Glacial Errata, No. 16

[Editor’s Note: A reader inquired whether or not Monday morning is the best time to send this newsletter, when people are starting the week and don’t have time for such nonsense. This reader suggested that Saturday might be a better day. Do you have a preference, one way or another? If so, let me know! I’m open. If not, no worries.]

One: Andy Warhol

Two: Marion McDonald 

(I’ve had this photo in my collection for fifteen years, but it was only when I started putting together this newsletter that I decided to learn more about McDonald, who began her career as a silent film actress in Hollywood, an archetypal vamp who nonetheless only got mostly bit parts. As detailed in this fascinating blog post, her brother Charles shot and paralyzed a friend’s wife in a jealous rage after accusing her of having an affair with his own wife.)

Three: Gustinus Ambrosi

(Most of these skulls are anonymous, but this one belonged to the Austrian composer Franz Josef Haydn, and Ambrosi is seen here holding it right before it was interred, 145 years after it was stolen. My first book is largely about this skull, but I unfortunately didn’t learn about this particular photograph, which I dearly love, until much later.)

Four: Raymond Clark

(The son of Joe Clark, the “Hillbilly Sharpshooter,” who took this photo. Clark is mainly remembered for his extensive work doing ads for Jack Daniels.)

Five: Natalie Nickerson

(More on the insane history of this image here. It looks like Lapham’s lost the rights to the actual photo, though?)