1996 Image: web.archive.org Verizon’s $4.83 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s core business, announced today, marks the end of Yahoo’s 22-year run as an independent company. In January 1994, Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo created a hierarchically-organized directory … Read More
c. 1590 “Vertumnus – Rudolf II,” depicts Rudolph II (1552-1612), Holy Roman Emperor from 1576, as Vertumnus, the ancient Roman god of seasons who presided over gardens and orchards. Image: Public Domain Born to a Milanese artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo became … Read More
The Grand Canal by moonlight. Image: Library of Congress These postcards of Belle Époque Venice were printed by the Detroit Publishing Company using the Photochrom process, a time-consuming and exacting technique by which convincing layers of artificial color are applied to black and … Read More
1937 Christmas Eve with the quintuplets. Image: Bettmann/Getty Images Born in 1934 in the rural farming community of Corbeil, Ontario, the Dionne sisters were the first quintuplets in recorded medical history to survive infancy. Annette, Emilie, Yvonne, Cecile, and Marie, … Read More
Image: Ron Galella/WireImage/Getty Images On the morning of September 15, 1979, paparazzo extraordinaire Ron Galella was lurking outside the picturesque Malibu home of Sylvester Stallone, who was enjoying the height of stardom three months after the release of Rocky II, … Read More
Image: SSPL/Getty Images Born in Switzerland in 1855, Otto Pfenninger moved to England in the 1880s, where he became a pioneer in the emerging field of color photography. In 1905, he designed and built a unique camera which used three … Read More
“Spring Chief.” Image: Harry Pollard/Provincial Archives of Alberta Shot by Harry Pollard, a prominent studio photographer in Calgary, these photos capture members of several First Nations around Alberta and western Canada. Among the groups represented are the Tsuu T’ina, whose … Read More
1971 “Speed Up Agriculture Using Modern Machinery.” Image: David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images Lasting roughly from 1966 to 1976, the Cultural Revolution was a period of enormous societal upheaval in China, as Communist Party leader Mao Zedong sought to restore … Read More
Iggy Pop and David Bowie perform live in San Francisco. Image: Richard McCaffrey/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images David’s friendship was the light of my life. I never met such a brilliant person. He was the best there is. Iggy Pop David … Read More
1887 “Gathering Water Lilies.” Image: Peter Henry Emerson/Royal Photographic Society/SSPL/Getty Images Photographer Peter Henry Emerson captured distinctly “natural” photos of the Norfolk broads, a flat region of interconnected shallow rivers, marshes and fens in eastern England. The photos’ soft tones, peaceful, agrarian scenes … Read More