this remains in the preliminary stage. Would you be interested in participating in such an event?
We have new stats! These 24 articles are all under the PMA project. I compiled the last 90-day page views and then annualized the results. PMA-related articles get almost 800,000 view per year!

See the stats!

Article	Importance	Class	View last 90 days	Views annualized
Philadelphia Museum of Art	Top	B	22,790	91,160
The Concert Singer	High	B	783	3,132
Crucifixion Diptych (van der Weyden)	High	C	1,500	6,000
Perelman Building	High	C	986	3,944
The Gross Clinic	High	C	12,897	51,588
William Rush and His Model	High	C	1,038	4,152
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2	High	Start	26,892	107,568
Rodin Museum	High	Start	5,323	21,292
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)	High	Start	11,026	44,104
The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even	High	Start	13,639	54,556
Wedding dress of Grace Kelly	High	Start	5,810	23,240
Étant donnés	High	Stub	7,464	29,856
Bird in Space	High	Unassessed	10,365	41,460
Diana (Saint-Gaudens)	High	Unassessed	1,450	5,800
Interior (Degas)	High	Unassessed	2,434	9,736
The Bathers (Cézanne)	High	Unassessed	7,166	28,664
Three Musicians	High	Unassessed	9,421	37,684
The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand	Mid	C	736	2,944
Anne d'Harnoncourt	Mid	Stub	1,266	5,064
Lansdowne House	Mid	Stub	3,763	15,052
Portrait of Leslie W. Miller	Mid	Unassessed	362	1,448
Yellow Odalisque	Mid	Unassessed	817	3,268
Rocky Steps	Low	Start	41,341	165,364
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial	Low	Start	304	1,216
		Total	189,573	758,292
			views per quarter	views per year

It's exciting to have a partner in Jessica Milby and there should be a lot of good work coming out the collaboration within the next 3-6 months. Please stop by the GLAM/PMA project page and leave your thoughts. What ideas do you have? How can we move forward on the above projects? I Hope you're all well. Cheers! Ocaasi 19:05, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're a great editor

Hey, I came across an article you had improved Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr. and took a look at your contributions. I hadn't seen you around the encyclopedia before since you do all of your work in the article mainspace, where it should be. Keep up the great work and thanks for what you've done! Ryan Vesey 18:26, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jacob's Creek Bridge

Are you sure that that's a US route, and not a state route? I've never heard of a federal route with four digits. - Denimadept (talk) 02:20, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agreed, so I went to Google to find the location, and found it right off. Please reply HERE, as per the instructions I put on my talk page. Thanks. - Denimadept (talk) 02:36, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding the coordinates and the info box. They dress it up nicely. -- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 02:50, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Gibraltar and Marian Cruger Coffin articles in progress related to one of yours

Hi, i found my way to your article on architects DeArmond, Ashmead & Bickley. I've begun developing Gibraltar and Marian Cruger Coffin articles in userspace so far, and am very happy to find your article on D A & B, which includes a great masters thesis reference. Thanks! If you'd like to help develop these two articles-in-progress, i would very much welcome that. I was hoping for a DYK on the main page, highlighting yet another Gibraltar, when they're ready. Either way, thanks already! cheers, --do ncr am 04:16, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just saying hello

I've noticed you fixing the cats on some of my photos (go for it) and have been meaning to say hello. I may be getting back to the Philly Public Art list sometime. And I'm leaving you with a pic.

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 04:37, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the kind words. As always, your photos are wonderful and extremely useful. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:21, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DThomsen8 (talk) 13:43, 16 December 2012 (UTC)== Proposed deletion of Walter S. Franklin (PRR) ==[reply]

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== Presidents of the Pennsylvania Railroad were notable. == I removed the deletion notice, I object to deletion, and say that all presidents of the Pennsylvania Railroad were notable. User:BoringHistoryGuy User talk:BoringHistoryGuy and I will add inline citations for this notable president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

I posted that notice, and I will join you in documenting this notable president.--DThomsen8 (talk) 13:43, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 01:17, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ho ho ho

I do believe that this card explains
a lot of the hitherto misunderstood
and even ignored origins of a variety of Christmas stories.
I am considering writing an article about the theology involved
but am having a difficult time with sources.
Oh well,
have a good one, it does appear
that we have made it through the worst of 2012,
which is a great start to 2013
Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:37, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Contributing structure

Nice article. I added a modest infobox at Norfolk Public Library for a contributing building to the Norfolk Historic District. I love the Carol M. Highsmith photo and don't want to crowd it. The NRHP nomination form [3] has about 3 paragraphs on the library. I think the article title might have to be changed to Norfolk Public Library (Connecticut) as there are several Norfolks around.

