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From the Library of G. Creighton Webb (1853-1948) gift of his niece Mrs. Jorge André; inscribed to J.S. Warwick, Christmas 1865, from his "Auntie Maggie"; 15 unidentified gem tintype portraits of men, women and children

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15 unidentified gem tintype portraits of men, women and children.

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Tintypes of men and women, including group portraits of men.

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Small album with two gem tintypes on each page; images include men, women and children, one full length view of man wearing long smock; most are unidentified.

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Six photographs depicting Florence N. Levy as a baby in 1871, in 1873, 1877, 1884, 1898, and 1912; album can be folded out and all photos viewed at once

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Cartes-de-visite; groups include Sharp Shooters, Country Post Office; Slave Auction; The Village Schoolmaster; Union Refugees; The Picket Guard; The Card Players; Checker Players; The Camp fire; Mail Day. See also Album #85, 315.

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Snapshots of child in Cairo, 1901, and 1911; views in Nice, including couple and wedding scenes.

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Celebrities include Lincoln, Grant, Tom Thumb and wife; also includes sentimental prints; see also #112, 155.

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Loose prints, some duplicates of the album 17.1.

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From Estate of Ina Love Thursby; some sitters identified, including Ina Love Thursby; some pages inscribed by sitter. See also album #18, 211.

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Cartes-de-visite of Civil War generals, with identification on the pages below each image.

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Cole family images, including interiors, and picnic scenes; scenery around Peekskill, at Allaire and Avon, N.J.; Dewey Naval parade and arch; sheep in Prospect Park, Brooklyn; views on President Street, Brooklyn.

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Capital, including interiors; White House including interior; sculpture of Washington; Washington Monument, the Treasury, Post Office, National Observatory, U.S. Arsenal, U.S. Navy Yard, Smithsonian Institute, City Hall, Military Asylum, Lunatic Asylum, general views of Washington, and Georgetown; Mount Vernon, Washington's Tomb; National Cemetery; canal at Georgetown; lithographs by R. Sachse, Baltimore.

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Cartes-de-visite, family tree of MacMartin and MacLaren and Richards laid in; drawing of family around dinner table laid in.

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Cabinet cards, identified persons include Mrs. George Richards and Marjorie and Harriet Richards as babies and young girls; photographers include Pach Bros., L. Alman, J. Ludovici, A.D. Benedict.

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From the Bella C. Landauer Collection. Two portraits of men [faculty of Rutgers?], 14 portraits of women (graduates of Rutgers); 7 portraits of children; cartes-de-visite and tintypes.

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Family cartes-de-visite; tintypes; cartes showing sculpture and paintings, probably from the U.S. Capital. See also #323.

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Unidentified album, with images of men, women and children by Brady, Bogardus and others.

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Painting of peasant woman on cover; "Lena Co[r?]e, Vienna, Apr 2/67" inscribed on fly leaf; a castle, man with boat in foreground; men, women and children, including man with dog, men posing on toboggan; copy of a print showing a skating rink; building perched on a hillside [Italy?]; tintype of Stephen H. Branch; photographers from Montreal, Boston, Gibraltar, Dieppe, San Francisco and other locations.

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See also Albums 100, 134, 161, 162.

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Officers all identified and most also have the unit to which they belong indicated, including the 3rd Artillery, 12th Infantry and others.

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Ornate bindings, raised and embossed areas, with white bosses in the corners and on the clasps; some sitters identified, includes Irish and NY photographers.

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Cartes-de-visite, primarily copies of sentimental pictures, including children, landscape scenes, and clippings of engraved portraits; also includes portraits of man, woman and child.

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50 postcards showing the county seat of Delaware County on the Delaware River: churches, band stand in courthouse park, views along Main Street, School buildings, hotels, waterfall and a covered bridge.

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Inscribed on fly leaf: "Mrs. Howard Townsend"; primarily views of celebrities including copies of photographs of Andrew Jackson, Edgar Allen Poe, Daniel Webster, and J.C. Calhoun, photographs of Bancroft, Agassiz, Morse, Lincoln, Civil War generals and others; also includes what appear to be family or friends of album owner. See also Albums #136, 137, 268, 272, 273.

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Family portraits, each sitter identified, several families (related) represented including Ledlie, Herr, Sheffield, Brown and others, photos by Brady and others.

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Includes Campbell Steward in the uniform of the Knickerbocker Grays; John Steward Jr. in uniform, other children including girl with hoop, girl with flag and boy with drum and large hat.

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Program of the event; views of Holyrood Church, including interior; Bennett estate: Lodge and gate, house, garden; "Minutemen" in Continental Army uniforms and others, including marching band; ceremonies, including Borough President Guggenheimer responding on behalf of the city; the saluting battery, "Regulars"; speakers tent; views of the fort showing earthworks and bastion.

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"School friends" on trip: Wm. Chatfield, Wm. Grady, Louis W. Marks, Eugene Nifenecker, Claude Leland, and Hazen Chatfield, many of whom are educators; group at Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, 1923; group starting out; with Col. Proctor at Fredericksburg; Lawrence Washington Farm; Chancellorsville; Germania Ford; Spotteswood Farm; Spottsylvania; Jefferson's home, Monticello; Cedar Mt. Battlefield; Aldie; Point of Rocks bridge; B&O canal and R.R.; site of Washington's Crossing of the Delaware; Valley Forge; Brandywine; views include monuments.

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Images at Standing Rock reservations, some posed, possibly for use as sources for illustrations by Deming; views, possibly of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; views in the S.W. showing adobe buildings and ceremonial dancing.

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Portraits of Carrie Park and other Park family members, friends or relatives of the Parks; one item signed and date 1884, most views earlier. See also #65.

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Snapshots of people on board a ship, at the beach, including woman holding up fish on a line; man laying stone and brick patio in back of a brownstone, and views with dogs.

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Images of ships in harbors, on board the transport including the guns, exercising horses, church services, recreation on board, nurses, Commander Cayley; the Suez Canal, Port Said, and disembarking at Alexandria.

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View in Boston and vicinity, including beaches, lighthouses, the Public Gardens; many images labeled "N.S." [Nova Scotia?]; also includes pictures of a small dog, and of children and other family members, and African American woman named Liza; Boston dentist in his office. See also #57, 77.

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Images include college buildings, houses and farmland.

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Patterned buckram cover: same man as in other small volume performing various roles.

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Photographs of men with boilers, and with surveying tools; European-American man and woman in kimonos, having tea, posing with fan; Japanese woman in traditional dress; two elderly women and a boy; one of the men with the boiler is identified as F.T. Howe. See also album #79, 81, 101, 154, 274.

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Inscribed "Cornelia Livingston, 1861" and "Mrs. Carroll Livingston, the compliments of the original."

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Views of parade and encampment in Van Cortland Park, May 13, 1911, including Capt. O'Ryan and the 1st Battery; Col. Dyer and 12th Regiment; Governor Dix on horseback reviewing troops; views from May 30th, [Memorial Day?] including Cpt. Appleton and 7th Regiment; Col. Conley, 69th Regiment; group of sailors and navy officers; John A. Dix Post; Duryea's Zouaves; 71st Regiment; men in kilts; 17th Battery on march from State Camp, July 15, 1911, Ossining; in camp, Philips Manor; Brewester cottage, Hartsdale, including views of house, and butterflies on marigolds, chickens, cow and calf, unidentified people; Rye Beach, 1911; International Motor Boat Races, Huntington, Long Island, including views of racers, spectator's boats; Catskill Aqueduct near Briarcliff; couple in garden; man changing tire on his car.

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E. Gilford family of White Plains, including view of home, horses, chickens, oxen; family members; blizzard in Philadelphia, 1899, Bartram Park, Philadelphia Peace Jubilee; views at Rye Beach, on Broadway, on W. 75th Street; views on the East River and the North (Hudson) River.

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Primarily views of upstate NY, including the Au Sable River and Lakes and vicinity, including cabin; Alice Estes and brother; a small chapel named All Souls, including interiors; early automobiles; St. Hubert Family; horses; a balloon; children wrapped in American flag; war bulletins outside Herald building, New York City. See also #91.

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House and garden of the Charles Hawley Brantingham home in Larchmont, including views on the porch and in the garden, some with pet dog and cat; looking out at Long Island Sound at ships and boats.

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U.S. Battleships: Texas, New York, Machias, including view on deck; views in Bermuda: Hamilton Hotel, homes, St. George's Church, Victoria park, harbor, dry-dock, landscapes including roads, palm trees, etc.; quarry, Hawkins Island, P.O.W camp, April 1902; "Miss Prune" painting; a little girl, Betty Howland.

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Clippings documenting Sulzer's 1924 trip to Alaska interspersed with views (by Guy Llewellyn) of mountaineering on Mount Rainier in Washington State, including interior views of ice caves, glaciers, and men on a rock cairn; men and a biplane; postcards from along the route of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad; views from the Copper River area of Alaska. See also Albums #117, 118, 162.

