A beautifully calm sailing day on the Hudson River near West Point, NY. Several sailboats and other vessels can be seen as they move through the valley.
Advertisement for land available for purchase in the Long Island City area. It targets people who want to move out of the city, yet desire easy access into and out of the city. The five cents refers to the fare to get into the city by public...
Currency question--United States; Free banking--United States
Four-page letter from Jno. [John] A. Thomson in Summit Point, West Virginia, to Lysander Spooner dated December 17, 1877, discussing the topic of monetary systems.
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...
Dear Comrade:
In recognition of the valuable services which you have rendered the cause in times past and wishing to encourage the members of our Active Working Force, we take you into our confidence and count upon you to co-operate with us in...
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Manuscript draft of a four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated January 31, 1859, discussing the rights of slaves and outlining a strategy for aggressive liberation from the South.
Four-page letter dated September 17, 1854, from D. McF. [Daniel McFarland] in Sauk City [Wisconsin] to Lysander Spooner [probably in Boston, Massachusetts], describing his circumstances in Wisconsin, and his plans to move further West.
Military life; Consulates; Military training; Military camps;
Jim writes to his mother that he spent four days in Barcelona and can see that there is no chance of him getting into an artillery unit. He says the International Brigade is very disorganized, as they have just moved north, from Albacete. He...
Slavery--Virginia; Churches--Virginia; Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church (Richmond, Va.); African American clergy--Virginia; Slavery and the church--Baptists, [Catholic Church, etc.]
Mounted newspaper clipping from an unidentified newspaper titled 'De Sun Do Move' containing biographical details of Reverend John Jasper, an emancipated slave and founder of the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist church of Richmond [Virginia]. Date in ink...
Nov. 28th., 1911
Mr. Edwin Markham
West New Brighton, N.Y.
My Dear Comrade Markham:-
I received your marked page of the “American” and your Swedenborgian leaflet, in your own good right hand, and I am thanking you warmly for your kind...
Paul encloses a copy of The Volunteer for Liberty (not included) so that they can use the articles for their work in New York. Paul is feeling well and I enjoying the outdoor life. He writes that the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion has been on the...
Clouds; Flags; Shrubs; Smoke; Smokestacks; Passengers; Black & white postcards; Ships; Close-up views; Rivers
Steamship Hendrick Hudson on the move on the [Hudson] river. Written message in blank space on bottom of card (Please tell the driver he will have no difficulty in locating my house at Brielle. It lies one block back of Union Lane at right angles...
Sailors' Snug Harbor photographs, SUNY Maritime College, Staten Island, New York.
Tewo news articles one from the New York World and Sun named ""Historic Wanamaker's Yields to Historic Trend"" and from the New York Times ""Wanamaker Move Stirs Speculation"" are shown. Keywords: NYU, Manahattan, real estate, Washington Square.
The Poets’ Garden
B.B.B.
Thanksgiving Morning
1933.
Beloved “Edwin of the Song”
Hail! on this my happiest Thanksgiving. My heart overflows with gratitude for the great gifts you have given. I shall try always to be worthy and to carry on for...
Two-page letter from A. J. Rux in Spring Hill, Alabama, to E. H. Stokes [of Richmond Virginia], reporting on the poor slave trade market and his intentions to move to McKinley, Alabama, to try to sell slaves.