Happy New Year.

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 16:22, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Got your message. I put an NRHP tag on the talk page, the start rating is conservative. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 20:22, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

the fact is

I could a lot worse than following someone who spends New Years Eve editing wikipedia. I'd be like a dog chasing his own tail. Carptrash (talk) 02:54, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

However, I have been trying (in vain) to track down the sculptor for the Taunton monument, until I discovered this:

" After leaving Batterson, Keller won competitions for a monument in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1874 (never executed),"

I'll race to there.Carptrash (talk) 02:58, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

So

Carl H. Conrads already exists as Carl Conrads - an article I think I did. I was going to put in a redirect until I saw the Notability tag, which pissed me off. Probably best to begin 2013 on a pleasant note, so I think I'll ignore it. Or not. Carptrash (talk) 00:43, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I just discovered that, too. I'll do the redirect. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 00:47, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I tried & failed, so, once again, you're a better man than I Gunga Din. Good find & move on the picture too. Carptrash (talk) 00:49, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just lucky (this time). The National Monument to the Forefathers is astounding! I remember I saw it as a 10-year-old, and just thought it was BIG. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 01:13, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Looks as if we have managed to pull Carl out of the trashcan of history (ie. tagged as "Not Notable") and turned him into a major dude. Feels good, a nice way to start off '13. Carptrash (talk) 17:56, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Do you have a feel for exactly what his contribution was to the U.S. Soldier statue at Antietam National Cemetery? I get conflicting info, including the National Park Service, who doesn't mention him (or George Keller). Obviously, a 21-foot granite statue assembled from more than a dozen pieces needs more than one sculptor. I didn't recognize that it was an attraction at the 1876 Centennial under the name "The American Volunteer." How much is Conrads and how much Pollette? (I assume the base was designed by Keller.) BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 18:08, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, "best known as one of the sculptors for the National Monument to the Forefathers." was probably my words back whenever. We like change.
Secondly, the process for sculpture typically is that a "fine art sculptor" (in this case Conrads) makes the statue in clay. In the best of cases, life sized. Sometimes half sized or even smaller. A plaster version is made from this which is sent to the carver, in this case, Pollette, who copies it as exactly as is possible. If he deviates much his reputation will suffer. The history of sculpture for the last few hundred years can be seen as the history of sculptors whining about what carvers have done to their masterpieces. This is what made the Piccirilli Brothers so loved. They did good work. I got my info on the Antietam work from a book about Civil War monuments in Maryland (I think the exact reference is in there somewhere, I can look it up again - I have a listing of all the references of my books that I've used, broken down in categories, in this case, by state. Soderberg, Susan Cooke, ‘’Lest We Forget: A Guide to Civil War Monuments in Maryland’’, White Mane Publishing Co., Inc., Shippensburg PA, 1995 pp. 93-94) It mentions all these guys, Keller, Conrads and even Pollette, who she refers to as "the stonemason who carved the statue."

I loved that picture. Boy did it give a sense of scale. Freaked me out. I had no idea it was that big. But, size counts. Meanwhile, time to get ready for the -10∘(real American degrees, not those wimpy Eurodegrees) that we have been promised tonight. While I do believe in global warming, not tonight. Carptrash (talk) 04:02, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tweren't your words. SummerPhD tried to dress up the lede back in October (his only entry on Conrads).

David F. Ransom has done massive work on Conrads/Keller/Batterson for the Connecticut Historical Society. Most of my footnotes go back to him. He was the one who specifically identified Conrads as the sculptor of Morality and the Embarkation plaque at the National Monument to the Founding Fathers. Do you know if any of the other 3 seated figures and 3 plaques are by Conrads? Take a look at the stereoscopic image in the gallery. I guess Conrads delivered his works on time.

I feel myself becoming obsessed by the American Volunteer statue. I have plenty of books on the 1876 Centennial which, with Ransom's online work, should give me enough to start its own wiki-article.

