As long-time readers of the blog know, we are only a portion of the way through " Independence Week ," so, technically, this po...

Postcard Thursday is on a trip to Germany this week; we've been exploring Baden-Württemberg, the southern German state. Here's a...

Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! Born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Poe would, in his short life, become one of the most important America...

This postcard view of the New Jersey approach to the Lincoln Tunnel isn't, perhaps, the most scenic view in the world, but serves a...

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving postcards aren't much of a thing anymore, but in the early decades of the 20th centu...

Courtesy of the Library of Congress (To see a larger view of this entire postcard, CLICK HERE .) Today's postcard comes from the ...

This image, produced around 1915, shows the first phase of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (center), St. Luke's Hospital (to the ...

Did you know that a little over a century ago, there were 157 private membership clubs in New York City, with over 38,000 combined member...

Instead of a postcard today, a stamp -- and a remarkable one at that. On May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly n...

This undated postcard from the early twentieth century (ca. 1915, if we had to guess) shows the Van Cortlandt House in the Bronx, one of ...

This great shot of Grant's Tomb is from sometime in the early twentieth century, and if you've toured with us, you may have seen...

Last week, when the weather was nicer, we posted a winter scene in Central Park; today, on the eve of a blizzard, here's the park in...