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

  Newspaper announcement, 1939 When he registered for the draft in 1918, Norman Wells described himself as a “print expert.” His employer,...

M. Knoedler & Co. 14 East 57th Street, 1900    Like many commuters, Norman Wells traveled by train between the suburbs and the city for ...

Mount Vernon (N.Y.) Public Library, 1930s Growing up in the 1960s, my brother and I visited the public library nearly every week. Slid...

Downtown Mt. Vernon, 1920s (Westchester County Historical Society) During the winter of 1974, I was stricken with some sort of respira...

Snowy day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The day before my father died last March, I moved in close to his right ear and asked h...

Postcard of the Wartburg Orphanage, around 1914 A few weeks ago I read a crushing article, “The Lost Children of Tuam,” in the New Yo...