Sigrid Undset, the Norwegian author of Kristin Lavransdatter and winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize for Literature, was an outspoken critic of Hitler and the Nazis from the early 1930s. When Germany occupied Norway in 1940, Undset fled to the U.S., and lived in Brooklyn Heights until the end of the war. Here she is selecting books from her library to donate to soldiers and sailors, February 1, 1942.

George Gershwin relaxed after composing by painting. Here he is in his New York apartment with his first oil painting, February 1, 1932. He finished it in three days.