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Views of New York, including the Dewey Naval Parade up the Hudson and parade on Fifth Avenue; views of New York City including street scenes, views from roof tops, Battery Park; Bowling Green; City Hall; Union Square; Central Park; Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Bridge and the east River; ships on the North River; Bronx Park and Zoo; elevated railroads; Williamsburg Bridge; Blackwell's Island; Governor's Island; Riverdale.

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Inscribed to Ward from [A?] W.D.,[Anthony W. Dimock?], 1889.

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Inscribed in the same hand as 100.1 from "the perpetrator." Related album at the Albany Institute of History and Art. Views of camping, boating and fishing in Peekamoose, N.Y., Pennsylvania, New Brunswick and Florida; includes images of Ward, and of persons named Dudley, Mulford, Oscar Yale, Whiton, and Mrs. Lewis; includes shark and tarpon fishing; includes swimming scenes, a dog jumping out of a boat, men poling boats up river.

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One of at least 12 albums (this one labeled "XII"). Views of royalty, others on yachts, at hotels, etc., and of scenery in France, Switzerland and Italy. See also album # 103, 104.

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Brantingham, Francis Edward. One of at least 12 albums (this one labeled "IX"); travel photographs: Karnak, Thebes, Cairo, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Bethany, Syria, Asia Minor, Greek Archipelago, Smyrna, Athens Patras, Olympia, Corfu, Miscellaneous (including Switzerland, 1901, 1905; Monte Carlo, 1900). See also album #102, 103.

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Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822, etcher. Etchings of animals, including cattle, sheep, chickens, hogs, horses, dogs, lions, boars, deer.

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Ft. Bayard, N.M., San Carlos, A.T., Fort Apache, Ariz., Ft. Stanton, N.M.; woman and baby; Lt. Walton; dog sitting up "on guard" at top of stairs; Col. Bliss and officers at Ft. Bayard; group portraits (commercial photographer) of Apache, Mojave and Indians, including women, children, scouts, some in traditional costume; cactus and soapweed; general views of Ft. Apache; San Carlos Agency: general view, Saturday issue, officer's quarters, surgeon's quarters, including interior with Apache woman and child; Battalion of the 24th infantry; dead wildcat at Ft. Stanton; Col. Z.B. Bliss at the Hotel Del Coronado; group of men (Apache?) with guns including Al-che-zay.

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Most signed beneath image by sitter.

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Theatrical portraits, most hand-colored, including Annie Pixley, Lillian Russell, Mary Anderson, Minnie Palmer, Lottie, Rose Coughlin, Ethel Clare and children including Little Ollie; tintypes include men, women and children and group portraits. See also #16, 155.

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Located at 74 Laight Street, makers of peptogenic milk powder; view of building; interiors of offices, many with taxidermied animals and birds, some with calendars dated June, 1902; executives seated at desks; laboratories; manufacturing and shipping area.

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Bella C. Landauer Collection; similar volume at Winterthur Museum.

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Amateur and professional views, postcards, clippings, some dated earlier than 1924, but probably collected and made when Sulzer was in Alaska on a visit of the Alaska Road Commission. See also manuscript collections, album #96,117, 162.

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Platinum prints of hunting on the prairies, silver prints of Camp Vidona on the Nepigon River.

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Views in France, and possibly Germany after World War I: scenery, farms, destroyed buildings, military cemeteries, with both American and German graves, including Quentin Roosevelt's grave; a few images show Mt. Kemmel, a small village, and a woman "Luzanne of Cassell," all dated in 1922.

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Photographs by Worsinger Photo (or Worsinger Window Service), Nick Malan Studio and Freedman Photo of window and store displays at Oppenheim Collins, Bonwit Teller, and De Pinna; includes World War II images with the motto "Bomb Tokyo"; primarily advertising clothing, also included are advertisements for cosmetics.

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Digital copy is available in the Shelby White and Leon Levy Digital Library.

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10 cabinet cards, all but 2 autographed by the sitter; sitters include: Mary Anderson, Emma Calvé, Jean de Reszke, Lillian Nordica, Emma Eames, Ada Rehan Eduouard De Reszke, Nellie Melba, Joseph Jefferson, and publisher W. H. Crane; photographs by Sarony & Falk.

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Autographs, most with photograph of signer, including on the first page, Horatio Seymour, Governor.

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P.M. Corry's (superintendent of the construction) business card laid in; album of silver gelatin photographs of the construction of Grand Central Station is divided into several sections: Old Station building; demolition of old building; Excavation South of 50th Street; Excavation North of 50th Street; Underpinning buildings; Steel erection south of 50th Street; Steel erection north of 50th; concrete and masonry; 58th to 59th Street steel changes; Canopies; 45th Street changes; Panoramas and track layouts; maintaining traffic; New buildings: main station, post office, boiler house and loft building; Electric baggage trucks.

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Snapshots of New York city firehouses, primarily in Manhattan, but also including Bronx and Brooklyn; views of fire fighting in Greenwich Village, including fire fighters, trucks, etc.; Centennial celebration of New York Fire Department in 1965, including snapshots of the Al Vogt family at city hall, Commissioner Martin Scott, Comm. Thompson, a parade on Broadway including fire companies, antique fire equipment; views of fire boat laid in; transparencies laid in; fire fighting equipment in Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts; nursing home structure after a fatal fire, Schenectady; images of fire department medals on cover.

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Album of John L. Buckeley, later owned by his brother Charles J. Buckeley; annotations listing some of the sitters as "dead" were probably made after 1876 when Charles became owner of the album; Buckeley, Nielson, Shelton, Herran, Lord, Van Rensselaer, and others; tintypes of John Buckeley with friends, including caricatures; men in army uniforms, some from Civil War, some from later; includes naval cadets, including Japanese man; Gilbert Marbury, who was involved in polar exploration in fur outfit; images of Montevideo, and an African American woman.

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U.S. Grant, Sec. of War Belknap, various professors and officers of West Point; portraits by G. W. Pach. See also album #51, 137 268, 272, 273.

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Prentice family, Baucher, Kimball, Rev. and Mrs. Freeman, Baptist minister, Hutton, Murray, Blackwell, Gen. Alexander, and unidentified persons; also includes arm-less Civil War veteran and image of an African American inscribed: "James, the colored servant who came north with Mr. Prentice from Clinton Head." See also #20, #94.

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Includes cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards and stereographs (of the Cox home, Newark, 1882, and Deadwood, S.D.); Vreeland, Ogden, Pace, Cox, King, Hodges, Gilman, the Duke of Clarence, several bishops and others; Buckingham and Windsor Castles; invitation to Sons of the Revolution service, 1892, laid in. See also Albums 100, 160, 161, 162.

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Cartes-de visite, and 1 cabinet card laid in; John F. Seaman family and Petrachi, Stebbins, Van Nort, Noble, Cushman, Maginn, Cornell, Miss Vaux, and a view of the Seaman house, New York City.

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Tebb's Architectural Photo Co., publisher. Beecher Ogden, donor; views of Pelham Camp; "Main Camp" on cover; photos taken and mounted together to form panoramic views of the Naval Camp at Pelham, some of them marked "Extension Camp" in negative; barracks, other buildings including construction scenes; sailor on sentry duty, power plant, boat house with boats on dock; interior views of dispensary, mess hall, toilets, washroom.

Existence and Location of Copies

Digital copy is available in the Shelby White and Leon Levy Digital Library.

Separated Materials note

The album is cataloged and stored with printed collections.

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Photographer's studio register listing sitters, poses and orders, later used as a scrapbook documenting amateur photography published in the News, articles about photographic technique and social issues relating to photography; labels and directions from photographic chemicals and papers; photographs, probably in the Bronx; men in an architect's or engineer's office, including man with surveyor's transit (See Album 154 for image of same office).

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Wood engravings and halftones of Missionaries, mission churches in China, views in Japan, missions in Africa, views in Alaska, missionary hospitals, a boat house on the Harlem River and one at Port Morris synagogues and churches in New York City, Y.M.C.A., including interior views of the Harlem branch, auditorium at Ocean Grove, N.J.; many of the views are from commemorative programs, or other items issued by the churches.

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New York waterfront, including the Battery and piers on the Hudson, Riverside Park from the water; transports [?] Cedric and Baltic, the Maine, the Missouri, Alabama, Illinois and others; group photographed at Briarcliff, Sept. 1906; group in touring car; Oyster Bay, Labor Day, 1906; views of Harlem River, the Polo Grounds, Washington Bridge, and surrounding area; Arcola, including farm scenes; Livingston Field Club Soccer match; views in Washington, D.C.; view of an amusement park or fair ground; diorama of "Great Train robbery"; views looking down on a parade for Decoration Day, 1906.

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Cyanotypes and gelatin silver prints of a log cabin, ships, steamboats and sailboats, river scenery, chickens, man by a fence after a large snowfall, man in shop with bicycle, general view of a town, men in an architect or engineer's office; men with musical instruments on a small stage; the same in back of extension or shed; workshop with conical smokestack; laid in is a later photo on postcard paper of a couple posing with "Chicken people" (men in bird costumes) standing in the background. See also albums 79-81, 101, 148-150, 274.

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71 leaves; views in New York city and vicinity, including the Hudson River, Coney Island and streets, public buildings and parks in Manhattan.

