Aug. 12, 1851: Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine. Aug. 12, 1851: Isaac ... It was used by Eadweard Muybridge in his celebrated animal locomotion photography. Courtesy Smithsonian National ...

A hundred years later, cameras and sewing machines were both ubiquitous, and the world had duly adjusted. Criss (1901-1973) was born in England into a Jewish family who moved to Philadelphia when ...

"I have looked at photography over time — and in the colonial lens, there was always a deliberate effort to make African women look ugly," McKinley told NPR. "Photos such as puberty rites photos ...