Commemorative plaque with the inscription: Here the motion picture began on the night of April 23, 1896 on this site in Koster & Bial’s Music Hall Thomas A. Edison with the Vitascope first projected a moving picture.
Photograph of the 6th Avenue El, Actors Fund Fair booth, theater posters, Saks 34th St. Store, Shepard's Motion Pictures theater, and a row house demolition along 33rd Street are depicted.
Antislavery movements--United States; American Abolition Society; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Eight-page letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated September 10, 1857, in which he encourages Smith to put forward a motion at the American Abolition Society annual meeting in Syracuse to purchase...