Figure 1. Young man photographed by Emily Webb, Wilmington, Delaware, 1870s Is this young Howard Pyle? I don’t know. But I really, real...

Entangled - Drawn by E. A. Abbey, from a Sketch by H. Pyle ( Harper’s Weekly , January 19, 1878) In his memoir, A World Worth While: A R...

“The stout little old gentleman who ate four fish-balls for breakfast on Sunday” How better to charm a woman than by drawing an old man a...

Southwest corner of Seventh and West Streets, Wilmington, Delaware (1994) Okay, Howard Pyle may have slept here. I was going through s...

William Henry Jackson, circa 1873 In his autobiography, Time Exposure , the celebrated photographer and artist William Henry Jackson (184...

The United States Treasury Department at Washington, from a photograph by Alexander Gardner (1866) “You aught to see the treasury bilding...

In honor of Thanksgiving, I serve up Howard Pyle’s earliest known turkey. It also happens to be his earliest known illustration for a nat...

In researching my posts on Howard Pyle’s Chincoteague trip, I found two letters from a Baltimore Sun correspondent, who visited the island ...

The following article by Howard Pyle, born out of his letter published in the Wilmington Daily Commercial for August 15, 1876, was first pu...