This November 1930 view of State Street in Albany shows a towering Delaware & Hudson Building set against the smoke from steam locomotive engines and the Rensselaer shoreline. The Gothic-style ...

For most of us, the real vintage footage in this video is only known as stories from our ancestors. If you're lucky enough ...

In retelling the stories of the 1930s, most history books focus on a retrospective look at the Great Depression. A time of great suffering, when Hoovervilles littered America’s largest cities and ...

Local author Beth Rogero Bowen has published a third book in Arcadia Publishing’s Postcard History Series, “St. Augustine in the 1930s and 1940s.” The 128-page book offers a look at the city during ...

This eye-catching Spanish Revival in historic View Park was built as a showcase house by renowned developer Elwain Steinkamp in 1935. Eight decades on, the two-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath home is ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This 1936 pictorial map of ...

A historic 1930s estate, once home to members of the Whitney and Vanderbilt families and recently restored to its former glory by a wealthy local couple, is listing for $27 million on New York’s Long ...