Saturday, May 16, 2026

Living Color

Charles Cushman
Republican National Convention, Hilton Hotel, San Francisco
1964
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Market & 2nd, San Francisco
1957
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Housing to be Demolished, Gough & Ellis, San Francisco
1959
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Demolition of Wells Fargo Building,
Market & Post, San Francisco

1966
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Up O'Farrell from Buchanan, San Francisco
1960
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Lyon & Pacific, San Francisco
1953
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Rhododendron Week, Union Square, San Francisco
1962
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco
1957
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Haight Street, San Francisco
1967
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Hydrangea, Sea Cliff, San Francisco
1958
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Aeonium Holochrysum, Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco
1955
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Rhododendron, Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco
1953
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Magnolia, Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco
1960
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Cherry Blossoms, Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco
1953
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

Charles Cushman
Clouds, San Francisco
1955
Kodachrome slide
Indiana University Library, Bloomington

And to me it seemeth that Agamemnon got together that fleet, not so much for that he had with him the suitors of Helen bound thereto by oath to Tindareus as for this, that he exceeded the rest in power.  For they that by tradition of their ancestors know the most certainty of the acts of the Peloponnesians say that first Pelops, by the abundance of wealth which he brought with him out of Asia to men in want, obtained such power amongst them, as, though he were a stranger, yet the country was called after his name; and that this power was also increased by his posterity.  For Eurystheus being slain in Attica by the Heracleidae, Atreus, that was his uncle by the mother, and was then abiding with him as an exiled person for fear of his father for the death of Chrysippus, and to whom Eurystheus, when he understood the expedition, had committed Mycenae and the government thereof, for that he was his kinsman; when as Eurystheus came not back (the Mycenians being willing to it for fear of the Heracleidae, and because he was an able man and made much of the common people) obtained the kingdom of Mycenae, and of whatsoever else was under Eurystheus, for himself; and the power of the Pelopides became greater than that of the Perseides.  To which greatness Agamemnon succeeding, and also far excelling the rest in shipping, took that war in hand, as I conceive it, and assembled the said forces, not so much upon favour as by fear.  For it is clear that he himself both conferred most ships to that action and that some also he lent to the Arcadians.  And this is likewise declared by Homer (if any think his testimony sufficient), who, at the delivery of the scepter unto him, calleth him, "of many isles and of all Argos king."  Now, he could not, living in the continent, have been lord of the islands, other than such as were adjacent which cannot be many, unless he had also had a navy.  And by this expedition we are to estimate what were those of the ages before it. 

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)