Dreamers Rise

For most of this summer I've been devoting this space to looking at images and inscriptions from some century-old postcards, trying to ...

These photographic postcards, issued by the Rotograph Co., were sent as New Year's greetings. The sender is unidentified, but the inscri...

This is a moderately interesting postcard view of the City Hall Park in lower Manhattan area looking with the East River and Brooklyn in the...

These four postcards were each sent to unmarried women members of the Bergin family at their address on Canonbury Road in Jamaica, Queens. ...

All eight of the postcards shown here (see previous post ) were published by companies in Sullivan County, New York but have markings indica...

On the care of books: When in 1773 the Society of Jesus was ordered dissolved, the books stored in the Society's house in Brussels were ...

Nine years after Julio Cortázar died in Paris in 1984, his library of some 4,000 volumes was acquired, with the co-operation of his litera...

These cards, postmarked between 1905 and 1908, were mailed, with one exception, to two women who resided at Canonbury Road (now 90th Avenue)...

The following story engages the two central themes of Western Literature, which are, of course, the possibility (or impossibility) of true l...

According to historian Bruce Watson, when William Wood's massive textile mill on the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts was comp...

"A street car went through this viaduct several years ago killing all passengers." Postcard, the Rotograph Co., probably printed b...

Belle époque Paris boasted its arcades and flâneurs ; turn-of-the-century Manhattan had strolls under the El. This postcard, which was mail...

This postcard was mailed from Noboribetsu on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on May 12, 1914 and addressed to E. J. Thompkins in Alb...

Below, two more examples of the mutability of historical images, as filtered through various technologies employed in the mass reproduction ...

This tinted postcard depicts the Bowery in Manhattan, probably between 1901 and 1905. It was published by A. C. Bosselman & Co. of New Y...