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Mary Rutherford Jay went to France as part of Comité Américaine des Régions Devastées which was sponsored by Anne Morgan. She helped establish gardens at Versailles, planted and maintained by invalid soldiers to supply fresh vegetables to American forces. Later she was Hostess for the Junior Officers' Club at the American Embarkation Center at Le Mans under the auspices of the Red Cross and sponsored by W.N. Cromwell; includes photographs of gardens at Versailles, soldiers and American women working; portraits of Miss Jay; views in Paris, and postcards from Paris and elsewhere; menu of the mess of the 103rd Field Artillery for Feb. 1, 1919, with drawing on verso of last position of the artillery, North Verdun; views of soldiers at the Junior Officer's Club, and of the interior and gardens; plans for the club; letters of support and appreciation; views of guns, and of devastated towns; calling cards, invitations, "A Yank's Prayer; views of the parade of American forces in Paris; pile of cannons statue of rooster atop it; piece of metal, a button, a metal identification plaque; schedules of staff at Junior Officers' Club; list of officers for Junior Officers' Mess, and other documents; letters from soldiers; travel documents, including passes and passport; portrait of two German shepherds with Christmas greetings; various newspapers and magazines laid in.

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Views of advertising for Liberty Bonds at various locations around the city.

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Phillip Corell, photographer. Photographs depict scenes in Lower Manhattan and Greenwich Village, including public buildings, homes, businesses, and street scenes and events such as parades; leaves are arranged by the earliest date on each leaf.

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Loose prints from another album, or from mounted photos that were cut out of their mounts are boxed and accompany album 162.2, including views of William Sulzer [Jr.?] and Dorothy Gould with baby bear, views of Valdez, Diomede Islands, waterfall at Sulzer, AK, Cape Rodney, Perry Island and Unalaska, portraits of Eskimo and Indian women by F.H. Nowell, some standing with reindeer, woman suckling two children, man in kayak, woman and children, miner's cabin buried in snow, elevated Eskimo(?) graves; views not in Alaska, possibly in California of a fruit orchard, a hotel, and a large church.

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Views of signs advertising Sapolio and other products, showing their locations on billboards and buildings, including interiors, in Los Angeles and other California locations; images of people including Chinese boy sitting in a basket and Sapolio salesman; streetscapes and automobiles, windmills and water towers; each image is captioned by the photographer, who was also sign poster, giving the advantages of the chosen location. See also related Sapolio materials in Landauer Collection.

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Ground breaking and cornerstone laying; sequential views as the building goes up; views of the 2nd Avenue building, including exterior and interior views showing galleries, offices, library, including view showing materials in crates.

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Portraits of cadets and teachers.

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Unidentified warehouse fire scene, with Engine Co. 8; Chrystie Street, Feb. 12, 1912, depicting ice-coated tenements, and Dep. Chief Langford; men of Engine 13; firemen taking hoses up the stairs and into a brownstone style house; 56 Vesey Street fire, Feb. 13, 1912; Engine 74, Truck 25 Battalion Chief Grey in a carriage; Truck 16 on W. 24th Street, Oct. 19, 1912; Truck 58 taking up their hoses; fire scene, 383 Amsterdam Ave., Lieut. Murphy and Short.

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Shows professors and students at the school, each identified; photographers include Alman & Co. and Rockwood; includes three Japanese students.

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Various paging showing New York city scenes including lower Manhattan, parks, streets, statues, rivers, hotels, Easter Sunday on Fifth Avenue, public buildings including the New York Public Library, City Hall, Grand Central Station.

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Ca. 100 photos of Catskill Water System including views of the Hudson River, portraits of officials, reservoirs, tunnels under construction, and restoration of reservoir sites; includes African American workers.

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Civic and historic buildings, parks, monuments, homes and businesses, Theodore Roosevelt at a whistle-stop in Morristown; a flood; various portraits laid in; also includes clippings; most views from the 1920s, many taken for A.H. Pierson by Charles Curtis, with earlier and possibly later views interspersed in the album.

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Green, Norvin H., compiler. Embossed on cover: "U.S. Army Air Forces, Aerial Photographic Section." Primarily views of New York harbor ferries: including original photographs, including a stereograph, copy photographs from various New York institutions, including New York Public Library, the Museum of the City of New York, Mariners' Museum and other institutions, clippings from 19th and 20th century publications showing ferries, ferry accidents, a Civil War scene showing troops landing from steamboats, schedules, an invitation to ride "The Narrows" on its innaugural voyage in 1946, ferry passes for various companies, interiors and engines, ferry terminals, including lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Astoria, copies of prints and paintings, copies of currency with a ferry pictured on it, views of New York Harbor, and Manhattan streets.

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Color photographs of interior of McHesson home, documenting furniture and portraits, some of which were given to the "Historical Museum"; letter enclosed with the album describes the views, and gives genealogical information about the sitters in the portraits.

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Views in Europe: women playing shuffleboard on deck and other ship-board views; gardens, buildings, homes; people in small early automobile; [Lake Como?]; local residents, woman and boy with baskets on their backs; soldier; a gardener; sheep; villas; views in Italy including Venice and Rome; street scenes including local people; horse omnibus outside Hotel Londres; white-washed coastal town built on steep slopes.

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Cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite and tintypes; men, women and children, including man in Masonic regalia, group portraits and child with Easter basket and stuffed bunny; copy of pictorial Lord's Prayer.

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Anti-Submarine net of 4-foot mesh at the entrance to New York Harbor, started January 10, 1942; construction and laying of net.

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Spero, Charles, photographer. Album documenting the construction of the William Street Subway in lower Manhattan, by Smith, Hauser and MacIsaac, Inc. contractors, 1915-1917; views in the tunnels showing men at work drilling piles, etc.; buildings in the area, including no. 122, oldest standing bldg. on William Street, Pine, Pearl Sts. and Hanover Sq.; man welding; contractor's truck; overhead gas bypass pipe; wooden water main and valve removed during the construction; views depicting the underpinning work done on the building along the route; cross section drawing of the tunnel; concrete mixer; Fulton, Wall and William, showing network of pipes below the street.

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Album documenting New York Division on the border during the punitive expedition against Pancho Villa, including the 1st New York Cavalry and its captain, William J. Donovan (later General); army unit in [New Mexico? Texas?] soldiers in cars, trucks, in front of tents, soldiers drilling, cavalry parades; barracks, cook shacks, tents, interior view of office; officers with pelican; houses and buildings in surrounding area; a river; horsedrawn ambulances; includes one portrait that is probably of Gen. John J. Pershing.

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Group portraits of French and American dignitaries; views of groups visiting Versailles, Reims, Verdun and other battlefields, and group wearing gas masks, and visiting air fields with airplanes arrayed in formation; people pictured include Joffre, Niox, Ambassador Sharp of the U.S., Loucher and Payeur, Gen. Hirschauer; soldiers on horseback passing through village at the front.

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Cartes-de-visite and cabinet card portraits of Warner, Herrick, Howland, Whittemore, Humbert, Opdyke, Lee, Taylor, Wallis, and other families. See also Album #191.

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Portraits of governor, lt. governor and others, possibly other politicians.

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Album created by Mrs. Benjamin Ludington for her daughter Helen Ludington Powers; portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Ludington; interior views of the home at 44 69th Street East showing woodwork, ornate furnishings and knick-knacks and art work, as well as more informal rooms including bed and dressing room, library and informal sitting room; man in office; portrait of the family. See also Album #135.

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Snapshots and photographic greeting cards showing the Nicholls Family and friends and relatives; includes children with pets, and toys, playing the piano and at the beach.

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Primarily views of the second Madison Square Garden which was designed by McKim Mead and White showing interiors, including performance area set up for a circus, with a swimming pool; men boxing in MacLevy Gym; looking down at a stage; the box office area, stairways; exterior views: the roof garden during the demolition of the structure; views from Madison Square Park; advertisements for Ringling Bros. Circus and MacLevy's gym; views showing the tower, including the archer sculpture and including the surrounding area; building decked out in bunting; arcade walkway out front; also includes copies of earlier photographs, including copies of the Central Railroad freight station, later the first Madison Square garden, and including view of building as Barnum's Hippodrome; includes views by Brown Bros. and Wurts Brothers.

