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The article reports that a $1000 U.S. Treasury note printed in 1890 and known for the shape of the zeros on the note was sold for auction for $3.3 million, the record price for a piece of U.S. currency.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem will be the first stop for the New York State Museum's traveling exhibition of the only surviving draft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in Abraham Lincoln's handwriting. On display Sept. 21 through 24, ''The First Step to Freedom: Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary Proclamation,'' will include the draft and the official version of the preliminary document, issued on Sept. 22, 1862. Lincoln issued the preliminary document to signal his intention to order the freeing of slaves in any Confederate state that did not return to Union control by Jan. 1, 1863 -- the day the official Emancipation Proclamation was signed and issued. The draft is ''such a handsome, powerful and organic document,'' Mark Schaming, director of the New York State Museum said on Wednesday. ''It's on this beautiful old paper, and he's thinking while he's writing.'' The draft shows, for example, that Lincoln toyed with the idea of compensating slaveholders -- a plan he had considered earlier. Lincoln's fingerprint can even been seen in the ink, Mr. Schaming said. Free timed tickets are available first come first served by visiting schomburgcenter.eventbrite.com or by calling (212) 491-2207. The center is at 515 Lenox Avenue, at 135th Street. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Leukemia, a malignant cancer of the blood, was first described in 1845 by Dr. Rudolf Virchow, a German politician whose wide-ranging interests led him to significant discoveries in cell biology, pathology and anthropology. Although Dr. Virchow's name appeared often in The New York Times, mostly in the late 19th century, his discovery of leukemia was not mentioned until Feb. 22, 1970, in an article by Dr. Lawrence K. Altman. Of course, that was not the first time the disease was mentioned in the paper. That happened on Dec. 6, 1899, when Maj. Samuel T. Armstrong, surgeon of the 32nd Infantry, died in Manila. ''The cause of death,'' the brief obituary said, ''is given as leukemia.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a resurgence in the popularity of the cyanotype (blueprint) photographic printing process as of 2016, and it mentions Phoenix, Arizona artist Annie Lopez's work with cyanotypes, as well as the "Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period" exhibition which runs through April 24, 2016 at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts. According to the article, British astronomer John Frederick Herschel invented the cyanotype process around 1842.