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Title: Hands Off Our Children
Description: Dykes and Tykes Float in parade
Type: still image
Genre: Color photographs
Local Identifier: demo70s_018.jp2

Title: Children in the colonnade student group
Description: Schoolchildren in the Hall of Fame colonnade as part of a school activity.
Type: still image, text
Genre: black-and-white photographs
Local Identifier: bcc_hof_041

Title: Flower Arranging At The Garden
Description: Children learn to arrange flowers at the New York Botanical Garden.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Park_Botanical_Garden_a34.jpg

Title: Boy Scouts Visit The Garden
Description: Boy scouts decked out in their uniforms take a nature tour of the New York Botanical Garden.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Park_Botanical_Garden_a33.jpg

Title: Children in the colonnade contact sheet
Description: Contact sheet with more photographs of schoolchildren at the Hall of Fame.
Type: still image
Genre: contact sheets
Local Identifier: bcc_hof_043

Title: North Side Savings Bank 'Quiz Kid'
Description: A student at St. Frances of Rome School, who took top honors on bank's Quiz Kids Panel, is presented with Yankees baseball tickets. His school is one of 27 Bronx schools participating in the bank's School Savings program.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: North_savings_bank_5.jpg

Title: The Crisis of the Revolution
Description: A photograph of the Red Mills at Mahopac Falls. Several women and children can be seen outside of the mill, with a gentleman standing in the entranceway.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: Arnold-Andre-1899_102.jpg

Title: Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children
Description: View of the Society's new shelter on the east side of the Grand Concourse & McClellan St. (The building is today used for a girls club and other purposes.)
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Society_prevention_of_cruelty.jpg

Title: Pass the gay Rights Bill
Description: Banner on Tykes and Dykes float
Type: still image
Genre: Color photographs
Local Identifier: demo70s_020.jp2

Title: The Crisis of the Revolution
Description: An engraving of Major Andre being led to his execution.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: Arnold-Andre-1899_146.jpg

Title: Saturday Classes At The Garden
Description: Garden teacher explains how to grow good plants to children and their mothers.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Park_Botanical_Garden_a35.jpg

Title: North Side Team At Bank
Description: North Side Savings Bank, sponsors of the Kingsbridge Little League, presents a check to the team as the players, coach and manager look on.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: North_savings_bank_a14.jpg

Title: Children Visit The Garden
Description: Children listen to tour guide during their tour of the New York Botanical Garden. Note boys in high top shoes and knickers.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Park_Botanical_Garden_a32.jpg

Title: Forest Neighborhood House
Description: Children at Forest Neighborhood House, 1122 Forest Ave, hoist one of the first posters in the Bronx for the 1955 Greater New York Fund. Forest House is one of the 425 hospitals, health and welfare agencies serving the Bronx that are helped by the Fund.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: organizations_Greater_ny_fund_8.jpg

Title: Children's Court
Description: The Children's Court building opened in 1929 at E. 166th St. & Grand Concourse at McClellan Pl. (The building is now a Housing Court.)
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: childrens_court.jpg

Title: Dollar Savings Bank Doll Dressing Contest
Description: The actress Patty Duke, co-star of, the play,'The Miracle Worker' is greeted by the Vice President and Secretary of the Dollar Savings Bank at a Doll Dressing Contest. The dolls were dressed by employees and distributed during the holidays to children in local institutions and hospitals.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: dollar-savings_grand_concourse_8.jpg

Title: Christmas Party For Children Patients
Description: Santa with children at the annual Muscular Dystrophy Assn. chapter holiday party. For some patients, attending this party is the only time that they leave their homes during the year.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: organizations_muscular_dystrophy_1.jpg

Title: Children in the colonnade another student group
Description: Schoolchildren in the Hall of Fame colonnade as part of a school activity.
Type: still image
Genre: black-and-white photographs
Local Identifier: bcc_hof_042

Title: Paul Sigel to Miriam 'Mim' Sigel
Description: Paul tells Mim that she is right in guessing that he has finally found work that he enjoys. He describes the internal struggle that has raged all through college, his being torn between two jobs. Paul is glad that he has the opportunity to prove to himself (and others) his real capabilities. Paul describes the children who, even at a young age, understand the important roles they and their families play. Young and old ride the Popular Front Trucks to the fields everyday so that the people and soldiers of Spain can eat. Paul notices that the young girls sing Spanish versions of American songs like London Bridge and Oh My Darling Clementine.
Type: text
Genre: Autograph Letter Signed
Local Identifier: Sigel44

