One of the New York City’s most beloved members of the fashion community, New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham, died on Saturday In the coming hours and days you’re likely to hear an outpouring of love and admiration directed at … Read More
1914 Belgian refugees on the harbour at Ostend waiting for a boat to take them to England. Image: Print Collector/Getty Images At the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, Germany invaded Belgium on its way to … Read More
Image: Matthew Miller/Picnooga Point Lookout, a rocky outcropping atop Lookout Mountain, commands a sweeping view of the Tennessee River and the city of Chattanooga The mountain was captured by Union forces in 1863, and shortly thereafter an enterprising photographer opened … Read More
“Mulberry Street.” Image: Library of Congress These postcards of New York City at the turn of the 20th century were produced by the Detroit Publishing Company using the innovative Photochrom process to add precise gradations of artificial color to black … Read More
1930 Ann Lawanick struggles to support her exhausted partner, Jack Ritof, during a dance marathon in Chicago. Image: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images During the Great Depression, a bizarre and little-known fad emerged across the United States: dance marathons … Read More
Lewis Powell, also known as Lewis Payne, who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward. Image: Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress On April 14, 1865, at the climax of a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, … Read More
A carpenter saws a plank. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Herbert Mitchell The tintype photographic process was patented in 1856, and its popularity swept through the United States in the following years. As the least expensive form of … Read More
August 1908 “Newsboys waiting for the Baseball edition, in a newspaper office. Bad environment… Indianapolis, Indiana.” Image: Lewis Hine/Library of Congress In the early 20th century, Lewis Hine photographed thousands of child laborers in the name of progressive social reform, … Read More
Archaeologists announced Wednesday they have discovered hundreds of writing tablets from Roman London — including the oldest handwritten document ever found in Britain — in a trove that provides insight into the city’s earliest history as a busy commercial town. … Read More
More than 1,000 women were trained as pilots for the American military during World War II, but their legacy had never been fully recognized until Friday when President Barack Obama signed bipartisan legislation giving them the right to be laid to rest … Read More