During the 1960s, we lived in a Tudor house on a corner lot, built in 1917. Ivy crept up the stone chimney and twirled around an iron lant...

M. Knoedler & Co. 14 East 57th Street, 1900    Like many commuters, Norman Wells traveled by train between the suburbs and the city for ...

  Imagine Jane Pierce in her black gown and mantilla. She sits on a slipper rocker in her second-floor bedroom in the White House. Clutching...

  Inwood neighborhood, northern Manhattan, 1930s.  https://myinwood.net/map-oval/  On the day before my mother died, she lay fully dressed a...

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George Primrose, promotional card, 1880s   In my hometown of Mount Vernon, New York, Primrose Avenue ran less than a mile between two main s...

  Riccadonna Restaurant newspaper sketch, 1890s The snappy young men bounded up the brownstone steps, opera stars trailed their gloved hands...