As a teen, he worked delivering ice blocks by horse-drawn wagon and in road construction; in the afternoons, he volunteered ...

New York, guests describe working conditions in bake shops at the turn of the 20th Century, the state of the country during the time, and the details of the Bake Shop Act. Describe working ...

Shots of the local bar with the chrome stools and the spittoon on the floor bring into focus life in the first two decades of the 20th century. Some, like Frank Davis inside his shoe repair shop ...

According to Getty Images: "Completed in 1924 as a reconnaissance flying-boat, this aircraft was later (1927) converted into a 10-seat passenger machine ... from the early 20th century. " ...

The paint charts you can pick up today in most shops that sell architectural paint or artists’ materials have their origin in the early twentieth century, when advertising became much more ...

I feel the same way when talking about JoAnn Falletta conducting music of the early 20 th century. I’ve used words and phrases such as that this music is “in her wheelhouse,” or “music she ...

Workers on the Rotunda’s lower north plaza excavated a stone pillar, several feet tall with what looked to be concrete added to it to create the panels, that had originally been part of an early ...

Read Part 1 on reinventing the coffee shop. For many coffee drinkers ... He invented single-shot espresso in the early years of the 20th century while looking for a method of quickly brewing ...

He was fascinated by the relationships between them in the photographs, especially since the value of a dog in the 19th and early 20th century was ... the Duck Lady’s” shop.

As automobiles became big business in the early decades of the 20th century, the first dealerships ... Three old dealerships, now used for shops and restaurants, still cluster around the ...

IT was the moral panic of the early 1900s, born largely of ... period between the second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century. The book, which is written in Italian ...