The Stuyvesant Pear Tree (lithograph, 1861) (New-York Historical Society) In 1867 an old pear tree, planted 200 years earlier by a ...

Some of the newspaper reports stated that she wore her wedding finery; others that she had draped herself in a black silk shawl. Sh...

Typical street on Mt. Vernon's North Side; around 1913 when Dr. Holmes became superintendent Superintendent Holmes was an intim...

Perfect fried egg prepared by a doting mother, Wisconsin 1977 That spring I was crazy about a guy who was the director of the campu...

"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...