Caption on original reads "THE PALISADES is the term applied to the natural escarpment on the west side of the Hudson River, its formation the result of a crack in the earth's crust in early Triassic time. It presents a perpendicular face nearly...
Slave trade--United States; Slave trade--South Carolina--Charleston; Slave trade--New York (State)--New York
Bill of exchange for amount of $350 between Mr. David Longbridge of Charleston, South Carolina, and Capt. John Webb of New York [possibly for slave trade].
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...
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...
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--Exhibitions; Exhibitions--Planning; Whitney Studio Club--Paperwork (Office practice);
Exhibition list for the Traveling Exhibition. Includes names of artists, titles, and prices for works of art. Handwritten notes and corrections to prices marked. Two (2) pages.
Sales record (draft) for works of art sold during the Traveling Exhibition, 1927-1928. Indicates prices and locations. Includes handwritten notes and corrections to prices in marginalia. See also: Record of sales (wscg.0561).
New York State Legislature; Route; Construction; Excavation; Embankment; Locks; Aqueducts; Contractors; Damages; Shipping; Expenditures; Erie Canal; Commissioners; Champlain Canal; Clinton, Dewitt, 1769-1828; Rensselaer, Stephen Van, 1764-1839;...
Final page of a forty-six page annual report of the canal commissioners communicated to the legislature on January 15, 1819. This report was addressed to the New York State Legislature in obedience to the act entitiled "An act respecting navigable...
View south down Fifth Avenue from intersection with 34th Street. Northwest corner (foreground): residence of Caroline Astor at 350 Fifth Ave. Future site of the Astoria Hotel erected in 1897. Southwest corner (background): Waldorf Hotel; built...
his color postcard is an idealized drawing of the Empire State Building. At the base of the building are houses and tenements. Next to the building is a list of structures with the dates of when these buildings stood on the site before the Empire...
Another color postcard with an idealized drawing of the Empire State Building. The image erroneously shows the mooring mast shaped like a pylon and functioning like a lighthouse, with beams streaking out of it on two sides and into the night. A...
This colorized photograph of the Empire State Building with the New York skyline below is surrounded with facts about the building. The back of the postcard has the following description, "Empire State Building, New York City. One of the tallest...
