Under the Gables

Still Life: Balsam Apple and Cabbage by James Peale, 1820

The Nebraska Sky compliments of Down and Out . A new minutes later, Elmira fainted again. "She's too weak," Cholo said. "...

A family posing in front of its sod house. It is all well and fine to reminisce and celebrate a time gone by that seems more genteel, and s...

A woman on the Montana frontier toward the end of the 19th century. Photo taken by Evelyn Jephson Cameron, who was born in Britain but marri...

Walter Reed Hospital, 1918 Shorpy gives us a photograph of recuperating soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital in 1918 with World War I still bl...

The Good Samaritan by Rembrant van Rijn, 1644 There seems to be a new view going around that neighbors--that is, those who live within clos...

School Time, Winslow Homer, 1874 I love this painting, which shows how much these girls love their teacher. I feel unfortunate not to have h...