Stay warm. Here, it should be a balmy 20∘. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 04:51, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If I had an address I could scan my two pages on the Volunteer - might help you get the article off the ground. Are you close enough so that you can visit it? As for the Founding Fathers, I don't have much, but I'm guessing William Rimmer did a figure or two. Some of the other guys mentioned . James Mahoney, is one, I can find nothing on, so might well be carvers. I believe that Summer PhD is a she, though with all this stuff, could be wrong. Carptrash (talk) 15:56, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just made a vain

(and here we need to look at the two meanings of "vain" because I fear that both in some way apply) attempt to put Conrads Civil War monuments in a chart. And I got close. But . . ... no cigar. The chart ended up at the bottom of the article and I know that there is a better way to do the images. So, if you understand that stuff and want a handful of easy edits . . .... check it out. I would but I am dinner bound. Carptrash (talk) 00:45, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The chart is looking good. I don't know a better way to do it. (I got saved twice on format problems on The American Volunteer.)

I live about 3 hours from Antietam, and toyed with the idea of going there for the sesquicentennial in September. Now I really wish I had.

It's odd that SIRIS has so little about The American Volunteer, or Soldier as they generically list it.[4] Like Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware in painting, I suspect that it may have been the most famous American statue in the popular mind from 1876 to the advent of Saint Gaudens in the 1880s. (My apologies, Nydia and Ruth.) BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:06, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are a machine. In any medium. Carptrash (talk) 02:31, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

South Wayne Historic District (Wayne, Pennsylvania)

Finally made it back to Wayne, PA - this time to the South Wayne HD. Still several pix to upload, but the Will Prices and Trumbauers should be all uploaded. See

Media related to South Wayne Historic District (Pennsylvania) at Wikimedia Commons

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 04:47, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

HI! I like your work. I hope you will work with Smallbones on the event on 2/23 at the library.--DThomsen8 (talk) 14:10, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Can you do more.--DThomsen8 (talk) 23:10, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I look on Wikipedia as an avocation. When I know a good deal about a subject or start to get obsessed, I'll research the hell out of it and create or contribute to an article. If it feels like an assignment, it's no fun. Even so, almost all the art and architecture articles have a tie back to Philadelphia. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 18:19, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I did not make myself clear. I was hoping that you and Smallbones and maybe Pharos would get a FLP event on 2/23 at 2:30 but it looks doubtful now. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:23, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just found your Dolobran

but I can't find it on the NRHP. Yes, I've seen the plaque on 2 videos. Take a look at the video format at Kuerner Farm, same format at The Three Philosophers. I was looking to do something more with this and ran into Dolobran. Let me know if you know anything more about the NRHP designation. Maybe a different name? historic district? Smallbones_(smalltalk) 19:41, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Should be in Montgomery County, maybe part of the Mill Creek Historic District (Bryn Mawr and Gladwyne, Pennsylvania) which I had terrible trouble figuring out its borders. Did you get pix? If not HABS might be good enough! Smallbones_(smalltalk) 20:01, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Muhlenberg Greene Architects

We are trying to correct many erroneous references to Muhlenberg Brothers merging with Muhlenberg Greene Architects in 1935. It seems you have edited some of these posts, and I just wanted to clarify that these are NOT the same firm, and have never merged. Please email me at Lauren V for more information on the history of our firm, and the common misconception that we are the same firm as Muhlenberg Brothers. Thanks! Lvansteenvoort (talk) 17:26, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Benjamin Randolph article

Hi, I just had a look at your recently-created Benjamin Randolph article, it looks great! I am starting the process of creating an article for another Benjamin Randolph, in this case Benjamin F. Randolph. Since I haven't put the article up yet and you appear to be more experienced in wiki standards, I thought I would check in with you about disambiguation. It looks like we could A) create a disambiguation page with links to each article, B) have a cross-link on each page to the other, C) do both, or D) do nothing.

To make matters worse, there is another Benjamin F. Randolph who looks notable enough for wiki purposes. I currently have no plans to create an article for the second (third?) Benjamin Randolph, but someone else might. Anyhow, let me know how you'd like to proceed and I'll follow your lead. It'll be a few days before the article is ready anyhow, and I'll put it in my sandbox before releasing it into the wild, so no hurry on my end. Thanks, and once it's up suggestions for improvement are welcome -- I'd love to get my article up to the quality of the current Benjamin Randolph. Dictioneer (talk) 23:50, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ps: feel free to reply here or on my talk page.

