March 1912. “Row of tenements, 260 to 268 Elizabeth Street, New York, in which a great deal of finishing of clothes is carried on.” 268 Elizabeth Street, in Little Italy, is now a “luxe sweater bar” called Sample; 258 (Kips Bay) is a handbag boutique called Token. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine

December 1940. “Secondhand plumbing store, Brockton, Mass.” 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. As of 2007, Saba Mechanical Plumbing & Heating is still in business in Brockton, at an address on Linus Avenue. via

“There seem to be slightly less biographies of Scipio Africanus even though he kicked Hannibal’s ass.”

Richard Nadler

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Homemaking cover for McCall’s. Circa 1950.