March 23, 1912
Hillquit-Untermyer Debate
Resolved: That Socialism is the only solution of the trust problem.
Carnegie Hall, Saturday evening, April 27, 1912,
Morris Hillquit and Samuel Untermyer will debate in Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening,...
25 Willow Place,
Yonkers, N.Y.
Jany. 28 – 1911
My dear Mr. Markham:
To solve my ever-pressing bread and butter problem, I have contracted for a long series of lectures extending over the next two years. The manager of the Bureau is anxious to...
West New Brighton, N.Y., Aug. 7, 1932.
My dear Mary Steward:
At last, after many adventures in the world of affairs, I have reached your welcome letter of April 23rd. I am glad that you included your reply to my poem The Man with the Hoe. I never...
2 Holworthy Hall,
Cambridge, Mass.
May 7, 1912
My Dear Mr. Markham:-
I am writing without shame to ask a very great favor of you. Our Socialist club at Harvard is planning to have its annual dinner on or about Tuesday, May 21, and we are very...
11 Cambridge Parade
Twickenham, April 26th 1910
Dear Mr. Markham,
As I am not in the mood for writing my next New Age article, I shall now send you a line, having, this morning received your letter of the 19th night. I am glad you sent me that...
[top left corner of page] Had you not better give me the number of your P.O. Box
Austin, Texas.
April 29, 1894
My Dear Friend.
I take pleasure in forwarding a package of papers containing “The Rule of Gold”. The last sermon previously...
New York World article describes the problem on some of Brooklyn's downtown streets with "horses that are stabled till morning and vehicles standing on the street just opposite the stables."
Hospitals; Nursing School; Streets and Avenues; Stadiums; Recreation; Baseball; Football; Incinerators; Garbage Disposal; South Bronx
Notes the selling of Lincoln Hospital to New York City and plans for a nursing school; Grand Concourse traverse road; Yankee Stadium expanded seating; the problem of refuse and the need for incinerators, land dumps and a plan for garbage...
Schools; Parking; Peddling; Sex Offenders; Steel Shortage; Libraries
Minutes reflect issues of concern--school prayer, double parking, itinerant street peddling, allocation of steel for West Farms library construction; and the need for legislation to address the problem of sex offenders. In--Minutes of Directors...
Voting on subway fare increases; problem of getting bids for the Cross Bronx Expressway due to uncertain labor and materials; proposal on connecting the Deegan Expressway to Jerome Ave.; and state and city-aided housing projects. In--Minutes of...
Sailors' Snug Harbor photographs, SUNY Maritime College, Staten Island, New York.
The article ""Grass-Cutting No Problem"" by David Eisen published in an unknown newspaper is about Sailors Snug Harbor using farm animals to cut the grass on their property instead of using manpower. Photo of the animals grazing the grass included.
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; National Federation of Catholic College Students (U.S.); Social action
Discussion topics for February 14, 1954 Interracial Club Smoker
including:
"1. What social contacts have you had outside of college with people of other races and nationalities?
2. In what fields did these contacts lie?
3. Has your family...
Five-page letter dated August 20, 1866, from A. P. Aldrich in Barnwell, South Carolina, to Lysander Spooner [of Boston, Massachusetts] regarding the economic hardships faced by the South during the reconstruction era.
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...
