This is one of my favorite posts about vintage photographs in my collection.  It was originally posted  six years ago. ...

Inspired by a current exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum called "Perfectly Strange", which features Diane...

--> The three verified images of Elizabeth Keckley            Last Thursday I got on a plane for Miami, just missing the bli...

I love it when one of the antique photographs in my collection poses a mystery that sets me off on research in an effort to ...

This painting by America Artist Grant Wood is one of the ten most famous paintings in the world and one of the most parodied (along wi...

On April 6 at 12:08 p.m.  I received an e-mail in my spam folder with the subject line: “Re: Grafton Inn Ambrotype.” It came from someo...

(Please click on the photos to enlarge them) Long before she killed herself in 1971 at the age of 48, (pills, slashed wrists, found in the b...

(The story behind the photograph) Last weekend I was lucky to attend a couple of fascinating photo shows in New York City including the AIPA...

New England is dotted with picturesque villages, each with its own Common or Village Green surrounded by white church spires, an ornate tow...

On Sept. 27, I posted the story of Elizabeth Keckley , who was born a mixed-race slave in 1818 in a Virginia. (Her father was the ow...

(This is the first of an occasional “ Crone of the Week ”-- women whose stories I want to tell. I’d appreciate your suggestions of women i...