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Bruce Davidson took a series of photographs documenting the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. This one, with its dramatic, almost abstract composition, was taken in 1963, the year before…
When Arnold Newman was asked by Newsweek magazine to photograph industrialist Alfred Krupp, he initially refused. He was repelled by the idea of photographing a man who had been prosecuted as a war…
The History of the Russian Revolution: From Marx to Mayakovsky is a large mixed-media work that incorporates paintings, architectural cutouts, stenciled lettering, and found objects. It is one of…
Solomon Nunes Carvalho is thought to have made this daguerreotype self-portrait when he was already well trained in the art of photography. A few years after he made this portrait, in 1853 and 1854…
This omer calendar, marking the days between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot, is still used at Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia. The letters stand for H=Homer (Ladino for Omer); S…
This rare example of an eighteenth-century American snuff box made of gold may have been made by its goldsmith Myer Myers in honor of the opening of a new Masonic lodge in New York. The cover of the…
Solomon Nunes Carvalho painted this portrait of Wakara (ca. 1808–1855) of the Timpanogos tribe (later chief of the Utah Indians) after returning from a trip to the territories of Kansas, Colorado, and…
In 1829, German Jewish metallurgist Lewis Feuchtwanger attempted to introduce a metal alloy known as “German silver” into U.S. coinage, promoting this nickel silver as a less-expensive alternative for…
The ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This printed ketubah created by…
Weegee, known for his boundless energy and the wildly diverse subject matter to which he was attracted as a photographer, shot this photograph on a hot Saturday in July 1940 for the left-wing tabloid…
