Photo Album Archive
Photo Album: Toomey’s Diner
Michael Twomey emigrated to the U.S. in the 1880s from County Cork. The Twomeys primarily settled…
View from the Eastern Front of the War on Ukraine
Kharkiv: Russia’s war on Ukraine looks different up close. It’s a mix of extreme danger…
Sea Voyages With Father
Annie Burke shares memories of how her father, Jim Burke, helped her overcome childhood respiratory…
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Photo Album: Gracie’s Crossing
Grace Boner was born December 10, 1904 in Altmore near Burtonport in the Rosses, County Donegal, Ireland. She married John Conaghan from nearby Crickamore. John went to America looking for […]
Photo Album: Catherine’s Family
Catherine Flannely was born in Porturlin, County Mayo, Ireland around 1835. She married Anthony Moran from the nearby village of Baralty. Catherine and Anthony immigrated to America in the 1860s […]
Photo Album: The Light of Literacy
The photograph published here shows the Scottish-American entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie laying the foundation stone of the new Waterford Free Library on 19 October 1903. Seen in the photograph […]
Photo Album:A View from Above
Blanche Casey of Cleveland, Ohio stands on top of the Empire State Building while on her honeymoon. The Chrysler Building can be seen in the background. Born in 1905, Blanche […]
Photo Album: Happy Holidays!
The celebration of Christmas at Rockefeller Center started informally in 1931 when workmen involved in the construction of the Center placed a small tree on the Fifth Avenue site of […]
In Off the Road
An inside look at Ireland’s Travelers The children you see in these photographs are Irish Travelers – so called because their families travel about stopping in roadside camps and at […]