Newspaper advertisement for home  in Betty Wales Gardens, 1921 The Goldman Costume Company took off right around 1900, turning out dresses...

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...

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

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

  Henry Littlefield's grandfather, Walter Littlefield, was an eminent journalist, editor, and author. The journalist Walter Littlefield ...