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A Slave’s Letter: Jordan Anderson’s Exquisite Reply to His Former Owner

On August 7, 1865 Jordan Anderson (aka Jourdan Anderson and Jordon Anderson) wrote to Colonel ...

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Roadside America: A Look at Mid-Century Diners

Care for some "Shoo-Fly Pies"? And while you're there, maybe grab some "Amish Stuff"..... you won't find these items at McDonald's. Once upon a time, American roads were dotted with individually owned diners offering a wonderful diversity of eating choices - nearly always proclaiming the food is "baked on premises". ...

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A Glorious Collection of Jane Fonda Photographs

"You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth." ...

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Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania

“These pictures are a precious record of people who would otherwise have been forgotten, and their stories give us a glimpse of a fascinating alternative history of America’s ‘greatest generation’.” Diarmid Mogg ...

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Fascinating Photos of Chicago’s Tri-Taylor Neighborhood from 1971

"He told me many times that he got most of the pictures because he managed to talk a local gang leader into walking him around" ...

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Sin City! Pictures of Las Vegas 1906-1971

'For a loser Vegas is the meanest town on earth'. HUNTER S. THOMPSON, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ...

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The Enduring Allure of Mid-Century Modernism

Mid-century modernism, they say, is timeless. But it’s also very clearly from a certain time and place. An American take on Bauhaus designs and the International style. ...

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“A Photograph is a Secret About a Secret”: Diane Arbus’ New York Park Portraits

“One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed” - Diane Arbus ...

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New York City in all its Neon-Lit Glory, 1969 – 1971

These brilliant photos of NYC were taken by Hans Joachim Jacobi using a Exakta Varex IIa, an East-German camera, on the way to and from Halifax in Nova Scotia to visit relatives. ...

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Photographs of Brooklyn in the 1970s

William Gedney: “What matters most of all, is to penetrate into the pulsing life of the people themselves, to become imbued with their way of living, and to see their faces when they sing at their weddings, harvests and funerals֦.” ...

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Eerie Cold War Nuclear Testing Photos from the Height of the Atomic Age

Less than a month before the horrific bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, a smaller, secret detonation took place in the New Mexico desert, 230 miles south of Los Alamos in a valley called the Jornada del Muerto (“Journey of the Dead Man”). ...

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Historic Photos of Richard Nixon During his Last Two Days in Office

“Our Constitution works. Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.” - Gerald Ford ...

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