IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A cast iron boot scarper in the form ...

A recent North Atlantic mud season became the inspiration for this weekend metalsmithing project. The humble boot scraper was once a fixture outside building entryways. The simplest version deploys a ...

Every day millions of New Yorkers walk along the miles of paved sidewalks, likely oblivious to the fact that walking city streets didn’t become a passtime until the mid-18th century in Europe when ...