![1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag]. 1939–1940 New York World's Fair](/pictures/thumb/3724983_1.jpg?v=1534362296)
An early prototype? Large flag —almost four feet by six feet in dimensions— from the 1939–1940 New York Wold’s Fair, displaying the fair’s iconic modernist..... Read More about 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag
Dime novel for boys set amidst the hustling world of Wall Street investors, confidence “tricksters,” and New York City detectives. Does the stock broker have..... Read More about The Bradys and the Broker’s Double; or, Trapping a Wall Street Trickster
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...
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...
Reviews from the jacket: “...an excellent job of not only telling what happened, but even more important, why things happened as they did…Race Riot presents..... Read More about Race Riot
Rare Jazz Age photoplay based on this 1927 Paramount Studios film, written by Barbara Chambers and Becky Gardiner. Gardiner scripted the 1926 film The Great..... Read More about New York. A Story of the Titan City, Adventure, Heart-Throbs and Romance. [Jazz Age Romance...
Curious, rare, unrecorded. A cook book/shopping directory hybrid aimed at college women in the Boston–New York corridor. The cooking recipes, mostly for candies and desserts..... Read More about College Shopper and Smacker. Spring–1926
Humorous group of 12 illustrated comic trade cards advertising the 1880 Fall Styles of Brooklyn, New York boot and shoe merchant, Joseph J. Byers. The..... Read More about Twelve Brooklyn, New York Comic or Ethnically-Themed Trade Cards, 1880s
1825 letter by Charles King, then editor of the New York American and later president of Columbia College (Columbia University), here writing to U.S. Consul..... Read More about 1825 Autograph Letter Signed by Charles King, later Ninth President of Columbia University, here...
Pair of New York Central Park advertising circulars promoting the now iconic horse-drawn Central Park Carriage Service. For a fee of 25¢, park visitors were..... Read More about City of New York Department of Public Parks. Central Park. Central Park Carriage Service,...
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
History of missionary outreach to Native Americans and African Americans by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in colonial New..... Read More about Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial New York
Guide book to the 1939 New York World’s Fair transportation exhibit Futurama, sponsored by General Motors. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, the exhibit and ride..... Read More about Futurama
Rare title ostensibly offering travelers’ advice on visiting and organized coach itineraries of New York City, but whose main purpose was to promote performances of..... Read More about New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown
Published by antiquary and bookseller William Gowans, an 1862 edition of this late 17th century description of New York City and New York Province and..... Read More about A Description of the Province and City of New York; with Plans of the City and Several Forts as...
“The wounds are scarcely healed which were acquired in the establishment of our liberties ... It shall never be said that the YOUTH OF AMERICA..... Read More about An Oration, delivered on the Fourth of July, 1798, at St. Paul’s Church, before the Young Men...
New York City wool broker’s circulars issued by Kitching Brothers reporting on ship arrivals in New York and Boston; the import and export of clothing..... Read More about Six New York 1872 Wool Brokers’ Circulars issued by Kitching Brothers; Statistical Data for...
Memorial or mourning album commemorating the life and death of German-American homeopathic physician Martin Deschere (1848–1902) of New York City. The album includes tributes and..... Read More about In Memoriam, Martin Deschere, July 21, 1902 [cover title of a manuscript memorial album for a New...
Civil rights reformer, Mary White Ovington, caucasian, was a founder of the N.A.A.C.P. “Ovington began in 1904 a study of black Manhattan. Focusing particularly on..... Read More about Half a Man. The Status of the Negro in New York
Recipes and menu suggestions from the Woman’s Exchange Restaurant, founded in New York City in 1919. The restaurant was an outgrowth of the Woman’s Exchange..... Read More about Dining for Moderns with Menus and Recipes—The Why and When of Wining
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....
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
![1898, Spanish-American War broadside:] (No. 6243.) Postal Money Orders Drawn in favor or...](/pictures/thumb/3726873.jpg?v=1579738475)
U.S. Post Office announcement by First Assistant Postmaster General Preston S. Sanford concerning the transmission of funds via postal money orders to American soldiers and..... Read More about 1898, Spanish-American War broadside:] (No. 6243.) Postal Money Orders Drawn in favor or...
![Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy]....](/pictures/thumb/3727385_1.jpg?v=1538433154)
Signed by the author, his first book. This copy owned by a Freedom Summer volunteer and Civil Rights protestor. Story of a young Puerto Rican..... Read More about Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy
![Seven Long Times. [Inscribed and Signed]. Piri Thomas](/pictures/thumb/3727398_1.jpg?v=1580939225)
Inscribed to Philadelphia Black American Edie Huggins, one of the earliest female television reporters, if not the first, to break the color line in Philadelphia..... Read More about Seven Long Times. [Inscribed and Signed
