At the height of Polar Mania, three Swedish explorers went on the search for the North Pole by hot air balloon. This episode tells the story of what happened when documentary photographs taken by the adventurers were found years later.

Aimee visits an intriguing exhibition at The Met and realizes that it is coincidentally connected to a print she catalogues for an upcoming auction by pioneering photographer Florence Henri.

A 1933 image of rooftops by influential British photographer Bill Brandt comes across Aimee’s desk, and she tries to get to the bottom of how Brandt made this print using her mantra: Look, Touch, Think, Look Again. She nearly misses some important clues.

A photographic discovery by astronomer Sir John Herschel inadvertently influences the mad experimentation of playwright August Strindberg, leading to surprising results.