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Invitation, guest cards, transportation tickets for Champlain celebration and Hudson Fulton Celebration pasted inside front cover; views of the lake, copies of engravings of Champlain, his battle with the Iroquois and Benedict Arnold's ship the Royal Savage, Thomas MacDonough, Ethan Allen, ruins of Fort Ticonderoga, and the restoration of the fort; copy of painting of battle of Cumberland Bay; replica of Champlain's caravel, recovery of the hull of Arnold's schooner, ruins of Ft. Ticonderoga, Mrs. H.P. Pell, at whose direction old Fort Ticonderoga is being restored; montage of portraits of Lake Champlain Tercentenary commissions of New York and Vermont; Gov. Hughes and commission members at Plattsburgh; the Pavilion, or old Pell Homestead, during restoration; commission members by automobile; courthouse and other views at Plattsburgh, including parades; the yacht Valcour; Gov. and Mrs. Hughes arriving; residence of Hon. Walter C. Witherbee, Port Henry; the torpedo boat Manly; ruins of Ft. Amherst; throng leaving the steamer at Crown Point Forts; sketch of the floating island used for the presentation of the Indian pageants, and photos of the pageant; Hugh's delivering address at Crown Point Forts; Seth Low, President Taft, his daughter Helen, Col. Robert M. Thompson, Elihu Root, other speakers; Gov. Hughes and Admiral Uriu of Japan; Taft and family aboard houseboat Sliouan; group portraits on the steps of the Pell Homestead; Hotel Champlain (with article about fire there); Religious exercises at Isle Le Motte, Vt.; Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Crab Island; drawing of Champlain Monument, and article regarding it; some photographs and articles laid in; some photographs by Beals, L.E. Shattuck, George T. Woodward, Trumbull.

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American Studio photographs of streets in New York including Broadway between Bowling Green and 42nd street, Wall Street, Park Row, Fifth Avenue; New York Harbor, ships under sail and at dock; men on tower of Brooklyn Bridge; some views are copies from earlier works by Anthony and others, including one labeled as from a daguerreotype from 1853. See also album #201.

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Postage stamp on inside of front cover commemorates event; views of ships, New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty, ferries and steamboats, submarines, battleships and other navy vessels, the S.S. Robert Fulton, the S.S. Lusitania at the Cunard dock, tall ships and naval vessels from other countries, replica of the Half Moon, parade views. See also album #203.

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Photographs, postcards, exhibition notice, invitation, Christmas cards, and other materials depicting contemporary and historic ships, including snapshots on the deck and bridge of the Britannic of Liverpool; article about Modigliani and ballet laid in; children's drawings laid in.

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George P. Hall and Sons, photographers. "Central Bridge and 155th Street Viaduct, New York City," with "Alfred P. Boller, Engineer" embossed in gold; title page has particulars of construction, including contractors, costs and city departments responsible; map of bridge and approaches; views of the completed bridge and approaches, interior view showing turning mechanism, turntable under construction, and other construction scenes, detailed views of gate or toll houses, railing, and stairways, views of the bridge from below.

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Cabinet cards of unidentified family, and one memorial card of Henry Ward Beecher; most photographs made by Brooklyn photographers Gardner & Co., others by Mrs. E.G. Lacey of Morristown, and others by Philadelphia photographers.

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Cabinet card photographs of Lawrie, Clark, Meyer, Carpenter, Reynolds and Hurley families, including men, women and children, woman with a dog.

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Views in Central Park, including winter views with snow, the reservoir, and surrounding buildings; Hampshire House on Central Park South; buildings on Fifth Avenue; Park Avenue, including aerial views, postcard of apartment courtyard, group of women in court of 277 Park Ave., truck in the shape of a roll of Lifesavers, other buildings along Park Ave.; buildings around Gramercy Park; 301 East 21st; 10 East 39th St.; photographers include Stadler, Underwood and Underwood.

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Views of men hunting and fishing in the west, including a clergyman; showing off trophies in front of tents; wagons, and men on horseback; military encampment; soldiers including an African American and Indians; family in front of a cabin; mine buildings; interior view with woman and soldiers; group with tennis rackets; group portraits of women and soldiers on steps of a building; excursion into a canyon.

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Dunsmore, John Ward, 1856-1945; self-portrait; Dunsmore in his studio, with painting, and props; copies of his paintings depicting scenes from the Revolutionary War, some of which were reproduced in the Pageant of America.

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"Photographs by Voorhees -- Inc. Portraits of distinction" on inside from cover; snapshots by Frank[?] or Mabel[?] Vorhees of friends including the Jim Blauvelts, "Countess Voorhensky," Dr. Neida Ogden, the Martines and others at Nyack, and in New York at dinner at Dora's and at the "Russian Party."

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Bulk of photographs are from the 1920s, with some earlier and later; has an image labeled Manhasset, Long Island on the cover; images not in any particular order, with rural images on the same page as images of the Plaza Hotel.

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Whitehouse, and Serrell families and others, including British and European royalty and other celebrities; cartes-de-visite.

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Views in Cuba, including the transport Wright at dock, government wharf, ice plant, Nautical club, ladies bath, steam launch "Santiago", Yellow fever hospital, Orphelin's' Asylum, Hospital Civil, old Spanish Tower, Plaza de Dolores, stone cutting engine, Cathedral, waterworks, exhibit of photographs labeled "Buffalo Exhibit," probably the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo, harbor and other piers, railroad station, jail, including man whitewashing columns, officers' hospital, interior view of courtroom, group of men on patio, Afro-Cubans with cart, "a typical cabin," a church, Arsenal, San Carlos Club including interior, offices, dos Bocas, train in the countryside, Cayo Toro, Spanish fort, tents to the right, Santa Ursula battery, Sta. Ines Fort, Cay Ratones; photographs by L. LaMarque. See also album #223.

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Eames, Wilberforce 1855-1937, compiler. Views of New York city homes, business, churches, etc., most lithographs made for Valentine's Manual; maps, some from Valentines; text from various sources.

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Album of mostly cartes-de-visite with some cabinet cards, including one of a cat; most are unidentified, except a few of Francis Egerton Webb; includes many photographs of children, and one of a dog; includes European photographers.

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Portraits and group portraits of faculty and students, some identified; Julius Brill, photographer.

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Portraits and group portraits of faculty and students, some identified; P.C. Duchochois, photographer.

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Portraits and group portraits of faculty and students, some identified.

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Views of the construction, including workers and track on Broadway, mazes of pipes underground, stacks of cobblestones, posters advertising Bill Nye's "The Cad' at the Union Square Theatre, men in bowlers, including J.D. Crimmin; details of equipment; views around Union Square and Bowling Green.

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Exterior and interior views including view of Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard sitting at desk.

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Social life and customs in England, including dining, dancing, shopping, playing tennis, rowing, and courtship.

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Railroads, Consolidated Edison, a map of the fair and the area, snapshots, postcards, booklets from various state buildings.

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Paraphernalia such as match books, postcards snapshots and newspaper articles.

General

Album is unaccounted for as of March 2023.

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Views of construction, etc. and men associated with building the subway.

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Travel views made with early Kodak camera in California, Washington, British Columbia.

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Titled variously Claremont Park, and Fort Tryon Park. General views of the construction of Claremont Park, between Riverside Church and the International House, with Grants Tomb to the west, details of stairways, retaining walls, water pipes and drains; postcards and photographs of various locations in Europe which served as sources.

6 vols. each album labeled with Project title, Olmstead Bros., name of engineer, Edward J. Carrillo, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Photographers include E.S. Keogh, Irving Underhill, A.H.H., F.F.B., J.B.M., D.M. Jones, L. Funk, J.C.T., E.S.K., J.H.K., Russell & Co., G.R. Fist.

Corbin Place Bridge, and Main Underpass Bridge: excavation of approaches, construction of bridges, excavation of underpass, construction of bridge, including setting stones in place, and images with Jack Carrillo identified, other images laid in, including view with George Washington Bridge, looking north to the Palisades, Broadway and Dyckman, Broadway and Thayer, children in wading pool.

Existence and Location of Copies

Digital copy is available in the Shelby White and Leon Levy Digital Library.

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Walk 28 to Walk 60, inclusive, Bennett Ave. Addition, North and East Slope Panoramas, fan chamber, Alpine garden including the grotto, North Slope Comfort station, Museum approach walls, image with Jack Carrillo's dog in it, views that include the Sobol Bros. Gas station.

Tree moving, Samples, Belgian block, street lamps, sign posts, seats, Bridges and details in Central Park, rock filled slopes, stone walls and other architectural details for reference (not in Fort Tryon--some in Maryland, California, Massachusetts, Washington D.C., on Rockefeller's estate in Pocantico Hills, and other locations). flagpole model, tractor at work.

Existence and Location of Copies

Digital copy is available in the Shelby White and Leon Levy Digital Library.

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Scenes in Manhattan and Brooklyn, a ship in NY harbor, scenes in an Orthodox church, parades, fire scenes, portraits of a baby, portraits of women, including cheesecake shots.

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Images made when Eleanor Katz was the guest of Irving Strauss when he was invited to view Operation Sail from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Forrestal; the invitation and the U.S.S. Forrestal; views of the tall ships on the East River and ships and the Statue of Liberty on July 3; 59th Street pier in Brooklyn and views enroute to the Forrestal; fireboat spraying fountains of water; tall ships and small craft in New York Harbor; views on deck of the Forrestal, including the arrival of President Ford by helicopter, officers and guests, sailor hotdog vendors; Pres. and Mrs. Ford, and Mittendorf; group portraits of Katz and Strauss and others; sunset views of the harbor.

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5X8 in. views of San Francisco: general views of the town, Golden Gate, hotels, ferry building, Woodward's Gardens, mansions, cable cars, Observatory in Golden Gate Park, Cliff House, Seal rocks, Chinese Josh House, interior of Chinese restaurant, alley in Chinatown; street view in Oakland; Monterey: general view, Hotel del Monte, including club house and garden, beach, bath house, Cypress Point, adobe buildings at Fremont's fort; Carmel Mission; Yosemite views including mountains, lakes and waterfalls; redwood trees.

