DeLancey W. Gill (1859–1940) was an American drafter, landscape painter, and photographer. As a teenager, he moved in with an aunt in Washington, D.C., after his mother and stepfather traveled west. He eventually found himself employed as an architectural draftsman for the Treasury. He created sketches and watercolor paintings of the city, with a particular focus on the still-undeveloped rural and poorer areas of the district. While working as an illustrator for the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology in the 1890s, he was appointed as the agency's photographer without prior photographic training. He took portrait photographs that circulated widely of thousands of Native American delegates to Washington, including notable figures such as Chief Joseph and Geronimo. These photographs have come under modern criticism for his frequent use of props and clothing, sometimes outdated or inauthentic, given to the delegates.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1942:

An American naval aviator discovered a downed Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island, Alaska, which was later rebuilt and flown to devise tactics against the aircraft during World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akutan_Zero

1966:

Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally in support of the Chicago Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil-rights campaigns in the northern United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Freedom_Movement

1999:

The United States defeated China in the final match of the third FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and television ratings for women's sports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup

2006:

Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall in South Korea, causing damages across the country amounting to 2.06 trillion won (US$1.4 billion). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ewiniar_%282006%29

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

pet shop: A shop that sells animals kept as domestic pets, and products for caring for and feeding them. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pet_shop

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people. Even the simple act which we describe as "seeing some one we know" is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him which we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place. In the end they come to fill out so completely the curve of his cheeks, to follow so exactly the line of his nose, they blend so harmoniously in the sound of his voice that these seem to be no more than a transparent envelope, so that each time we see the face or hear the voice it is our own ideas of him which we recognise and to which we listen.   --Marcel Proust https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust