This Ohio village offers a rare chance to explore authentic 19th century buildings gathered in one peaceful setting that feels untouched by modern life.

This piece explores what everyday life looked like at the end of the 19th century. The 1890s were a turning point between two eras. Many communities still relied on familiar traditions from earlier ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Life on the Erie Canal in the 19th century is being kept alive by a local historian. Victoria Schmitt, a local independent culture historian, has studied the Erie Canal and Rochester ...

The photographers of the 19th century would have gaped disbelievingly at the idea that a small rectangular object could instantly capture an image from life — one that could be reproduced immediately, ...

The album’s fragile pages were laced with arsenic, so the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery put the images online last month. Curators have since identified more than 1,000 of the 1,800 subjects ...

The photograph in question is a historical recreation and artistic representation of 19th-century Jewish life unrelated to intimate wigs. Described as a "hauntingly nostalgic" photograph, the image of ...