Robert Gage and His Ideal Mother, 1930s Boarding House Interior, Fort Smith, Arkansas.

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Robert Gage and His Ideal Mother, Circa Late 1930s. This is a self-portrait of Robert Gage, later an artist and well-known antique dealer of Austin, Texas, posing in his room... Read More

Late 19th Century Wall Street, New York, New York

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Late 19th Century Wall Street, Press Photograph. Note the great piles of 19th century architectural progress centered on the early 19th Century, Greek Revival Sub-Treasury... Read More

Paint Shop or Salvage Yard?…Recessed, Urban Wood-Frame Building, Location Unknown

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Wood-Frame, Urban Paint Shop Gone Salvage Yard, Circa Third or Fourth Quarter 19th Century (Building), Circa Early 20th Century (Image). Probably third to fourth quarter 19th... Read More

Saturday Evening Post Electrical Safety Advertisement: Perhaps the Behavior, As the Style Is Not What is Wrong in this Picture???

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Saturday Evening Post Electrical Safety Advertisement: Perhaps the Behavior, As the Style Is Not What is Wrong in this Picture??? Whats Wrong in This Picture? We think not the... Read More

The Short-Lived, But Magnificent Gothic Revival Mansion of John Dorsey, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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The Largest Lights, The Biggest Bulbs, Aeronautical Advancement at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Circa 1920ish, this image shows a rear view and pedestrian entrance of a small runway structure near the runway and hangars at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. The top of the... Read More

A Well-Kept and Planted Wood-Frame House in Belton, Texas

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); The House of Mrs. G.A. Mutter (although we found no Mutters in the census), Belton, Texas. There are several elements of this house that make it wonderful. First, the physical... Read More

We Even Quarantined The Constructing Quartermaster at Reedy Island, Delaware…

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An X-rated Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater Interior

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Looking into the living room of Fallingwater.. Share on Facebook (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js... Read More

Very Bad Porch

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); This 19th century house located in rural Pennsylvania would have been an attractive house. While the current siding, window and roof replacement choices were bad, the decision... Read More