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I record sporting events to watch while I'm doing my afternoon treadmill run. These days I'm finishing a review of this year's ...

I've done a post — living high — on the coaching mania that overcame a bunch of rich New Yorkers in the decades that ended the 19th and...

Late in the 19th century Holland House was considered to be one of the best hotels in the world.[1] The Library of Congress holds an illus...

Although this looks like a color photograph, it's actually a photochrom image. Most color postcards from the 1890s through the early d...

Unlike the other three, this photo only incidentally shows a 5th Avenue Coach.[1] The camera is a couple blocks north of its location in la...