Eighth Avenue Traffic Halted - New York - Alert-curious office workers, peering down from buildings at Eighth Avenue and 34th Street saw traffic halted in orderly fashion by helmeted policemen and civilian defense officers. At 2:55 the practice...
Air warfare; Bombardment; Politicians; Longshoremen; Longshoremen's unions; Flags; War casualties; Nobel prizes;
Bill writes to Marjorie telling her that his plans to leave Spain have changed since losing his passport in an air raid. The train carrying documents and books was hit by a bomb so the soldiers must submit new applications to Washington. He...
Animal teams; People; Color postcards; Carts & wagons; Close-up views;
A close-up view of animal teams hauling baskets of salt in the Salt Fields in Syracuse, N.Y.; horses are lined up in a row waiting to be led by the workers [front]
This Sepia picture postcard of the Dewitt Clinton shows nine male dredge workers both on the vessel and in the surrounding waters. On the dredge there are nineteen windows and six doorways. There is a large spotlight over the pilot house. In the...
Booms; Canal construction; Dredges; Grasses; Hills; Hats; Pipes(conduits); Smoke; Smokestacks; Rural; Canal construction workers; Men; Black & white postcards; Close-up views; Canals;
Front caption [in black plain font] reads: "Barge Canal Dredge at Work Near Seneca River." [bottom of card]. Blank space around edges of card. Picture outlined in black. Seen on this black & white picture postcard is the barge Canal suction dredge...
This sepia postcard features construction of a new lock on the barge canal in Baldwinsville, N.Y. Locks are devices that raise and lower boats between stretches of water to accommodate for elevation increases. The right side of the postcard...
Tinted photograph shows aerial view of construction in progress on the Barge Canal at Fort Ann, N. Y. A bridge spans the canal and a number of shabby buildings are on the left bank. Four people [presumably canal workers] are visible on the left...
June 1, 1895
Prof. C. E. Markham,
Dimond, Alameda Co. Cal.
My dear Friend Markham:-
I write to ask you for a service—not for myself as an individual, but only for myself as a witness for a divine order of things than that in which we live. I find...
Black & white postcard of a dry dock with small boats in the Mohawk River, workers working on a canal barge on the dock. Large building with chimneys and smaller outbuildings in the background.
