This month’s cover features an image of the laboratory and four assistants of Ivan Michurin in Michurinsk, Russia, USSR, ca. 1932-1933, taken by Lotte Jacobi. Jacobi was an acclaimed portrait photographer and photojournalist whose subjects included Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, and J.D. Salinger. A Jewish woman, she fled Germany in 1935 and immigrated to New York, where she lived until moving to Deering, NH, in 1955. This photograph was taken during her travels in Central Asia and the USSR during the early 1930s.

The image is part of the Lottie Jacobi Collection donated to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Library in 1985. Before her death, Jacobi bequeathed 47,000 negatives, several hundred study and exhibition prints, three portfolios, letters, catalogues, documents, and other printed material to UNH. Learn more at https://library.unh.edu/find/archives/collections/lotte-jacobi-papers-1898-2000.