Riverdale Children's Association; Colored Orphan Asylum (New York, N.Y.); Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans (New York, N.Y.); Charities--New York (State)--New York; Children, Black--New York (State)--New York; African American...
The records of the Colored Orphan Asylum document the activities of the institution from 1836 to 1972, with the bulk of the records falling between 1850 and 1936. The records include minutes of general meetings, the Executive Committee, the...
Antislavery movements; Abolitionists--New York; American Anti-Slavery Society
Four-page letter from Gerrit Smith of Peterboro [New York] to Theodore D. Weld in New York City regarding the appointments of Brother Wright [probably Theodore S. Wright] to the position of Editor and Brother Bring to the position of Secretary in...
Bayard, Stephen, 1700-1757--Correspondence; Livingston, Gilbert--Correspondence; Wendell, Evert, 1681-1750--Correspondence; Bayard, Nicholas, 1698-1766--Correspondence; Wynkoop, Jacob; New York (State)--Politics and government--Colonial period, ca....
Four letters from Stephen Bayard to Gilbert Livingston of Kingston, N.Y., and one to Evert Wendell of Albany, datedNewYorkbetween 1728 and 1743, before Bayard became mayor of the city. The correspondence is largely concerned with financial matters,...
Letter written by Maude L. Baillard to Juliana Force, dated November 29, 1928. Regarding advertising for the Whitney Studio Galleries in Baillard's art gallery feature, "In the New York Art Galleries". Includes handwritten notes in pencil along...
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...