Harry Houdini performs for the eight grandchildren of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, at 167 East 74th Street in Manhattan, February 20, 1925 The party took place on at the home of Mrs […]
Harry Houdini performs for the eight grandchildren of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, at 167 East 74th Street in Manhattan, February 20, 1925 The party took place on at the home of Mrs […]
movingimagenyc: “There was a wonderful sense of revolution and innovation in the studio in Queens."—Gloria Swanson, on the Astoria studio, subject of a new exhibition now on view at Museum […]
The Roaring Twenties – an interactive exploration of the historical soundscape of New York City [via NPR]
Nelson and Lattin wedding in The Bronx, 1929 speaking of / on a personal note – I GOT ENGAGED THIS PAST WEEKEND!!!
working on the theory that their grandmothers enjoyed their pipe and bowl, girls are forming a pipe smokers club and it is yet possible, following this line of thought, that […]
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress on Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) […]
a white and an African American girl study a sign in the integrated Long Island community of Lakeview, New York, on April 1962. It reads ’Negroes! This community could become another ghetto. […]
The Youngest Dionne Gets Dressed Callander, Ontario, July 11, 1936 – As The Nurse Dresses The Newest Addition To The Dionne Family – A Husky, Eight pound Baby Boy – […]
Gloria Vanderbilt age 17, photo by Horst P Horst, New York 1941
Miss Roszika Dolly (of Dolly Sisters fame) and Chicago Businessman Irving Netcher are shown as they arrived in New York on March 15, 1932 on the SS Olympic. They will be married in […]