My mother (left) poses with a friend on Sherman Avenue, Inwood, Manhattan, mid-1930s. My mother is living in a corner of her chil...

Frank Munsey When the publisher Frank Munsey died in 1925, Americans took notice. Rather than grieving, however, most speculated abo...

  Looking southwest over the Central Park Reservoir   Photo by Claudia Keenan https://www.throughthehourglass.com/2017/09/september-su...

  Helen Ridder, around 1940 (Screen shot of newspaper photograph) Just a party girl, said her stepson’s third wife.  Ply Helen with a...

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...