Lydia Kaminsky nee Judey with unidentified men and women in the laboratory of her husband Dr. Anatol Kaminsky Portraits Women

Born Riga 1903, died New York 1976. Married Dr. Anatol Kaminsky, a Russian-born doctor who got his medical education in France. They escaped to France and Morocco, and reached the USA in 1942

Portrait of brothers Moshe Chayim Eliasberg (on left) and Samuel Eliasberg playing chess watched by Moshe's son Mulek Eliasberg Portraits Family

Moshe Chayim Eliasberg died 1920; Samuel Eliasberg died 1929; Mulek Eliasberg, 1886-1942

Portrait of Walter Rathenau Portraits Men

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Studio portrait of Cora Berliner with her mother and sister; Hannover Portraits Family

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Studio portrait of Moritz "Mori" Meyerhof. Portraits Men

Verso: Moritz Meyerhof (Mori) Meyerhof (29. April 1867 in Hildesheim?); p. 12 of the Stammtafeln die Familie Meyerhof. Donated by his nephew Hillel (Herbert) Meyerhof.

Therese Godshaw's nee Molling 70th birthday party at the Krakauer home; Boston Portraits Family

Left to right behind table: John Krakauer, Donald, Michael and Robert Godshaw (Children of Hal and Anne), Grandma Therese Godshaw nee Molling, Julius Pick (Grandfather of Robert, Michael and Donald). In front of table: Wendy and Gerry Godshaw (children of Kurt and Edith.

Gottschalk family in the park; Hannover, Germany. Portraits Family

Left to right: Therese Godshaw (Gottschalk) nee Molling, Walter, Freddy, Grandmother Henriette Gottschalk nee Rothschild, Ursula, Hal and Kurt

Adolpf Molling, Janet Krakauer nee McColl, Hymie Joachim and Thomas Krakauer (l-r); Weggis, Switzerland Portraits Groups

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Portrait of Arno Nadel Portraits; Men

Typed caption pasted onto matte: "Arno Nadel Schriftsteller geboren 3.10.1878 in Wilna gestorben ca. 1942"

Albert and Elsa Einstein at the Shanghai home of Chinese painter and calligrapher Wang Yiting; with Shanghai University President Yu Youren, former Beijing University professor Zhang Junmai, the Einstein's Japanese hosts Mr. and Mrs. Inagaki, and Einstein's colleague Mr. Pfister and his wife (and daughter?) Portraits Groups

Dedication: Freundlichste Erinnerung an Herrn Prof. Einstein und seine Frau Gemahlin. I-Jing Wang, Shanghai, China

Reproduction of portrait of Albert Einstein smoking his pipe and holding a pen drawn by Carola Spaett-Hauschka Portraits Men

Handwritten by artist bottom right: Prof. Einstein from life Carola Spaett-Hauschka Cold Lyme 1935

Portrait of Walter Rathenau Portraits Men

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Portrait of Friedrich Brandes; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

"25.7.1891 Friedrich Brandes geb. 11.4.1867 pens. 31.12.1927"

Book Review: "The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1975", John Harwood, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011

Within the history of twentieth-century design, there are a number of well-known objects and stories that are invoked time and time again to capture a pivotal moment or summarize a much broader historical transition. For example, Marcel Breuer’s Model B3 chair is frequently used as a stand-in for the radical investigations of form and new industrial materials occurring at the Bauhaus in the mid-1920s. Similarly, Raymond Loewy’s streamlined pencil sharpener has become historical shorthand for the emergence of modern industrial design in the 1930s. And any discussion of the development of American postwar “organic design” seems incomplete without reference to Charles and Ray Eames’s molded plywood leg splint of 1942. Such objects and narratives are dear to historians of modern design. They are tangible, photogenic subjects that slot nicely into exhibitions, historical surveys, and coffee-table best sellers...