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.
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...
Postal data: posted, postmarked (WILLIAMSTOWN, JUL 12 7:30 AM, MASS. [outside of postmark] (1910); stamp; Postcard type: divided back. Logo (POST CARD); Printing information: Printed in Germany (90 degree angle on left side); Written message...
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...
Abbott writes to Markham about Ferdinand Earle leaving his wife for another woman and mentions other famous men who have done the same, or have gone through a divorce. Abbott also mentions an article he wrote on Viereck for Book News Monthly.