Opened in 1880, the 2nd Avenue elevated ("El") train had a stop at 34th Street. There are people walking on the sidewalks and crossing between the train lines. Carts are parked along the curbs and under the elevated tracks.
Prof. Edwin Markham
Oakland, California
Dear Sir:
Permit me to thank you from the depths of a grateful heart for the brave and awe-inspiring sentiments contained in your poem, “The Man With the Hoe.” It is like nothing else that has even been...
View of two sides of the Park Avenue Hotel exterior from the corner of Park Avenue and 33rd Street. In the foreground are horses and carriages as well as dogs and people walking on the sidewalks. The hotel no longer exists.
The caption reads: "The Casino and Abbey's Theatre, Broadway Thirty-sixth to Thirty-eighth Street." The Casino Theatre was built by Kimball & Wisedell for producer Rudolph Aronson. Managed by Canary & Lederer (1894-1903) the Shuberts acquired the...
The old D. & H. Canal looking west beyond a road crossing where a women and a younger girl sit along the railings and to the right a man stands in the back of an early 20th century convertible automobile. The road crossing connects travelers from...
Post office buildings--New York (State)--New York.
Caption reads: "New Post Office Building situated between 31st and 33d Streets. This handsome building was completed in 1913 at the cost of $6,200,000. It faces the Pennsylvania Terminal and is built over the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad....
Caption reads: "Pennsylvania Hotel. One of the world's largest hotels, the finest of the chain of Statler Hotels. A popular meeting place for New Yorkers. Has 2200 rooms." Facing the hotel in the foreground is the old Pennsylvania Station...
Nov. 28th., 1911
Mr. Edwin Markham
West New Brighton, N.Y.
My Dear Comrade Markham:-
I received your marked page of the “American” and your Swedenborgian leaflet, in your own good right hand, and I am thanking you warmly for your kind...
241 Tremont St., Boston
June 20/96.
Mr. C. E. Markham.
Dear Sir,
Pray pardon delay in attending to your letter. It was owing to a process of rearrangement and moving of our tracts which made some of them inaccessible. Even now we can find no...
Mahlon Day (1790-1854) was a Quaker, publisher of children's books, printer, and bookseller in New York City. This is a contemporary copy of a diary kept by Day while on a tour of the West Indies (Nov. 1839-Apr. 1840) in the company of Joseph John...
Fair. Adhesive residue on spine, pages delicate where formerly glued together by adhesive. Rebound in acid-free sleeve. Full measurements: 19.6 cm (H) x 11.7 cm (W).
Good. Catalogue has been washed and deacidified. Broken binding repaired and rebound in acid-free sleeve. Full measurements: 19.7 cm (H) x 12.9 cm (W).
Fair. Photostat copy of original catalogue. Markings on spine of [Page 1] suggest front cover is missing. Rebound in acid-free sleeve. Full measurements: 27.3 cm (H) x 17.3 cm (W).
