James Edward Purdy (December 19, 1858 – August 2, 1933) was an American photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Saco, Maine on December 19...
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James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 – March 13, 2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, from his debut in 1956, published...
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Hearst, photographed by James E. Purdy around 1905...
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Benjamin Peffer Lamberton Lamberton in 1903, photo by James E. Purdy Born (1844-02-25)February 25, 1844 Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Died June 9, 1912(1912-06-09)...
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self-study, drawing in museums and painting in a studio he shared with James Carroll Beckwith. He became both a valuable friend and Sargent's primary...
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was reduced to that of copyist, and in 1858, under the administration of James Buchanan, she was fired because of her "Black Republicanism". After the...
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Overland Monthly on Jack London. By this time, Charmian was now working for E. Mickle and Company, one of the largest shipping firms in San Francisco. She...
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was James Du Bois of Poughkeepsie, New York, an ethnic French-American of Huguenot origin who fathered several children with slave women. One of James' mixed-race...
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name "Purdy" evokes a bygone era of classic race boats and cruisers custom designed and built by James Gilbert Purdy's sons, Ned and Gil Purdy, and their...
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Alfred Wellington Purdy OC OOnt (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six...
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