La Primola,
5 Via Benedetto da Maiano,
S. Domenico di Fiesole,
Florence, Italy.
September 2, 1912.
Prof. Jno Ward Stimson,
“The Uplands”,
Redding, Connecticut.
Dear Friend:-
I cannot tell you how sorry we were not to have come to you in...
Flags; Mountains; People; Portraits; Ship equipment & rigging; Smoke; Steam engines; Color postcards; Sailboats; Side wheelers; Steamboats; Rivers;
Unidentified artist's portrayal of the steamboat "Clermont's" historic trip via the Hudson river to Albany August 17 - August 19, 1808. The name Clermont is indicated on the bow with oval inset portrait of Robert Fulton at the side of the card. ...
The Church of the Messiah, Park Avenue and 34th Street. Dedicated 1868. Railroad extends north to 42nd Street, 1890. The residence on the left is the site of the Vanderbilt Hotel.
Shows the Murray Hill Tunnel, later called the Park Avenue Tunnel, with Fourth Avenue Horse Car Line "Harlem via Madison Av." with The Church of the Messiah in background.
Slave trade--Jamaica--Montego Bay; Merchant ships--United States
Manuscript copy of letter from Francis Mairez and David Cooper of Montego Bay, Jamaica, [to Samuel and William Vernon], sent via Captain George Sweet on the Brig Othello, regarding profits from slaves sold on the Vernon's behalf and other trade...
Four-page letter from J. M. M'Kim to S. H. Gay detailing the escape of slave [Henry 'Box' Brown] from Richmond [Virginia] to Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] via overland express in a box. M'Kim requests that Gay refrain from publishing the story, and...
Dayton, Charles W. (Charles Willoughby), 1846-1910; New York (State). Supreme Court; Metropolitan Fair (1864 :New York, N.Y.); Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863; Elections--United States--1864.; New York (N.Y.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; New...
The Charles Willoughby Dayton papers include diaries, composition books, speeches, miscellaneous writings, published materials, ephemera and photographs. Of the four volumes in the collection, two are composition books dated 1858 and 1862,...
