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...
Art, American--20th century--Inventories; Art--Prices; Whitney Studio Galleries--Paperwork (Office practice);
Loan receipt between the Newark Museum Association and the Whitney Studio Galleries, dated December 19, 1929. On loan: "Lamp of Sleep" by Oscar Bluemner; "Pink Villa" by Rohland; "White Horses" by Karl Free. These watercolors are on loan for the...
Art, American--20th century--Inventories; Art--Prices; Whitney Studio Galleries--Paperwork (Office practice);
Loan receipt between Whitney Studio Galleries and The Newark Museum Assocation, dated December 27, 1929. On loan: "The Plaza Taos" by Lockwood and "Dyckman St. Environs" by D'Agostino. For related business correspondence, see also: Registrar's...
Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892; Clark, Aaron, 1783 or 4-1861; Davis, Cornelius, Jr.; Harral, H. K.; Jones, W. F.; Penney, George W.; Rathbone, Joel; Rotch, W. J.; Sedgwick, C. B. (Charles Baldwin), 1815-1883; Shotwell, H. R.; Smith, Francis H....
Correspondence, drafts of essays and speeches, drawings, and autobiographical writings of Alexander Jackson Davis. Letters to Davis and some misc. papers, 1835-59, chiefly about building residences. The correspondents include Francis H. Smith of...
Erie Canal; New York (State); Land sale; Advertisement.
Advertisment for New York Canal Lands on Sale that appeared on March 6, 1824 in the New-York American. Two hundred thousand acres were offered for sale on or near the intended route of the Erie Canal, anticipating accessibility by water "as soon as...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Athol; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Four-page letter dated October 27, 1845, from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston, discussing Supreme Court decisions related to slavery, the death of Spooner's mother, and the public reception of his book [The...
One-page letter from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated August 12, 1860, notifying that Spooner has not received any communication from [Charles] Sedgwick.
Children cool off on a hot day in Melrose with a fire hydrant shower. Other children, coming out of the adjacent playground, take in the scene. They notice that the child in a wheel chair is catching the water spray, too, judging from the wet...
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...
African American children--New York (State)--Richmond County; Registers of births, etc.--New York (State)--Richmond County; Slaves--New York (State)--Richmond County; Slavery--New York (State)--Richmond County; Slaves--Emancipation--New York...
Birth records and deeds of manumission for African American children in the town of Castleton, Staten Island, N.Y. between 1799 and 1827.
Two-page letter from Gerrit Smith to Lysander Spooner dated June 14, 1860, containing an extract of a letter from Charles Sedgwick regarding the [Royal] Phelps libel case.
Meserole thanks Markham for a letter and also for sending a notice on Markham's "Talks on Poetry." Meserole also thanks Markham for sending the names of people who may be interested in joining the Fellowship.
