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...
Bronze statue of Minerva and the Bell Ringers that is part of the James Gordon Bennett Memorial in Herald Square. The statue was sculpted by Antonin Jean Carles and was once part of the New York Herald Building.
Commemorative plaque with the inscription: Here the motion picture began on the night of April 23, 1896 on this site in Koster & Bial’s Music Hall Thomas A. Edison with the Vitascope first projected a moving picture.
This building once housed Oppenheim Collins and Company. Founded in 1871 by Albert D. and Charles J. Oppenheim, Oppenheim Collins was originally a New York City skirt manufacturer, later branching into department stores catering to women. The first...
