Sailors' Snug Harbor, Merchant Seamen, Institutional Care, Staten Island, New York City, Photographs
Robert W. Tebbs, architectural photographer known for his photos of New Orleans plantations in the 1920's, shot this photograph of the Sailors' Snug Harbor grounds in Staten Island, New York.
Rockland Lake; Swartwout Lake; New Lake; Congers; North Nyack; Verdrietege Hook; West Shore Railroad; Hackensack River; Hudson River; Ossining; Town of Ossining; Town of Mount Pleasant; Sing Sing Yacht Club; State Prison Grounds; Buckhouts;...
Section 8; Portion of Rockland County; Portion of Westchester County
Town of Coxsackie; Town of Athens; West Athens; Black Lake; Green's Lake; Athens; Town of Catskill; Leeds; Hamburgh; Jefferson Flats; Hudson River; Stockport Creek; Stottville; Claverack Creek; Town of Greenport; Town of Claverack; Claverack;...
A two-page map with color; Section 27; Portion of Greene County, Portion of Columbia County, Scale 1200 feet to the inch
Town of Coxsackie; West Coxsackie; Coxsackie Island; Budds Island; Hudson River; Town of Athens; Stockport; Town of Stockport; Stockport Creek; Kinderhook Creek; Town of Stuyvesant; Kinderhook; Districts; New York Central and Hudson River...
A two-page map with color; Section 28; Portion of Greene County; Portion of Columbia County; Scale 1200 feet to the inch
Constitutional law--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Four-page letter dated January 19, 1846, from Lysander Spooner Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston [Massachusetts], asking Bardburn to solicit prominent names to sign a petition and then have the petition presented to the United...
Two-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Hartford [Connecticut] to Gerrit Smith dated October 11, 1860, reporting on a visit to New York [City] and progress on Smith's libel suit.
Signed petition addressed the the Mayor and Alderman [of Boston, Massachusetts] to deny a particular group the use of Faneuil Hall on the grounds that "the meeting to be of such an exciting character as to endanger the peace of the City." The...
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
Riverdale Children's Association; Colored Orphan Asylum (New York, N.Y.); Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans (New York, N.Y.); Charities--New York (State)--New York; Children, Black--New York (State)--New York; African American...
The records of the Colored Orphan Asylum document the activities of the institution from 1836 to 1972, with the bulk of the records falling between 1850 and 1936. The records include minutes of general meetings, the Executive Committee, the...
