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Two original vintage glossy 8 x 10 silver gelatin contact print photographs of Albert Einstein at ease with his friends and family: one features eight images, seven of which show the genius, showing him smoking his pipe on a porch with his close friend Otto Nathan; the other features twelve images, six showing Einstein, along with his stepdaughter, Margot Einstein, and his secretary, Helen Dukas. Both sheets include excellent portraits of Albert Einstein, showing him in wonderful half-length and full-length poses. In overall fine condition.
Like Einstein, economist Otto Nathan fled Nazi Germany and took a position on the faculty at Princeton University, where his friendship with the genius began. Nathan would serve as the sole executor of Einstein's estate after the scientist's death in April 1955, and was designated by Einstein as co-trustee of his literary estate (along with Einstein's secretary Helen Dukas). After Einstein's death, Nathan and Dukas spent 25 years organizing his papers and collecting supplementary material from around the world. They planned for all of Einstein's papers—personal and scientific—to eventually be published, and in 1971 Princeton University Press undertook the massive publishing effort.
From the estate of Margaret Sanders Adams, the daughter of KFC founder Col. Harland Sanders; notably, she received several photographs from Einstein's executor Otto Nathan to use as reference material for her creation of a bust of Einstein. Interestingly, Margot Einstein was also sculptor, having studied the craft at Columbia University.
Sanders documents her longstanding interest in Albert Einstein, her creation of Einstein's bust, her friendship with Otto Nathan, and his delivery of her 'open letter' to Einstein in her memoir, The Colonel's Secret: Eleven Herbs and a Spicy Daughter (pp. 186-239), published in 1996.
