Rochester: 1899. First Edition. Program measuring 9 x 4 inches. Fine condition, slightest normal tanning to margins. The dedication program for the unveiling of the Frederick Douglass memorial in Rochester New York, on June 9, 1899. The statue was created four years after Douglass’ death in 1895, and was set.....
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: 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: 1910. First Edition. Album containing ten 6 x 8 inch photographs. Photographs near fine with one showing some foxing, some normal wear to album, very good or better. A collection of ten images of the Bushwick Hospital, which was located at 41 Howard Ave. in Brooklyn, taken shortly.....
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: Brown Brothers, 1900-1910. First Edition. Press photograph measuring 6 x 8 inches. Near fine with minimal normal wear, editorial marks verso and fine contrast. Chuck Connors, a resident of Chinatown who claimed to be a New York native but was likely from Providence, Rhode Island, enjoyed minor celebrity.....
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.....