Mastodawn

📣 New Podcast! "Harbour Workers Rise: Hong Kong Seamen’s Strike Victory" on @Spreaker #1920s_seafarers #1922_chinese #asia_hong #china #dockworkers #history_1922 #history_early #hong #kong #labor #maritime #movement #protest_south #seamen #shipping #strike #strike_hong #union #unrest #workers
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/harbour-workers-rise-hong-kong-seamen-s-strike-victory--70369179

Harbour Workers Rise: Hong Kong Seamen’s Strike Victory

On this day, 8 March 1922, seamen in Hong Kong and Canton (now Guangzhou) won pay rises of 15-30%, ending their strike which began in January. The British colon

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Sim Barr Sep 30, 2025

Seperated By Space & Time

Several years ago I randomly discovered these two images, one a photo from 1973, the other a painting from around 2009. I was struck by the similarity of the two men separated by space + time!

The photograph of the young man leaning against a houseboat was taken by UK Photographer lan McDonald in Middlesbrough.

The painting is by Martha's Vineyard resident Heather Neill. Titled The Bogcutter it is a portrait of the artist's son!

#ianmcdonald #heatherneill #ianmcdonaldphotography #heatherneillart #youngmen #photograph #painting #art #artist #photography #marthasvineyard #middlesbrough #thebogcutter #bogcutter #peinture #kunst #künstler #menofthesea #seamen #fotografia #modernart #artworld #lifebythesea #blackandwhitephotography #photographer #fotografie #portraits #portraiture #portrait #twins

Jean Luc am Grimmsten Jun 5, 2025

Wusstet ihr, dass es bei Wikipedia eine alphabetische und endlos lange Liste seemännischer Ausdrücke gibt?

Halt, nein. Es gibt zwei. Weil zu lang. 😂

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_seem%C3%A4nnischer_Fachw%C3%B6rter

#Seemannssprache #seamen

Liste seemännischer Fachwörter – Wikipedia

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Mags at Large May 2, 2025

Marcus Rediker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Rediker

#History #Maritime #Seamen #Pirates

Marcus Rediker - Wikipedia

Sim Barr Oct 11, 2024

Merchant Seaman, New York City, New York, 1941

Photographs by Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985)

#arthurrothstein #photography #photographer #merchantseamen #seamen #portraits #portraitphotography #vintagephotography #workers #fotografia #fotografie #bwphoto #blackandwhitephotography #schwarzweissfotografie #schwarzweiss #blancetnoir #blancoynegro #bwphotography

Sim Barr Oct 11, 2024

Merchant Seamen, New York City, New York, 1941

Photographs by Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985)

John Arnold Jul 9, 2024

_The Evening Post_, 10 July 1924:
SUNDAY FOOTBALL
BY SAILORS AT PORT CHALMERS
…
DUNEDIN, This Day.
Sailormen evidently have the goodwill of a number of the Borough Councillors at Port Chalmers. It appears that up to the last month or two crews of vessels at the wharf have always found the local recreation ground a delightful place for a quiet game of #football on Sundays. The police recently stopped the practice. At a meeting of the Borough Council one of the councillors moved that the #seamen be allowed the use of the recreation ground on Sundays, and in the discussion which ensued inquiries were made as to who had instructed the police to interfere. That information was not supplied. One councillor was very emphatic in putting the case for the seamen, stating that they were huddled up on board ship all the week, and although he would not stand for Sunday football matches he saw no reason whatever why they should not be permitted the mild recreation of kicking a football about on Sunday, as they had always been in the habit of doing until stopped recently. Other councillors were sympathetic.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240710.2.24
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Sundays #Sabbatarianism #Sailors #Dunedin #NewZealand

Sim Barr Sep 13, 2023

Sailors on the deck of the USS Lexington

Photography by Edward Steichen while serving as Director of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit duting WWII in 1943

#edwardsteichen #sailors #sailor #usslexington #wwii #worldwarii #photographer #photography #bwphoto #bwphotography #schwarzweissfotografie #schwarzweiss #marin #Моряки #matrose #marins #zeeman #menatsea #ondeck #fotografie #fotografia #seamen

Sim Barr Aug 2, 2023

I came across these two images, one a photo, the other a painting, and I was struck by the similarity of the two men separated by space and time! The photograph of the young man leaning against a houseboat was taken by UK Photographer Ian McDonald in Middlesbrough in 1973. The painting by current Martha’s Vineyard resident Heather Neill, titled The Bogcutter is a portrait of the artist’s son!

#ianmcdonald #heatherneill #ianmcdonaldphotography #heatherneillart #youngmen #photograph #painting #art #artist #photography #marthasvineyard #middlesbrough #thebogcutter #bogcutter #peinture #kunst #künstler #menofthesea #seamen #fotografia #modernart #artworld #lifebythesea #oilpainting #huile #oleo #Ölmalerei #artists #painter #worldofart