Thanks for your reply and your renaming of the page. I haven't been able to come up with a 1-word parenthetical category, as he did a number of things (minister, educator, editor, etc.) that was common for that era. I've put the infobox / introductory paragraohs in my sandbox, so if you want to have a look and make a suggestion, please feel free. For now, I am thinking that I will go with Benjamin F. Randolph for my page name so that we won't be in direct conflict but we'll show up together in search results and people can click on your cabinet maker if he's the one they're looking for.

On a related note, while I was reading your article and clicking through, I noticed that the Philadelphia Museum of Art has a locket with an image of your Benjamin Randolph. I _think_ since it's to show what he looked like, not the locket itself you'd have a slam-dunk fair use case for a lo-res image. If you already know about the image but don't want the bureaucratic hassle, I'm happy to upload to wikimedia commons and see if I can get it passed. If you have some hard-won experience indicating this will be a nightmare that I don't want to mess with, speak up now! :)

In any case, I think we can slip past the disambig page for now with your renaming and my use of the middle initial. Let me know if you feel otherwise, and thanks very much for your speedy accommodation. Dictioneer (talk) 21:46, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

William Free

Philadelphia architect William Free designed Lucy the Elephant, that's all I know. Did he do anything else? Is he worth an article? Smallbones_(smalltalk) 22:15, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

R. Brognard Okie

No worries. That's actually a pretty common error, which I see being made on here at least a few times a week by a huge variety of people — we've got such a jumbled variety of tags whose format is </thing> and ones whose format is <thing/>, so it's an easy mistake to make (even if fixing it does sometimes drive me nuts :-) and you're far from being the first or the last person ever to have trouble with it. Bearcat (talk) 20:35, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2013 Philadelphia Wiki-Picnic: Saturday, June 22

	Philadelphia's Great American Wiknic at Penn Park
	You are invited to the Philadelphia edition of the Great American Wiknic taking place in Penn Park, on Saturday, June 22, 2013! We would love to see you there!--User:Ocaasi (talk)\|}}

--DThomsen8 (talk) 20:36, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The idle mind is the devil's playground

See Commons:Category:Idlewild (Media, Pennsylvania) Smallbones_(smalltalk) 00:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See Idlewild (Media, Pennsylvania) (maybe half done) with full nomination linked. Additions, sources,copyediting, etc. appreciated. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:48, 9 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edit-a-thon Invitation

Please join the Chemical Heritage Foundation Edit-a-Thon, June 20, 2013.
Build content relating to women in science, chemistry and the history of science.
Use the hashtag #GlamCHF and write your favorite scientist or chemist into Wikipedian history!

Hi! Given your interest in GLAMs and history, I thought I'd invite you to our Edit-a-thon. Best wishes, Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 02:46, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Julian Abele

Hello. Thanks for your message on the Julian Abele article. If Abele never attended or graduated from Ecole des Beaux Arts then someone ought to tell the University of Pennsylvania archives and their biography (presumably from biographical archives). Their biography which was the referenced point says Abele DID attend and graduate from l'Ecole des Beaux Arts. I read it in many places before putting it in the article. SO, I'm glad you cited sources in the seeming controversy in the article, citable sources saying he didn't attend or graduate from it, and that there's a controversy. One would think the Ecole des Beaux Arts would say if he attended and graduated. I'll be looking more into it. Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 02:32, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings. Thanks for your kind message on my talk page. It does seem rather a conundrum, Abele and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. I defer to you but I'll try to do some more digging -- but I don't think I can contribute much on it ultimately. Best wishes and many thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc (talk) 01:51, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

8 Balfour Circle, Lansdowne

I was at the Henry Albertson Subdivision Historic District today. The NRHP nom says this house is believed to be by FF, but there is no documentation. The chimney is right (I have a close-up if you'd like to see it), The porch entrance has the same shed type roof as Idlewild. There is a touch of chaos in all the roofs and windows. Too bad the sun and trees didn't cooperate with my camera. Whadaya think?

BTW, please check out the new gallery format at the article. Whadaya think? Smallbones_(smalltalk) 01:40, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No problem!

Thanks for the thanks! That was nce of you. TiMike (talk) 01:57, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ThatCampPhilly Edit-a-thon Invitation

Please join the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at THATCamp Philly, September 27, 2013, held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Bring your own content to work on, or get an early start on Ada Lovelace Day with our resources about women in science, chemistry and the history of science. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:43, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GLAM Cafe invitation

Wikipedians are invited to the GLAM Café at the Chemical Heritage Foundation to meet, talk, and edit. We provide the space, the coffee, and the snacks: you provide ideas and enthusiasm! On the second Tuesday of each month, starting November 12, 2013. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 00:21, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Clement Conger

hi, nice image; however this one might be more on topic [5] (dont know if state dept site = PDgov, but works for me) 98.163.68.34 (talk) 17:30, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trumbauer?

