This week's installment takes readers back to the late 1880s and early 1900s in Midland. The gallery includes the first schoolhouse in Larkin Township, a photo of the Hotel Madill on Main Street, a ...

The Flats were initially established as a residential area for a heavily Irish population in the mid 1800s. Many of the workers that built the Ohio and Erie Canal, which jumpstarted the development of ...

If you have a jar with the initials JM, they made by Johann Maresch (1821-1914) and sell for $300 to $500. Many figural tobacco jars were made in the late 1800s and early 1900s, marked with just the ...

The Queen Anne architectural style enjoyed great popularity from the 1880s through the early 1900s in the U.S., and Staten Island has more than a few surviving examples, thanks to good-custodian ...

Tuberculosis was a disease that plagued Manitowoc County during the late 1800s and 1900s. It caused so much havoc that the City of Manitowoc acquired multiple exhibits on the disease. The front page ...

Question: Could you please tell us something about the oak chair seen in this photo? It was in my husband's family for years and passed from his sister to us. When she had the chair, she kept a pillow ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, MI -- Each summer visitors are transported back in time to the late 1800s and early 1900s when immigrants first settled along the shores of Lake Michigan. The farmlands that are now ...

How would you like to be the brainiacs at the Paris Conservatoire who proclaimed that Erik Satie, one of the greatest composers of the late 1800s/early 1900s, was unequivocally and hopelessly ...

In my family, boys received their first guns as a rite of passage. When my father was a boy in the late 1800s and early 1900s, he and his friends knew how to handle a gun by the time they were 11 or ...

Halloween has grown into a huge commercial part of today’s holiday season, but what was this spooky celebration like in the early 1900s? The festivities were much simpler of course, but in many ways, ...