A four story retail and residential building which was the future site of Gimbels Department store. Signage indicating that the storefront is occupied by a business named "McDonald's". On the roof is a billboard partially illegible which reads...
Four-page letter from Jno. [John] A. Thomson in Summit Point, West Virginia, to Lysander Spooner dated September 30, 1871, thanking him for obtaining the assistance of [Arthur W. Austin] and discussing topics of slavery and monetary systems.
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; Dammann, Grace Cowardin, 1872-1945; Discrimination in education; Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; Social action
Anonymous letter sent to alumni and friends of the Sacred Heart Academy and Manhattanville College in opposition to the admission of an African American student:
"Has it come to your attention that Manhattanville College has accepted a colored...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Athol; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated December 26, 1845, from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston [Massachusetts], expressing desire to distribute his book [The Unconstitutionality of Slavery] to members of the United States...
Asks the rebel soldier why he is fighting? To help the landowner starve the farmer, to help the capitalist kill those with tuberculosis and cloth their children with the dead's clothes? The Loyalists will succeed; they want the best for Spain's...
Currency question--United States; Free banking--United States
Four-page letter from Jno. [John] A. Thomson in Summit Point, West Virginia, to Lysander Spooner dated December 17, 1877, discussing the topic of monetary systems.
Manuscript copy of a two-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to John A. Thomson dated March 15, 1871, thanking him for the loan of a book.
Antislavery movements--United States; American Abolition Society; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Eight-page letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated September 10, 1857, in which he encourages Smith to put forward a motion at the American Abolition Society annual meeting in Syracuse to purchase...
Eight-page letter from Westport, Missouri, regarding the Constitutional Convention for the future State of Kansas, in which two constitutions, one 'with slavery' and one 'without slavery', were under consideration. Includes accusations of political...
Four-page letter dated February 28, 1854, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Cleveland [Ohio] to [Lysander] Spooner, disucssing the future of abolitionist paper the "Commonwealth" as well as news on several of their acquaintances.