I just posted about WPA-era posters created for the U.S. National Parks. One of the great successes of the Depression-era…

There’s a new New York Times article on “Ranger Doug” Leen (not to be confused with the other Ranger Doug),…

The cover of General Electric’s introduction to illuminating buildings using electric lights – a new subject in 1930. Source: General…

This former Standard Oil gas station built around 1930 in Cañon City, Colorado is currently occupied by an antique store.…

If you don’t already have a penguin-shaped cocktail shaker, check out this Sotheby’s auction underway now. The shakers, ice buckets,…

Glencairn was built by Raymond Pitcairn, “self-taught cathedral architect” (as his New York Times obituary described him) and heir to…

…after getting shot in the tabloids on Christmas Eve.

Director W.S. Van Dyke had a reputation for getting things right the first time. Two movies he directed in the…

One more for Halloween, from Jazz Age singer Lee Morse and the Blue Grass Boys:

  In the 1930s, schoolchildren in Ireland set out to write down local folklore, history, and mythology, like the story…