An idealistic ophthalmologist, he came up with an ingenious way to treat blindness in far-flung places: by outfitting an ...

J.P. Morgan sat for two minutes; one of the resulting portraits defined his reputation. Edward Steichen “No price is too great,” John Pierpont Morgan once declared, “for a work of ...

Milton Hershey, J. Pierpont Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick were among the notable figures who never made it on the Titanic.

The tradition of coloring eggs to celebrate Easter can be traced to the 13th-century Britain, and perhaps even earlier, to ...

Belle da Costa Greene in the West Room of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library (c. 1948), reproduction of a photographic print, Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; Bernard and Mary Berenson Papers ...

When Henry Pomeroy Davison became a Morgan partner he was 42 years old; 30 years younger than the late John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913); three months older than the present John Pierpont Morgan.

"Hartford is capable of surprising people," admits Colin McEnroe, Hartford native and the city's unofficial ambassador to the ...

Andrews' privately funded expeditions on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History in New York were financed with help from prominent businessmen, including John Pierpont Morgan and John D.