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What the Widow Nolen Left Behind, Part 2
W. W. Nolen, 1910 (Harvard University Archives) From his third-floor window, William Whiting Nolen watched the twentieth century arrive at...
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Postcard of the Wartburg Orphanage, around 1914 A few weeks ago I read a crushing article, “The Lost Children of Tuam,” in the New Yo... -
Vintage tin of Educator Crackers So many odd advertisements appear in the pages of old magazines, quaint and strange to our twenty-fir... -
In New York City toward the end of the nineteenth century, Mary Rankin Cranston lodged in a boarding house on West 56 th Street and worke...