Plan of new buildings at the Academy in Throggs Neck. Includes insert giving background on the oldest maritime academy in the country. (The academy is now the SUNY Maritime College.)
Caption on original reads: "QUEENSBORO BRIDGE, OVER BLACKWELL'S ISLAND, EAST RIVER, NEW YORK. Blackwell's Island Bridge extends over the East River from E. 59th Street and 2nd Ave., Manhattan, to Jane and Academy Streets, Long Island City. It is a...
A battalion of cadet-midshipmen stand at attention for the official decommissioning of the ship (on left) which was turned over to the New York State Maritime Academy for use as the Academy's Training Ship.
Four-page letter dated September 17, 1854, from D. McF. [Daniel McFarland] in Sauk City [Wisconsin] to Lysander Spooner [probably in Boston, Massachusetts], describing his circumstances in Wisconsin, and his plans to move further West.
Aerial view of the grounds of the New York Botanical Garden, the Bedford Park and Norwood neighborhoods. Also seen is the 52nd Police Precinct, the grounds of the Academy of Mount St. Ursula, and a Third Ave. El station at Bedford Park Blvd.
Sailors' Snug Harbor photographs, SUNY Maritime College, Staten Island, New York.
Various news clippings are shown from the Staten Island Advance, the Herald Tribune, and the New York Times. Keywords: variety show, Jones Dance Studio, St. Dorothy Academy, barber shop quartet, Wanamaker, Manhattan, Washington Square, color...
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; Dammann, Grace Cowardin, 1872-1945; Discrimination in education; Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; Social action
Anonymous letter sent to alumni and friends of the Sacred Heart Academy and Manhattanville College in opposition to the admission of an African American student:
"Has it come to your attention that Manhattanville College has accepted a colored...
Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892; Clark, Aaron, 1783 or 4-1861; Davis, Cornelius, Jr.; Harral, H. K.; Jones, W. F.; Penney, George W.; Rathbone, Joel; Rotch, W. J.; Sedgwick, C. B. (Charles Baldwin), 1815-1883; Shotwell, H. R.; Smith, Francis H....
Correspondence, drafts of essays and speeches, drawings, and autobiographical writings of Alexander Jackson Davis. Letters to Davis and some misc. papers, 1835-59, chiefly about building residences. The correspondents include Francis H. Smith of...
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