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Compiled by Henry E. Rile; clippings of images depicting New York city parks, including Central Park, Riverside Park, the Speedway at the Jumel Mansion, Bronx Park, Van Cortland Park, Washington Square, Madison Square, Mount Morris Park, Morningside Park, Seward Park, Prospect Park, City Hall Park, Lion park, Pelham Bay Park, the Columbia Yacht Club House; includes winter scenes, including sledding and curling, a coaching parade, also a few trees and scenes not in parks, but showing natural surroundings, including gardens on the Astor Estate, and view on snowy Fifth Avenue.

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Compiled by Henry E. Rile; note on inside of notebook reads "1906, commenced the collection"; includes index to images; clippings of houses, public buildings, churches, theaters, historic sites, and events such as the explosion and fire of 1845; notes give date of image, often when structure was built and when it was torn down, altered or destroyed.

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Prints, clippings from magazines and other publications, and stationery with view letterhead, including engravings, lithographs, halftones, etching, wood engraving and drypoint, depicting historic sites in Manhattan, including farmsteads, churches, hotels, the stock exchange and other commercial buildings, the Hudson and East Rivers, Central Park, views from and in Brooklyn Heights, cultural buildings including Astor Library, the Crystal Palace, interior of 7th Regt. Armory Fulton Ferry, state prison, The Tombs including interior showing police court, charitable institutions; panorama of the city from Brooklyn; a view of Brady's Gallery of Daguerreotype; Indian village of Manhattans; riot of Astor Place, burning of City Hall; images made between ca. 1820 and ca. 1892.

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Copies of portraits of Mrs. Bradley Martin (Cornelia Sherman Martin), the hostess, and her guests at a costume ball held in 1897; some portraits with Falk credit; most guests dressed as European royalty, also includes one man dressed as a samurai or Japanese aristocrat.

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Portraits of Blanch Ethel Amweg, who went by Ethel; includes baby and childhood pictures with her mother and siblings, and at seaside entertainments, images of her at 15 and 17, and slightly later, including her in various costumes, including men's clothing; Ethel and friend dressed for masquerade; Ethel in what is probably her debutante dress, and possibly in her wedding dress to Walter Scott; views of the house decorated for her wedding, and her wedding presents; portraits of Ethel with her daughter Willette (Billie); portraits from travels, including Man Ray portraits; oter photographers include Underwood and Underwood, Kaiden and others; portrait of Ethel in her wedding dress for her wedding to Edward Barber; portraits made in Boston, San Francisco, Paris, Holywood, Florida, New York; views of her apartment on Park Ave., see also Album #190; includes early color photographs; portraits of Ethel, Billie and Mel outdoors at home. See also album #265, 267-273

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Commercially produced photographs by Davey Photo. Co., one hand-colored, depicting buildings and scenery on Hawaii, including public ceremony with reviewing stand decorated with American, British and other flags; streets and buildings in Honolulu; Iolani Palace; Dr. Murray's Residence; Waikiki; scenery portraits of Hula dancers; man in army uniform in front of small house; small, possibly amateur photographs, including a picnic, shore and cliff views, a military camp; ships and outriggers, soldiers, including one on horseback. See also album #265-267, 269-273.

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Interior views of the apartment showing foyer, living room, dining room (with murals showing Italian scenes), library, game room, and the bedrooms of Billie (Willette A. Scott), Ethel and Edward, with Ethel seated at her desk in one view; accompanying copies of articles describing the marriage of Ethel Scott and Edward Barber in 1925; Art Deco design on blue cover. See also album #265-269, 271-273.

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Faculty and cadets at West Point, 1867, each identified, and including group portraits of the class, and views of West Point scenery.

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Includes images printed in both gelatin silver and cyanotype, and includes early Kodak views; farm views including winter scenes, men digging a trench, corn field, boy and goat, man with apples, fields, man in false beard with wheelbarrow; street views include a parade, homes, including backyard scenes, man with ponies, carriages; beach scenes and Clason Point Baths, gospel streetcar, and tent meeting, churches; interior views including a Christmas tree; portraits include women with tennis rackes, man with cat, men and women in graduation costume, men in costume or false beards, etc. emoting for the camera; many of the photographs are faded; small. See also album #79-81,101, 149, 154.

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Photographs by Mal Gurian Associates, photographers, of the progress of the construction of Newtown High School in 1956.

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Twelve photographs depicting the University Club, including one exterior view showing carriages in front, and 11 interior views showing various richly appointed rooms, including a pool, billiard room, library, dining room, meeting and sitting rooms.

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Wedding album, bound in white with gold lettering on cover; color photographs approx. 7.5 x 9.5 in. or less; bride in front of mirror, with bridesmaids, a view showing bridal gown with train, bride with parents, with dog, arriving at church, marriage ceremony and communion, group portrait of wedding party, bride and groom, reception photographs, cutting the cake, dancing, etc.

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Issued in portfolio; title from cover; reproductions of drawings by J. Ernest Brierly of scenes, historic homes, taverns, roads, many representing the period of New Amsterdam

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Construction photographs of the South Ferry building (Contract 2881A); men from various trades at work; general views of the project; details of demolition and construction and of various rooms and areas of the buildings; 8x10 images in 3-ring binders.

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Cartes-de-visite, mostly unidentified, including some prominent persons, including Grant and other Civil War Generals, and others; a caricature, European scenes and art, sentimental views.

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Photographs of Alice Bartlett and members of the Stinson, Smith and Harvey families, including wedding and graduation pictures; mostly amateur photography.

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Lithographs, including cover, with various scenes from Independence Hall, Old Witch House, Salem, David Burnes house in Washington, D.C., Old Swede's Church, Philadelphia, Mount Vernon, Christ Church in Alexandria, Arlington Heights; probably issued in portfolio, now bound.

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River Steamers, including images of the Clermont, sailing ships, ocean liners, sailing and steam yachts, ferries, primarily centered in New York and the Northeast; includes earlier illustrations, as well as contemporary photographs.

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Cartoons by William Steig, Otto Soglow, Peter Arno, Gluyas Williams Abner Dean and others.

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Portraits of politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen, and baseball players; views of buildings and fences covered with posters and bills, and a building housing a bill posters' business, bill poster's advertisement, Buffalo Bill invitation, bill posters' association dinner, and other advertising related persons; views of Tarpon Springs, and Palm Springs Florida; views of Long Beach and other Long Island locales; series of portraits of little girls sitting at Smith typewriters, including ethnic stereotypes of African American and Chinese girls.

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Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Witherbee documenting the weddings of friends; includes invitations, thank you notes, newspaper clippings and snapshots of Gwynne-Van Schaick, Baylis-Aurebach, Lawrence-Atwell, Von Friesen-Scheitlin, Linn-Blair, Pyne-Landon, Field-Marshall, Sloane-Lee marriages.

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Is embossed "Photographs Vol. II," Angela as a baby, at Aratoma Farm, Katonah, views at a cottage in Summerville, S.C. plantation homes, cabins, a fort, unidentified African Americans, homes in Beaufort, S.C., snapshots at a wedding, views at Happy Valley Farm, including the gardens, family, building stone pump house, travels in Plattsburg, N.Y. and Stockbridge, Mass., Robert Fowler in uniform, R.O.T.C. training in Plattsburg, picnics and beach views, biplanes at a field in Garden City, L.I.

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Fowler family snapshots, including children; trip to the Mediterranean, Spain, France, Italy, Monaco, England, including churches and cloisters, castles, chateaus, villas, cottages, gardens and street scenes; views in Rheims showing World War I destruction.

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Snapshots of the Fowler Family, friends and relations; Rippowam School field days, St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.) crew races; children playing, swimming, on the beach, sailing, and horseback riding; vacationing on Cape Cod, including group watching an eclipse of the sun through filters, and the sun during the eclipse; views in Katonah; horse-show at Bedford, N.Y. ; winter and spring holidays, 1933, including sledding and other snowy scenes, playing field hockey, baseball and horse riding; birthday picnics.

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House, gardens, picnics, crew races, snow scenes, dogs; travels.

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Loose album pages, showing Fowler family at Katonah, and loose portraits of the family. See also album #89, 303, 305-307.

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Activities including picnics, tennis, snow scenes, dogs, stacking firewood, working on the road, repairing pool; views in Williamsburg, Va., Bermuda; Philadelphia Garden Club outing, St. Paul's School, crew races, sailing, gardens, wedding of Angela Fowler and Craig Wylie; Shirley Temple on deck of Queen of Bermuda.

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Fowler family activities, Robert Fowler, III in navy uniform, views in Quebec, Maine, Rhode Island, Pam at Smith College flying field; Christmas.

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Family activities, grandchildren; all vols. include some color photos. See also album #89, 303-305, 307.

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Children and grandchildren, skiing, yard work, swimming, fishing, a parade, beach scenes, picnics.