I took some pix in Rose Valley today and talked to the owner of this house. She says it was lived in by the architect who she believes designed the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but forgot his name. I figure that could be any of about 5 people, but Trumbauer is the obvious choice from the style. I can't find anything saying he lived in Rose Valley though. Other pix File:Possum Hollow Garage Rose Valley PA.JPG and File:Possum Hollow detail Rose Valley PA.JPG. I can probably get good info at the Wallingford Library, but if you recognize it, please let me know. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 04:38, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Self portrait

The GLAM Cafe thing (see above) turned out to be pretty good. I also uploaded a few new pix at Commons:Category:Fisher Fine Arts Library. I might do a semi-video such as File:Stroll on Beach Ave.webm. Any suggestions on which pix to include and freely licensed music would be appreciated. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 21:08, 13 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Leadlight

What exquisite examples! I really enjoyed seeing them.

I a always delighted, when I find myself in a country town somewhere in New South Wales where there has once been a really good leadlighter. You see the evidence of their work remaining above modern shop windows, in hotels and early 19th-century houses. Where I live now, there was once leadlighter who used the (uncommon) method of setting diamond panes at slight angles to each other, so that they wink in all lights when seen externally. Amandajm (talk) 01:33, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My goodness

but you are an early bird. Carptrash (talk) 14:10, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Although not definitive, Martin in Confederate Monuments at Gettysburg (vol 1) states of the two figures, "One lies fallen on the left while on the right the other strains to wield his gun a club." To me this suggests that both fugu\res are Mississippi men. Carptrash (talk) 18:13, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Craven, in The Sculpture at Gettysburg is more to the point, writing, "One loyal son has already fallen, mortally wounded, while another stand over him, deserting neither his comrade nor his position, he guards his friend . . . . . ." Carptrash (talk) 18:20, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hawthorne's Gettysburg: Stories of Men aden Monuments has a slightly different take, for although both men are Mississippians, one is "using his musket as a club, defends the fallen flag" not his fallen comrade. Art. What are we supposed to think" Carptrash (talk) 18:35, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are a machine!Carptrash (talk) 20:18, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I like the new tripartite arrangement, I believe that the 7 part behemoth was my invention. So I love your imptovements, tho still find my pic of Mississippi more compelling. Carptrash (talk) 23:46, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am reluctant

to start slash and burning at the monuments list, but there is a Marland unit monument in the Confederate section, and I believe that Maryland never quit the Union - unless there is more to the story. Carptrash (talk) 21:24, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch - then CSA it is. Carptrash (talk) 15:48, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But they had units on both sides. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:15, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Owner or landscaping style?

I thought you might be interested in this pic (not my photo) of the Lotta Crabtree House, in Morris County, NJ, aka "Attol Tryst". Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:15, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Are you interested in this DAM pic?

It's in Wilmington. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 01:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edit

at Walker Hancock could use a reference. Carptrash (talk) 17:22, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, though if I were Hancock, even dead, I'd want Matt Damon rather than John Goodman to play me. I am at the library and will check the movie out. Einar 209.180.130.23 (talk) 20:21, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

HA !!

Enough said. Carptrash (talk) 21:06, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No,no I was referring to your fountain work.Carptrash (talk) 21:22, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1/2 Icelander. 1/2 from Pueblo, Colorado. And yes, that suicide stuff is a genetic draw to 20 hours of darkness folks. Carptrash (talk) 21:42, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd consider the trip. You should brush up on your Carl Milles first, of course. Carptrash (talk) 22:06, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Volvo is good, our's just died after 200,000 + miles. I drive a Subaru, to honor, as my UAW mates used to say, Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile I am torn between looking for fountains on wikipedia or writing articles about them. Since I am not yet set up to scan slides (remember those days?) I think I'll stick to mining. 22:22, 23 October 2014 (UTC)Carptrash (talk)

I'd like to table your motion. Well. I'd like YOU to table the motion. So to speak. I started the list to include the ones in the gallery so that's a source of pictures for many of them. Carptrash (talk) 16:59, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GREAT! I'm going to work on new fountain stubs. - Well Mom just woke up so . . . . . . ......................? Carptrash (talk) 17:32, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

