Ted Malone Collection

Noah Webster's house in West Hartford, Connecticut is a two-story clapboard, Federal style house with shuttered windows and one chimney.

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...

The tables are set and ready to serve customers at the Oak Room in the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, New York, New York.

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

A head shot photograph of Oliver Wendell Holmes wearing a bow tie outside the collar of his shirt, a suit jacket over a vest.

The exterior of the Boston, Massachusetts home of Oliver Wendell Holmes from 1871 to 1894

An unidentified painted brick, one-story house with a steep overhanging roof and a chimney at each end.

An unidentified one-story painted brick house.

The outside of the Paul Laurence Dunbar house in Dayton, Ohio.

A painting of four renaissance era men looking out of a window at a city and crowd below. The man farthest to the left holds a monocular to his right eye and the man to his left points. The man...

Paired off people (white men and women), one in formal dress, the other in Romany dress, sing to each other on the stage of "La Traviata", at the Amato Opera in New York City, New York. Handwritten on...

The Palm Court in the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, New York, New York has a wall of mirrored French doors.

Seven parachutes with two riders each, are mid air during the "Parachute Jump" at Steeplechase Park in Coney Island, New York.

The carpeted parlor of the Paul Laurence Dunbar home at 219 North Summit Street, Dayton, Ohio, has two unidentified African American girls sitting on a love seat by a mantel with a clock on it. The...

Patrice Munsel stands center stage with her head turned slightly to the right as she sings to a white man standing to her right performing in the opera, "Cosi Fan Tutti" at the Metropolitan Opera in...

Patricia Anne Pound and Eddy C. Pound sit on the grass to the right of a doll of an Uncle Remus character, "Tar baby", which is holding two African American folklore character dolls also from Uncle...

Paul Laurence Dunbar stands in his bedroom wearing a fedora, but holding a top hat in his right hand and a derby in his right hand as he stands in front of the closet without a door filled with men's...

Paul Laurence Dunbar's study in Dayton, Ohio holds a shelf of steins, a typewriter on a table, a writing desk and chair, framed degrees on the walls, and a spittoon on the floor.

A pen and ink drawing of an unidentified three-story brick home with a fence spanning the front of the house.

A photograph of the original pen and ink sketch of Joel Chandler Harris House wearing a fedora. It is signed by possibly Joseph Klein, Atlanta, 1904.

Different people (all white) in formal clothing talk with Romani women (played by white women) in groups of two on the stage of "La Traviata", at the Amato Opera in New York City, New York...

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...

People (white children, men, and women) ride the Chair-O-Planes indoors at Steeplechase Park in Coney Island, New York as the crowd around the ride looks on. The sign on the center of the ride reads,...

A crane hoists the Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree, a Norway spruce, into place while many men in overcoats and fedora hats stand on the sidewalk and watch.