A boy takes a daring bicycle ride on a ramp, created out of found materials, at Courtlandt Avenue. His play area is a vacant lot behind an abandoned building.
Sailors' Snug Harbor History, Newspapers, SUNY Maritime College, Staten Island, New York
A Staten Island Advance article named ""Ship's Master Takes Snug Harbor Helm"" reports on Capt. William C. Twigg's appointment as the new Governor of Sailors' Snug Harbor with photo included.
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...
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...
Opening its Hunts Point Branch, at 550 Hunts Point Ave. near Randall Avel, officials from First National City Bank present Borough President Joseph F. Periconi with a cake decorated with 50 candles. The candles commemorate the golden anniversary...