August 14, 1945: Times Square and a Couple of Kisses
You must remember this…. Life Magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt took the iconic image of the nurse and sailor locked in an embrace (she is headlocked, actually) in NYC’s Times Square […]
One Night at Sherry’s: James Hazen Hyde Has a Ball (and Some Cake)
Party Over Here! Guests at Hyde’s 1905 Ball at Sherry’s Restaurant At the age of 23, Manhattan socialite and supreme party-er of the Gilded Age, James Hazen Hyde (1876-1859) inherited […]
Signs of the Time: Federal Art in NYC
Music Contest Poster, Estelle Levine, Artist, Federal Art Project, Library of Congress During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration* (WPA) sponsored a variety of public programs designed to put […]
Street Scenes: Cropping Into History
On Fifth Avenue: A cropped image, c. 1900. (See Full Size Image Here.) I spend a lot of time looking through visual archives to find images to use in my […]
The Washingtons in New York: The Nation, the Publick, and the Enslaved
George: “Mary, Please come with me to New York!” (Illustration by Norman Rockwell, 1932) On April 23, 1789, just one week before being sworn in as the first president of […]
Owners of America, NYC
“By their banks ye shall know them,” Alfred Henry Lewis In 1908 and 1909, Cosmopolitan Magazine published a series titled, “Owners of America,” profiling some of the country’s wealthiest men. […]
Jackie, A New Yorker
Jack and Jackie Greet New York, 1960 After becoming First Lady, Jackie Kennedy seemed to do anything to avoid Washington, D.C. She did indeed officially live in the White House […]
