Canal Board; Debt; Revenue; Enlargement; Tolls; Expenses; Champlain Canal; New York State Assembly; Erie Canal; New York (State); Report
Page 4 of a fifty-one page document of the Report of the Canal Board in answer to resolutions respecting the canal debts and revenues and the enlargement of the Erie Canal addressed to the Honorable The Assembly. This page includes a table of tolls...
April 13, 1912
Mr. Edwin Markham,
92 Waters Ave.,
West New Brighton, N.Y.
Dear Comrade:-
Would it be possible for you to attend the Christian Socialist Fellowship Conference at Buffalo, April 25-28? We would be greatly honored and delighted to have...
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF AUTUMN CONFERENCE OF THE INTERCOLLEGIATE SOCIALIST SOCIETY to be held at BELLPORT, LONG ISLAND September 18-24, 1917.
Dear friend:
You are cordially invited to attend the Autumn Conference of the Intercollegiate...
February 23, 1915.
Mrs. Catherine Markham,
West New Brighton,
Staten Island, New York.
My dear Mrs. Markham:-
Thank you for your kind letter with its information about Mr. Markham. I am glad that he is able to be in California to help with the...
610 East 84th Street,
New York City,
April 8th, ’03.
My Dear Mr. Markham:-
Let me thank you for so promptly sending me the books, and for your kind courtesy in signing them all. I have delayed writing till I received your bill, but that not...
Aug. 8/03
Dear Mr. Markham,
I have your last letter in regard to our good friend Nelson, of St. Louis. I did not see him, however, this last time (tho I hear that he has been East again), so forwarded your letter to him at his St. Louis address.
I...
November 23, 1914.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes,
Caritas Island,
Stamford, Conn.
Dear Little Rose:-
I had no idea when I left New York that I would be back again so soon, but I am just accepting an invitation to address the Twilight Club, 37 East 28th...
Account record for sales of slaves aboard the Ship Ascension at Mozambique by Samuel Chace on behalf of Messrs. Vernon Gardner & Co. [William Vernon and Caleb Gardner]. Includes purchases of blankets, medical expenses, and "landing" fees, as well...
Detailed account record of Charleston, South Carolina, sale of 54 slaves brought from Africa on the Sloop Hare by Capt. Caleb Godfrey. Includes names of purchasers, amount, terms of payment, and costs associated with the sale, such as wine and...
Account record for the sale of 75 slaves from the cargo of the Brig Othello, sold by Captain George Dunbar Sweet for Samuel and William Vernon of [Newport], Rhode Island. Includes names of purchasers. Followed by account record for the Brig Othello...
Depositions--United States; Slavery--United States
Two-page deposition of John Champneys describing the circumstances surrounding charges of financial support for William Binnie [Junior], the "negro wench Jenny" and her children. Champneys purchased Jenny at "St. Augustine's when the whole property...
New-York African Free-School; American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc.; African Americans--Education--New York...
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was...
Universities and Colleges--New York (State)--New York--Anniversaries, etc.
An account of the tenure of President Robert Theobald (served 1949-1958), who dismissed three faculty members for alleged subversive activities: Vera Shlakman (Economics), Oscar Shaftel (English), and Dudley Strauss (English). The author notes that...
Universities and Colleges--New York (State)--New York--Anniversaries, etc.
An account of the tenure of President Robert Theobald (served 1949-1958), who dismissed three faculty members for alleged subversive activities: Vera Shlakman (Economics), Oscar Shaftel (English), and Dudley Strauss (English). The author notes that...
Universities and Colleges--New York (State)--New York--Anniversaries, etc.
An account of the tenure of President Robert Theobald (served 1949-1958), who dismissed three faculty members for alleged subversive activities: Vera Shlakman (Economics), Oscar Shaftel (English), and Dudley Strauss (English). The author notes that...
Universities and Colleges--New York (State)--New York--Anniversaries, etc.
Account of the prehistory, geology, early Dutch settlement, creation of the original New York Parental School in 1909, and the founding of Queens College in 1937. Special attention is paid to the old Spanish-style buildings of the Parental School,...
Front caption [in red print] reads: "Tonawanda Iron and Steel Company's Mammoth Plant, North Tonawanda, N. Y. The Twin Cities are growing on account of their unequalled Advantages to Manufacturers" [bottom of card]; Lake steamer delivering coal to...
