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When Barioletti drew a couple on the front of this postcard in 1905, he was using the only space available on which to write a message. Before 1907, messages were not allowed by law on the address side of postcards. The word postcard comes from U.S.…

In 1901, Caruso’s lover Ada Balducci used this postcard as a quick, easy way to send a message and update, as we use text messages, Snapchat, and Twitter today. The "women and fashion" section of the collection speaks to images of women in popular…

Enrico Caruso's image was used on his Victor record albums. Caruso’s huge popularity in the U.S. and Europe came in part from these recordings, beginning in 1904. Caruso's work with Victor showed surprising business acumen given his lack of formal…

Enrico Caruso joked around during a family vacation in the Hamptons shortly before his death in 1921. The humor evident in Caruso’s anecdotes matches the humor often demonstrated in the cards.

Enrico Caruso performed as Canio in Il Pagliacci the night this picture was made. As Canio, he played his signature role, a man betrayed by his beloved wife who must perform despite his pain. His ability to be both the entertainer and the tragedian…

Caruso loved to draw for his own pleasure. His caricatures of friends and other singers were first published in 1906, though this later collection dates to 1951. He was said to “throw off [the sketches] as easily as his mellifluous notes.” He often…

This image is an example visualization from Vanderbilt's Filtergraph tool applied to NASA Kepler mission data. Each point represents a star in thedataset. The horizontal axis represents the amplitude of starlight "flicker" (or "hiss"), the vertical…

This is a photo of the constellation Cassiopeia. One can see the center bar of the Milky Way Galaxy running through the middle of the image.

Giordano Bruno was born in 1548 in Italy. He was a Dominican friar, a philosopher, astronomer and mathematician. The most notable of his theories were those of an infinite universe and a multiplicity of worlds, in which he rejected the traditional…

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a German mathematician and astronomer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion. This is a collection of his writings.