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Pam's Wedding album, 1948: larger format professional photographs of the wedding of Pam Fowler to Robert McKim.

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Children and grandchildren, painting the chicken coop, attending a dog show, beach views, C.F. on sailboat with camera in her lap.

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Has a description of "A perfect woman" pasted on inside front cover; images of women, many taken from "Sarony's Living Pictures" published by Napoleon Sarony in 1895; includes views from other sources, including reproductions of sculpture and paintings.

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On the cover are earlier images. Primarily snapshots; portraits of Albert and Alma Clayburgh; Dewey Arch and Naval Parade, 1899; Central Park; house called the Crags in Harmony Park, Yonkers including interiors and porches, stables, greenhouse, gardens, dairy and chicken yard, carriages in stable, portraits of horses; Albert Clayburgh on porch at crags, and on board the yacht Coyote; snapshots of friends and family in garden, including terrier named Folly; views in Yonkers, including Getty Square, Warburton Ave., Broadway, Main Street, Van Cortland Road, churches, Manor House, the racetrack; views on the Hudson, including ferry landing at Alpine with Palisades, the old Cornwallace Headquarters, Hudson piers at Yonkers; residences and other buildings in Dobbs Ferry, Hastings, Irvington; Ardsley Gold Club; views in New Hampshire including hotels, mountains and waterfalls; views in Saratoga; ice sailing at Lakewood, N.J.; commercial photographs and snapshots of Paris, including views, from Exposition Universalle (?); Fontainbleau; Versaille; Nice, including self-portrait in convex glass; Villefrance; Monte Carlo; Mentone; Rome; Naples; snapshot of soldiers along side of road; Pompeii; goats and donkeys.

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Views of Amsterdam, Brussels and other northern European cities.

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Portraits of faculty and students of the class of 1878 of Wesleyan University, including individual and group portraits, portraits of the baseball team and the crew, views of the campus, including interiors, and views of Middletown, Conn.; Frank Forshew, of Hudson N.Y., photographer.

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Photographic copies of allegorical prints, many of women and children in domestic situations; also includes landscapes, romantic couples, animals. See also album #12, 85

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President's carriage coming up Broadway, April 30, 1889 centennial celebration; ship under construction, buildings and homes in Brooklyn, warehouses and piers along the Brooklyn waterfront, tree lined street, two men on sailboat named Abiel Abbot Low, portrait of two men, watercolor landscapes; views from a trip west, including group on glacier at Glacier, ferry called the Oregon, logs splashing into river or pond at Castle Crag, Cal., Mt. Shasta], group portrait above rapids [Niagara]; photographs are various sizes, most mounted; included photographs by B.J. Smith of Brooklyn, A.H. Green, Castle Crag, and Moorehead. See also album #24.

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Views of the college, professors and their homes, group portraits of class and fraternities, portraits of individual classmates, with later portraits of many of them laid in, view of Main Street, Brunswick, Me.

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de Groot family and others, including snapshots. See also album #33.

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A collection of 15 Albertype prints. Issued in portfolio; views of Crawford House, railroad in White Mountain Notch, rivers and waterfalls, Mt. Washington, a log home on the Glen Ellis River, the Wiley home.

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74 photographs of the class and of faculty, many with signatures; program for Alumni Day, 114th Commencement, 1910 laid in.

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Views in Scotland, some dated between 1887 and 1889, including views of Kirn, the S.S. Ivanhoe, Rothsay Castle, the Trossachs, Loch Katrine, Loch Lomond, including swans on the Loch, Invarrary Cross, sculptures of Longfellow and Sir Walter Scott, views in Stratford, including interior of house and church, Warwick Castle, Kenilworth, Manor House Hotel, boats on river or canal, Canterbury Cathedral, windows in New College Chapel, Oxford, interior of Westminster Abbey, view of St. Paul's; view of a fjord; photographs by James Valentine and George Washington Wilson.

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Most images signed on mount, many with accompanying dedication laid in.

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Postcards from around the world, including the U.S., Philippines, Japan, Egypt, Ceylon, Monte Carlo; portraits of William Williams, Sam W. Hoke,; snapshots of the Hotel Bonhomie, a fishing boat; clippings about fishing, presidential candidates, bill posting, lodge officers, City Island, circus history, and obituaries of Tammany politicians and circus people; ticket for 1907 Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

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Views of the campus, faculty, including Louis Agassiz, Asa Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Henry W. Longfellow and others, and members of the class of 1858; letter from Geo. C. Burgess, member of the class to H. W. Bryant, bookseller, laid in.

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Issued in portfolio with title page; Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, French Line, publisher; 102 leaves; views of the ship, crew on deck, passengers on deck; views in New York, Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Greece, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, Constantinople, Jaffa, Jerusalem, in the Suez Canal, Tunis and Algiers.

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Photographs, programs, photostats of articles and other materials documenting the Centennial of Cooper Union. Issued in slip case.

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Nord-Amerika und Canada, 1885-1886; Spanien, 1888; Commercial photographs and published views in North American and Spain, including views of yachts, probably at Newport, hotels, homes, tourists at Niagara Falls, views at Savannah, group with horses and dogs for a hunt, views in Jacksonville, snowy views and ice palaces (St. Paul?), huge stacks of lumber by river, government buildings; Montreal; views in Spain, including Bilbao, Toledo, Seville, the Alhambra, Cartagena.

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Portraits of mostly unidentified persons, including many of young children and women; one portrait of woman with seven St. Bernard puppies; mostly studio, some outdoor views; includes some identified as with the name Lewis.

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Photographs by H.H. Tiemann Co., Peyser & Patzig, and unidentified photographer(s) depicting New York scenes, including Delmonico's Hotel (1885), Madison Avenue, north from 41st (1884), Fifth Avenue north from 18th, with Chickering Hall (1879); Fifth Avenue South from 34th St. (1899); Fifth Avenue south from 35th Street (1876, 1898); Dr. Sarsaparilla Townsend House, 34th and 5th, site of Stewart Mansion (1880); A.T. Stewards House (March 17, 1894); Astor House, (1893, 1894); Fifth north from 34th (1899); 37th and Fifth Ave. (1908); Lord & Taylor, 38th and Fifth (1907); Old Reservoir (1899); Rutgers Female college from 41st (1885); Fifth Ave. and 42nd Street (after 1911); Fifth Ave. State (1899); Fifth Avenue North from 42nd Street (1899); Jewish Synagogue, Fifth Ave. and 44th; N.E. corner Fifth Ave. and 45th showing John N. Golding's office (1907); Windsor Hotel, Fifth Ave. and 46th (1894; Fifth Avenue North from 48th (1899); Buckingham Hotel, Fifth Avenue & 50th Street (1878); North side West 48th , (1922, later Rockefeller Center); Democratic Club, Buckingham Hotel and Belgravia, Fifth and 49th St. (1907, later Saks); North east corner Fifth Ave. and 51st, Union Club (1938); Twin Vanderbilt Houses, Fifth and 52nd, and looking south on Fifth from 52nd (1925); Madison Ave. looking Northwest from 55th (with much open land in foreground); West side of Fifth Ave. 53rd to 55th Street (1890); Fifth Ave. north from 53rd (1898); St. Thomas Church, Fifth Ave. and 54th St. (1876); St. Luke's Hospital, Main entrance, Fifth Avenue and 54th; St. Luke's looking east toward Fifth Ave. (1894); Mrs. Alice G. Vanderbilts, 57th to 58th, and Fifth Avenue; Plaza Hotel, Fifth Ave. and 59th (1894); Fifth Ave. & 61st Street, Hotel Pierre (1930); Temple Beth El, Fifth Ave. and 76th (1892); N.E. corner, Fifth Ave. and 82nd, showing empty lot, shack and women (1898); Fifth Ave. and 101st-102nd St., (1894) showing shacks; S.E.. corner, Madison Ave. and 28th (1911); Park Avenue Hotel (1875); Fourth Ave. and 42nd St. showing destroyed building (1896); Park Avenue North from 60th St.; Madison 49-50, Columbia College; N.E. corner 49th and Madison, Hamilton Hall; Gerry House and Metropolitan Club, 60th and 61st S. (1930); Park Ave. North from 66th St.; Hunter College, Park Ave. 68th - 69th, with piles of stone lining street; looking west from park Ave. and 93rd (1872); Sutton Place 56th Street looking N.E. (1910); Shot tower, Sutton Place, 53-54 St. (1874); New York Athletic club; York Avenue East side looking south, 63rd-62nd (1948); Racquet and Tennis Club, 25 West 43rd. St.; Central Park Garden, 6th Ave. and 59th (1883); Rossmore Hotel, 42nd and Broadway (1882); Broadway n. from 42nd (1901); On the Boulevard (Broadway) (1898); Hon. D. F. Tiemann's house, Broadway and 98th (1898); 80-81st St. and West End Ave. (1894); Broadway west from 123rd (1903); New York Central Yards looking north (1904); N.Y. Central Yard looking s. west from about 47th (1898); Park Avenue S. from 50th Street (1903); e. sided Park Ave., 50-51st looking south to site of Waldorf & Park Lane (1921); New York Central Train Yard, Park Ave. s., (1898); Fifth Ave., 10th and 11th (190s); copy of painting showing Beekman Cove on East River.

