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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...

Mount Vernon home designed by Lewis Bowman in 1917. He and his family lived there until 1920.    Bowman was born in 1890 in New York City. ...

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  Corner of Forster & Primrose Avenues, around 1900 Around 1890, when the lawyer Frederick P. Forster shifted his gaze from Manhattan to...

  It would be perfectly fine for the 12-year old girl to ride the trolley across the 225 th Street Bridge. By 1940, she knew the city well ...

  Newspaper announcement, 1939 When he registered for the draft in 1918, Norman Wells described himself as a “print expert.” His employer,...