"The Sparrow's Home, Union Square, New York City," Stanley Fox for Harper's Weekly , 1869 Evidently New York City’s...

Invitation to my mother's 10th birthday party, 1938 My mother has forgotten many things but not the luncheonette that her parents...

The tables and chairs have been rearranged; otherwise the room appears much as it did 100 years ago. Some archives are worse than oth...

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

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise Giovanni di Paolo, 1445 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) This came to me last w...

Advertising card, 1890s (New York Public Library) Allan Forman was born by the beach on Long Island, in a cottage built by his Mayflowe...

Street Scene (Hester Street) by George Luks, 1905 (Brooklyn Museum) May 28, 1903 – Carnegie Hall is packed. The headliners include  ...