From the exhibition “Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans”. Read more about it.

Eric Baker over at the Design Observer comments on this collection of travel posters : “In the interests of full disclosure, let me confess that I have long been a sucker for the golden age of travel posters. To me, they evoke a time, almost a century ago, when travel was actually exciting and adventurous, before metal detectors and security lines — and before you had to take your shoes off before boarding a plane. The British novelist Somerset Maugham produced some of his greatest literature during this period, stories filled with exotic characters — the plantation owners and aristocrats, not to mention the secret agents and scoundrels — that he met on his numerous trips to China, India and the Middle East. Indeed, to travel at that time was to engage in an activity that was, by all indications, considerably more civilized than it is today.” (read more)

Photographer: David De Maus Ship Garthsnaid, ca 1920s, Glass copy negative, Reference No. 1/2-014494-G, De Maus Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Subject : On board the ship `Garthsnaid’ at sea, circa 1920s, showing unidentified sailors on the rigging. Location unknown. Original photographer unidentified. This copy negative, and inscription, by David Alexander De Maus.” (more)

“Seated on his bicycle, Guevara poses for a photo in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1950.” (Che Guevara, Kate Havelin, Twenty-First Century Books, 2006, p. 18).

Cioran biking, Nice, 1938.

“Cover of LIFE magazine dated 08-08-1969 w. logo & pic of American flag planted on moon.”

“Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map grew out of an ambitious project in St. Dié, near Strasbourg, France, during the first decade of the sixteenth century, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the discoveries of the late fifteenth and the first years of the sixteenth centuries. Waldseemüller’s large world map was the most exciting product of that research effort, and included data gathered during Amerigo Vespucci’s voyages of 1501–1502 to the New World. Waldseemüller christened the new lands “America” in recognition of Vespucci ’s understanding that a new continent had been uncovered as a result of the voyages of Columbus and other explorers in the late fifteenth century. This is the only known surviving copy of the first printed edition of the map, which, it is believed, consisted of 1,000 copies.

Waldseemüller’s map supported Vespucci’s revolutionary concept by portraying the New World as a separate continent, which until then was unknown to the Europeans. It was the first map, printed or manuscript, to depict clearly a separate Western Hemisphere, with the Pacific as a separate ocean. The map represented a huge leap forward in knowledge, recognizing the newly found American landmass and forever changing the European understanding of a world divided into only three parts—Europe, Asia, and Africa.”

“Joan Aldrin (C) applauding her husband, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, as she watches TV coverage of splashdown at end of mission.” Houston, TX, US. Photo by Vernon Merritt III, July 24, 1969.

Splashdown time was 12:50:35 p.m. EDT.

A girl holds The Washington Post of Monday, July 21st 1969 stating ‘The Eagle Has Landed Two Men Walk on the Moon’: “This is a picture of my mother holding the Washington News Paper on Monday, July 21st 1969 stating ‘The Eagle Has Landed Two Men Walk on the Moon’. The photo was taken by my grandfather.” Photo by Jack Weir (1228-2005).

NASA Headquarters: “Apollo 11 lift-off” (July 16, 1969). Photo ID : KSC-69PC-442.

NASA Headquarters: “Apollo 11 Saturn V from the control room at the Kennedy Space Center after rising about ten times its own length.” (July 16, 1969). Photo ID: KSC-69PC-387.

“Apollo 11 space ship lifting off on historic flight to moon during which astronauts Edwin Aldrin & Neil Armstrong walked on lunar surface.” Photo by Ralph Morse, Cape Canaveral, FL, US, July 16, 1969.

Launch time was 9:32:00 a.m. EDT.

Same photo without the watermark from NASA Headquarters, photo ID: S69-39961).