Parks; Playgrounds; Street Scenes; Recreation; Wars; Buildings; Highways; Bridges; Organizations; Ethnic Groups
View of the reconstructed and enlarged playground at E. 133rd th St. and Willis Ave. at the Bruckner Blvd. The area was acquired by the the City in 1904 and was controlled by the Dept. of Bridges for access to the Willis Ave. Bridge. The unused...
Girls; Stores, Retail; Painting; Art; Dancers; Clothing and dress; United States--New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn
Shape of card and illustration of artist's palette with blobs of paint. On palette is illustration of girl in ballerina costume taking a bow possibly on a stage. There are flowers on the ground next to her. Verso side: text,"We are Brooklyn's...
Busy traffic scene at E. 149th St. & Third Ave. showing automobilies, buses, an elevated subway line, taxi and even Hearns Dept. Store employees on strike.
Exterior view of Dollar Savings Bank at 2516 Grand Concourse. The smaller building was built in 1932 and the taller building (addition)was built in 1951 to handle executive, administrative and mortgage functions. The architects were Halsey,...
Drawings done by children served by the bank's School Savings Dept. The bank has over 78,000 accounts for public and parochial school students in 121 schools.
The building on the left is Shuster Hall on the Bronx campus of Hunter College (now Lehman College, CUNY). Opened in 1957, Shuster Hall was constructed for $3,000,000 and housed the School of General Studies that began offering evening classes in...
Interior view of the Fire Alarm Control building where fire alarms are received by telephone and checked for location so that the proper companies can respond to the emergency.
A 'Heroes Honor Roll' for Korean War servicemen from the Bronx is shown at Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse. This honor roll calls attention to the U.S. Treasury Dept.'s defense bond drive. The plaque was donated as a public service by Gerosa...
Shown at the Parkchester Office of the bank are award winning wire work models created by the Boy Scouts of Bronx District 7, sponsored by St. Raymond's Church.
Hospitals; Fire Insurance; Events; Police Dept.; Military Training
Describes needs of Fordham Hospital, reduced fire insurance rates, an orphans outing at Clason Point, police activities along Third Ave, armory military lectures and a training camp at For Schuyler. In--Minutes of Directors Meetings, Vol. 5, pp....
Training Ship St. Mary's, New York Nautical School, SUNY Maritime College
Training Ship ""St. Mary's"" 7 copies in varying sizes. Official photograph Board of Education - City of New York Caption on bottom ""Former School Ship, St. Mary's (Loaned to the Board of Education by the Navy Dept., U.S.A.) One postcard ""U.S....
Fessenden, William Pitt,1806-1869; Adams, John C.; Allen, Charles, 1827-1913; Allen, James; Appleton, John; Bradbury, J. W.; Burbank, David; Chamberlain, J. E.; Chandler, Peleg W. (Peleg Whitman), 1816-1889; Cobb, Sylvanus, 1823-1887; Coe, George...
Correspondence of William Pitt Fesssenden, and his sons Francis Fessenden and James Deering Fessenden. The majority of letters are addressed to William Pitt Fessenden on financial and political matters, but a few are private; several letters are...
