Manchester, New Hampshire Then and Now

Look at almost any American street photograph from the early 1900s and nearly everyone is wearing a hat. So why did this once-essential part of getting dressed nearly disappear? From enormous Edwardian hats and 1920s cloches to automobiles, changing hairstyles, casual fashion, and the JFK myth, discover what really happened to America's hats.

Step onto the streets of Toledo, Ohio, around 1900, when horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, and electric streetcars shared a bustling downtown. Vintage photographs of Summit Street and Madison Avenue reveal the shops, hotels, businesses, and everyday life of the city as Toledo emerged as America’s Glass City.

More than a century before democratic socialism returned to American headlines, Eugene V. Debs was asking who should hold power in a democracy: workers, corporations or the government. Historical photographs reveal the world that made his five presidential campaigns possible.