Charles Hemstreet, 1900s Up in Buffalo, N.Y., Lake Erie narrows like a funnel into the Niagara River. Even before the Erie Canal opened in...

Oliver Victor Limerick as Billy Burgundy Billy Burgundy’s Letters , published in 1902, is one of Oliver Victor Limerick’s several rude books...

Newspaper story about Xesia  (1891)   As a young journalist who covered the theater, Allan Forman hung around eavesdropping and hoping ...

Ashcan School painter George B. Luks sketched dinner at Maria's restaurant in Greenwich Village, 1890s. In the 1890s, Maria’s res...

In 1899 when they started the Blue Pencil Club, the men were a bunch of rambunctious, though well-established, writers. They rent...