A few things found at random from "Very Ill!," an online exhibit of medical caricature at the Moore Health Sciences Library, Univ...

Originally from France, Prevost (1820-1881) established a photography studio at 627 Broadway in New York around 1854. He worked in the calot...

part of an ongoing series , from my storage to your screen. Since I haven't gone anywhere this summer, chained as I am to my computer, ...

A few weeks ago I visited the Natural History Museum. It struck me, as we sauntered past the dioramas, that most representations of "Ea...

For a project about nineteenth century letterpress I'm working on, I was looking into the pendulum swings of criticism about "Victo...

* * * I've discussed my feelings before about the sorry state of American magazine covers (specifically Vogue ). Whether today's ...

I read with some envy and wistfulness about the reopening of St. Pancras Station in London (images second row) as the new 'home' of...

It looks as though I'm on a vintage fashion tear! From about the start of World War I to the early Twenties (before the Flapper Age) is...

Recently, for a work project, I watched parts of Intolerance : Love's Struggle Through the Ages , DW Griffith's silent colossal spe...

"Orientalism... is a complex idea, made up of history and scenery, suffused with imagination... We frame to ourselves a deep azure sky,...