Newburgh: Abel A. Peck, 1860s. 3 ½ x 2 ¼ albumen print on larger mount. A carte-de-visite copy of a folk art painting probably painted c. 1820s-1830s. William Seymore (1786-1846) was a Methodist minister in Bellvale, New York. Edward Ruttenber and L.H. Clark, in their 1881 History of Orange County.....
New York, et al. 1921-1934. Large heavy folio, 12 x 14 inches. 81 leaves, cloth covers with string-through binding. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Leonidas Westervelt was a New York-based playwright and theater historian who also had an interest in archaeology. This scrapbook documents his digs in the New.....
[New York City]: 1960-1986. 920 sketches on 12 x 9 paper, in conté crayon, graphite or felt tip pen, with appx. 30 on larger paper including a watercolor from 1989, with over fifty letters and seventy photographs relating to Masood’s artistic career. Sketches generally excellent, some showing wear at edges.....
New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21, 1970. First Edition. The Panther 21, who were eventually acquitted of plots to carry out rifle attacks on police stations and an education center, had widespread support from varied groups including various church groups, Abbie Hoffman and Leonard Bernstein. Communist Party members.....
New York: Jackson, 1860s. First Edition. An unrecorded recruitment broadside for the 11th New York Cavalry. Col. James Swain led the regiment, which was first organized on Staten Island in late 1861. Most troops came from New York City, the site of robust recruitment in the early years of the.....
New York: 1910-194. Oblong folio, 10 ½ x 14 ½ inches, with 335 silver gelatin photographs, measuring 5 x 6 ¾ inches, with one larger 9 ½ x 13 image. Images numbered in negatives, most dated as well. Three pages with spaces for images that aren’t included, with corresponding lapses.....
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 and Environs: 1915-1930. We find scant information on Henry Reister, a professional photographer operating throughout the New York metropolitan region in the early part of the century. His studio moved several times, from the Bronx to Bridgewater, New Jersey, then to Woodlawn, New York. This interesting and varied.....
New York: RCA Corporation, 1937-1940. In the late 1930s, television was in its experimental phase and radio dominated the American media landscape. RCA and its NBC network directed experimental broadcasts from their studio in Radio City, broadcasting from a transmitter at the top of the Empire State Building. The first.....