Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

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When financier J.P. Morgan sought a librarian for his massive collection of books, his relative recommended a young woman who ...