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Description: Founded in 1979 by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB), the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) is a non profit national organization devoted to the preservation and dissemination of the history of the North American role in the Spanish...
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Description: The Institute of Public Administration (IPA) and its predecessor organization, the New York Bureau of Municipal Research (BMR), spearheaded municipal reform in America at the dawn of the 20th century. This digitized collection contains the final product...
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Description: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans collection consists of 142 photographs and documents related to the selection, election, induction and media coverage of individuals represented in the Hall of Fame located at Bronx Community College (BCC).
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Description: The 223 objects in this collection consist of digitized archival materials are from the George A. Wingate, John B. Johnston, and Patrick Quinn Scrapbooks contained in the Records of the Brooklyn Democratic Party at the Brooklyn College Library.
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Description: The Brooklyn College Student Handbill Collection is comprised of materials that document what took place on the campus of Brooklyn College over the years. The handbills demonstrate the students involvement in everything-the anti-war rallies,fascism,...
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Description: The Brooklyn Sheet Music Covers Collection consists of 102 pieces of sheet music from 1869 to 1987, primarily for voice and piano, all celebrating or emanating from the borough of Brooklyn. Contents include marches written in honor of a local person or...
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Description: The Fulton Street Trade Card Collection consists of 245 late 19th and early 20th century illustrated trade cards, all emanating from businesses in Brooklyn's historic commercial thoroughfare. The cards combine humor, bright and elegant graphic design...
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Description: This collection is a collaborative project between the Mina Rees Library, the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library, and the Gotham Center for New York City History, is a montage of 246 images of Thirty-fourth Street, past and present. Contemporary images...
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Description: This digital collection is made up of 280 images depicting the Murray Hill Neighborhood in Manhattan. It includes historical photographs as well as newly commissioned ones that show how the neighborhood has changed over time.
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Description: These broadsides and pamphlets, originally owned by the Italian Cardinal Carlo Luigi Morichini (1805-1879), offer a window into the activities of the Catholic Church during the period of Italian Unification. As part of a larger collection of 1600 items,...
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Description: Established in 1785, The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen (GSMT) is a non-profit organization serving the people of the City of New York for over two centuries, through educational, cultural and philanthropic programs. The 364 objects in the...
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Description: This collection of local history materials relating to Greenburgh, New York, includes access to "Atlas of the Hudson River Valley" published in 1891 and William Abbatt's book, "The Crisis of the Revolution" published in 1899.
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Description: The Grolier Club Library’s French Book Arts Trade Card Collection consists of 57 late 19th and early 20th century business cards of French booksellers, print sellers, stationers, and other professionals involved with the book and printing arts.
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Description: The Maria Gerard Messenger Women’s Bookplate Collection is a group of 2095 women's bookplates and book labels assembled by Maria Gerard Messenger (1849-1937) of Great Neck, Long Island. The collection represents women book owners from the sixteenth...
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Description: William Stannard’s The Art Exemplar (London, 1859?) is a mid-nineteenth-century encyclopedia of illustration processes. In addition to describing traditional processes, such as etching and wood engraving, The Art Exemplar covers techniques that were new...
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Description: The Transactions of the Grolier Club, published in four parts, served as the formal record of Grolier events and activities from 1885 to December 1919. After four erratically-spaced issues, the Club determined that a smaller and less splendid publication...
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Description: The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture Collection includes 101 promotional cards featuring original artwork that documents musical performances, gallery exhibitions and art installations that have taken place at Hostos Community College. The cards...
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Description: This collection consists of three New York City Gay Guides held by the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center National History Archive. The collection is important in reflecting the history of LGBT groups in NYC. This collection features...
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Description: This collection features 86 issues of The Center Publications ‘The Center Voice’ and ‘Center Happenings’ held by the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center National History Archive. The collection is important in reflecting the history of...
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Description: The Bronx Chamber of Commerce donated this business collection to Lehman College on August 31, 1988. The 429 digitized items shown on this site, are largely from the Bronx Board of Trade years-- focusing on the 1920s through the 1950s.
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Description: The 61 images in this digital collection were part of the “Childhood in the Bronx” exhibit originally featured in the Lehman College Art Gallery from October 23 – December 14, 1986.
