Close-up view of a hydraulic dredge working on the Barge Canal near Phoenix, N.Y. Rugged embankments in background. Handwritten title in blank space on bottom of card. Blank space appears to be shaded in by sender.
Insurance; Insurance companies; Insurance agents; United States--New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn
Text, Capital $600,000 charter perpetual. Cash assets, Jan. 1, 1867,$1,103,476,85."J.A.S. Simonson, Ag't. Verso side: Text,"Assets of the "Phoenix, Jan. 1, 1867. Cash on hand in agent's hands,$178,895.93. United States Securities, 142,860.00.."
Universities and Colleges--New York (State)--New York--Anniversaries, etc.;
A history of student newspapers at Queens College (including The Crown, Rampart, Phoenix, Newsbeat, Ha'Or, the Globe, and the Quad), various undergraduate and faculty literary magazines, and the hugely successful Evening Readings (launched in...
In center foreground, approaching tugboat "City of Fulton" has been lowered and lock opened in canal dividing town; a group of pedestrians, carts, goods and refined brick buildings seen on right side while wood-framed factory building and...
Diagonal view across wide river, crossed in distance by multiple steel-arched railroad bridge on stone piers. Settlement and factory with sign "Oswego River Paper Mill" visible on opposite shore. Segments of floating dock seen in forground lashed...
Ship manifest of "negroes, mulattoes, and persons of color taken on" the Steam Boat Phoenix [i.e., Phenix?] of Alexandria from the port of Alexandria [Virginia] to Washington. Includes names of ship's Master James Gay, Jr., shipper Joseph Bruin,...
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...
Black-bordered photograph of canal section and lock parallel to river in small industrial area, leafless trees. Written message in blank space at bottom of card (Mary look for a letter Thursday [indiscernible] Hope you are better Jack).
Advertising--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; Billboards--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; Signs and signboards--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; Streets--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works; New York...
