The 1920's were the peak and, ironically, the swansong years of silent cinema - which reached its zenith with the cinematic masterpieces of directors such as von Sternberg, von Stroheim, Murnau, ...

The Vancouver Daily World called it an “orgy of assassinations” followed by a “wholesale shooting”. By the end of the day, 31 were dead and 70 injured. It went down in history as “Bloody Sunday”. The ...

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Office of the Director Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Chief Curator This is an agency history. It does not describe actual ...

Who knew that these little window canopies were all the rage in Bed Stuy back in the 1920s? (This shot is from Herkimer Street.) We certainly didn’t. One occasionally sees metal versions of these over ...