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The Short Happy Life of Norman F. Wells: a Mount Vernon Story, Part I
M. Knoedler & Co. 14 East 57th Street, 1900 Like many commuters, Norman Wells traveled by train between the suburbs and the city for ...
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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... -
George Primrose, promotional card, 1880s In my hometown of Mount Vernon, New York, Primrose Avenue ran less than a mile between two main s... -
Montefiore Hospital's Country Home Sanitarium, early twentieth century A father and son, both stricken with tuberculosis, died 30 year...
I might have to use this for a poem. Although it is itself a poem.
ReplyDeleteIn the words of Justice Louis Brandeis- "If the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects."
ReplyDeleteIf the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects. -Justice Louis Brandeis!
ReplyDeleteThe only light in the darkness was the administration of Mr. Roosevelt and the New Deal in the United States. Isiah Berlin
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