Some often-reproduced French Impressionist paintings might feel very familiar, but to see them in person is to experience them in an entirely new way, curator Katie Hanson says.

They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

PORTAGE, MI –– Portage hosted a vintage base ball festival on Saturday, June 28, at Ramona Park, featuring 23 clubs playing the game as it was in the 1860s.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – As we celebrate the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, it’s important to recognize its crucial role in the Underground Railroad from its inception in 1825 until the early 1860s ...

Corsets and crinolines were rendered in modular constructions and lightweight materials, but Chiuri’s clearest influences were two of her predecessors at Dior: Gianfranco Ferré and John Galliano.

Related: See photos as vintage base ball festival in Portage showcases 1860s rules, no gloves To see video of the event, see the link at the top of the page or click here.

Silver and Other Precious Metals How to play the surge in the silver price Bulls have been watching silver's latest run-up with excitement, says Dominic Frisby. All the ingredients for a long-term ...

Since the 1860s, the quiet area has functioned as a quarantine station, psychiatric hospital, tuberculosis ward, reform school, homeless shelter, rehabilitation facility, military base, and jail.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The collection is arranged into 6 ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

WAGON AND CARRIAGE INDUSTRY. Though Cleveland was never home to the massive wagon and carriage factories found in some midwestern cities, it nevertheless possessed large numbers of smaller firms ...