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[Letter from A. P. Aldrich to Lysander Spooner]
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Slavery--South Carolina--Barnwell; Slaves--South Carolina--Barnwell
Five-page letter dated August 20, 1866, from A. P. Aldrich in Barnwell, South Carolina, to Lysander Spooner [of Boston, Massachusetts] regarding the economic hardships faced by the South during the reconstruction era.
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

Amos Mill was badly damaged, and five canal boats destroyed by break in Erie Canal, July 30, 1907, Syracuse, N.Y. [front caption] (2back) [e0199ac2]
Postal data: posted, postmarked (SYRACUSE, NY, JUL 20, 1908, 1100PM), stamp; Postcard type: divided back; Logo (POST CARD); Written message (Arrived in Syracuse 10:30 am. All ok--Fayetta Kate & Viola); Addressee (Mr Maynard Randall, Lycoming N.Y.);...
Queens College, Waterways of New York

Cromwell Shirt Shops
Buildings; Stores; Street Scenes; Fires; Organizations
Street scene at Fordham Rd. & Creston Ave. showing newly opened stores, including Cromwell's, following a four alarm fire that destroyed the stores the previous year. The landlord of the property and most of the merchants were members of the Bronx...
Lehman College, Bronx Business for Everybody

Bethesda Fountain, Terrace, and Lake, Central Park, New York City, 1894.
Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works; New York (N.Y.)--Pictorial works
Photographic prints in this collection were printed in the 1960s and 1970s from oversize vintage glass negatives that were later destroyed.
New-York Historical Society, Photographs of New York City and Beyond

Memorial of the Commissioners of the State of New-York, in behalf of said state; praying the aid of the general government in opening a communication between the navigable waters of the Hudson River and the Lakes. December 11, 1816. Referred to the...
Commissioners; Report; Federal government; Financing; Indians; Clinton, Dewitt, 1769-1828; New York (State); Erie Canal; Pamphlet
Pages four and five of a thirteen page pamphlet issued in 1816 addressed to "the honourable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress, the representation of commissioners of the State of New-York, in of the said...
CUNY Graduate Center Collection, The Erie Canal

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