Woolworth employee sit-in strikes of 1937, Detroit & New York Frank Winfield Woolworth opened the ‘Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store’ in Utica, New York, on February 22, 1878. The store […]
Woolworth employee sit-in strikes of 1937, Detroit & New York Frank Winfield Woolworth opened the ‘Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store’ in Utica, New York, on February 22, 1878. The store […]
whataboutbobbed: an 18-cent commemorative stamp honoring Edna St Vincent Millay was issued July 10, 1981, in Austerlitz, New York, where Ms Millay’s farmstead, Steepletop, is located. Both she and her […]
Rose Sanderman – Walsh – Mrs Louis A Delafield. photo possibly shows suffrage gathering in New York City to publicize the ’Votes for Women Entertainment and Ball’ held at the […]
Filing Section, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY
American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904 – 1971) stands on the scaffolding enclosing the then-under-construction Chrysler Building and looks out across New York, New York, 1931. She wears a leather jacket and holds a Graflex […]
Miss Ethel Hale is shown here using the new electric safety razor which was invented by Charles Schatte. This razor may also be used for cutting the hair and for […]
42nd Street by Walker Evans, 1929 which sepia tone wore it best?
In the June 24, 1926 edition of the New York Evening Journal, Aimee Semple McPherson was front-page news when she reappeared after being missing for so long. Many of her […]
Barbara and Bill at the Playhouse, 1922
Miss Muriel Redd of Chicago, appearing in the Broadway show Tickle Me, having her hair bobbed by barber Lewis Morgan, manager, at the Hotel McAlpin barber shop, September 13, 1920