Vintage Barware Auction
If you don’t already have a penguin-shaped cocktail shaker, check out this Sotheby’s auction underway now. The shakers, ice buckets,…
Glencairn’s Cozy Living Room
Glencairn was built by Raymond Pitcairn, “self-taught cathedral architect” (as his New York Times obituary described him) and heir to…
Egyptian Artifacts at Glencairn
Some of the Egyptian artifacts on display at Glencairn, a mansion turned museum outside of Philadelphia.
One-Take Woody: Behind the Scenes Photos of Classic Movies
Director W.S. Van Dyke had a reputation for getting things right the first time. Two movies he directed in the…
Lee Union-Alls : Union-Made in Trenton
The H.D. Lee Mercantile company was founded in Salinas, Kansas, in 1889, but by the early twentieth century, it was…
“Tall, Dark, and Tweedy”: Jazz Age Artist John Held Jr. was also an archaeological illustrator – and a World War I spy
In the 1920s, John Held, Jr., became famous for his drawings in Life, Vanity Fair, and other magazines that enshrined…
T’aint No Sin, to Take off Your Skin, and Dance Around in Your Bones
One more for Halloween, from Jazz Age singer Lee Morse and the Blue Grass Boys:
Who Really Discovered the First Paleoindian Sites in Vermont?
In 1927, the Folsom site in New Mexico, which contained the distinctive fluted stone points of the same name directly…
Frans Ferdinand Blom: Danish Dixie Bohemian Archaeologist
“My first encounter with a cave filled with human skulls and bones occurred in 1928 at Huxjal.” Frans Ferdinand Blom…
The Field Trip that Founded, and Filled, the Oriental Institute
In 1919, James Henry Breasted, archaeologist and founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, embarked on a…