Illustration from a New York Times story about Princess Zizianoff, April 1921 Once there was a Russian princess who wanted to live in...

Century-old vines in the Wisteria Pergola, Central Park, 2017 Photo by Claudia https://www.throughthehourglass.com/2020/04/i...

Cover of James L. Ford's Forty-Odd Years in the Literary Shop (third edition, 1896) A few weeks ago when I wrote about the journali...

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When James L. Ford died in 1928 – blind; both legs amputated – he and his beloved sister Mary had long forsaken the city.   In 1913 ...

Maria "Midy" Morgan (undated photo) Midy Morgan is young and energetic, six feet tall with kind blue eyes and a swinging gait...

Wanamaker's at Astor Place, 1920s In 1928, about 300,000 black people resided in New York City and 250 of them were employees of t...