Mrs. Thompson has some Celebrated Patent Waves (or rather "Waves") for you, so that you will make the best-dressed list in New York in 1882. It does not look false and wig-like (although it is in fact false and wig-like) - and is perfect for those who...

This is the Smuggler's Tomb which lay on the rocky East River shoreline between East 71st and East 72th Street, at the end of the 18th century. The Tomb was located on the Louvre Farm which was between 64th and 74th Streets and the East River,...

What better way to sell soap than to show the consumer dozens of little, disembodied, mustachioed heads? This must have been the rhetoircal question that the Woodbury Soap Company was asking itself in the late 19th century - and the result is this...

Of course, no peanut stand was ever worth a million dollars. But the land that one New York City peanut stand stood on in the 1920s - now, that was another matter. By the early 1900s, upper Fifth Avenue was beginning to be lined with the mansions...

This little flat-topped frame house at 3 East 83rd Street was built sometime between 1845* and 1867, when this part of Manhattan was the countryside. You can just see a bit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the far left. The tall building to...