PS. Could you please have different fields for "sculptor" and "architect/designer" ? Carptrash (talk) 17:34, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks super, a huge improvement. though I obviously need to have my pictures ready before adding new ones, or . . . . ....... .Carptrash (talk) 19:58, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I really like the Notes as being a place to stash a few addition pictures. How many can be squeezed in? Carptrash (talk) 21:40, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are my hero. For real. You do the dirty in-the-trenches sort of work that makes wikipedia the industry standard of websites and actually seem to enjoy it. Carptrash (talk) 21:48, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And might you be further satisfied figuring out what to do with this? [6] And perhaps some categories for this Horace H. Rackham Memorial Fountain and helping me decide if we need a general category Fountains ?

Don't you . . . ...sleep? . . . .... eat? . . .. . .... other stuff the rest of us do? Carptrash (talk) 17:16, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the problems I have are (1) tipping my hand too early to you - as in the Thatcher fountain because (2) I am not set up yet to scan slides and I want to use my pictures (pride, hubris or something else?). My plan, part of it, for today is hooking up my scanner and getting that going. As John and Paul once said, We can work it out. For example, I just found the Bagley fountain here and though, "I have a better picture than that - but where?" Since moving to AZ all my books, pictures etc have been very effectively shuffled, some are still in unmarked boxes etc. But life goes on and you have created a marvelous display for our fountains. Carptrash (talk) 17:40, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, don't back off. I'm going to write another article so won't be doing too much here. There. You know. Carptrash (talk) 17:46, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Alexander Stirling Calder. Do you think that we should be including his drinking fountain in our History article?? Also, I looked at the history if his article, I started it, you showed up maybe 2 years later then in force a year after that. Ah, those were the days my friend . . . . . . . ....... PS Should we drop the word "History" from the American fountains article? I think Yes, but . . . . .....? Carptrash (talk) 06:10, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fountains of New Orleans

and Isidore Konti (whose article, it turns out, I started. I mention this because no one else would care). The Sculpture of Isidore Konti 1862-1938, (The Hudson River Museum, 1975) states on number 76, "At there request of the Hymans family, two identical fountains and wadding pools were created, the first near the Magazine Street entrance to Audubon Park and the second in the City Park, New Orleans." Konti has another fountain in Audubon Park, the Gumbell Memorial Fountain, (1919) located hear the Charles Street entrance. And now back to my bathroom-overflowed-and-filled-the-house-with-water incident. This is more fun. Carptrash (talk) 21:49, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for creating the new Drinking fountains in the United States article, and for expanding Wikipedia's coverage of water-related topics. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:44, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

thanks

There's a bit of a story with the Thatcher fountain pics - they were 35mm slides that I could not scan because my slide scanner was too old, software no longer available, etc. So I finally hooked it up to an old laptop, scanned 'em, moved then to this computer and they were all dusty, so I went out and got a can of spray air and pfffftzed them off, scanned them again and they came out pretty good. Pretty well? Now if I could just find my shots of the Russell Alger Fountain . . . . . .................... Carptrash (talk) 08:00, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

PS . . .thanks too for cleaning up and dealing with my categories from the Thatcher article. I left a mess of red links and now it is all true blue. Life is good, Carptrash (talk)

Chisel in whose hand? Carptrash (talk) 01:14, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nude and lewd. Carptrash (talk) 06:21, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, not sure what R. Tait McKenzie work and remember, 100 years ago we hadn't had Freud to explain what now seems obvious. Carptrash (talk) 14:48, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Where did you sent to (them)?? eeklon at yahoo etc ? Carptrash (talk) 16:45, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My Yahoo is "experiencing technical difficulties" right now so I can't access my email now. Sigh. Carptrash (talk) 18:39, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well done

on the Walker Hancock fountain. After watching The Monuments Men I watched Burt Lancaster in The Train, also about Nazis stealing (well, trying) art. it's a rather enjoyable ;lte b/w flick. Carptrash (talk) 04:50, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And speaking of

drinking fountains, do you have (notice the subtle change of course here) access to JSTOR through wikipedia or anywhere else? I am searching for "fountain" and am finding interesting stuff (largely as of yet unread) by Lorado Taft as well as several articles on drinking fountains, that you might (or might not) enjoy. Just a thought, Carptrash (talk) 16:48, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

