The chair pictured in 1891. The Turkey-work chair sat in the parlor of a house that overlooked the Connecticut River. In the winter when t...

  If you were searching for something to read in colonial America, you might have picked up Gulliver’s Travels , Poor Richard’s Almanack or...

John P. Marquand by Gardner Cox, 1955 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Gift of Phyllis B. Cox Sometimes when my sons were ...

  Marked 1 00 in pencil in the upper right corner of the flyleaf, this 1905 edition of Leaves of Grass sat on our bookshelf for as far back ...

  Park Avenue Hotel, late nineteenth century There he was at the reunion dinner of 1914, standing in a ballroom at the Park Avenue Hotel, ru...

  Manhattan, Blizzard of 1888 (Library of Congress) There was a young man named James Buchanan, born in the year 1888 when a monumental Marc...

Bookplate, Smith Ely Jelliffe In 1942, a few years before Smith Ely Jelliffe died at his summer home at Lake George in the Adirondack Mounta...