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An introduction to and overview of famed photographer Berenice Abbott's work.

Hank O'Neal met Berenice Abbott in 1972 at the coffee shop of a Holiday Inn on 57th Street in New York City. After a two-hour meeting Abbott suggested he should visit her if he was ever near Moosehead Lake in northern Maine. In the fall of 1973 O'Neal did just that, spending a long weekend with Abbott at her circa 1810 stagecoach inn. They hit it off and at the end of the stay she said, "If you ever get a real camera come up here and I'll teac...

Sincerely, Ty Cobb traces ten years of a child's life in baseball, from his first struggles on the sandlot to his final high school game. It is fully illustrated with period memorabilia, highlighted by twelve pages of handwritten letters from Ty Cobb, plus others from Hall of Fame players like Eddie Walsh and Frankie Frisch. The story is illustrated with old programs, tobacco and bubble gum cards, autographed photographs, including two from Co...

Features interviews and portraits of forty-two jazz legends who made music in Harlem during its heyday and decline. This title features Cab Calloway, Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Tate, Eddie Barefield, and Illinois Jacquet.

The story of two ordinary people, Harold and Sarah, who lived ordinary lives, each born more than a century ago. Perhaps there are millions of people who have similar stories. But the lives of Harold and Sarah were preserved not in the memories of others but in the pages of scrapbooks, photographs, letters, postcards, and bits of memorabilia from which their lives together may be reconstructed.

With captions by Allen Ginsberg and a preface by William S. Burroughs, this text celebrates and chronicles the gay parade in NYC during its heyday. It provides a unique and personal look into the roots of one the city's most vibrant traditions.