JSTOR gives out "free wikipedia" access to their stuff, I applied sometime ago and got in and I notice somewhere that they are doing 100 more "scholarships" ll try to find it, you try to find it and researchers that we are, one of us should succeed. Carptrash (talk) 19:38, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Try tis place. [[7]] Carptrash (talk) 19:43, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just created

Fountain of the Centaurs but don't have time to post pics. Don't panic and look elsewhere, please. Carptrash (talk) 23:12, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In a desperate attempt

to create a chart myself, I have run into at least two problems at Spirit of the American Doughboy. One is that the chart does not want (or more likely, I am somehow telling to NOT) want to appear in the Locations section created just for that. The other is that I'd like the chart to extend from side to side, and it won't. Any suggestions? Carptrash (talk) 17:23, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I see it, but how do I get it to go where I thought I'd put it? 17:48, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Though you walk amongst us mortals like any other . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................ Carptrash (talk)

Perhaps

we need to thrash out this so-called alphabetical order thing. I favor alphabetizing by first name (the Icelandic way) when that is the name of the fountain in our article. Failing that, do a James Brown Memorial Fountain|Brown Memorial Fountain in our chart because it really (opinion) does not make sense as it is. Go ahead, beg to differ! Carptrash (talk) 01:50, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

well if I were God it would be Dupont Memorial Fountain. Carptrash (talk) 15:02, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think that we have advanced our plot to a good spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............ except for FDR, who (whom ?) I am tempted (defined as "That which it feels good to give in to") to move to F. Would that ruin your happy ending ? Carptrash (talk) 18:37, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Okay dude

we can all do the easy stuff, but what are we going to do about the United Stats section of [[8]] article ??? Carptrash (talk)

List of municipalities in Pennsylvania

The photos do seems to be working ok. The potential problem is that a list this big is unusable, but that doesn't seem to be the case for now. ~300 is the biggest list I've worked with and this is 2500+!

I've been selecting the most interesting pix for the most interesting places - so of course there are several biases at work here. One of my biases is that I don't like pictures of signs - except perhaps keystone markers. Feel free to counter my biases!

This is a long-term project, but one possibility is to get a statewide photo hunt ala WLM to make sure that every city, town, township, (and perhaps every village, hamlet, and census designated place in PA that has an article) has a pic.

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 13:11, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

a new issue

at least for me.
I'm working on our fountains and found the picture that I want for a section not yet posted, but it is in flickr. [:https://www.flickr.com/photos/lblanchard/2502345577/] The photographer has placed the rights in creative commons, the fountain is from 1876 (Philly Centennial Expo - your neck of the woods) so no copyright issue there. Come to think of it, there probably should be an article about this fountain. But I don't know how to get the picture from flickr to wikipedia. I have seen where folks have done it, but not how. Any ideas besides "Punt ?" Carptrash (talk) 01:18, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Fine" said the mama hen, "then I'll do it my self!" Carptrash (talk) 18:18, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I got something up at Margaret Foley and am working on an article about the fountain because . . . ...... you know why because. Carptrash (talk) 19:01, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you (again)

for cleaning up after me. It seems that in my rush (intended) to get on with Philadelphia fountains I (as the politicians are fond of saying) misspoke. However on a more upbeat note, after adding at least 13 book cases - many taller than me, and I'm tall - to Mom's little condo, I just finished putting the last of my books away. the second to last box included my "Fountains" collection (or at leaf Part 2 of it) including a nifty little work called "Fountains of Philadelphia; A Guide" by McClelland. Were I a local, a photo field trip would definitely be in the works. But not, we understand, The Water Works. Carptrash (talk) 02:55, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that part of what Eakins picked up was the scandal surrounding Rush's use of a live, nude model for your nymph. I'd like to look at his paintings on the subject but can't locate my eakins books, thought I am pretty sure I have a couple. Oh will, it will be findable on the web somewhere. Carptrash (talk) 15:45, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

With all due respect to your friend, I still find that history by winks, rumors, gossip and innuendo is more . . . . ..... fun. Carptrash (talk) 17:36, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And speaking of fun, have we talked about this Philly art story ? Carptrash (talk) 21:59, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So here is a talking point about the picture to try out at lunch. Is the woman at the far left, third row from the front, with a cape and beret Malvina Hoffman ? She was very much around then, but did not exhibit at the Show, so should not be in the picture. I did contact PMA perhaps 15 years ago and they sent me duplicates of some original material that they had, which was very nice of them, but they had no list, that they could find, of who is in the picture. Carptrash (talk) 20:34, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Military Historian of the Year 2014

