Dreamers Rise

As a rule I'm a sucker for loud, garish colors, the more the merrier, but the images below celebrate the lost, enforced virtues of tight...

In later years it would become just another literary magazine, albeit a very good one, but in its first decade there really was something sp...

In the weeks that followed, Matilda returned to the apartment on Bedford Street every Saturday afternoon. She would have come more often, if...

I've just returned from the Japan Society's beautifully mounted exhibition, Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design, devoted to...

Mr. Sullivan's lodgings occupied the back half of the top floor of a narrow four-story brick building on Bedford Street. There was a rat...

Matilda spent the month of July at her family's summer cottage in the Adirondacks. Her parents -- separately -- and her brothers, came a...

Aloft amidst the vapors Of an early morning dew Over old Manhattan Island Comes the sunlight's golden hue. Around me mammoth buildings. ...

Editorial cartoons from Electrical Worker: Official Journal of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (1914 and 1915).

Through the night the roller-coaster and its screaming choir, and the soft, mechanical music of the carousel, go on, and the limousines stop...

Mr. T. Sullivan did not appear at Matilda's next modeling session, nor the one that followed it, and she decided that he probably felt t...

(William Edwin Safford's 1905 ethnobotanical classic has just been re-issued in a handsome facsimile edition by Guamology Publishing. Be...

This is way out of my price range, but what a gorgeous book this must be. "A great thick book of folk tales, illustrated with 62 full ...

Through the rest of the winter and into the spring Matilda modeled at least twice a week. There were classes every weeknight, but she was on...

(In the 1850s, fired by missionary zeal, the ladies of the Five Points Mission in Manhattan bravely battled poverty, squalor, intemperance, ...

When the term ended Matilda carried her finished compositions back to her apartment, and as soon as Isabel went out on an errand she opened ...

Matilda Eberle was eighteen years old. She was a little taller than other girls her age and passably pretty, though she was resigned to the ...