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- Magnasync Moviola, Used by Lillian F. Schwartz, circa 1968 - Lillian Schwartz is a pioneer of computer-generated art. From 1969-2002, she was a "resident visitor" at Bell Laboratories, producing groundbreaking films, videos, and multimedia works. The Schwartz Collection spans Lillian's childhood into her late career, documenting an expansive mindset, mastery over traditional and experimental mediums alike--and above all--an ability to create inspirational connections between science, art, and technology.
- circa 1968
- Collections - Artifact
Magnasync Moviola, Used by Lillian F. Schwartz, circa 1968
Lillian Schwartz is a pioneer of computer-generated art. From 1969-2002, she was a "resident visitor" at Bell Laboratories, producing groundbreaking films, videos, and multimedia works. The Schwartz Collection spans Lillian's childhood into her late career, documenting an expansive mindset, mastery over traditional and experimental mediums alike--and above all--an ability to create inspirational connections between science, art, and technology.
- Handcolored Ambrotype of John Salmon ("Rip") Ford, circa 1856 - John Salmon Ford (1815-1897) posed in a fringed buckskin outfit for this ambrotype sometime in the late 1850s. Around this time, Ford served as a Texas Ranger fighting the Indigenous peoples and quelling border tensions with Mexico. Ford later became a colonel in the Confederate cavalry, leading his forces at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, the last military engagement of the Civil War.
- circa 1856
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Handcolored Ambrotype of John Salmon ("Rip") Ford, circa 1856
John Salmon Ford (1815-1897) posed in a fringed buckskin outfit for this ambrotype sometime in the late 1850s. Around this time, Ford served as a Texas Ranger fighting the Indigenous peoples and quelling border tensions with Mexico. Ford later became a colonel in the Confederate cavalry, leading his forces at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, the last military engagement of the Civil War.
- Printing Block, Portrait of Thomas I. Starr, 1935-1954 - Thomas Irwin Starr (1903-1965), editorial director for publications at Michigan Bell Telephone Company, was an Abraham Lincoln scholar and collector of Lincolniana. He began collecting Lincoln-related materials at an auction in 1929. Starr went on write several books and articles about our 16th President. This printing block reproduces an image of Starr, probably used during his time working for Michigan Bell.
- 1935-1954
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Printing Block, Portrait of Thomas I. Starr, 1935-1954
Thomas Irwin Starr (1903-1965), editorial director for publications at Michigan Bell Telephone Company, was an Abraham Lincoln scholar and collector of Lincolniana. He began collecting Lincoln-related materials at an auction in 1929. Starr went on write several books and articles about our 16th President. This printing block reproduces an image of Starr, probably used during his time working for Michigan Bell.
- Portrait of Lawrence Washington Cole, Editor of "Michigan Argus," and Employees, 1851 - L.W. Cole, co-editor of the <em>Argus</em> newspaper in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1846 to 1854, sits with his employees in this daguerreotype from about 1850. Most photographs of this type were taken of an individual in his or her best clothing, so a group portrait of workers in everyday attire is rare.
- 1851
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Portrait of Lawrence Washington Cole, Editor of "Michigan Argus," and Employees, 1851
L.W. Cole, co-editor of the Argus newspaper in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 1846 to 1854, sits with his employees in this daguerreotype from about 1850. Most photographs of this type were taken of an individual in his or her best clothing, so a group portrait of workers in everyday attire is rare.
- Draft of "The House by the Side of the Road: An Intimate Look at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Selma Civil Rights Movement," circa 2007 -
- circa 2007
- Collections - Artifact
Draft of "The House by the Side of the Road: An Intimate Look at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Selma Civil Rights Movement," circa 2007
- Printing Block, Portrait of Thomas I. Starr, 1935-1954 - Thomas Irwin Starr (1903-1965), editorial director for publications at Michigan Bell Telephone Company, was an Abraham Lincoln scholar and collector of Lincolniana. He began collecting Lincoln-related materials at an auction in 1929. Starr went on write several books and articles about our 16th President. This printing block reproduces an image of Starr, probably used during his time working for Michigan Bell.
- 1935-1954
- Collections - Artifact
Printing Block, Portrait of Thomas I. Starr, 1935-1954
Thomas Irwin Starr (1903-1965), editorial director for publications at Michigan Bell Telephone Company, was an Abraham Lincoln scholar and collector of Lincolniana. He began collecting Lincoln-related materials at an auction in 1929. Starr went on write several books and articles about our 16th President. This printing block reproduces an image of Starr, probably used during his time working for Michigan Bell.
- Portrait of Horace Greeley, circa 1865 - Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Politicians, military officers, celebrities and other notable persons, such as abolitionist and editor Horace Greeley, were popular subjects.
- circa 1865
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Portrait of Horace Greeley, circa 1865
Cartes-de-visite, small, professionally made photographs on cardboard stock, remained popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s. Many were given to friends and loved ones, but enterprising photographers also produced images of famous individuals to sell to the collecting-crazed public. Politicians, military officers, celebrities and other notable persons, such as abolitionist and editor Horace Greeley, were popular subjects.
- Printing Block, Portrait of Thomas I. Starr, 1935-1954 - Thomas Irwin Starr (1903-1965), editorial director for publications at Michigan Bell Telephone Company, was an Abraham Lincoln scholar and collector of Lincolniana. He began collecting Lincoln-related materials at an auction in 1929. Starr went on write several books and articles about our 16th President. This printing block reproduces an image of Starr, probably used during his time working for Michigan Bell.
- 1935-1954
- Collections - Artifact
Printing Block, Portrait of Thomas I. Starr, 1935-1954
Thomas Irwin Starr (1903-1965), editorial director for publications at Michigan Bell Telephone Company, was an Abraham Lincoln scholar and collector of Lincolniana. He began collecting Lincoln-related materials at an auction in 1929. Starr went on write several books and articles about our 16th President. This printing block reproduces an image of Starr, probably used during his time working for Michigan Bell.