New York City in the Interwar Period
The atlas holds 44 people and 88 moments here, from 1918 to 1939. The most recorded lives are Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov and Katharine Hepburn.
Notable people
Katharine Hepburn
from 1921 to 1939
5 moments here
American stage, film, and television actress whose career ran from 1928 to 1995. Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, educated at Bryn Mawr…
Kwame Nkrumah
in 1935
1 moment here
Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Louis Armstrong
in 1924
1 moment here
American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Marie Curie
in 1921
4 moments here
Polish-born, naturalized-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity. With Pierre Curie she discovered polonium and radium.…
Max Theiler
from 1930 to 1936
2 moments here
South African-American virologist and physician whose work at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Yale contributed to the development of the 17D…
Nikola Tesla
from 1922 to 1937
3 moments here
Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…
Olivia de Havilland
in 1939
1 moment here
Olivia de Havilland was a British-American-French actress whose career ranged from California community theatre and Warner Bros.…
Paramahansa Yogananda
in 1936
1 moment here
Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, teacher, and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.…
Pearl S. Buck
in 1932
1 moment here
American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…
Prajadhipok
in 1931
1 moment here
Prajadhipok (Rama VII) was King of Siam from 1925 until his abdication in 1935. Educated in England and trained in the military, he travelled…
Salvador Dalí
in 1934
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
from 1918 to 1939
3 moments here
Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Stanley Kubrick
in 1928
2 moments here
American filmmaker and photographer whose career began in New York photojournalism, expanded through Hollywood productions and European location…
Syngman Rhee
in 1934
1 moment here
Syngman Rhee was a Korean independence activist and the first president of the Republic of Korea, serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.…
Thomas Mann
in 1938
1 moment here
German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…
Tony Curtis
in 1925
1 moment here
American actor Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz) worked in film, television, theatre, and painting over a career spanning six decades.…
Walt Disney
in 1928
1 moment here
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. His documented movements include childhood residences in…
Walter Brattain
in 1934
1 moment here
American experimental physicist and co-inventor of the point-contact transistor. Brattain’s documented life moved from his birth in Amoy, China,…
Warren G. Harding
from 1921 to 1923
2 moments here
Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923.…
Woodrow Wilson
in 1919
1 moment here
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American academic, governor of New Jersey, and the 28th president of the United States.…
Moments
- 1931 Death at St. Vincent's Hospital Kahlil Gibran
- 1931 Public audience at New York City Hall Prajadhipok
- 1931 Arrives in New York for MoMA retrospective Diego Rivera
- 1931 Works at the Museum of Modern Art Diego Rivera
- 1932 Foreign-missions address at the Hotel Astor Pearl S. Buck
- 1932 Opening of The Warrior's Husband Katharine Hepburn
- 1933 Lecture at the Metropolitan Opera House George Bernard Shaw
- 1933 Begins Man at the Crossroads Diego Rivera
- 1933 Return to New York for Rockefeller Center work Frida Kahlo
- 1933 Creates Portrait of America panels Diego Rivera
- 1933 Manhattan Chess Club rapid tournament José Raúl Capablanca
- 1933 The Lake opens at the Martin Beck Theatre Katharine Hepburn
- 1934 Boys High School literary-journal publication Isaac Asimov
- 1934 Hotel New Yorker residence Nikola Tesla
- 1934 West Street Bell Laboratories work Walter Brattain
- 1934 Marriage to Franziska Donner Syngman Rhee
- 1934 Birth in Bensonhurst Carl Sagan
- 1934 Makes first New York visit Salvador Dalí
- 1935 Student at Seth Low Junior College Isaac Asimov
- 1935 Arrival in New York Kwame Nkrumah
- 1936 17D vaccine work in New York Max Theiler
- 1936 Arrival in New York Harbor Paramahansa Yogananda
- 1937 Order of the White Lion ceremony Nikola Tesla
- 1938 Portrait sitting in New York Dolores del Río
- 1938 First visit to Astounding's publisher Isaac Asimov
- 1938 First voyage to New York Alfred Hitchcock
- 1938 Honorary doctorate at Columbia University Thomas Mann
- 1938 First solo exhibition in New York Frida Kahlo
- 1939 Emigration arrival in New York Enrico Fermi
- 1939 First U.S. fission experiment Enrico Fermi
- 1939 Return voyage to New York Frida Kahlo
- 1939 Disembarkation in New York Hideki Yukawa
- 1939 Bachelor's degree at Columbia Isaac Asimov
- 1939 The Philadelphia Story opens on Broadway Katharine Hepburn
- 1939 Attendance at the first World Science Fiction Convention Isaac Asimov
- 1939 The Wizard of Oz New York premiere Judy Garland
- 1939 Philadelphia Orchestra concerts in New York Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1939 New York premiere of Gone with the Wind Olivia de Havilland