Today is the 105th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s film, Launch of Japanese man-of-war "Chitosa" (broken picture links, but you can still download the film from this page). The Chitosa was a 4,760-ton second class unarmored protected cruiser built for Japan's Imperial Navy and launched at the Union Iron Works Shipyard in San Francisco. The name derived from the word 'chitose,' meaning "a thousand years of peace". A grainy set of stills from the film. More images from the Shipyard’s scrapyard online at the US Navy’s history site here. Union Iron Works history.

Elsewhere. Label art from cans of salmon. Discussion and links about feral children. Just what is it about abandoned asylums that lures photographers? Daily life in Iran. Imagery of the day: the abstract, painterly photography of Richard Caldicott. posted by things at 08:30 / 0 comments