The “what is it?” from a few days ago, morphed into something else. Spotted at Buffalo Lab.
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Art Nouveau in Buffalo
The original Hotel Statler, later the Hotel Buffalo, a groundbreaking Ellsworth Statler hotel in Buffalo. This amazingly ornate and colorful building, clad in multi-hued terra cotta, was demolished in the 1960s. Photo from Library of Congress.
Guaranty
The finest nineteenth century skyscraper in the world. Photo from HABS, Library of Congress.
Scrapper Truck
Or, in this case, a charcoal truck in Somalia.
Photo from National Geographic by Pascal Maitre
Rocket Stove
A small one, built by Mike Harter at The Foundry before October’s puppet show. Wikipedia says a rocket stove “is an efficient cooking stove using small diameter wood fuel which is burned in a simple high-temperature combustion chamber containing an insulated vertical chimney which ensures complete combustion prior to the flames reaching the cooking surface.”