Ted Malone Collection

John Howard Payne's portrait above the mantel and fireplace in his home. There are candelabras on either side of his portrait on the mantle, a coffee pot hanging in the fireplace above andirons and...

Chimney and outdoor fireplace side of a log cabin that was the Federal Hospital during battle of Fort Donelson near Dover, Tennessee and Fort Donelson, and then occupied by General Lee as his...

Louisa May Alcott's home called the Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts has many trees in the front yard and a cross-plank wooden fence.

The Mark Twain cabin in Mark Twain State Park in Monroe County, Missouri is a small clapboard home with only two front windows and a plain front door. In this photograph, the roof, porch, and...

O'Henry's (William S. Porter's) home at 55 Irving Place in New York City, New York was an apartment building above a cleaning service and above a restaurant. A 1939 Chrysler is parked in front.

O'Henry's (William S. Porter's) old house in Austin, Texas is a farm-style house with a sunburst roofline truss on the front, a few broken shutters, gingerbread accents around the porch, and a gated...

Henry Adams' mansion, called Peacefield or Old House, in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Several people sit on the benches and many prams are in front of those people (all white) along the sidewalk beside the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx in New York City in New York. Two men stand...

The front, side and a bit of the back of Ralph Waldo Emerson house in Concord, Massachusetts. An unpaved road and drive run along the front as well as a metal fence.

Richard Henry Dana, Jr. house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Stephen Crane's birthplace is boarded up. The four surrounding houses and street are in the photograph. Three cars are parked on the brick street.

A boarded up and broken windowed Stephen Crane house in Newark, New Jersey.

Ted Malone, from his left side, stands farthest to the right with a camera on a tripod in front of him. To his right stands Ed. H. Wilder, Mrs. Irving Shepard, James McMaster holding an NBC microphone...

Ted Malone stands on the porch of the Edgar Allan Poe cottage with an unidentified white woman. Both wears coats and hats.

Ted Malone squats between a coal stove and a dining table and opens an oven door with his right hand as he holds a NBC microphone with his left hand above his knees and broadcasts from the Edgar Allan...

Ted Malone sits outside in front of a rock chimney with Charmian London to his right with a small table between them with a KGO microphone sitting on it at the home of Jack London in Glen Ellen...

Ted Malone, from his right side, leans forward on the back of a rocking chair in the living room of the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage as he broadcasts from a script he holds in right hand into a NBC...

Ted Malone watches Mrs. Early, the curator of the James Whitcomb Riley home, lift a mosquito net from the dining table inside the Riley home. A carpet bag hangs from the wall behind Ted's head. Potted...

Ted Malone stands with two unidentified white men on the steps in front of the First U.S. Branch Mint, 608-619 Commercial Street in San Francisco, California after the Bret Harte broadcast. Bret Harte...

Ted Malone stands on the steps of the porch of the Poe Cottage with another white man and two white women. All wear hats and coats. A sign attached to the side of the cottage says, "Poe Cottage. The...

Ted Malone, small white girl and white boy stand on the porch of the James Whitcomb Riley home during a broadcast.

Ted Malone sits on a chair between a bed and dresser with a window behind him and holds a book open on the bed with his right hand as he holds a NBC microphone with his left hand on his lap and...

Thomas Wolfe birthplace at 92 Woodfin Street, Asheville, North Carolina is a Queen Anne style, two-story frame house. A woman stands on the wrap-around porch supported by columns. A man, likely the...

Thomas Wolfe stands in a doorway with his left hand leaning above his head on the door jamb. The double screen doors behind him have grid wire on the bottom halves. He wears a suit and a dark tie...

"Dixieland", Thomas Wolfe's mother's boarding house and also his home at 48 Spruce Street, Asheville, North Carolina is a two-story bin the Queen Anne style. The hood and cloth top of a convertible...