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Cartes-de-visite of Civil War officers; A. Lincoln, including with his son; members of Lincoln's cabinet; Confederate officials and officers; politicians, writers, clergy, actors and actresses, including Tom Thumb, singers and ballet dancers; Queen Victoria and other royalty, a cricket team, a member of the Japanese Embassy; a hotel in Trenton Falls; includes copies of portrait engravings, and of sentimental prints and paintings; copies of ethnic stereotype caricatures; copy photograph by Rice of a Brady image of Lincoln laid in.

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Views of Joseph Keppler as a child and young man, and parents and grandparents on both sides of his family, including the Keppler, Pfau, Schuman, and Urban families, man in theatrical roles, Keppler's wife and children, Harriet Maxwell Converse, poet and author, with Nishanyanent or C. Abram a sachem. See also album #350.

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Most views stamped in negative with Lake Torpedo Boat Co. logo; views in the L.B.T. Co. Yards, Bridgeport, Connecticut, including general views of the yard from the water, views of fill, and the yard under construction, bending blocks and furnaces, the yard under snow, interior view of the machine, and other shops, the power house, fitting our basin; views of launchings, including sponsors, the ship sliding into the water, model of the U.S.S. L-5; Miss Dorothy Elliott, sponsor of U.S.S. N-4; Mrs. George E. Bevans, sponsor of the N-5; Mrs. J.A. Kissick, sponsor of the N-6; the U.S.S.. L-5 at official trials.

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James Harper Family, and members of the Perego, Ranney, Budd, Dimock, Fleet, Colgate, and Blacksham families. See also album #54, 354; related to Harper Family Mss. Collection.

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Interior views by N.L. Coe and Son, photographers of the home of Mrs. Bixler; title page with inscription: "Palazio Floriana Luciana,"; ornately furnished entry hall, foyer with portraits, piano and bookcases, drawing room with polar bear and tiger skin rugs, large paintings, dining room showing table set and china cabinet and side board, and detail showing table with table setting; and view of room with table dressed for the day with tulips from their garden, library, bedroom, "Our souvenir room": loaded with dolls, baskets pottery, sea stars and shells hanging from a net, photographs mounted on screen; views of the kitchen.

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Views in a snowy Prospect Park, including Grand Army Plaza with arch and entrance to park, people in sleighs and skating; bridges, structures; Also includes photograph of the Hall of Fame in the Bronx, and views in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, including dry dock and ships.

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Includes material relating to the Reverend S.R. Ely, Mary Ely, and William Sprague Ely; includes prints showing sentimental scenes, institutions and schools, landscapes, Oriental scenes, and portraits, including portraits of historic figures and religious persons; a drawing of the old Mill at East Hampton, and one of a house with couple and buggy in front; certificates for the American Tract Society and for various missionary organizations, and for the American Seaman's Friend Society; letter from L.H. Sigourney with memorial verse in honor of the Reverend Gilbert Livingston Smith; prints by Beauvarlet, Durand and others.

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Postcards, guidebooks, snapshots, prints, hotel and other receipts, theatre program from a trip though Europe in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, England including lakes, people swimming, mountains, trains, ice caves, sleds, historic buildings and homes, reproductions of paintings, street scenes, windmills, canals, a flea market, cemeteries, World War I bunker and destruction, views in Stratford upon Avon.

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Views and detail of construction from preparation of site to opening of the John Wanamaker Store in Great Neck; aerial view at time of opening; front of store, ribbon cutting ceremony including Mrs. George Kent, granddaughter of the founder, Mrs. Donald S. Leas, Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Kellogg, John E. Raasch, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Wanamaker, and views of dignitaries in the store; floral tributes, customers coming into newly opened store; the central staircase; views in various departments including cosmetics and jewelry, shoes, men's clothing, sportswear and dresses, furniture, dishes, carpets, linens, textiles, toys, lingerie; view of the store at night; photographic copies of newspaper, trade journal and magazine publicity; colors used in ribbon opening ceremony, corsages and store décor (samples of ribbon); sample of metal woven fabric designed by Mr. Joseph B. Platt for stairway panel motif; publicity for Grand Rapids store fixture Company which cites Gottsho-Schleisner as photographer.

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Most of the firemen are identified; firemen are in uniform, and numbered caps show that they come from a variety of companies including 16, 17, 18,22, 31, etc.; photographers include John Wood, J.K. Cole, Hersey, Dana, Prof. Ehrlich, O'Neil, De Young, H.N. Vaupel, Schwentner, Spamer and Spier, Falk, Fredricks, Tanquerey, Wilkie, Sarony, Naegeli, Schaidner, Frank of New York, U.S. Portrait Co. of Brooklyn, and Weyrich & Maurer of Hillsboro, Ohio.

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Photographs of paintings, including nudes, genre scenes, actresses, couples; landscape photograph laid in.

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Exterior and interior views of house. See also album #376.

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Exterior and interior views by Rockwood, also interior view of the Church of the Holy Apostles. See also album #374.

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Family views, official duties, and later publicity shots; one of 7 vols., others not boxed. See also Album #396. See also Richard C. Patterson, Jr. scrapbooks (MS 3184), which were cataloged separately.

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Issued in portfolio; title page, honors and awards, and list of portraits in letterpress; mounted reprints of artist's biography from various sources, a review of one-man show; 60 reproductions of paintings by Trebilcock, including portraits of Henry Alexander, Mrs. George Bartol, III, Dr. George C. Bennett, Albert Morris Bagley, Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Boomer, Mrs. Ernest Byfield, Mrs. Mary Ellet Cabell, Dr. and Mrs. Oliver C. Carmichael, "Chiarina" (the artist's wife), Mrs. Gordon Ferguson, Mrs. Frederic Church and Lisa, "Old London coachman," Frank E. Compton, Charles Proctor Cooper, Dr. Irving S. Cutter, William Dever, Rt. Rev. Horace W. B. Donegan, Mrs. Irving Florsheim, George Eastman, Mrs. Benjamin F. Failess, John B. Ford, Thelma, Viscountess Furness and Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, Dr. Edgar Goodspeed, George I. Haight, Charles Hayden, Dean Thomas F. Holgate, Dr. C.N. Johnson, Harrison Jones, John Kerbs, Mrs. Peter C. Lutkin, Dr. W. G. MacCallum, Mrs. John A. MacMillan, "Marian," Governor Albert C. Ritchie, George O. May, Horace Oakley, "Portrait of a painter," Speaker Henry T. Rainey, Rush Rhees, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walter Dill Scott, Col. Robert L. Scott, Jr., Mrs. Grant Simmons, Jr., May Galloway Snowden, "Mia Sposa," Col. T.A. Siqueland, Bishop George Craig Stewart, Edwin S.S. Sunderland, Wilfred Sykes, Mr. Paul Trebilcock, Pamela, daughter of Francis Henry Taylor, Stephen F. Voorhees, Mrs. Isabella Robinson Warner, "Young women," Dean Charles H. Warren.

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9 prints after drawings by W.A.K. Martin, published by Henry A. Martin, Ambler, Pa.; No. 122 of 150 proofs, copies printed in facsimile of the original; includes images of the Constitution, Jamestown, Despatch, St. Louis, Beagles, Perry, John Adams, Thracian, Lawrence, Congress, New Ironsides, St. Marys, Franklin, Levant, Cyane, Grampus, Hornet; some prints include images of more than one ship.

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Interiors of 854 Fifth Avenue, designed by Warren and Wetmore, 1905; probably date from the 1930s when Mrs. Henry White (nee Vanderbilt) leased or bought the house after her 54th Street and Fifth Avenue Vanderbilt twin house was sold to be demolished; includes portrait of a man sitting at desk writing; façade of home; entry and stair hall, dining room, sitting room, library, portrait of woman (Mrs. Henry White?), bedroom.

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Title does not accurately reflex contents; gelatin silver prints of tall ships including U.S.S. Monongahela, U.S.S. Essex, U.S.S. Constitution, U.S.S. Hartford; photographic reproductions of paintings including one of the Constitution, a series of painting of the Constitution in battle with the Guerierre, painting of the Bombardment of Tripoli, Dutch ships in the month of the Scheldt (A. Stork, 1869), Constitution vs. Cyane and Levant, Captain Stewart; photograph made in 1888of four old sailors, each identified with name and position on ship (name of which is only partially legible), paintings of twentieth century sea actions.

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Etchings of Memorial Hall, Harvard Hall, the Harry Elkins Widener Library; Sever Hall; Appleton Chapel; The School of Business Administration; Massachusetts Hall; Hemenway Gymnasium; Thomas Dudley Gate; The Law School; Soldier's Field; John Harvard.

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Published by Koch, sons and Company; Edition Deluxe No. 10; chromolithographs of scenes from the Civil War after watercolors by Louis K. Harlow; printed on heavy paper, with overmats that have additional scenes; includes images of Sheridan and Sherman, battle and camp scenes, a home coming scene; plates are numbered I-XII; Plate I lacking.

