Throughout his life Frank B. Nuderscher primarily lived and worked in St. Louis and was best known regionally as a painter of landscapes and city views of his area.  It is unexpected then, to find that in 1903 he also created the above cover illustration for the popular Chicago trade

Inside books are worlds to be found, battles to be fought, discoveries to be made, and life paths to be chosen. The joining of a wonderful story and a receptive mind provides possibilities untold. So, for those of us who love to read, one of the true rewards may be

Dancer/choreographer Martha Graham (1894-1991) established her Center for Contemporary Dance in New York in 1926, and was, by 1934, internationally recognized as the cutting edge in the world of dance performance.  By 1934, burlesque dancer Sally Rand (1904-1979) was best known for her infamous appearance at the Chicago World’s Fair,

Maginel Wright Enright Barney, born Margaret Ellen Wright, was the younger sister of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The name Maginel was a contraction of Maggie Nell, the name her family called her.

Gibson Girls were lots of things: healthy, charming, athletic, white Anglo-Saxon Americans, and most assuredly, beautiful.  Charles Dana Gibson’s images of women inspired “. . . costumes and hairdos” and promoted “the image of the athletic girl who played tennis and golf, rode horseback, swam, and bicycled, [and] became the

The action in this illustration takes place at a gas station. Schaeffer positions the handsome man moving purposefully toward the blond-haired woman with his back to us. This device helps us to move into the painting’s space with him, and because his facial expression is not revealed, makes him appear

Gramercy Park is located on the east side of Manhattan between 20th and 21st Streets. It encompasses the square of townhouses surrounding the park in addition to a fenced central green space. The private park for which this neighborhood is named is absent from John Falter’s cover picture for The Saturday

The 1950s is when American familial goals transformed from home and apple pie to a home in the suburbs, two cars in the garage, and living the good life. John P. Falter’s illustration for the 1958 Halloween cover of The Saturday Evening Post delineates a look of that good life.

A. T. Stewart’s 1846 “Marble Palace” department store in New York was the first to open in this country. By the 1890s most major American cities had department stores which provided access to a cornucopia of goods made at home and abroad. In addition to being emporia where every mercantile

The Literary Digest was a popular general interest weekly magazine that began in 1890. In 1917, Norman Rockwell’s illustrations were being used by advertisers in the pages of The Literary Digest and the following year its’ publisher, Funk & Wagnalls, commissioned Rockwell to create his first cover for them. The