By Audrey Fein The images above are both photos of da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, which was auctioned for $450 million at Christie’s… Read More »Before & After Photo Shoot with da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi
By Adiel Kaplan A clay nail from Mesopotamia of 2,500-2,340 BCE. The top half is covered all the way around with cuneiform writing… Read More »The Nail In The Box
An article written about Goldman in Boston Globe in 1962. The piece supposedly presages a new direction for plywood in the field of agricultural irrigation, though Plycraft never ended up manufacturing anything other than boats and furniture. I was interested to see how a media outlet portrayed Goldman, and the author’s fixation on Goldman’s physical fitness struck me not only as odd from a journalistic standpoint, but also contradicts the many descriptions I’ve found of Goldman as he got older.
These two documents are from the Lehman archives at Columbia University. The first, from 1958, is a cordial thank you note from Herbert Lehman to… Read More »The Difference a Year (or Two) Can Make
This hand-marked invitation to the opening of the LIRR train tunnel the following week was sent to the editor of the Brooklyn Evening Star… Read More »1844 Tunnel Opening Invitation
(L) Army ballistic missile expert Col. John C. Nickerson, Jr., averts his eyes as a wire service photographer captures him leaving court martial proceedings at… Read More »Nickerson Agonistes
As the director of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association of Washington Heights and Inwood, Hans Epstein (fourth from right at rear) wanted… Read More »A Glimpse of Inwood in the 1950s
An image of the third floor hallway, outside of the apartment where Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert were murdered on August 28, 1963. The photograph was in… Read More »Inside the Robles Case Files
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This device was used to deliver electroconvulsive therapy to psychiatric patients during the 1940s and 1950s, to treat them for a wide variety of disorders.… Read More »A Reminder of an Earlier Era