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MOUTH OF WOOD RIVER WHERE BARGE CANAL WILL ENTER ONEIDA LAKE, SYLVAN BEACH, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [b0032ac1]
Buildings; Coastlines; Embankments; Flags; Grasses; Reflections; Ropes; Rural; Smokestacks; Snubbing posts; Trails & paths; Trees; Waterfronts; Black & white postcards; Boats; Canal boats; Lifeboats; Canals; Rowboats; Rivers;
Queens College, Waterways of New York

Erie Canal, Port Byron, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [e0593ac1]
Canals; Facilities; Houses; Canal Boats; Boats; Bridges; Men; People; Towpaths; Animals; Cities & Towns; Black & White Postcards; Mountains; Trees; Shrubs; Grasses; Fences; Buildings; Roads; Utility poles; Panoramic views; Reflections; Clouds;
Queens College, Waterways of New York

Brooklyn Bridge March
United States--New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn; Music publishing industry; Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.); Marches (Piano); Piano music; Popular music--To 1901
Bold text and decorative details enclosed in border.
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Sheet Music Covers Collection

"Our Boys" Waltzes
United States--New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn; Music publishing industry; Waltzes; Piano music; Dance music; Popular music--To 1901
Bold black text on coral colored paper. Text, "As played by Wernig's 23d, Downing's 9th, and Grafulla's 7th Regiment Bands. Piano, 60 Cents. Orchestra."
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Sheet Music Covers Collection

A letter to the honorable Brockholst Livingston, Esq. One of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the Lake Canal Policy of the State of New-York.
Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823; Correspondence; Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842; Troup, Robert, 1757-1832; Route; Construction; New York (State); Erie Canal; Document
Title page from the document of a thirty-eight page letter dated February 8th, 1822 written by Robert Troup with extensive supplements and appendices. Nearing the completion of the construction, a great deal of controversy had emerged over who...
CUNY Graduate Center Collection, The Erie Canal

Enlargement of the Erie Canal. Efforts of the twelve fugitive Senators, sustained by the opinion of Attorney-Gen’l Chatfield, and the voice of a Loco Foco meeting at the capital, illustrated by extracts from Loco Foco organs, to defeat the law...
Erie Canal; New York (State); Enlargement; Canal Bill; Loco Foco; Pamphlet
Title page of a sixteen page pamphlet on the Enlargement of the Erie Canal. In 1851, controversy arose regarding the enlargement of the canal. The issue at hand was the constitutionality of the proposed canal bill. This document contains a...
CUNY Graduate Center Collection, The Erie Canal

Enlargement of the Erie Canal. Efforts of the twelve fugitive Senators, sustained by the opinion of Attorney-Gen’l Chatfield, and the voice of a Loco Foco meeting at the capital, illustrated by extracts from Loco Foco organs, to defeat the law...
Erie Canal; New York (State); Enlargement; Canal Bill; Loco Foco; Pamphlet
Page 16 of a sixteen page pamphlet on the Enlargement of the Erie Canal. In 1851, controversy arose regarding the enlargement of the canal. This shows excerpts from various New York newspapers voicing protest against the project to enlarge the Erie...
CUNY Graduate Center Collection, The Erie Canal

Letter to the honorable Brockholst Livingston, Esq. One of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the Lake Canal Policy of the State of New- York.
Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823; Correspondence; Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842; Troup, Robert, 1757-1832; Route; Construction; New York (State); Erie Canal; Document
Pages thirty-four and thirty-five from the document of a thirty-eight page letter dated February 8th, 1822 written by Robert Troup with extensive supplements and appendices. Nearing the completion of the construction of the Erie Canal, a great deal...
CUNY Graduate Center Collection, The Erie Canal

Irish Coleen.
An Irish girl in the Bedford Park neighborhood makes a statement with her bold tee shirt.
Lehman College, Childhood in the Bronx

Address Reported by Gerrit Smith to the Jerry Rescue Convention, held in Syracuse October 1, 1857
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.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

[Manuscript draft of a letter from Lysander Spooner to Gerrit Smith]
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Manuscript draft of a four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated January 31, 1859, discussing the rights of slaves and outlining a strategy for aggressive liberation from the South.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

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