Renny Hahamovitch

Historian · Science, Technology & Political Economy

Archival Highlights

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Engraving of a man in eighteenth-century dress standing on a shore and looking up at a flying island city, with a sailboat beside him
Engraving Gulliver sees the flying island of Laputa Illustrated German-language edition of Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726).
Two figures in diving-style suits and helmets stand among ruined walls and scattered human skeletons on the Moon under a starry sky
Illustration Explorers among skeletons on the Moon Stanley L. Wood, illustration probably for George Griffith, “Stories of Other Worlds,” Pearson’s Magazine, 1900, later published as A Honeymoon in Space (London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1901).
Night scene of a winged airship with searchlights beaming across the sky above a crowd of soldiers, signed Fred T. Jane
Illustration Airship over a night battlefield Fred T. Jane, illustration probably for George Griffith, The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (London: Tower Publishing, 1893).
Sepia illustration of two men inside a spacecraft, with a cup and boxes floating in the air and the Moon, stars and a comet visible through large windows
Illustration Travelers in a spacecraft, with the Moon in the windows E. Hering, illustration for H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, serialized in Cosmopolitan (1900–1901) and published by Bowen-Merrill (Indianapolis, 1901).
Hand-colored print of a Copenhagen street at night with a church tower in flames, streaks of light crossing the sky, and residents fleeing in the foreground
Color print The burning of the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, 1807 G. L. Lahde, after C. W. Eckersberg, Vor Frue Taarns Brand (The Fire of the Church of Our Lady), color print, 1807. See the Library of Congress World Digital Library record.
Color poster showing a fleet of fantastical winged flying machines over polar mountains, with the title at the top
Poster Poster for À la conquête du pôle Poster for Georges Méliès, À la conquête du pôle (Paris: Star Film, 1912). See also the Academy Museum’s record of the French release poster.