Here’s a view of Boston from the Seaport District, before it got built up. It was mostly parking lots, with a few buildings scattered around: This is around 2005. The John Joseph Moakley US [...]
Here is the plaque that stands about where Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. the next step was the first long distance telephone call. It went to a building that was once a Polaroid [...]
Here’s my entry in the Bernie Sanders Mittens meme World Event:
This New York Times article reminded me of a strange scene from the summer of 1981 in lower Manhattan, under the World Trade Center on a temporary man-made beach. Sort of a scene from 2001 A [...]
With all the nuclear posturing these days, we dug through our archive of photos of a Titan II ICBM nuclear missile that is still in its bunker. Although it has been disarmed, the photo shows the [...]
Here’s “Selfie with Two Beards” from 1982, 2009 and 2015. It was originally shot on 20 x 24″ Polaroid film at the original Polaroid Studios in Cambridge MA: How did he do [...]
Photos from Auschwitz: Piles of hair removed from the victims:Piles of shoes removed from the victims: “Don’t be a passive bystander. 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.” [...]
Here’s a photo from our archives of MIT Professor Woodie Flowers holding an original World War II, German Enigma machine:
Here’s a photo taken of the Rosetta Stone, showing all three scripts: the upper text is Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle shows the Demotic script, and the lowest show Ancient Greek. It [...]
Here’s a photo of the cell block at Alcatraz Prison, shot in the 1970’s: