Klan costume for "Great Titan" in Catalogue of Official Robes and Banners  (published by Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1925) ...

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...