Life in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s with efforts to investigate numerous questions such as: “What is the Negro’s attitude toward his white employer..... Read More about New World A-Coming. Inside Black America
Unrecorded 1896 program for New York’s Seventh Regiment’s annual annual athletic games competition held at the regiment’s Park Avenue armory. The illustrated program comprises a...... Read More about 1881–1896. Seventh Regiment. Thirtieth Games. At the Armory, Sixty-Sixth Street and Park...
Advertising handbill touting the quality and health benefits of roasted coffees from the Union Coffee Co. of New York. The Coffee roasted by the PATENT..... Read More about Delicious Coffee. The Patent New Process ... The Old Way of Roasting… Try Union Coffees…
Humorous, fun-spirited program for the First Annual Gymkhana or field day held by the Ninth Company (Company “I”) of New York’s Seventh Regiment, a National..... Read More about First Annual Gymkhana of the Veterans and Actives of the Ninth Company Seventh Regiment, N.G.N.Y....
Manuscript fair copy of the detective story “Pearls and Canes” by mystery writer William F. Vassall. Set in New York City, the short story recounts..... Read More about Manuscript of William F. Vassall’s 1916 New York City Mystery “Pearls and Canes,” published...
Original editorial cartoon drawing depicting the Tammany Tiger of New York City’s Democratic Party political machine. The political cartoon is signed at the lower left..... Read More about Original 1897 Tammany Tiger Political Cartoon by F.K. Houston
Delightful letter by a pre-teen boy recounting the fun he is having on a trip via New York City to visit his cousins in Connecticut..... Read More about Humorous 1907 ALS from a Boy (i.e., “Canis Aureus” a.k.a. “The Kid”) to His Parents
Autograph letter signed by author, abolitionist, and newspaper editor Theodore Dwight (1796–1866) seeking the recommendation of a clergyman for his Dwight’s American Magazine and Family..... Read More about 1849 Autograph Letter Signed by Theodore Dwight seeking recommendations for his Dwight’s...
A useful and packed album providing fine insight into the life of the German-American homeopathic physician Martin Deschere (1848–1902) of New York City. Deschere’s widow..... Read More about In Memoriam, Martin Deschere, July 21, 1902 [cover title of a manuscript memorial album for a New...
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World War I poems by English poet Alfred Noyes, finely printed and bound, published by the Book Committee of the Art War Relief in New..... Read More about The Avenue of the Allies and Victory [Zelia Hoffman; her copy
Three large format photographs depicting the interior showroom and a trade show booth of New York scientific and technology publisher Spon & Chamberlain. The two..... Read More about C.1900s Three Original Photographs of Interior of New York Scientific and Engineering Publisher...
Just before April 12, 1884, Joseph Agate, a slightly built elderly man, bought an eighteen dollar Smith and Wesson revolver. Using an assumed name, Agate..... Read More about J. Agate, Formerly of Parsells & Agate, Gentlemen’s Outfitting Establishment and...
Illustrated programme at the New York City Broadway Theatre 1892, an early artifact of the still-extant Actors’ Fund Benefit. The evening’s performance is thoroughly detailed..... Read More about Photographic Souvenir Programme of the Actors’ Fund Benefit at the Broadway Theatre. January...
