Why We Celebrate Our Holidays  by Mary I. Curtis (1924) In the chilly spring of 1888, James Russell Lowell was invited to give an address ...

  My grandparents during the late 1920s When the 19-year old immigrant arrived in New York City in 1914, he knew all about fur. This was bor...

 

  Evelyn Archer, newspaper photo, 1927; earliest known picture of her.  One of the lovely aspects of early-twentieth-century American life w...

  Newspaper advertisement for home  in Betty Wales Gardens, 1921 The Goldman Costume Company took off right around 1900, turning out dresses...

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  The little boy levels a serious gaze at the photographer peering through a Graflex camera. Ery Kehaya, Jr. has just tugged off a veil that...