January 2011
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Lost Milwaukee: The Schandein Mansion
Brewery heiress Lisette Best Schandein’s golden years were filled with tremendous wealth — and tremendous controversy.
By the 1890s, Lisette was the most extraordinarily well-connected woman in Wisconsin: she was the daughter of Philip Best, founder of Milwaukee’s first breweries; the wife of Emil Schandein, founder of the Milwaukee Deutsche Gesellschaft; and the sister of Maria Best, the...
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the smoldering ruins of Detroit →
some of the most amazing photos of “America” you will see in your lifetime
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Ice Chalet brought poetry in motion to Mayfair... →
only 15 years ago…and it seems like a century
Demolition of the Paris Metro →
Explore the ghostly gorgeousness of underground Paris in this amazing photo series.