My newest project will be based on water cover designs from around the world. And so dear viewers of my web site: I could really use your help.
Please send me rubbings especially of the small covers from 3″ diameter to 8″ diameter. A photo of the cover in its environment and a detail photo will also help as references. I will be sure to credit your name if your cover appears in my finished work.
Here are images of some rubbings:
Rubbings are fun. Let me know if you become a celebrity with crowds of people watching and some photographing you.
These are the Instructions for Rubbings:
Dear Bobbi,
I had already spent an enjoyable half-hour perusing your website,
but will forward the url to some of our Museum Buffs, Museum Board Members and Fire Fighters.
Happy Springtime to you too – it can’t arrive too soon.
Judy Jamison
Director, New York City Fire Museum
278 Spring Street
New York, NY 10013
212-691-1303, ext. 11
http://www.nycfiremuseum.org
Bobbi Mastrangelo’s Comments:
Dear Viewers,
Check out the web site of The New York City Fire Museum. http://www.nycfiremuseum.org
The photo installation and poem “If They could Speak,”
by Roseanne Pellicane are deeply moving.
Tell me what you think!
Regards,
Bobbi Mastrangelo
Dear Bobbi Mastrangelo,
I went to your site briefly and love what I saw.
How do I find “When People Care”?
Thanks,
Jean S Reed Polk County Commissioner
JeanReed@polk-county.net
Thanks Bobbi for spreading the word about the
availability of Mimi Melnick’s Manhole Cover Book
at my book shop.
Have a grate night. Ooops… or is it great?
Sometimes I am not sure.
That grate joke is perpetually funny.
Amnon
Booklovers Paradise
2972A Merrick Road
Bellmore, NY 11710
516-221-0994, 11AM-6PM
516-579-2848 after 8PM
Email: booklovpar@aol.com
Hi Bobbi-
I come across your cards often in the
Friends’ Category in my boxes of Modern Post Cards.
They always remind me of the times Janet and I
were on our hands and knees in the street making
rubbings of municipal ironwork.
I still write a column for The Post Card Collector
and an occasional article for French and
British Post Card Magazines.
All good wishes,
-Lew Baer
National Post Card Week Pen Pal
Wow that was strange. I just wrote an very long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyways, just wanted to say excellent blog!
Je pense que c’est un très bon article et je me demandais si c’est ok avec vous si je l’utiliser sur mon site Web? merci.
I think it’s a very good article and I was wondering if it’s ok with you if I use it on my website? thank you.
Hi Bobbi,
I am embarking on making rubbings of the different water covers in Vienna. Many include the year they were installed, so my goal is to chronicle as many of them as possible throughout the city over the next two months. Are you still working on your project? Are you still looking for participants?
Thanks!
Ingrid
Geography and Community Development Graduate Student
University of California, Davis
Hallo Bobbi,
Let’s see what the water covers look like in Germany, if I can, I will add to your international collection next time I’ll be there.
Gute Nacht,
Gaby
Dear Gaby,
Water Cover Rubbings from Germany would be “Sehr Gut.”
Danke,
Bobbi
Hi,
I love your site!! I have been obsessed about the manhole covers during my short stay in Palo Alto and really would love to make some rubbings. Your website is pretty much the only one with some instructions. I can’t seem to find large paper to capture the entire manhole. Could you please recommend something that I could use?
Many thanks,
Marjorie Rose
i find one at my house