It would be perfectly fine for the 12-year old girl to ride the trolley across the 225 th Street Bridge. By 1940, she knew the city well ...

  Newspaper announcement, 1939 When he registered for the draft in 1918, Norman Wells described himself as a “print expert.” His employer,...

  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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