New York City: July 1964. Photograph measuring 7 ½ x 10 inches. Editorial overpainting and caption recto; stamps and newspaper clipping verso. A photograph of, left to right: March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin; NAACP Director of Counsel Jack Greenberg; Whitney Young, Jr., of the National Urban League; James Farmer.....
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New York City: c. 1938. Handbill measuring 5 ¾ x 9 inches. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was established in 1933 (replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration) to provide paid employment and other aid to unemployed people during the Great Depression. In 1937, the WPA laid off half.....
New York City: Unlimited Creative Enterprises Inc., 1990. 136pp booklet measuring 7 x 10 ½ inches. A directory of Black-owned businesses in New York City, published with an eye to improving the economic standing of Black people in the city—in the words of the publication’s owner, Celeste Morris, to “commit[...].....
New York City: George Fenmore Associates, 1973. Sixteen page booklet measuring 9 x 12 inches. The Negro Ensemble Company was opened in 1967 by actor and playwright Douglas Turner Ward, actor and producer Robert Hooks, and producer Gerald Krone, with a grant from the Ford Foundation. It provided free theater.....
France: 1910. Three letters totaling twenty-two pages, 5 x 8 inches and smaller. Folded; some with large tears at folds though entirely legible. Frederick MacMonnies (1863–1937) was an American expatriate sculptor and painter, known in the US for works including Nathan Hale and Bacchante and Infant Faun. In 1907, New.....
The Bronx, New York: c. 1937–1945. Approximately 120 drawings with one short school essay and one photograph, captioned verso. Drawings generally measuring 9 x 12 inches. Conditions vary; drawings generally fairly delicate with damage to margins. A collection of artworks produced by Joan Meredith Legg (1931–2012) and her future husband.....
Sterling, Pennsylvania: Brown Brothers, 1912. Five photographs; four measuring 8 x 10 inches and one 5 x 8 inches. Most with manuscript captions verso. Five photographs depicting Chinese farmworkers in New York around 1912. In the late 19th century, many Chinese people, facing increasing anti-Chinese hostility, left the west coast.....
Queens, New York: 1982. 6 x 8 ½ inch flyer. Flyer for the “Great M.C. Showdown” at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, New York, hosted by Mr. Sweety-G. According to his personal website, Mr. Sweety-G—aka Glenn Toby—was working with some of the biggest hip hop artists of the.....
New York City: 1968. 20 x 28 inches. Folded with some tears at folds, slightly wrinkled; inscribed “Sam – / You must come! / Send money / Lou Dorfsman”. An invitation to the “Recooperation Baths”, which seems to be an annual get-together for Cooper Union alumni. Cooper Union was founded.....
New York City and Sterling, Pennsylvania: Brown Brothers, c. 1895–1912. Thirty-nine photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches and smaller. With Brown Brothers stamps verso and many with manuscript captions verso. Thirty-nine photographs, mainly of Ellis Island, with one from Partridge Island, Saint John, New Brunswick. The photographs include exterior shots.....
Cobh, Ireland; New York City, Jersey City, Pennsylvania, and Niagara Falls: 1886. Single photo album of thirty-two 9 ½ x 11 inch pages, with twenty-nine photographs and four hand-drawn illustrations. Photographs range from 4 ¼ x 7 inch to 7 x 9 inch. Offered here is an album of photographs.....
United States and England: 1968–1969. 453 letters with twenty pieces of other material. Of the letters to WBAI: Fourteen letters from 1968; 245 from January 1969; sixty-four from February 1969; five from March and April 1969; eighty-six undated. With thirty-nine sent to the FCC (these are copies sent to WBAI).....
New York and (likely) Connecticut: 1795–1809. Three letters (1795, 1795, and 1809) totalling approximately eleven pages; the larger two letters measuring approximately 7 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches and the smaller (1809) approximately 7 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. 1809 letter Near Fine; earlier letters having some damage especially at.....
New York City: 1795–1836. Twelve documents totaling fourteen pages. See description for full inventory. Cary Ludlow (1736–1814) was a lawyer and merchant from the prominent New York City Ludlow family. In 1768, Ludlow had bought a property at 9 State Street, on the Battery, with plans to build a mansion.....
New York City: J. & A. M’Lean, June 1789. Four pages measuring 12 ¼ x 9 ½ inches. The New-York Daily Gazette was a newspaper published by J. and A. M’Lean, publishers best known for being the first to publish the collected Federalist papers in 1788. Of special interest in.....
George J. Nostrand; Winkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1928 and 1908. Map measuring 20 x 29 inches; trifold measuring 8 ½ x 12 inches. Map folded with some small tears at folds, slightly wrinkled, pencil markings verso; very attractive. Offered here is a large, attractive bird’s-eye view map of New York.....
New York City: March 1854. Single one-page letter measuring 8 x 12 ½ inches. A letter from “C. Riddle” with the New York City Inspector’s Department to “Sant. Mairs Esq” concerning the best way to push through their choice of appointee for the Collector of the Port of New York.....
New York City: 1874–1882. Five record books: May–Oct. 1874, 46pp, 8 x 12 ½ inches (appx. 13,000 words); Nov. 1874–Apr. 1875, 48pp, 7 ½ x 11 ¾ inches (appx. 10,000 words); Dec. 1875–Jun. 1876, 24pp, 7 ½ x 11 ¾ inches (appx. 7,000 words); Sept. 1880–Apr. 1881, 55pp, 8 x......
New York: 1937-1940. Watercolors on paper affixed to later illustration board, 14 x 26 inches each. An attractive set of images from the Robert Moses era in an unknown hand. The images show proposed intersections including two that were never built. The images include "Proposed Parkway Passing over Entrance to.....
New York: Geo. P. Hall and Sons, 1900. Mammoth silver print measuring 16 ¼ x 13 ½ in. (sight), matted to 24 x 20 ¼ inches. A scarce view of the South Street docks in lower Manhattan c. 1900, showing the Fulton Street Ferry. The Fulton Street Ferry connected Manhattan’s.....
New York: 1925. A large-scale rendering of the plans for the Greenpoint Avenue bridge over Newtown Creek. The bridge connected Greenpoint to the Blissville neighborhood in Queens. The bridge is the sixth in this location.
New York City: 1972. 15 ½ x 22 ½ inches. Nanette Dembitz (1913–1989) graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan, then attended Columbia Law School where she edited the Columbia Law Review, graduating in 1938. She was unable to find work in private practice because of her gender; as.....
United States: 1960s–1980s. Approximately 170 pieces; see below for full inventory. An archive of material belonging to Rosemary Gaffney (?–2024). Gaffney lived in the New York City area with her partner, Joyce Vinson; the two were involved in a number of feminist activist organizations including the New York Radical Feminists.....
New York City: Underwood & Underwood, October 23, 1915. Press photo measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches. Publisher’s stamps verso with typed caption. Manuscript markings on negative. A photograph of Cora Anderson Carpenter (1863–1960) leading a woman suffrage parade through New York City; wearing white and carrying an American.....
Chicago, Illinois, and New York City: 1920. Five photographs, three measuring approximately 7 ½ x 8 ½ inches, one measuring 6 ½ x 10 inches, and one measuring 4 ¼ x 5 ½ inches. Brown Brothers stamps verso, with extensive manuscript captions verso. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment, which allowed.....