1 - 25 of 27 items

Booker T. Washington's home "The Oaks"

Image

The home of Booker T. Washington in Tuskegee, Alabama called "The Oaks". It is a large brick, three-story house with a porch across the front and one side of the house. There are floor-to-ceiling...

Date Published
1941-02-02

Bret Harte's home in Santa Cruz, California

Image

Bret Harte's "Honey - Moon" cottage in Santa Cruz, California is a one-story cottage covered with vines with many windows. A four-seat bench sits by the front door.

Date Published
1940-04-07

Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in Bronx, New York

Image

Two couples (white men and women) walk about the front of the Edgar Allan Poe cottage in the Bronx in New York City in New York. The city buildings are visible all around the cottage.

Date Published
1941-01-19

Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in Bronx, New York

Image

Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx in New York City, New York with a tall apartment building visible behind his cottage. A sign by the entrance states, "Poe Cottage. The home of Edgar Allan Poe 1846...

Date Published
1941-01-19

Edgar Allan Poe shrine in Richmond, Virginia

Image

Edgar Allan Poe Shrine in Richmond, Virginia is a rock, two-story cottage. A horse-head hitching post is in the sidewalk in front of the cottage. A plaque is attached to the wall by the front door...

Date Published
1941-01-19

Edith Wharton's home

Image

The home of Edith Wharton in Newport, Rhode Island is named "Pen Craig." It is a Tudor-style mansion with ivy growing up all of the walls. The grounds are landscaped and manicured. A 1940's car...

Date Published
1941-02-09

General Lew Wallace in his study

Image

General Lew Wallace, from his right side, sits in a leather, mission-style chair studying an item on a large board on his lap. Two pew-like benches are behind him on either side with a fireplace in...

Date Published
1941-04-06

General Lew Wallace's study

Image

General Lew Wallace's study in Crawfordsville, Indiana is a windowless building of unusual architecture with a tower and a skylight.

Date Published
1941-04-06

Henry David Thoreau's home

Image

Henry Thoreau's house in Concord, Massachusetts is a two-story clapboard house with shutters on the windows and a metal fence spanning across the front. Likely a cement property marker is by the...

Date Published
1941-04-13

Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Image

The exterior of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A woman and a man sit on opposite sides of a bench with their backs to the photographer; both wears straw hats. A few people are...

Date Published
1941-05-11

Ted Malone interviews Charmian London

Image

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...

Date Published
1941-03-16

Thomas Wolfe birthplace in Asheville, North Carolina

Image

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...

Date Published
1941-01-26

Thomas Wolfe's mother's boarding house

Image

"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...

Date Published
1941-01-26

Thomas Wolfe's mother's boarding house

Image

"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.

Date Published
1941-01-26