Postcard of Angel Island, 1915 Hung Yu-Feng arrived at Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, on a foggy September day in 1919. His unlikely ...

  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 ...

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

  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. ...

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