After establishing the city’s first Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs, Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Taylor Brown to lead it, marking the first time an openly transgender person has lead a municipal office or agency in New York City history #NOH8
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Once again—New Mexico is leading the way by protecting free and fair elections! NM becomes the first state in the nation to ban armed federal agents at the ballot box. This is how you do it! 🗳️🇺🇸💪
#OTD in 2016
‘Stop’
Cover of The New Yorker, 14 March 2016
Chris Ware
#TheNewYorkerCover #ChrisWare #BLM
🙏 Maria Alves @DEOLINDAMA93701, Mar 14, 2026
For #MARCH 1991
‘Galadriel’
John Howe (b. 1957)
*The Tolkien Calendar 1991* (Unwin Paperbacks) for March.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JohnHowe #JRRTolkien #TheLordOfTheRings #LOTR
#OTD in 1970
Cover of The New Yorker, 14 March 1970
Charles E. Martin
#TheNewYorkerCover #CharlesEMartin #cruiseship #Caribbean
#OTD in 1964
Cover of The New Yorker, March 14, 1964
Charles E. Martin
#TheNewYorkerCover #CharlesEMartin #StPatricksDay #StPatricksDayparade
‘When it’s time to sit back and relax - What makes a glass of beer taste so good?’
‘Beer Belongs - Enjoy It!’
‘... Traditionally, beer’s tangy distinctive flavor blends with quiet, tasteful surroundings . . . with good books, good conversation, gracious living. ...’
March 1956.
In #MARCH 1956
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‘“Quiet Evening at Home” by Douglass Crockwell [1904-1968]. No. 117 in the series “Home Life in America”’
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DouglassCrockwell #television #interiordesign #interiordecortation #mensfashion #womensfashion
Millions of home gardeners have a pleasant surprise in store for them this year. For the first time “Cyanamid,” agriculture’s most useful form of nitrogen, is available for home garden use. ...’
American Cyanamid. March 1954.
#Cyanamid #fertilizer #AmericanCyanamid #gardening
In #MARCH 1954
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‘Here’s GOOD NEWS for Gardeners!’
#gardening #books #interiordecoration
‘Monkeys Pat and Mike ... went to 35-mile altitude in rocket like one in photo, were safely ejected in capsule’
‘Two mice traveled with monkeys in rocket, were photographed while experiencing weightlessness (below, left) and again as weight returned on the way down’
‘Will the escape cylinder work in the upper altitudes? A similar capsule already has’
‘Ejection seat, similar in principle to escape capsule, being tested by Navy. Military services use ejection for bail-out from fast jet planes’
#aviation
‘An ingeniously engineered bail-out device gives the rocketeer his margin of safety’
#spaceexploration #spacetravel #astronautics #astronauts #rocketships #spaceships #FredFreeman
Cutaway illustration by #FredFreeman.
in sea, two being slowed by rockets, and one (foreground) still so high rocket hasn’t blasted yet. Cutaway shows man in capsule, strapped to contour chair, with rocket and frozen air under feet. Metal arms on base guide capsule during ejection.’
‘Emergency capsule is ejected from rocket ship with crewman inside, drops into sea. Speed is slowed by metal chute, impact is cushioned by small rocket in capsule base. The picture shows radar equipped plane, rescue vessels converging on area to pick up four crew members – one ➡️
'To abandon ship, men push another button. Capsules, guided by rails, are ejected by powder charge, drop safely into ocean with men inside. When possible, men will remain in ship, operating controls from within capsules, until they are close enough to the earth to land normally’
In emergency (as when broken porthole lets cabin pressure escape, as pictured) crewman&passengers press buttons on chair arms; contour seats straighten automatically, capsules clap shut, seal. Capsules are connected to cabin pressure system, also have own pressure for bail-out
‘Before space-going rocket ship tries out its power, it will undergo tow tests behind jet bomber. Crewmen will board it, try emergency procedures - including bail-out, shown above.’
Illustration by #ChesleyBonestell (1888-1986)
‘What happens when disaster strikes in space? Can the crew of a 15,000-mile-an-hour rocket ship bail out or land with their disabled craft? Here, for the first time, famous scientists disclose the answers’
rocket ship noses down toward the earth, its crew alert - as always - for signs of danger. Disaster won’t occur often in space, but rocketeers will be prepared: most of the paraphernalia shown in the cutaway section of artist Fred Freeman’s picture is emergency equipment.’
#OTD in 1953
#6 in the historic Collier’s series *The Conquest of Space* (1951-54)
Wernher von Braun et al.,“Man’s Survival in Space - Emergency!” *Collier’s*, March 14, 1953
Illustrations by Fred Freeman & Chesley Bonestell
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'The Cover - Inbound from space, a fast-moving ➡️
#OTD in 1953
Cover of The New Yorker, March 14, 1953
Arthur Getz
#TheNewYorkerCover #ArthurGetz #StPatricksDay #StPatricksDayParade #FifthAvenue #CentralPark
more than anywhere else in the world and three times as much as we had just fifty years ago. With this power, workers produce more goods than anywhere else and earn more. Power is the heart of our industrial strength.’
#CitiBank #energy #power #gas #electricity #graphicdesign
In #MARCH 1951
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‘Electricity, Gas . . . and The National City Bank of New York’
Illustration by William Kautz (1919-1988)
‘Today, each factory worker in the United States has at his service six horsepower. This is much ➡️
Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), “Hangover House”
‘Continuing the Story of a Secret That Couldn’t Be Shared’
*Collier’s*, March 12, 1949
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #GlenFleischmann #womensfashion #mensfashion #interiordesign #interiordecoration #1940s
