Jan 18, 1920.
My dear Percy Sickney Grant:
We are all watching with keen interest the swirl of events connected with free speech, and the swirl has especial interest for we since you are involved in it. I am aware of your brave and honorable words;...
Universities & colleges; Public speaking; College administrators;
Untitled typewritten text dated May 7, 1946. Draft of speech about peace in the post World War II world, to be given by President Paul Kapper, Queens College Accession #2001-01. The speech calls for a lasting will to peace, genuine and sustained,...
UPTON SINCLAIR
PASADENA
CALIFORNIA
Dear Friend :
I wish to inform the readers of "Upton Sinclair's" concerning "Jimmie Higgins".
Last spring it appeared that the war was going to last a long time, 'and that "Jimmie Higgins" would have to stand...
First American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace
Received at 1554 Richmond Terrace
West New Brighton, S.I., N.Y.
B5 NY AD
SD New York NY 7
May 8, 1917
Mr Edwin Markham
West New Brighton NY
Strong group representing labor socialism peace religion politics plans first American Conference for...
Universities and Colleges--New York (State)--New York--Anniversaries, etc; Bookstores; Music education; Architectural decorations & ornaments; Shrubs; Tiles; Awnings; Buildings;
Transparency of a photograph of "F" Building, the early home of the College's Music Department and the Bookstore. It is no longer extant, standing where Kiely Hall was erected in 1968. "Down the hill were the smaller buildings for music, speech,...
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF AUTUMN CONFERENCE OF THE INTERCOLLEGIATE SOCIALIST SOCIETY to be held at BELLPORT, LONG ISLAND September 18-24, 1917.
Dear friend:
You are cordially invited to attend the Autumn Conference of the Intercollegiate...
C/o Psychology Publishing Company
17 West 60th Street.
New York City.
June 15, 1926
Dear Mr. Markham,
A new monthly magazine is about to be born. Henry Knight Miller and Arthur H. Howland are behind it, and I am helping them to get it out. It is...
Four-page letter dated September 17, 1854, from D. McF. [Daniel McFarland] in Sauk City [Wisconsin] to Lysander Spooner [probably in Boston, Massachusetts], describing his circumstances in Wisconsin, and his plans to move further West.
Disasters; Fire; Barrels; Coats of arms; Flags; Hills; Logs; Reflections; Ropes; Ship equipment & rigging; Smoke; Smokestacks; Wreaths; People; Passengers; Black & white postcards; Rowboats; Ships; Steamboats; Panoramic views; Harbors;
The maritime scene at the Hoboken pier fire of 1900. In this disaster, notorious in its day, the piers of the North German Lloyd [Norddeutscher Lloyd] line in Hoboken caught fire, with the flames quickly passing to four vessels of the line; the...
Clippings; Democratic Party (Kings County, N.Y.); Johnston, John B., 1882-1960.; Walker, James John, 1881-1946
Newspaper article about a visit by New York Mayor Jimmy Walker to Staten Island. During his speech, he praised John B. Johnston and remarked "how jealous I am of you that you can vote for him and I cannot."