		The WikiProject Barnstar
		For your extensive contributions to the Military history WikiProject, as evidenced by your nomination in the 2014 "Military Historian of the Year" awards, I am delighted to present you with this WikiProject Barnstar! TomStar81 (Talk) 02:30, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

May we recommend

If Abele and Trumbauer interest you, check out Widener Library. EEng (talk) 16:59, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Pabst

I suggest you nominate and process this for GA status. After that is achieved (and I think that won't be all that hard, as its a really great article), it can then be nominated for WP:DYK. Just a thought. merry Christmas. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:37, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not only don't I mind, I am pleased that you built on the source I found I wish we could get permission to put it directly into the article, as visually it is an interesting historical piece. Keep up the good work! 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:39, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Beautiful work. Daniel Pabst didn't make great beer, but he made awesome furniture. Your 'boring history' is almost lyrical. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 03:23, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you and Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

Danny says hello. I'm not much at interiors, but a trip is always fun (unless I'm driving). Smallbones_(smalltalk) 04:36, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good. I prefer to drive.

There are very few interior images of "Glenview" online. It's possible that they don't allow photography. But you will love the craftsmanship. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 04:41, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'll just tag along with these well chosen sentiments. Thanks for the X-mas Eve note. Christmas day for me is Mom and my brother Ragnar, Gabe (this man's best friend) and later, Cosmo, my bro's rather unsocial dog who will be banished from his house while they have company. and, of course, some quality time with List of United States post office murals. Life is good. Einar, ala Carptrash (talk) 16:47, 25 December 2014 (UTC)=[reply]

A wiki-friend from Hawaii just sent me seasonal greetings which I pass on to you and any friendly stalkers that I have not had the pleasure of meeting. Aloha to you and yours. ```Buster Seven Talk 18:47, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

T.P. Chandler images

Have you seen this page? Chandler died in 1928, so the majority of them date from before 1923 and would nominally be public domain, however if they weren't published before then, the copyright held by the institutions they came from would be in effect from the date they published them. All of which means that I'm not certain any of them are free. I think one non-free could be uploaded and used under the NFCC rules, but (obviously) only here and not on Commons.

What do you think? BMK (talk) 23:39, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There's also this on Find-A-Grave, with no provenance. BMK (talk) 23:41, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You could try asking one of your friends at the Atheneaum if they would license the photo under CC, I've had some success doing that (not with the Atheneum, but with a sculptor of a statue in my hometown, and with images from Flickr that weren't appropriately licensed already). BMK (talk) 02:06, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Editor of the Week

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User:Carptrash submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

It is with a deep feeling of respect, almost approaching reverence, that I nominate User: BoringHistoryGuy for the Editor of the Week Award. A quick review of his work is even more impressive than I had imagined. Particularly note worthy to me is his 95% edits in articles, as opposed to editors who do that much on talk pages. The reason (opinion) for this high number is that BHG does his editing in the trenches where a lot of talk is not needed, just sweat, blood and mostly, toil. I have crossed paths with him many times and have always found him to be an extremely easy editor to work with. He has put together several impressive Lists, but the one I want to offer as a good example of his work, and the one I have spent the most time side-by-side with him is List of monuments of the Gettysburg Battlefield where his hard work, impeccable scholarship and dedication to the wikipedia ideals can be fairly easily seen. Thanks for your consideration,

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+:It is with a deep feeling of respect, almost approaching reverence, that I nominate '''User: BoringHistoryGuy''' for the Editor of the Week Award.  A quick review of his work is even more impressive than I had imagined. Particularly  note worthy to me is his 95% edits in articles, as opposed to editors who do that much on talk pages.  The reason ([[opinion]]) for this high number is that BHG does his editing in the trenches where a lot of talk is not needed, just sweat, blood and mostly, toil.  I have crossed paths with him many times and have always found him to be an extremely easy editor to work with.  He has put together several impressive Lists, but the one I want to offer as a good example of his work, and the one I have spent the most time side-by-side with him is [[List of monuments of the Gettysburg Battlefield]] where his hard work, impeccable scholarship and dedication to the wikipedia ideals can be fairly easily seen.  Thanks for your consideration,
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