Vintage Irvington

In late November of 2010, I made the decision to create something I had always dreamed about finding on the internet...a caché of historic p...

Throughout the early to mid-twentieth century, photographers would travel from town to town all across the United States and make money by s...

Norman and Lora Koepper took turns posing with two of their children, Paul and Susan, on a winter's day in 1944.  The Koeppers dwelled i...

Irvington residents had a lot on their minds in the winter of 1941-42. The Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor and President Roosevelt had...

Carl and Marianna Swego Koepper bought a bungalow at 21 North Bosart Avenue from William H. Polk in either late 1929 or early 1930.  Mr. Koe...

What does a photograph reveal about an era or a moment in time?  In 1938, the younger couple in this photograph, Lora and Norman Koepper, in...

The Kindergarten Movement, a German idea, had been embraced by millions of Americans by 1930 when the Emerson Heights Kindergarten first ope...

On April 11, 1956, children gathered at the home Steve Koepper at 5263 East Tenth Street for his twelfth birthday party.  All of the childre...

Members of the eighth grade graduating class from Trinity Evangelical Lutheran School gathered at the home of Steve Koepper in 1958. They wo...

In 1954, the Koepper family gathered around the fireplace in the family home at 5263 East Tenth Street for a photograph.  Every single membe...

When do we take out our cameras and snap family photos?  If you are like most Americans, your scrapbooks are filled with special occasions l...

It is very rare to find a house with so few owners, but the modest bungalow at 5263 East 10th Street has had only two separate families dwel...