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Jonas Salk

…nation’s history, and most of its victims were children. News of the vaccine’s success was first made public on April 12, 1955. Salk was immediately hailed as a “miracle worker”,… […]

Anthony Eden

Anthony Eden, 1949 Anthony Eden was born on this day, June 12, in 1897. He became Prime Minister of Great Britain after Winston Churchill‘s resignation in 1955. Karsh photographed The… […]

Marian Anderson

On January 7, 1955, Marian Anderson became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York……. […]

Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming, 1954 Scottish biologist, physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming died on this day, March 11, in 1955. Known best for his discovery of the world’s first antibiotic… […]

Happy Holidays!

In 1955, Yousuf Karsh was commissioned to produce photographs for an advertising campaign for Bradings, a Canadian brewery. The images included some still lifes and a few scenes such as… […]

Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee, 1949 Clement Attlee was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935… […]

The Warren Commission

Earl Warren, 1955 On this day, November 29, in 1963, one week after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission. Leading the… […]

Jonas Salk

Jonas Salk, 1991 On this day, April 26, in 1954, Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine began field trials. “The polio vaccine field trials of 1954, sponsored by the National Foundation for… […]

Walt Disney

…was born on December 5, in 1901. Disney was photographed by Karsh in May, 1954, two months before construction began on the Disneyland theme park, which opened in July, 1955…. […]

Happy Holidays!

In 1955, Yousuf Karsh was commissioned to produce photographs for an advertising campaign for Bradings, a Canadian brewery. The images included some still lifes and a few scenes such as… […]

Harold MacMillan

Harold McMillan, 1955 Harold Macmillan was born on this day, February 10, in 1894. After serving in the First World War, Macmillan entered the United Kingdom parliament in 1924. He… […]

Leslie Caron

Leslie Caron, 1963 French-American actress and dancer Leslie Caron was born on this day, July 1, in 1931. She appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003 and is well… […]

Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti, 1956 Italian-American composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti was born on this day, July 7, in 1911. Among his many honors and achievements, he won a Pulitzer… […]

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov, 1972 Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita was first published in the U.S. on this day, August 18, in 1958. The novel was originally written in English and first… […]

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill, 1941 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA, was born on this day, November 30, in 1874. He was Prime Minister of the… […]

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams, 1956 American playwright Tennessee Williams died on February 25, in 1983. Born Thomas Lanier Williams III in 1911, he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie… […]

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, 1948 German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein was born on March 14, in 1879 (d. 1955). Einstein is known widely for developing the theory of relativity, but he also… […]

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann, 1946 Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His 1918 book “Reflections of… […]

Jonas Salk

…seven years, Salk devoted himself towards developing a vaccine against polio. The vaccine’s success was first made public in April, 1955. By 1959, the Salk vaccine had reached about 90… […]

Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan, 1955 British politician Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on this day, January 10, in 1957, serving in the role until 1963. Macmillan was the… […]

Sir Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming, 1954 Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world’s first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His… […]

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, 1948 Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 (d. 1955). Karsh wrote: “At Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, I found Einstein a simple, kindly, almost… […]

Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani, 1958 Anna Magnani (1908-1973) was an Italian actress who worked her way through Rome’s Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. Known for her realistic portrayals… […]

Leslie Caron

Leslie Caron, 1963 French-American actress and dancer Leslie Caron was born on this day, July 1, in 1931. She appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003 and is well… […]

Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller, 1990 Arthur Miller was born on this day, October 17, in 1915 (d. 2005). Miller was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among… […]

Simon Rattle

Simon Rattle, 1988 Simon Rattle was photographed by Karsh on this day, October 24, in 1988. Rattle (b. 1955) is a British-German conductor who rose to international prominence while he… […]

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, 1948 German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein was born on March 14, in 1879 (d. 1955). Einstein is known widely for developing the theory of relativity, but he also… […]

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

John D. Rockefeller, 1955 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist. He was photographed by Karsh in 1955, and the sitting says the assignment was for the… […]

Thomas Mann

…6, in 1875 (d. 1955). Mann was photographed by Karsh for LIFE magazine in 1946, one of more than 50 people Karsh photographed for that publication between 1943 (M. Jan… […]

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder, 1991 Austrian-born filmmaker Billy Wilder was born on this day, June 22, in 1906 (d. 2002). His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he received seven Academy… […]

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

John D. Rockefeller, 1955 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist. He was photographed by Karsh in 1955, and the sitting record says the assignment was for… […]

Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani, 1958 Anna Magnani was an Italian actress who worked her way through Rome’s Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. Known for her realistic portrayals of… […]

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