It’s summertime, and I can’t think of anything better than ice cream on a warm summer night, so today we have some photographs from a feature Ollie Atkins worked on about Good Humor ice cream. The images were for a story in the Saturday Evening Post titled The Pied Piper of Ice Cream that appeared […]
SC&A was fortunate enough to recently acquire a copy of Achievement in Photo-Engraving and Letter Press Printing 1927 (sp.col. TR 970 .F6 1927) for our rare book collection. The book, compiled and edited by Louis Flader for the American Photo-Engravers Association, is a wonderful compendium of pre-depression era advertising. It’s a hefty book at 448 […]
Serving as President of the United States is clearly a 24/7 job. However, just because you happen to be the leader of one of the world’s superpowers, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a bit of downtime. Richard Nixon shows how it’s done: 1. Bowling The White House has its own private lanes (nachos optional) […]
While completing a formal appraisal on the Roy Rosenzweig papers, the appraiser found this photograph of FDR in 1934. What is unusual about the photograph is that it shows FDR using a cane and leg braces visible at the bottom of his pants. FDR used a cane and leg braces because he suffered from polio […]
As you know, this week is National Library Week, and George Mason University Libraries and Special Collections & Archives has teamed up to create a video to educate library users on the proper care of library materials. This latest installment in what has become a a cottage industry among hip university library systems, features an […]
