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- Mailer for the 1997 Emigre Catalog, 1997 - Emigre is a digital type foundry established by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko. The company's history is linked with the introduction of the 1984 Macintosh computer, used to design their early bitmapped typefaces. Emigre's digital work gained notoriety -- defying visual communication standards with fractured, layered combinations of text and image. This item advertised fonts or other items available for purchase.
- 1997
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Mailer for the 1997 Emigre Catalog, 1997
Emigre is a digital type foundry established by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko. The company's history is linked with the introduction of the 1984 Macintosh computer, used to design their early bitmapped typefaces. Emigre's digital work gained notoriety -- defying visual communication standards with fractured, layered combinations of text and image. This item advertised fonts or other items available for purchase.
- Whole Earth Catalog: Find Your Place in Space, July 1970 - Biologist Steward Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, to connect counterculture and back-to-the-land communities with innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture. The cover of each edition, like this from July 1970, featured images of earth taken from outer space. Brand believed showing this would change people's perceptions of their responsibility for the globe.
- July 01, 1970
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Whole Earth Catalog: Find Your Place in Space, July 1970
Biologist Steward Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, to connect counterculture and back-to-the-land communities with innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture. The cover of each edition, like this from July 1970, featured images of earth taken from outer space. Brand believed showing this would change people's perceptions of their responsibility for the globe.
- Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, Fall 1969 - Biologist Steward Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, to connect counterculture and back-to-the-land communities with innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture. The cover of each edition, like this from Fall 1969, featured images of earth taken from outer space. Brand believed showing this would change people's perceptions of their responsibility for the globe.
- 1969
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Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, Fall 1969
Biologist Steward Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, to connect counterculture and back-to-the-land communities with innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture. The cover of each edition, like this from Fall 1969, featured images of earth taken from outer space. Brand believed showing this would change people's perceptions of their responsibility for the globe.
- "A Collection of Ancient Paintings, Objects of Art and Modern Paintings," 1925 -
- 1925
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"A Collection of Ancient Paintings, Objects of Art and Modern Paintings," 1925
- Atari Video Game, "Star Raiders," with Video Touch Pad, 1976-1982 -
- 1976-1982
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Atari Video Game, "Star Raiders," with Video Touch Pad, 1976-1982
- Catalog, Adult Education, Teen Classes and Children's Classes, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Fall Term 1981 -
- 1981
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Catalog, Adult Education, Teen Classes and Children's Classes, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Fall Term 1981
- Artifacts Recovered from an Alamogordo, New Mexico Landfill, April 2014, Site of the 1983 Atari Video Game Burial - In 1983, rumors circulated: Atari was bankrupt, and was dumping truckloads of games into a New Mexico landfill. Victim to the "Video Game Crash," the company buried 700,000 cartridges in the desert. The story became an obscure pop culture legend -- until "The Atari Tomb" was unearthed in 2014. These images document the world's first video game excavation.
- April 26, 2014
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Artifacts Recovered from an Alamogordo, New Mexico Landfill, April 2014, Site of the 1983 Atari Video Game Burial
In 1983, rumors circulated: Atari was bankrupt, and was dumping truckloads of games into a New Mexico landfill. Victim to the "Video Game Crash," the company buried 700,000 cartridges in the desert. The story became an obscure pop culture legend -- until "The Atari Tomb" was unearthed in 2014. These images document the world's first video game excavation.
- Stoelting Company Polygraph Catalog, September 1977 - Polygraphs are more popularly known as "lie detector" machines. They measure a person's pulse, breathing rate, perspiration, and blood pressure. Polygraphs convert this data into electronic signals; inking arms output this information onto paper charts. Trained examiners interpret the results, to determine guilt or innocence. The polygraph has been called out as unethical and legally inadmissible in some cases.
- September 01, 1977
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Stoelting Company Polygraph Catalog, September 1977
Polygraphs are more popularly known as "lie detector" machines. They measure a person's pulse, breathing rate, perspiration, and blood pressure. Polygraphs convert this data into electronic signals; inking arms output this information onto paper charts. Trained examiners interpret the results, to determine guilt or innocence. The polygraph has been called out as unethical and legally inadmissible in some cases.
- "Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools," Spring 1969 - Biologist Steward Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, to connect counterculture and back-to-the-land communities with innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture. The cover of each edition, like this from Spring 1969, featured images of earth taken from outer space. Brand believed showing this would change people's perceptions of their responsibility for the planet.
- August 01, 1969
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"Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools," Spring 1969
Biologist Steward Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, to connect counterculture and back-to-the-land communities with innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture. The cover of each edition, like this from Spring 1969, featured images of earth taken from outer space. Brand believed showing this would change people's perceptions of their responsibility for the planet.
- Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, Fall 1970 - Biologist Steward Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, to connect counterculture and back-to-the-land communities with innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture. The cover of each edition, like this from Fall 1970, featured images of earth taken from outer space. Brand believed showing this would change people's perceptions of their responsibility for the globe.
- 1970
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Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools, Fall 1970
Biologist Steward Brand founded the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, to connect counterculture and back-to-the-land communities with innovators in the fields of technology, design, and architecture. The cover of each edition, like this from Fall 1970, featured images of earth taken from outer space. Brand believed showing this would change people's perceptions of their responsibility for the globe.