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Archive: April 2014 (5 Posts)

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

George Washington and the Inaugural Inauguration

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

George Washington delivered the country’s first inaugural address 225 years ago on April 30th, 1789. Just as the legends pertaining to Washington have grown and persisted since his lifetime, so has the iconography. Throughout the years, artists have provided their own conceptions of the first presidential inauguration, as in this print published in 1849, which …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Eadweard Muybridge: Birth of a Photographic Pioneer

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

Today we mark the birth of British photographer, inventor and innovator Eadweard Muybridge. Born April 9, 1830, Muybridge was one of the early pioneers of photography, whose work documenting the movements of animals and humans continues to inform and influence today. What the human eye could not capture at the time, Muybridge’s series of cameras, …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

A Look Back at Board Games

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

Like many kids – and lots of adults – I love playing board games. I’ve spent many an hour rolling dice and moving around a board in a race against my opponents to either the finish line or to some other goal, like accumulating the most wealth or properties. But I have not yet tried …