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Outstanding grouping of three original vintage glossy silver gelatin photographs: a 10 x 8 photo of Albert Einstein walking down a long park pathway in winter, wearing a long coat and winter cap (marked "From Otto Nathan" on the reverse); a 3.75 x 4.75 photograph of Einstein walking in a garden with Otto Nathan; and a 3.5 x 5.5 photo of Einstein in his Princeton study with his secretary, Helen Dukas, taken in October 1940, with a "Copyright by L. Aigner, New York" stamp on the reverse. In very good to fine condition, with scattered creasing and a tiny edge tear to the larger photo, and a horizontal crease to the lower part of the Princeton office photo.
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.
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.
