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New York (N.Y.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Rowe collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00664
Scope and Contents The Charles Rowe collection contains photographs related to the REO Motor Company. The photographs include a row of cars at Harold Square in New York City lined up to welcome Percy F. Megargel and David Fassett back from their 12,000 mile double cross-continent auto tour in their 16 horse power REO Mountaineer. There is also an image of members of the New York Press cheering Megargel and Fassitt who are sitting in their car. There are also photographs of men at a tug-of-war...
Dates: 1906, circa 1920, undated

Civil War Period Newspapers collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00512
Scope and Contents

This collection includes single issues of American newspapers from the Civil War period which do not directly relate to other Historical Collections. The April 1865 issues of the New York Herald and the Weekly Journal of Commerce report the surrender of General Robert E. Lee and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Dates: 1863 - 1865

Louisiana collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00119
Scope and Contents

This collection contains miscellaneous legal papers and letters (several written in French) relating to business and property in New York, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. Included are letters and documents relating to the banking functions of the Consolidated Association of Planters in Louisiana; an 1808 land survey (French); a document dealing with the sale of slaves (1829); and an invitation to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans.

Dates: 1795 - 1847

Lucia Dains Denison papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00517
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a family photograph album which includes views of Lansing, Bellevue, Battle Creek, Detroit, Belle Isle, Palmer Park, Wyandotte (all in Michigan); New York City; Niagara Falls, Georgian Bay, and Thousand Islands, Canada.

Dates: 1900 - 1923

Robert Eldon Brown papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.83
Scope and Contents Robert E. Brown's papers include research notes from the American colonial period, and professional correspondence from his career as a historian.The research notes series are divided into three groups, (Massachusetts, New York City, and Virginia) which correspond to three of his books: Middle Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780, Carl Becker on History and the American Revolution, and...
Dates: 1940 - 1989

Samuel H. Abbott papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00308
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence addressed primarily to Samuel H. Abbott of Cedar Dale, Sanilac County, Michigan, from members of his family. The letters include a remedy for small pox, references to the draft and techniques of dodging it during the Civil War, concern over sale prices of farm products, especially wheat, and one letter concerning the great fires of October 1871 and the damage done by them in Sanilac County and in Ontario, Canada.Also included is a diary...
Dates: 1853 - 1903

The Log Cabin newspaper

 Collection
Identifier: c-00511
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a single issue of the newspaper The Log Cabin, edited by Horace Greeley in New York, N.Y..

Dates: 1840