George Primrose, promotional card, 1880s   In my hometown of Mount Vernon, New York, Primrose Avenue ran less than a mile between two main s...

  Riccadonna Restaurant newspaper sketch, 1890s The snappy young men bounded up the brownstone steps, opera stars trailed their gloved hands...

  Montefiore Hospital's Country Home Sanitarium, early twentieth century A father and son, both stricken with tuberculosis, died 30 year...

  Otto Standke, 1920s In March of 1888, Otto Standke made his entrance at the family farm in eastern Missouri, the sixth of seven children. ...

  This photograph appeared in 1914 in the journal American Photography. It startled me.  The picture jumped out from pages of shadowy portra...