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Frank Lloyd Wright
The Guggenheim Museum opened on this day in 1959.
Car Nation Canada: An Illustrated History
“The garb of the spray painters… reminded me of two surgeons consulting.”
Serge Poliakoff
Poliakoff was a Russian-born French modernist painter.
Clare Boothe Luce
Boothe Luce was an American writer, politician and diplomat.
Photographic Memory: Fifty Years of Collecting
The National Portrait Gallery will observe the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of its photographs collection.
Thurgood Marshall
President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court.
Mstislav Rostropovich
Rostropovich was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor.
Brigitte Bardot
“From the saint to the sinner.”
Justice Tom Clark
Clark was an American lawyer and Justice of the US Supreme Court.
Joseph Baum
Baum was an American restaurateur and innovator.
Archibald Belaney
Belaney was better known as Grey Owl.
Helen Gurley Brown
Gurley Brown was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman.
Queen Elizabeth
September marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Elizabeth II.
Thurgood Marshall
In 1967 Marshall became the first African American to be confirmed as a US Supreme Court justice.
Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh
On August 28, 1962, Yousuf Karsh married Estelle Nachbar.
Lyndon B. Johnson
“LBJ” was born on August 27, 1908.
Leonard Bernstein
The conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian was born on this day, August 25, in 1918.
Jerry Lewis
Karsh photographed him for the Muscular Dystrophy telethon.
Lenore Tawney
Coming later this year is a new exhibition titled “Sites of Agency: Studio Photography.”
Woodstock
Karsh photographed two musical artists who performed at the festival.
H. G. Wells
Wells wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories.
Cecil B. DeMille
DeMille was an American filmmaker and actor who made 70 feature films.
Beatrice Lillie
Lillie was a Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedy performer.
Sir Alexander Fleming
Pictured in the laboratory in which he discovered and tested penicillin.
Naum Gabo
Gabo was a Russian and American constructivist sculptor and theorist.
The Honorable Linden Forbes Samson Burnham
Burnham was a Guyanese politician.
Emilio Greco
“He produced a portrait bust of lyric beauty.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
In 1965 Johnson signed Medicare into law.
Jacqueline Kennedy
“I photographed her against a Coromandel screen.”
Alexander Calder
“It’s easy to make,” he explained to my wife.
Neil Armstrong
On this day in 1969, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
Disneyland
Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955.
Lilly Daché
Daché was a French-born American milliner and fashion merchandiser.
Gerald Ford
Ford was photographed by Karsh in January of the final year of his presidency.
Sir Ernest MacMillan
MacMillan was a Canadian conductor, composer and organist.
Karsh Playing Tennis
Karsh enjoyed a game of tennis.
Lyndon Johnson
On this day in history, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The German-American architect was photographed on this day in 1962.
Slim Pickens
Pickens was an American actor and rodeo performer.