A child jumps from an abandoned building in Melrose onto a mattress below. He seems unaware of any possible danger or that he could miss his mark as he aims for a soft landing on the mattress.
Postal data: unmarked, unposted [blank stamp box]; Postcard type: divided back (Address Only); Printing information: card number (566); Logo: (POST CARD); Written message: [written across the entire back] (The last barge to go through the canal....
A boy takes a daring bicycle ride on a ramp, created out of found materials, at Courtlandt Avenue. His play area is a vacant lot behind an abandoned building.
This is one of the last tenement buildings left. Originally built to house New York’s poor, tenement buildings covered the West Side and other parts of the city. This building is next to an abandoned gas station as well as a billboard.
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
Exhibition checklist of paintings by Kenneth Frazier held at the Whitney Studio Galleries. No exhibition date listed. Written in pencil on verso: "Nov 27-Dec 15 1928."