EditorialA ballgame player, funerary gift from the burial site on the Isle of Jaina, Mexico. Participants in the cult game wore elaborate headgear, necklaces, earplugs, a wide, cushioned girdle and knee-pads with skulls. Clay (600-900 CE). Height 17.1 cm. Inv. ...
EditorialKnight on horseback, possibly St. Joris, The knight, dressed in armor, consisting of kuras, skirt, leggings and knee pads, sits on an unsaddled horse. Both are cast separately, then embellished and with embossed details. The horse wears a bridle with t...
EditorialMt. Holyoke, Massachusetts - Scenes. One of the oldest mills (begun as horse blankets), original site and building, railway track; sold at auction, including mill powers of 250 horsepower, for $1000, down payment, $100 (December 1936) to characteristic...
EditorialAn image provided by the Coffee County Elections Office showing poll pads in an office in Coffee County after the 2020 election. (Coffee County Elections Office via The New York Times)
EditorialKenneth Neace salvages his son’s football shoulder pads from the remains of his home after it was destroyed by floodwaters in the Lost Creek community in Breathitt County, Ky., July 29, 2022. (Austin Anthony/The New York Times)
EditorialSoldier, from Christ Carrying the Cross, from the Soest Altarpiece, Looking-up soldier, whose arms and legs are largely missing, also turned to the left and seen three-quarters on the back holds the head with bow thrones in profile and stands with its ...
EditorialMelinda McClanahan holds a quilt she made out of shoulder pads that her sister, Rue Mcclanahan, cut from her “Golden Girls” costumes, at the GoldenCon fan convention in Chicago, April 22, 2022. (Evan Jenkins/The New York Times)
EditorialGerman women in dresses with big shoulder pads, 1572. Young woman in gold hairnet and plumed cap, and doctor's wife in unusual hat and veil that hides the hair, mouth and chin. From miniature enamels in Darmstadt Grand-Ducal Library. Chromolithograph f...