United States--New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn; Music publishing industry; Songs with piano; Sheepshead Bay (New York, N.Y.); Popular music--To 1901
Sailors' Snug Harbor, Merchant Seamen, Institutional Care, Staten Island, New York City, Correspondence
Cover letter from R.W. Gibson, Architect, to Charlie Smith, Chairman of Building Committee at Sailors' Snug Harbor enclosing sketches for church at Sailors' Snug Harbor
Two-page petition submitted by Paul Woolfolk of Caroline County [Virginia] to receive payment equal to the value of his slave, Ben, who had served as a witness in a slave insurrection trial. Woolfolk argues that if he takes the slave back into his...
Riverdale Children's Association; Colored Orphan Asylum (New York, N.Y.); Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans (New York, N.Y.); Charities--New York (State)--New York; Children, Black--New York (State)--New York; African American...
The records of the Colored Orphan Asylum document the activities of the institution from 1836 to 1972, with the bulk of the records falling between 1850 and 1936. The records include minutes of general meetings, the Executive Committee, the...