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Title: Lesbian Herstory ArchivesDescription: The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the largest collections of materials about lesbians in the world. Our photo collection, which we are now starting to digitize, holds tens of thousands of images, and reflects the growth of the Archives since 1974....
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Description: Since Manhattanville’s inception in 1847, its founders have bequeathed its mission, vision and heritage the symbiotic relationship of academic excellence and social and ethical responsibility to its faculty and students. The 150 objects here depict that...
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Description: This collaborative collection of 250 objects brings together archival materials from Manhattanville College and The College of New Rochelle documenting the history of the National Federation of Catholic College Students (NFCCS).
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Description: The College History and Archives Collection contains 250 objects digitized from the Stephen B. Luce Library, Archives, and Special Collections of the State University of New York Maritime College, including alumni papers, ships’ logs, prominent historical...
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Description: Originally opened in 1833, Sailors' Snug Harbor provided a home for retired and disabled seamen on Staten Island for over 140 years. This collection of 638 objects presents a wide range of archival materials, including photographs, newspaper...
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Description: The Carte de Visite Collection consists of 223 late 19th and early 20th century photographs of national and international figures in medicine and public health. Many are from the New York area.
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Description: The Burr McIntosh Photograph Collection consists of 596 glass plate negatives and 3,822 photographic prints dating from 1898 to 1910. Most of the photographs are celebrity portraits from the first decade of the twentieth century. The collection also...
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Description: This digital collection includes five seventeenth-century Mexican imprints that are among the earliest known primary sources in the lost Timucua language of Spanish Florida and among the first works ever published in a native language of the Americas....
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Description: This collection includes over 30,000 photographic prints and negatives depicting New York City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The extensive photograph collections at the New-York Historical Society are particularly strong in...
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Description: This collection of over 2,000 photographic negatives, featuring the work of photographer Robert L. Bracklow, depicts buildings and street views in New York City and vicinity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Title: Pilsudski Institute of America, Photographs of Polish Soldiers and Civilians During WWII (1939-1945)Description: This collection of photographs displays Polish Armed Forces in the West with a focus on the Polish Armed Forces in the United Kingdom (1940-1944), the formation of the Polish Army in the USSR (under the command of General Władysław Anders), and the life...
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Description: This is a collection of historically significant cultural heritage materials documenting the waterways of New York state. It includes over 2000 items, primarily early twentieth century postcards, depicting the Erie Canal, Champlain Canal, Barge Canal and...
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Description: This digital collection includes 112 items from the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives’ extensive collection of publications and printed ephemera created by WCS, which began in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society. Within this digital collection...
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Title: WCS Library, Bronx Zoo MapsDescription: The Bronx Zoo opened on November 8, 1899. Over the course of its history, the Zoo's shape and appearance have undergone major changes as exhibits have come and gone. Brought about by such factors as technological developments in zoo design and...
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Description: The New York Aquarium is the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States, having opened in Castle Garden in Battery Park, Manhattan in 1896. Since 1957, it has been located on the boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The Aquarium has a long...
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Description: This digital collection brings together postcards held by the Wildlife Conservation Society Library (which houses the archives of the Bronx Zoo) and The New York Botanical Garden’s LuEsther T. Mertz Library. These 454 postcards, which range in date from...
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Description: The American poet Edwin Markham was born in Oregon in 1852 and later moved East, first to Brooklyn and later to Staten Island. This collection of 214 items represent a portion of Markham’s personal papers that were donated to Wagner College, including...
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Description: The White Plains Collection is comprised of materials relevant to the history of White Plains, New York. This digital collection contains 322 items including photographs and documents spanning the late 19th to late 20th centuries. They document civic life...
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Description: This collection consists of 580 objects from the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The collection brings focus to a specific selection of extraordinary material found in the Whitney’s Library and Archival collections...
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Description: The Whitney Studio Club and Galleries Collection, a project funded through the generous support of the Leon Levy Foundation, brings together 998 of the Whitney Museum’s earliest documents. It includes archival records, photographs, checklists, and...
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Description: This collection consists of 177 hand drawn and printed posters from the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Records (SSSJ) held by Yeshiva University Archives. SSSJ was a national, grass-roots student organization founded in 1964 to oppose the persecution...