Sailors' Snug Harbor photographs, SUNY Maritime College, Staten Island, New York.
""2,000 Hear Oslo Bishop At Fund Rally"" from the Staten Island Advance details the demonstration to raise funds for the Eger Home for the Aged at Sailors Snug Harbor. A photo of the rally is included.
Sailors' Snug Harbor photographs, SUNY Maritime College, Staten Island, New York.
A clipping from The New York Times, ""N.Y.U. Seeks Area North of Square"" by Richard H. Parke is a continuation of an article detailing New York University negotiations with Sailors Snug Harbor to purchase their Washington Square property, as well...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--New York (State); Antislavery movements--United States
One-page letter dated December 13, 1850, from Stephen P. Andrews in New York City, to Lysander Spooner of Boston, Massachusetts, arranging an agreement for Andrews to promote the views of Spooner and other Boston abolitionists in exchange for an...
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Draft of an eight-page letter dated January 20, 1847, from [Lysander Spooner in Winchendon, Massachusetts] to George Bradburn discussing general news of the abolitionist movement and the progress of his writing of a work called "Poverty" and...
Four-page letter dated November 8, 1847, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Cleveland, Ohio, discussing abolitionist activities and news, and raising funds to support himself while writing a third chapter of...
One-page letter and envelope dated August 10, 1854, from Daniel Drayton in Cape May [New Jersey] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, discussing his health, plans to travel to Boston, and asking for funds.
Two-page letter from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Charles D. Miller dated June 22, 1860, asking for an additional $100 over his retainer after spending all of his funds.
One-page letter from Robt. [Robert] B. Minturn of New York to Lysander Spooner dated January 16, 1867, asking Spooner to forward a copy of "each of your finished works," enclosing extra funds for him to put towards the printing of his writings.
Two-page letter from Gerrit Smith of Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, dated November 12, 1847, in which Smith pledges funds to support Spooner as he writes his newest book and discusses an anti-slavery convention...
Copyright; Intellectual property--United States; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, New York, dated July 3, 1848, in which Spooner asks for the return of the copyrights to his works so that he might raise funds against it for the...
Four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, New York, dated July 24, 1848, in which Spooner discusses his inability to raise funds for himself and explains reasons why the public should provide him...
Copyright; Intellectual property--United States; Antislavery movements--United States
Manuscript draft of a two-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, New York, dated July 3, 1848, in which Spooner asks for the return of the copyrights to his works so that he might raise funds...
Manuscript draft of a four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, New York, dated July 24, 1848, in which Spooner discusses his inability to raise funds for himself and explains reasons why the...
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...
Petition for insurance funds for the Brig Orange after wrecking upon a reef "about three mites to the Eastward of Man of War Kry near the Island of Abaca, one of the Bahama Islands" after leaving the port of Havana [Cuba] on March 6, 1799, carrying...
Letter from G. D. Sweet to Mr. [David] Cooper requesting that funds be given to the bearer of the letter, and that it be charged to the account of "John Niel, sailor on board the Brig Othello."
South Carolina--Commerce; Rhode Island--Commerce; Slave trade--South Carolina--Charleston; Slave trade--Rhode Island--Newport
Invoice for a trunk of merchandise shipped from Newport [Rhode Island] by Samuel C. Taggart for Gardner & Dean on the Brig Friendship. Includes instruction to sell the goods on the coast of Africa and use those funds to purchase "negroes" for sale...
Two-page deposition with testimonies of L. J. Bartow and Parker Howlet of Berrien County [Michigan]. Plaintiff Bartow declares nonpayment of funds by Howlet through an endorsed note from the "Bank of Niles," to which defendant Howlet responds that...
