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Lionel Mapleson with Edison Home Phonograph and extra large horn, probably at the Metropolitan Opera House, circa 1901-1903, Source NYPL.

Hot Wax: The Lionel Mapleson Story

Cole Thompson - January 13, 2016

Old sign for Inwood Nutrition Center revealed, 4940 Broadway, January 5, 2016.

Beneath the Signage: Layers of Inwood History

Cole Thompson - January 8, 2016

New York Press, November 3, 1912.

The Good Ship Tortoise: A Harlem River Houseboat Tale

Cole Thompson - January 7, 2016

Ulysses Grant family in 1870. Jesse Root Grant wearing white coat in center.

The General’s Son: A Scandal on Inwood Hill

Cole Thompson - January 5, 2016

The 1948 shooting of Inwood resident Thomas Collentine launched the investigation that served as the basis for the film On the Waterfront.

Inwood on the Waterfront: The Shooting of Thomas Collentine

Cole Thompson - December 17, 2015

West 211th Street lampost repurposed as a street sign in 1925 photo. (NYHS)

Inwood by Gaslight: A Relic of a Bygone Era

Cole Thompson - December 14, 2015

Frogs from the War between the frogs and mice, Theodor Kittelsen 1885

Toadly Inwood: A Frog’s Tale

Cole Thompson - December 4, 2015

1917 map by Reginald Bolton with location of slave cemetery marked. (Source: American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

Inwood’s Forgotten Slave Cemetery

Cole Thompson - November 17, 2015

Inwood, Autumn of 2015

Inwood in Autumn: Photo Gallery

Cole Thompson - November 3, 2015

House of Mercy, 1890, from Linda Hall Library.

Architect of Mercy: Henry Martyn Congdon

Cole Thompson - November 2, 2015

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