Title: Raggamuffin Parade Along Alexander Ave.
Description: Children march along Alexander Ave. south of E. 138th St. in a Raggamuffin Parade sponsored by PAL (Police Athletic League). The apartment buildings shown on the left were torn down for the John Purroy Mitchell Houses after World War II. The 40th Police Precinct building is on the left and is part of the Mott Haven Historic District.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: street_138th_third_ave_3.jpg

Title: Crowds on Freedom Train
Description: Group of people looking at an exhibit on the Freedom Train. The American Freedom Train toured the country in 1947-1949, as a celebration and recognition of the American principles of liberty after the pre-war economic depression and the sacrifices made during World War Two.
Type: still image
Genre: black-and-white photographs
Local Identifier: wppl_wpc_108

Title: Freedom Train at White Plains Railroad Station, Depot Plaza
Description: The American Freedom Train toured the country in 1947-1949, as a celebration and recognition of the American principles of liberty after the pre-war economic depression and the sacrifices made during World War Two.
Type: still image
Genre: black-and-white photographs
Local Identifier: wppl_wpc_109

Title: Crowds boarding the Freedom Train
Description: People queuing to board the Freedom Train. The American Freedom Train toured the country in 1947-1949, as a celebration and recognition of the American principles of liberty after the pre-war economic depression and the sacrifices made during World War Two.
Type: still image
Genre: black-and-white photographs
Local Identifier: wppl_wpc_110

Title: Lafayette Hall
Description: Lafayette Hall was the community center of White Plains and was located on Main Street, east of the Methodist church. It was the property of Dr. Charles Birch. On the left is M. Jackman Plumber and Gas Fitter office. Children are seated on the steps of Lafayette Hall on the right.
Type: still image
Genre: sepia prints
Local Identifier: wppl_wpc_111

Title: Rear of Italian bakery on Madison Avenue
Description: Rear of Italian bakery on Madison Avenue with a woman holding a child and children surrounding her. A vegetable garden is visible on the right. Image was included in a publication entitled Italians in an American Community by Charles R. Towson, secretary of the Industrial Department, International Committee, YMCA published circa 1913.
Type: still image
Genre: black-and-white photographs
Local Identifier: wppl_wpc_217

Title: Group of children with balloons
Description: Photograph taken at 201 Brookfield Place, White Plains, NY on September 1, 1945.
Type: still image
Genre: black-and-white photographs
Local Identifier: wppl_csd_060

Title: People watching boats pass under a town bridge (1front) [e0676ac1]
Description: People standing outside of what is presumably a storefront watching canal boats pass under a town bridge. A number of pedestrians are crossing the bridge, as well as what appears to be a horse-drawn cart.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0676ac1.jpg

Title: Suction Dredge Barge Canal, Frankfort, N.Y. [front caption] (1front) [b0116ac1]
Description: Children watch two people as canal construction is underway using the suction dredge "DeWitt Clinton" in Frankfort, N.Y.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: b0116ac1.jpg

Title: ARRIVAL OF PILGRIMS BY CANAL BOAT, AURIESVILLE, New York [front caption] (1front) [e0716ac1]
Description: A large group of pilgrims posing on a canal boat and on a bridge in Auriesville, NY. Printing information: card number (14817) [indicated on front only]; Blank space around edges of card
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0716ac1.jpg

Title: The Moon at Dock (1 front) [e5034ac1]
Description: Photograph showing well-dressed passengers (men, women and children) seated in groups on upper and lower decks of a canal touring boat moored adjacent to a building. A woman and a child look out of one of the windows of the lower cabin.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0534ac1.jpg

Title: D. & H. CANAL STORE, Port Ben, N.Y. [back caption] (1front) [d0079ac1]
Description: A black and white photographic postcard showing a small group of men, women, boys and girls waiting outside of A.S. Clyne Grocery & Provision Store, near a closed canal lock, towpath and snubbing post. Some people stand, while others lean against or sit on the store's fence. Nearby, to the people's right, a man and a horse stand in front of a stable.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: d0079ac1.jpg

