Lafayette, Georges Washington Louis Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1779-1849; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834; Washington, George, 1732-1799--Portraits; New York City Hall (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial...
Commemorative volume, 1824-1825, containing transcripts of resolutions and addresses of various organizations and prepared by the New York Common Council as a duplicate of the volume created by the Council for presentation to General Lafayette on...
Advertising--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; Billboards--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; Signs and signboards--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; Streets--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; New York...
Bridges; Buildings; Cities & towns; Cityscapes; Clouds; Commercial facilities; Grasses; Islands; Marine Terminals; Mountains; Piers & wharves; Signs (Notices); Smoke; Black & white postcards; Boats; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Tugboats; Rivers
A scene on the Hudson River looking north from the Congress Street Bridge. The city of Troy, N.Y. is viewable on the horizon and on the east bank. Two side wheelers are docked on the east side of the river; two commercial signs posted on...
Rensselaer, Stephen Van, 1764–1839; North, William, 1755-1836; Eddy, Thomas, 1758 – 1827; Porter, Peter B. (Peter Buell), 1773-1844; De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834; Commissioners; Expenditures/Expenses; Report; Financing; New York (State); Erie...
A thirty-five page report of the commissioners to explore the route of an inland navigation from the Hudson River to Lakes Ontario and Erie. The commissioners were appointed by joint resolutions of the New York State Senate and Assembly. In 1810,...
A tugboat and a barge traveling along the Hudson River. There is view of a commercial part of the city in the background with brick buildings, a church, pilings, remnants of a bridge, steeples and a terminal are all in the background. There are...
A view of the skyline of Troy, N.Y. that also features the Hudson River and the Congress Street Bridge. A sidewheeler, "City [of] Troy" is docked at an industrial stretch of the riverfront and a smaller ferry can be seen traveling in the middle of...
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; National Federation of Catholic College Students (U.S.); Social action; Social Action Secretariat
Annual Congress of National Federation of Catholic College Students, Louisville, KY, 1960. Manhattanville named Seat of Social Action Secretariat at Conference.
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Athol; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated December 26, 1845, from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston [Massachusetts], expressing desire to distribute his book [The Unconstitutionality of Slavery] to members of the United States...
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Antislavery movements-United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Two-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner dated March 1, 1856, regarding the nomination of an anti-slavery presidential candidate for the Republican Party.
Aug. 1st, 1907
Prof. Edwin Markham,
West New Brighton,
New York.
Dear Comrade:-
I suppose you have learned that I am to go to the International Congress at Stuttgart. I will be in New York Monday evening Aug. 5th and all day Tuesday. I would be...
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...
Promotional Materials; Democratic Party (Kings County, N.Y.); Cassin, Edward; League of Nations
Double-sided handbill asking voters to choose Edward Cassin for Congress, Fifth District. Front: Photo of Cassin listing his plans. Reverse: What the League of Nations proposes.
Constitutional law--United States; United States. Congress. Senate--Powers and duties; United States--Foreign relations--Treaties
Draft in John Jay's hand of Federalist Number 64, originally published on March 5, 1788 in the Independent Journal. It bore the number 63 in the newspaper version, but was renumbered 64 in the first collected edition, published 22 March 1788....
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...
