Five children enjoy a canoe ride in the backyard of a house at 2235 Creston Avenue near 182 Street. Meanwhile, a boy in the water looks on while his friend (Bronx Democratic leader Charles Buckley) watches from shore with his dog nearby.
Children cool off on a hot day in Melrose with a fire hydrant shower. Other children, coming out of the adjacent playground, take in the scene. They notice that the child in a wheel chair is catching the water spray, too, judging from the wet...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Athol; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated December 26, 1845, from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston [Massachusetts], expressing desire to distribute his book [The Unconstitutionality of Slavery] to members of the United States...
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...
Copy of typed letter written by Juliana Force to Cecil Howard, dated January 11, 1930. Regarding Gerard Cochet's exhibition, a statement of sales, and a check for $618.75, to be passed on to Cochet.
Copy of a letter written by H. H. M. for Whitney Studio Galleries to Harry Gottlieb, dated March 22, 1929. An account of which works of art Whitney Studio Galleries is keeping, which are being sent to Cincinnati Art Museum for the summer...
List of art works shipped by Ward Lockwood to Whitney Studio Galleries, no date. Handwritten on The Kansas City Club letterhead. Three (3) pages total. Lists consist of oil paintings, watercolors, and lithographs. See also: J. Ward Lockwood to Mrs....
Art, American--20th century--Inventories; Art--Prices; Whitney Studio Galleries--Paperwork (Office practice);
Inventory record of Paul Rohland's art works written by Whitney Studio Galleries, n.d. Additional handwritten notes. On page 2, five (5) additional watercolor titles, prices and dimensions are included in Folio. The monotypes by Rohland and...
