Friday, July 10, 2009

Fancy Borders and Fashion Plates


In 1903 "the vogue was to embellish groups of portraits, with fancy borders, of which these are typical". How far we have come in 106 years!

Monday, June 22, 2009

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Picking up the Scrapbook

So, tomorrow I have an appointment with the folks at Hudson Microimaging to pick up the original scrapbook and to drop off Gaga's letters to Bibsy & Brad, Dean & Trudy and John, Suzy, Lyd, Betsy-Liz and Lin...So happy to have some of the letters together at last!!!! We'll see what they will do for us.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Well placed home, 1850 Kansas City


So the house on the hill becomes the storefront on Main Street in 50 years.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Gridlock 1901


Could this possibly be the first illustration of gridlock?

Wednesday, June 3, 2009