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[Letter] 1923 June 25, West New Brighton, N.Y. [to] Darwin J. Messerole
Meserole, Darwin J., 1868-1952
Markham thanks Meserole for sending "The Decay of Capitalistic Civilization" by Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Markham goes on to talk about how Jesus is the only man who can save civilization from decay.
Wagner College, Horrmann Library Edwin Markham Correspondence

[Letter] 1939 March 1 [to] Edwin Markham
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940. The Forgotten Purpose of Jesus.
Meserole writes to Markham of the conditions of the world, and particularly Markham's views on the "The Forgotten Purpose of Jesus."
Wagner College, Horrmann Library Edwin Markham Correspondence

[Letter] 1912 May 22 [to] friend
Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941
Collomb writes to Markham requesting a contribution to the publication The Call for a special Socialist issue of the newspaper.
Wagner College, Horrmann Library Edwin Markham Correspondence

[Letter] 1907 January 31 [to] Mr. Markham
Helicon Home Colony (Englewood, N.J.)
Sinclair continues to try to persuade Markham to join the Helicon Hall Colony. Sinclair encloses a prospectus for the Colony detailing current and future building plans.
Wagner College, Horrmann Library Edwin Markham Correspondence

Enlargement of the Erie Canal. Efforts of the twelve fugitive Senators, sustained by the opinion of Attorney-Gen’l Chatfield, and the voice of a Loco Foco meeting at the capital, illustrated by extracts from Loco Foco organs, to defeat the law...
Erie Canal; New York (State); Enlargement; Canal Bill; Loco Foco; Pamphlet
Title page of a sixteen page pamphlet on the Enlargement of the Erie Canal. In 1851, controversy arose regarding the enlargement of the canal. The issue at hand was the constitutionality of the proposed canal bill. This document contains a...
CUNY Graduate Center Collection, The Erie Canal

[Letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner to Gerrit Smith]
Antislavery movements--United States; American Abolition Society; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Eight-page letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated September 10, 1857, in which he encourages Smith to put forward a motion at the American Abolition Society annual meeting in Syracuse to purchase...
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

[Manuscript draft of a letter from L. Spooner to Gerrit Smith]
Libel and slander--New York (State)--New York
Manuscript draft of a four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated October 28, 1860, giving legal advice.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

A letter to the honorable Brockholst Livingston, Esq. One of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the Lake Canal Policy of the State of New-York.
Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823; Correspondence; Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842; Troup, Robert, 1757-1832; Route; Construction; New York (State); Erie Canal; Document
Title page from the document of a thirty-eight page letter dated February 8th, 1822 written by Robert Troup with extensive supplements and appendices. Nearing the completion of the construction, a great deal of controversy had emerged over who...
CUNY Graduate Center Collection, The Erie Canal

Letter to the honorable Brockholst Livingston, Esq. One of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the Lake Canal Policy of the State of New- York.
Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823; Correspondence; Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842; Troup, Robert, 1757-1832; Route; Construction; New York (State); Erie Canal; Document
Pages thirty-four and thirty-five from the document of a thirty-eight page letter dated February 8th, 1822 written by Robert Troup with extensive supplements and appendices. Nearing the completion of the construction of the Erie Canal, a great deal...
CUNY Graduate Center Collection, The Erie Canal

Film Companies and Rifles
World War I; Movie Industry; Businesses; Armory
Attempt to secure rifles from local film companies for the Armory of the Second Field Artillery. In--Minutes of Directors Meetings, Vol. 5, p. 195.
Lehman College, Bronx Business for Everybody

Sailors' Snug Harbor History_ Brink's Scrapbook
Sailors' Snug Harbor History, Newspapers, SUNY Maritime College, Staten Island, New York
A newspaper article ""Sailors' Snug Harbor Auxiliary Planned,"" by Isabel Casey reports on a women's auxiliary committee in an attempt to interest the Sailors' Snug Harbor residents in new craft ideas with photo included.
Maritime College, Sailors' Snug Harbor Archives