Street Scenes; Businesses; Authors; Transportation; Stores; Parks; Ethnic Groups; Languages
View at the intersection of Southern Blvd. & East 180th St. Crotona Parkway is on the left and Southern Boulevard is shown on the right of the street median. Traffic ran in both directions on these roadways and a trolley car is on the right. On...
A student at St. Frances of Rome School, who took top honors on bank's Quiz Kids Panel, is presented with Yankees baseball tickets. His school is one of 27 Bronx schools participating in the bank's School Savings program.
Soundview station opening at 1687 Gleason Ave. is commemorated with a block of first issue stamps presented by Albert Goldman, postmaster (right) to the broker who arranged the real estate transaction.
One of two pandas, presented to the Zoo by Madam Chiang Kai-Shek and Madam Kung in 1941, delights visitors. (The New York Zoological Society was renamed the Wildlife Conservation Society in 1993.)
A swan was rescued from heavy mud by the ASPCA when Baisley Park Lake in Queens was being drained. The swan was presented to the Bronx Zoo. After being brought back to health, the swan is introduced to the zoo's lake.
Program for an "English Musical Entertainment" entitled "The Orchard" starring Eddie Foy, presented by Sam S. & Lee Shubert (inc) for week beginning Monday, July 1, 1907.
Constitutional law--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Manuscript draft of a four-page letter dated January 19, 1846, from Lysander Spooner Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston [Massachusetts], asking Bardburn to solicit prominent names to sign a petition and then have the petition...
Jerry Rescue Convention; Antislavery movements--United States
Three-page printed "address" by Gerrit Smith presented at the Jerry Rescue Convention in Syracuse [New York]. On back, addressed to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, in Smith's hand.
Bill for the cost of apprehending and transporting various slaves to trail presented by Allen Addison [possibly of Granville County, South Carolina] to "the Publick." Identifies slaves Lucy, Nancy, Hannah and Fryday, all belonging to Joseph Perry...
Three-page resolution submitted by Charles Warren presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society opposing the admittance of Texas into the Union as a Slave state.
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...
Training Ship St. Mary's, New York Nautical School, SUNY Maritime College
Training Ship ""St. Mary's"" May 12, 1901. 3 copies. One has typed label "" Boys mustering prior to going on ""liberty"" U.S.S. St. Mary's May 12, 1901 Presented by Capt. F.E. Cross '01"". Handwritten on back ""On board S.S. ""St. Mary' Glen...
