Clouds; Flags; Reflections; Ropes; Smoke; Smokestacks; Passengers; People; Color postcards; Sailboats; Sailing ships; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Rivers;
Front caption [in decorative typeface] reads: ". HUDSON . RIVER . Celebration 1809 1909" [top of card]; ' "The Clermont" Fulton's Steamboat' [bottom of card]. Centennial celebration of Robert Fulton's Steamboat "The Clermont" sailing the Hudson...
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,...
Universities and Colleges--New York (State)--New York--Anniversaries, etc.
Discussion of the three major figures involved in the creation of the college and its early years: Judge Charles M. Colden, of distinguished New York lineage; Fiorello LaGuardia, activist and popular mayor of New York City from 1933-1945; and Paul...
This portrait view depicts the Brooklyn Bridge, industrial buildings in lower Manhattan, and boats in the New York City harbor. Blank space at bottom of card.
Passengers on a steamboat. On the right side there are cliffs and trees and in the distance hills or mountains. There is a reflection of the cloudes on the water. There is a blank space on the right side of card;
Universities and Colleges--New York (State)--New York--Anniversaries, etc.
Highlights the career and substantial contributions of the first president of Queens College, Paul M. Klapper. His development of a varied curriculum requiring art, music, languages, science, mathematics, and social studies aimed at nothing less...
Universities and Colleges--New York (State)--New York--Anniversaries, etc.
After noting the "unusual" faculty, students, and curriculum, the writer gives an appreciation of President Klapper, who "understood" the "hopes" and "difficulties" of both students and faculty.
