Front caption [in decorative typefont] reads: "HUDSON RIVER Celebration 1809 1909" [top of card]; "Robert Fulton Builder of The Clermont" [bottom of card]. An embossed, large centered portrait of Robert Fulton in 19th century fashion is...
Clouds; Flags; Reflections; Ropes; Smoke; Smokestacks; Passengers; People; Color postcards; Sailboats; Sailing ships; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Rivers;
Front caption [in decorative typeface] reads: ". HUDSON . RIVER . Celebration 1809 1909" [top of card]; ' "The Clermont" Fulton's Steamboat' [bottom of card]. Centennial celebration of Robert Fulton's Steamboat "The Clermont" sailing the Hudson...
Caption on original reads: "HUDSON RIVER Celebration 1609 1909 [top of card]; "Hendrik Hudson Commander of the Half Moon" [bottom of card]. Printing information: card number 2089-1 preceded by a half moon mark [indicated on front side only]....
Flags; Reflections; People; Color Postcards; Canoes; Sailing Ships; Rivers
Front caption [in decorative typefont] reads: "HUDSON RIVER Celebration 1609 1909" [top of card]; "Hudson's Yacht The Half Moon" [bottom of card]. A painterly rendition of The Half Moon, anchored in the Hudson River, being approached by a canoe. ...
Slave trade--Saint Kitts and Nevis; Slave trade--Rhode Island--Newport
Letter from Walter Pringle of St. Christopher's [Saint Kitts] to William and Samuel Vernon of Newport, Rhode Island. Preceded by manuscript copy of letter dated May 10, 1751, signed by Capt. Newton.
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
New-York African Free-School; American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc.; African Americans--Education--New York...
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was...