Title: ERIE CANAL DURHAMVILLE, N.Y. [handwritten front caption] (1front) [e0425ac1]
Description: Two boys watch as boats are guided up the canal with a background of a rural scene of houses among trees. Written message sideways in blank space at right side of card (Dear Sister & Mother how are you all and [indiscernible] are you [indiscernible] I am home today [indiscernible] good so I wish you had stayed and ma would of come here you get a ride to Oneida I had a [indiscernible] last-night [indiscernible] love to you all come when you can how do you like this view. [Indiscernible signature]).
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0542ac1.jpg

Title: A Glimpse of the Shore near Cayuga Canal Lock, Cayuga, N.Y. (1front) [y0001ac1]
Description: A leisure scene displaying a woman and a child on the shore of a Canal. She is sitting with the child kneeling behind her with a dog at her feet. There is a man [presumably] walking a plank over the water. Immediately to the right of the man there is an [indiscernible] dark blurred marking. There is a house in the background.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: y0001ac1.jpg

Title: Glasgow St. Lift Bridge, Clyde, N.Y. [white stylized handwritten front caption] (1front) [e0671ac1]
Description: The colored postcard shows a slightly angled frontal view of a drawbridge as seen from the embankment on the right side of the canal. The hoisting elements of the bridge are clearly visible in its geometric structure. A second bridge is barely visible in the distance. Buildings can be seen on both sides of the canal, and some chimneys. Men and children are on the closer bridge. There is a cart with cargo, drawn by two horses, in the middle of the bridge; standing on the cart is a man holding the reins. Two men are standing behind the cart; two and men and three children are in front of it. The bridge with all that it holds, and most of what is on either side, is reflected in in the water. A man is on the road leading up to the bridge on the right; he appears to be leaning on the railing. Stairs lead up to the hoisting portion of the bridge on both sides. A glow on the horizon indicates either a sunrise or sunset.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0671ac1.jpg

Title: Sprakers Lock, Erie Canal, East of Cohen's Store [front caption] (1front) [e0562ac1]
Description: Barge in lock with men wearing hats at work on wharf. Horse drawn wagon in front of building on left bank of stream. Reflections in water. Mountains in background.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0562ac1.jpg

Title: A Group of Children Standing on Hospital Stairs
Description: The photo shows adults and children dressed in hospital gowns. They are standing on the stairs in front of a hospital.
Type: still image
Genre: photographs
Local Identifier: 701-151-005-4975-001

Title: Children in the Cafeteria During a Meal
Description: Children sit in the cafeteria during a meal. They eat soup and talk to each other.
Type: still image
Genre: photographs
Local Identifier: 701-151-005-4952-001

Title: The Arrival of a Group of Children from Soviet Russia
Description: The arrival of a group of children from the USSR. The group is greeted by a Polish soldier. Everyone is dressed in winter coats.
Type: still image
Genre: photographs
Local Identifier: 701-151-005-4950-001

Title: Digging Trenches
Description: Children are helping dig trenches for the soldiers. One of the children is seen distributing water, while the rest of the children are digging with shovels.
Type: still image
Genre: photographs
Local Identifier: 701-151-005-2482-001

Title: "Przemienienia Pańskiego" Hospital in Warsaw
Description: September 1939. Transfiguration Hospital in Warsaw. Women and children sheltered in the cellar during an air raid, guarded by doctors and nurses.
Type: still image
Genre: photographs
Local Identifier: 701-151-005-2478-001

Title: General Bohusz-Szyszko with Soviet Officers
Description: The photo shows general Bohusz-Szyszko talking to Soviet officers.
Type: still image
Genre: photographs
Local Identifier: 701-151-005-3068-001

Title: Outdoor School Lessons
Description: A class of students having an outdoor lesson. The children pay attention as the teacher is writing on the blackboard. The children are sitting at tables under trees.
Type: still image
Genre: photographs
Local Identifier: 701-151-005-4965-001

Title: Group of Children Being Taken Care of by Soldiers
Description: Group photo of the children who are under the care of soldiers.
Type: still image
Genre: photographs
Local Identifier: 701-151-005-4948-001

Title: Polish Airmen at a Children's Party
Description: Polish Airmen Entertain Evacuees. Two Polish airmen visited Oxford some days ago and said they and their comrades felt very sorry for the bombed out children of London and Coventry now staying at Oxford. They offered to throw the little ones a party at the Poles' expense. The result was that 200 evacuees were entertained right royally in Oxford Town Hall, and the airmen acted as waiters. The Polish airmen are waiting on the evacuees that they entertained at the party.
Type: still image
Genre: photographs
Local Identifier: 701-151-005-2945-001

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