Dreamers Rise

This little "Manual of the Water Street Mission" in New York City was published in 1880, and seems to have served both as an int...

In our image-saturated culture it may be hard to imagine a time when the average European's exposure to visual representations of the wo...

The Cremorne McAuley Mission, at 104 West 32nd Street near Sixth Avenue, New York. The engraving, which probably dates from around 1883-84, ...

Though the Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada is best known for his topical broadsides and ghoulishly whimsical depictions of skeletons...