Late 20th century

The lowly potato changed color photography forever. In 1903, two French inventors and photographers, Auguste and Louis Lumière, used the potato as the basis for their patented process in creating color photographs, or Autochromes as they were called. It was a simple but ingenious technique—crush potatoes into tiny particles; separate these minuscule starch particles into three; add red, violet and green dye; mix onto a glass plate; brush off the excess; flatten the dyed particles onto the…

Learn While You Research With Our Online Genealogy Courses Known as the “Gun that Won the West,” the Winchester Model 1873 was a very popular rifle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More than 720,610 were manufactured between 1873 and 1916, selling for about $50 when they first came out. The guns reduced in price to $25 … 132-Year-Old Winchester Rifle Found Leaning Against a Tree in Nevada Read More »

George Robert Sims (1847 – 1922) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant. Sims began writing lively humor and sa...

Financier, Businessman. He was a United States business tycoon of the late 19th Century and the early 20th Century who became one of the richest men in the world. He was born into a dynasty of banking and the business world. After graduating from a Boston high school in 1854, he studied at the L'Institut Sillig in...

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The Portugal built a trading empire with military and merchant outposts. They had seized cities on the east coast of Africa so that they could resupply their ships. During most of the 1500s, Portugal controlled the spice trade between Europe and Asia.

Jacques-Louis David, celebrated French painter and a principal exponent of the late 18th-century Neoclassical style. David won wide acclaim for his huge canvases on classical themes, events from the French Revolution, and the achievements of Napoleon.

I swore I wasn’t going to watch The English (2022), the recent Western miniseries starring Emily Blunt, because usually Westerns focus on non-shiny costumes. But I’ve been on a reading …

UC Libraries is digitalizing photographs taken during the construction of the city’s subway. Read about more of these early 20th Century images in “Lost in Transit,” available in the May 2013 digital edition. Photographs courtesy University of Cincinnati Archives and Rare Books Library.

Part of the Bring In 'Da Noise Bring In 'Da Funk series designed by Paula Scher (and Lisa Mazur?), photographer Richard Avedon for Pentagram Design for The Public Theatre 1995 or earlier.