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Title: Lockwood letter supporting Edward H. Maddox
Description: Letter from Charles Lockwood to voters asking for their support of Edward H. Maddox's campaign for Kings County Register.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Correspondence
Local Identifier: win097

Title: MacCrate for Supreme Court justice
Description: Double-sided handbill to vote for Republican John MacCrate for Supreme Court Justice. Front: Image and Biography. Reverse: How to mark Ballot.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win011

Title: More men to be hired to clean streets
Description: The Democratic district leader was told that he could hire thirty more men to work for the Street-Cleaning Department.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn015

Title: Brooklyn's encumbered downtown streets
Description: New York World article describes the problem on some of Brooklyn's downtown streets with "horses that are stabled till morning and vehicles standing on the street just opposite the stables."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn002

Title: New York Sun endorses Colonel James Crooke McLeer
Description: Handbill with a reprint of an article in New York Sun endorsing Republican Candidate, Colonel James Crooke McLeer, for Brooklyn's Surrogate.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings, Promotional Materials
Local Identifier: win075

Title: White Wings street cleaning squad ordered to clean Coney Island
Description: The White Wings have been ordered to clean up Coney Island. "It hasn't been cleaned up since the Rough Riders were there last fall." Their duties include removing garbage, waste paper and mud.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn018

Title: Letter from Judge Burt Jay Humphrey
Description: Letter from Judge Burt Jay Humphrey asking for McDonald's assistance in seeking a promotion to the Supreme Court.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Correspondence
Local Identifier: win099

Title: Pamphlet advocating Charles Lockwood for comptroller
Description: Pamphlet asking fathers and mothers to vote for Charles Lockwood for Comptroller. Front: Note from Chair of Women's Committee on Lockwood's record. Inside: Biography and endorsements. Back: Newspaper endorsements.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Pamphlets
Local Identifier: win083

Title: Mary Le Greico routs the bosses
Description: Eleven year old Mary Le Greico appealed to Street Cleaning Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn for her father who, she said was "a strong man, worked hard … so why couldn't he get a position with the street-cleaning department?"
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn017

Title: Kings county district attorney Harry E. Lewis for Supreme Court justice
Description: Handbill urges voters to elect Harry E. Lewis, presently district attorney of Kings County, as Justice of the Supreme Court with sample ballot form on bottom.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win058

Title: Letter from New York Lawyers Committee advocating Alfred E. Smith for president
Description: Letter from Martin Conboy to Mr. McDonald asking him to join the New York Lawyers Committee supporting Alfred E. Smith for President.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Correspondence
Local Identifier: johnst001

Title: LaGuardia civil service committee leaflet
Description: Leaflet promoting candidacy of Fiorello LaGuardia as Candidate of Board of Alderman.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win005

Title: Fifth Avenue merchants praise Patrick H. Quinn
Description: Merchants along Fifth Avenue, though they had arguments with Street Cleaning Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn over snow removal, now commend him on the "excellent manner in which the streets are kept clean."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn021

Title: Gannon and Lewis for justices of the Supreme Court
Description: This double-sided handbill promotes Frank S. Gannon, Jr. and Harry E. Lewis as Justices of the Supreme Court. Front: Photo and biography of candidates. Reverse: Sample ballot with advice on voting.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win030

Title: Handbill urging support for James O'Malley
Description: Handbill urging support for James O'Malley for the Supreme Court in Manhattan and the Bronx. Photo and sample ballot with biography and ballot instructions.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win074

Title: Calder Lee endorses Senator William M. Calder to women voters
Description: Letter from Elsie Calder Lee requesting women voters re-elect her father, William M. Calder, Republican Senator.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Correspondence
Local Identifier: win010

Title: Gannon for Supreme Court justice
Description: Double-sided handbill advocating Judge Frank S. Gannon, Jr., for Supreme Court Justice. Front: Image of Gannon with Lady Justice. Reverse: Biography of Gannon.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win015

Title: Newspaper article on street obstructions by vehicles
Description: New York World article on Street Cleaning Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn issuing orders concerning obstructions by vehicles. Owners who disregard "the ordinance will find their vehicles in the city's possession."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn004

Title: Cleaning the street illustration
Description: Illustration of Street Cleaner James McDonald in his uniform using a broom and a shovel alternately to clean the street.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings, Illustrations
Local Identifier: quinn024

Title: Bayes for Supreme Court
Description: Small double-sided handbill urging voters to elect William R. Bayes to the Brooklyn Supreme Court. Front: Photo and sample ballot. Back: Biography.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win070

Title: Response card for Judge Edgar M. Doughty
Description: Response card for Judge Edgar M. Doughty's campaign. Front: Address of campaign headquarters. Back: Response form.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: johnst004

Title: Re-elect Reuben L. Haskell card
Description: Small card asking voters to re-elect Reuben L. Haskell for County Judge.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: johnst003

Title: Fort Greene marketmen thank street cleaning deputy commissioner Patrick H. Quinn
Description: Fort Greene marketmen thanked Deputy Commissioner of Street Cleaning, Patrick H. Quinn, for the prompt removal of snow from their neighborhood.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn006

Title: Letter from Leander B. Faber asking women to vote
Description: Letter from Leander B. Faber asking women to vote for him for Supreme Court Justice.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Correspondence
Local Identifier: win084

Title: Faber for Supreme Court justice
Description: Handbill promoting Leander B. Faber for Justice of the Supreme Court with clippings of articles from the New York Sun and Judiciary Committee extolling his qualifications.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Clippings
Local Identifier: win036

