Digital Metro New York

Harbor Scene, New York [front caption] (1front) [h0102ac1]
Clouds; Flags; Railings; Reflections; Ship equipment & rigging; Smoke; Smokestacks; Steam engines; People; Passengers; Color postcards; Boats; Ferries; Lifeboats; Ocean liners; Ships; Steamboats; Tugboats; Harbors
View of New York harbor. In the center is the ocean liner, Kaiser Wilhelm II, accompanied by five visible tugboats and various other vessels. The image is framed in gold on a woodgrain background.
Queens College, Waterways of New York

Albany, N.Y. Steamer "Morse." [front caption] (1front) [h0126ac1]
Buildings; Cities & towns; Cityscapes; Clock towers; Clouds; Flags; Reflections; Steeples; Color postcards; Ships; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Panoramic views; Rivers;
The steamer "Morse" travels up the Hudson River past the city of Albany, accompanied by two other boats: a steamer and a side wheeler. The New York State Capitol Building is seen in the background. Blank space for message at bottom of card.
Queens College, Waterways of New York

D.H. Canal, Ellenville, NY [front caption] (1front) [d0090ac1]
Black & white postcards; Canals; Boats; Canal boats; Animals; Donkeys; Mules; Horses; Men; Trees; Waterfronts; Ropes; Shrubs; Pedestrian bridges; Hills; Mountains; Embankments; Utility poles; Towpaths; Hats
Animals (either horses, mules, or donkeys) towing a boat on a towpath on the D & H Canal in Ellenville, New York during daytime, accompanied by men.
Queens College, Waterways of New York

"Seneca Canal," Looking East from Rumsey Street Bridge, Seneca Falls, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [s0018ac1]
Bridges; Boathouses; Buildings; Chimneys; Cities & towns; Cupolas; Fences; Houses; Smokestacks; Steeples; Tow paths; Trees; Utility poles; Warehouses; Black & white postcards; Canal boats; Railroads; Panoramic views; Canals;
View of the Seneca Canal and the town of Seneca Falls from afar. Includes buildings along the canal and various older buildings in the town. Printing information: card number (No. 1205); Written message in blank space on bottom of card (My cousin...
Queens College, Waterways of New York

Kip's Mansion.
Murray Hill Neighborhood (New York, N.Y.)
Kip Mansion. Once stood on Second Avenue and what is now the intersection of 35th Street. Built by the family of Jacobus Kip: 1696.
CUNY Graduate Center Collection, Murray Hill

The Land of Sleepy Hollow
Lakes & ponds; Beeches; Chestnuts; Rocks; Shrubs; Grasses
Photograph of a pond surrounded by beech and chestnut trees accompanied by a hand written caption.
Greenburgh Public Library, The Land and People of Greenburgh

The Crisis of the Revolution
Taverns (Inns); Churches;
Page 58; Four footnotes; Oval image of the Old Dutch Church in Tappan, NY on righthand side.
Greenburgh Public Library, The Land and People of Greenburgh

[Letter from Daniel McFarland to Lysander Spooner]
Four-page letter and envelope dated August 21, 1881, from Daniel McFarland [possibly in South Bend, Indiana] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, expressing affection and describing his circumstances.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

[Letter and envelope from L. Tappan to Lysander Spooner]
One-page letter and envelope from Lewis Tappan in Brookyln, New York, to Lysander Spooner dated November 21, 1855, which accompanied a check for $100.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

[Letter from Lysander Spooner to Hon. Charles A. Wickliffe]
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Two-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated January 11, 1844, which accompanied a copy of Spooner's The Unconstitutionality of Slavery.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

Charles Sumner's The anti-slavery enterprise, 1855
Antislavery movements--United States
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...
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

New-York Manumission Society records, 1785-1849
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...
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

A modell of Christian charity. Written on boarde the Arrabella. On the Attlantick Ocean.
Winthrop, John, 1588-1649;Arbella (Ship);Transatlantic voyages; Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;Puritans--Doctrines
Manuscript copy, probably contemporary, of John Winthrop's sermon 'A Modell of Christian Charity,' 1630. Gift of Francis B. Winthrop, 1809.
New-York Historical Society, Historical Manuscripts

Henry Bergh letters,1866-1884
Bergh, Henry,1811-1888--Correspondence; Bergh, Henry, 1811-1888--Portraits; Burt, John--Correspondence; Elwood, Augustus R.--Correspondence; Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888--Correspondence; Sedley, Henry, 1831-1899--Correspondence; Burns, Denis;...
Seven autograph letters (one accompanied by envelope), signed, by Henry Burgh, and one portrait engraving autographed by Burgh. All letters are written on A.S.P.C.A. stationary and most concern the A.S.P.C.A. or cases of animal cruelty. They are...
New-York Historical Society, Historical Manuscripts

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