Soares, Joseph P.: - Joseph Soares is the author of four published books and has a passion for history and a lifelong interest in the arts. An avid collector of antiques, specializing in documents, photographs and negatives, Joseph uses his resources in gathering historical documents and imagery for most of his projects. With this material, he is able to put into words important and in many cases previously unpublished facts and images on the subject on which he is covering.