Hemingway's Paris

Bill Schiller recounts the early years when Ernest Hemingway started out as a cub reporter for The Toronto Star . He eventually became the ...

During the "Roaring Twenties" shocking behavior was more interesting to the American public than moral behavior. Stories of the e...

A new breed of woman appeared on the world scene in the years after World War I. After the war, Amercan social liberalism filled a void left...

Modigliani , Picasso, And Andre Salmon Picasso And His Mistress Paquerette In March, 1922, Hemingway wrote an article for the Toronto Daily ...

In Schwarzwald Chink Dorman-Smith Black Forest Gasthaus Rossele Paris was very hot a...

Ernest and Hadley sailed for Paris on December 8, 1921. They left from New York on the steamship Leopoldina, an old French Line vessel. It w...

Four paintings by Pissarro. The blog needs a little color every now and then to compliment the vintage black and white photos. If you are fa...

Léonard Lipp opened his brasserie in the 1870's after fleeing Alsace during the Franco-Prussian War. The menu is typical of that region ...

Man Ray was born, Emmanuel Radnitzky (August 27, 1890–November 18, 1976) in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He spent most of his career i...

These three photos of Hemingway are from 1923, taken in Paris by Man Ray, whose self-portrait is at the top. Judging by the tie, shirt,...