Title: Loomis letter supporting John E. Ruston
Description: Letter from Guy Loomis soliciting support for the candidacy of Rotarian District Attorney, John E. Ruston.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Correspondence
Local Identifier: win065

Title: Pamphlet for lawyers in support of Charles D. Newton for attorney general
Description: Pamphlet to lawyers requesting support for Charles D. Newton as New York Attorney General. Front: Flow chart. Inside: Promotional letter. Back: Names of Lawyers' Committee.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Pamphlets, Correspondence
Local Identifier: win096

Title: Quinn works hard to clean streets
Description: The World reports that 3,500 men helped with shoveling and street-cleaning in the city, but in West Meadows "families were without food and fuel for days and tore down outhouses to get heat from the burning wood."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn009

Title: Department of street cleaning appoints Patrick H. Quinn
Description: Letter from the Department of Street Cleaning appointing Patrick H. Quinn Deputy Commissioner of Street Cleaning in the city of New York in the borough of Brooklyn.
Type: text
Genre: Correspondence
Local Identifier: quinn003

Title: Dump at Clinton Street
Description: Drawing of Street Cleaning Department workers in uniforms shoveling garbage at Clinton Street dump.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings, Illustrations
Local Identifier: quinn023

Title: Street cleaning commissioner admits Brooklyn filth is breeding disease
Description: The World reports that Street Cleaning Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn admitted that he did not have enough money to clean Brooklyn's dirty streets, and that "mounds of slush and slime line the streets."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn007

Title: Abyssinian Republican Club handbill appealing to black voters
Description: This handbill asks "every colored man and woman to vote for the Abyssinian Republican Club of Kings County."
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win023

Title: Western New York's Meyer Jacobstein for governor
Description: Double-sided handbill promoting Meyer Jacobstein of Rochester for Governor of New York. Front: Image and newspaper endorsements. Reverse: Biography and more endorsements.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: johnst002

Title: Quinn fails to keep promise
Description: The World newspaper reports that Street Cleaning Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn threatened to raid the trucks obstructing streets, but "his ardor has cooled off" which is annoying the fire department because they are hampered by wagons found blocking the streets nightly.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn019

Title: Reform is promised
Description: Police received several reports of trucks obstructing streets in the borough. Their response: "Reasonable time had to be allowed owners to remove such vehicles."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn005

Title: Re-elect Judge Frank S. Gannon, Jr. for Supreme Court justice
Description: This double-sided handbill endorses Judge Frank S. Gannon, Jr., for Supreme Court Justice. Front: Description of Judge Gannon. Reverse: Sample ballot.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Ballots
Local Identifier: win014

Title: Article on proposal to use trolleys to transport garbage
Description: The World reports on a proposal to form a company that will transport garbage, ashes and freight via trolleys.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn011

Title: City official and street cleaning department censured
Description: The Street Cleaning Department was censured for neglecting to remove ashes from the streets of Brooklyn. A resolution was adopted to complain to Mayor Van Wyck about the Commissioner of Street Cleaning.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn012

Title: Trucks still obstruct streets
Description: Wagons and trucks can still be found on streets because owners of "these vehicles are disregarding Mr. Quinn's polite request to remove them."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn020

Title: Rogers for attorney general pamphlet
Description: Pamphlet to members of the Bar of the State of N.Y. on the record and public service of Judge Erskine C. Rogers. Inside: Biography of the Republican nominee for Attorney General, Erskine C. Rogers.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Pamphlets
Local Identifier: win038

Title: Trolley roads defy law
Description: Article about how individuals in the Brooklyn Heights railroad system refuse to pay for snow removal. Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn plans to ask the Corporation Counsel to sue for money that the city is owed.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn008

Title: Flynn letter endorsing Frank S. Gannon, Jr.
Description: Letter from Joseph Flynn urging voters to support Frank S. Gannon, Jr., for Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Correspondence
Local Identifier: win006

Title: Vote for James Crooke McLeer
Description: This double-sided handbill asks voters to choose James Crooke McLeer, Republican candidate for Surrogate Judge. Front: Photo. Back: Biography.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win082

Title: Street cleaners, White Wings and disease in the streets
Description: More of the White Wings street cleaners were to be employed by the city. However, since the building of a new cleaning plant has been postponed, hiring any more street cleaners has been delayed.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn014

Title: Illustration of street cleaning deputy commissioner Patrick H. Quinn
Description: Illustration of the Street Cleaning Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn, Commander of the "White Wings Army."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings, Illustrations
Local Identifier: quinn016

Title: Department of street cleaning notice
Description: Notice from the Department of Street Cleaning "directing the sale of trucks, cars, vehicles and other property."
Type: text
Genre: Correspondence
Local Identifier: quinn010

Title: McGarry roasted
Description: Residents of the twenty-third ward are upset with Joseph McGarry because of his failure to "remove ashes from the front of their houses for several days."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn025

Title: Officials stirred up over gross violations
Description: New York World article reporting on the "gross violations in Brooklyn at night … streets encumbered by heavy trucks and other vehicles has stirred the Department of Streets."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn001

Title: Letter asking voters to choose William R. Bayes
Description: Letter asking voters to choose Judge William R. Bayes as a candidate for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Correspondence
Local Identifier: win066

Title: White Wings street cleaning jobs sold
Description: Charles Russell was arrested and charged with obtaining money from "poor Italians under the pretence of getting them jobs in the Street-Cleaning Department."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: quinn022

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