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Gillray, James, 1757-1815, artist. Probably reprints of original plates, with one exception two caricatures on each leaf, all uncolored; typed title list, with British Museum numbers affixed to front flyleaf; includes satires on the Scots, British politics, Foreign affairs, and English society.

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Includes accompanying pamphlet with descriptions of the images; Sherman and his generals; the "Capitol," Nashville, Tenn.; Nashville from the Capitol; Trestle bridge at Whiteside; Pass in the Raccoon Range, No. 1; Pass in the Raccoon Range, No. 2; Chattanooga, from the North; Mission ridge, from Orchard Knob; Orchard Knob, from Mission Ridge; The crest of Mission Ridge; Mission Ridge, scene of Sherman's attack; Chattanooga Valley, from Lookout Mountain (2 views); LuLa Lake, Lookout Mountain; The John Ross House; Ringold, Ga.; Buzzards' Roost; the Battle Ground of Resaca, No. 1; No. 2; No. 3; Resaca, from the rebel works; Defenses of the Etawah Bridge; Allatoona Pass, from the Etawah; Battlefield of New Hope church, Ga., No. 1; No. 2; the "Hell Hole," Battlefield of New Hope church; The Allatoona Pass; the Allatoona Pass, looking North; Pine Mountain; Our Line in front of Kenesaw Mountain; View from Kenesaw Mountain; South Bank of the Chattahoochie; The battlefield of Peach Tree Creek; Scenes of Gen. McPherson's Death; Battlefield of Atlanta, 22d July, 1864, No. 1; No.2; the Potter House, Atlanta; Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, No.3; No. 4; Destruction of Hood's ordnance train; view of Atlanta, Ga., No. 1; No. 2; Savannah River, near the city; Buen Ventura, Savannah; Savannah, looking up the river; Savannah, looking down the river; Fountain, and park, Savannah; The New Capitol, Columbia, S.C.; Ruins in Columbia, S.C. (2 views); Fort Sumter; Interior view of Fort Sumter; Exterior view of Fort Sumter; ruins of the Pinckney Mansion, Charleston; Ruins in Charleston, S.C.; Ruins of the R.R. Depot, Charleston.

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Large brown album: early photographs of Patterson with family, and as a child; views in Italy with Clare Booth Luce, 1945; in China, 1921, showing gardens, visiting a dye plant; at luncheon, in Rickshaw; at a mine; as Prison Commissioner, with Prison band and WOR radio microphone, outside Jefferson Market Prison, with Mayor Walker, Armistice Day ceremonies; Mary Pickford addressing inmates at the Workhouse; as executive vice-president of N.B.C., with Mayor LaGuardia and others at N.B.C. studios; at opening of Radio City; at dinners and luncheons; as Assistant Secretary of Commerce; at Monopoly Committee meeting; with Eleanor Roosevelt; with Ginger Rogers; at premiere of Citizen Kane; with Gloria Swanson at luncheon for Cecil B. de Mille; at fingerprinting of RKO employees; as ambassador to Yugoslavia, being briefed on activities on the Italian front; at Vatican after meeting with Pope Pius; with Marshall Tito; with wedding party in tradition costume; on a hunting trip. See also Richard C. Patterson, Jr. scrapbooks (MS 3184), which were cataloged separately.

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"Photos #5": at luncheons and other official events; with Prmie ministers, ambassadors, Kings, and with the Queen Mother atop the Empire State building, the Shah of Iran and Queen Soraya, with Eleanor Roosevelt on Human Rights Day; visiting Rome; visiting uranium mine in Colorado; at receptions at the Metropolitan, and at the U.N.; on the Aerotrain at Penn Station; greeting dignitaries at the Heliport; rededication of City Hall; Patterson donkeys; Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at Stapleton, Staten Island, 1957. See also Richard C. Patterson, Jr. scrapbooks (MS 3184), which were cataloged separately.

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"R.C.P., Jr., Photos": as chief of protocol, with dignitaries at World's Fair, including King Hussein; receiving awards; at reception for Martin Luther King, Jr. at ceremonies at Gracie Mansion, at Explorers Club dinner in honor of Lowell Thomas. Folder of extra prints supplementing those in the albums. See also Album #62. See also Richard C. Patterson, Jr. scrapbooks (MS 3184), which were cataloged separately.

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Old Tremont, 1883-1903; Old Mount Hope, 1884-1904; Echo Park and Burnside Avenue, 1891-1899; Claremont Park and Mount Eden, 1892-1904; Brown's Woods, 1890; Washington Bridge and High Bridge, 1890-1891; New York University and the Hall of Fame, 1893; Madison Avenue and Forty First Street, Bethesda Fountain and the Ramble in Central Park, 1891; Crotona Park and the Indian Lake, 1891; The Bronx River from West Farms to Lorillard's, 1891-1893; views along the Bronx River are an area now in the New York Botanical Garden.

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Views in Avon and Plainfield N.J. of family, including Mrs. H. M. Canoune and children; views from trips to California, Italy.

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France and England, including snapshots, postcards and souvenirs.

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228 illustrations covering period from October 1875 to February 1937; views of hospitals, including interiors and staff.

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Views of Korean officials, officers aboard various vessels, marines at battlefields, Korean casualties, views of the Salee River and the American ships; lacquer cover.

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Panoramic view of the piers along the North (Hudson) River, and the New York skyline beyond, with the spires of churches rising above other buildings; Brooklyn Bridge under construction; Brooklyn waterfront; images mounted on board with letterpress captions identifying landmarks.

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Copies of renderings showing the new Grand Central station, including the 42nd and 45th Street elevations, the Post Office at Lexington Ave. and 43rd Street; Substation No. 1 of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co., at 50th Street Between Lexington and Park; railyard designs, including suburban level, dated 1905; the express level; street level showing layout of streets above tracks; plan labeled "Office" showing the next level up; Longitudinal section on Park Ave., 42nd Street elevation, showing layout of tunnels, Section through Concourse, Section through Train Room; Section through 46th Street looking north, section south of 52nd Street looking north, section through 55th Street looking north, Section through 57th Street; section on cross section of 44th Street, looking north; longitudinal sections on Park Avenue.

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Cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards and tintypes of unidentified men, women and children by photographers from New York, New Jersey and Stroudsburg, PA, including a view of two men outside a shop with a sign reading J. Hummer Boot and Shoe Maker.

General

Album unaccounted for as of March 2023.

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Amateur photographs; Luna Park at night, and other Coney Island views, including the beach; views in Central Park, Bronx Park and Prospect Park, including bridges, snow scenes and skating, the entrance at Grand Army plaza, including the arch, summer houses, waterfalls, "Mr. Clark" and a boy and a girl; sleighing party in Prospect Park, 1902; Grant's tomb; City Hall and Brooklyn borough hall decorated in bunting, May 1903; cattle and ducks in pasture, Staten Island; ship on the East River; William's Bridge and speedway; Bronx park, including river and mill, Art Museum; rivers at Patterson, N.J., and Glen Falls; water tower in Prospect Park, Cleopatra's Needle; sculpture: Washington at the Customs House, Beecher in Brooklyn; Fort Greene Park; Police parade; Fort William, Governor's Island; "Carrie at House, 1903" and Allie in Prospect Park (in sailor suit); group of men with St. Bernard in Central Park; family group on roof; warships at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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Album is unaccounted for as of March 2023.

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Photographs by William Huf. 14 3.5 x 5" photos of the 1939 World's Fair in New York show the Trylon and Perisphere from many angles; a children's parade with a band and elephants; the Communications Building and the AT & T Building.

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Album is unaccounted for as of March 2023.

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Unbound album with black pages, black and white photos (some 8x10, some smaller) pasted in. Some captions in white. Group photographs of campers and counselors, action shots of male campers playing sports, eating, painting, swimming, and hiking.

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Album of 42 silver gelatin photographs depicting the interiors of butcher shops and groceries in Brooklyn and Queens. Compiled by butcher block maker W. V. Staub.

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Family photograph album focusing on the first few years of Charlotte Winifred McKim's life, featuring family activities in Florida and New York, especially beach outings.

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Cabinet card album with a green velvet cover, about half the portraits are of young women from the Packer Collegiate Institute class of 1889. Other images include formal portraits of women in hats, children, and a few men.

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Album of six albumen interior and exterior photographs of the Hotel Normandie, New York City, Ferdinand P. Earle, proprietor.

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Cabinet card album, with red velvet exterior and bone trim, holding late 19th and early 20th century cabinet cards, unidentified ancestors of Estelle Savage.

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Scrapbook filled with playbills from New York theater productions (mostly clipped from periodicals or newspapers), and related clippings and portraits of performers, or scenes from the productions. Compiled by the same person as #429.

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Photograph album containing family snapshots, including views of New York City places and scenes. The family kept chickens and lived in a clapboard house with a porch. Possible in upper Manhattan, as other photographs show Grant's Tomb, the Soldier's and Sailor's Monument, and the beginning of construction on the cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. Other photos show Central Park (including the zoo), the Williamsburg Bridge under construction, and boats on the Hudson River.

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Unbound album with silver gelatin photographs from a trip to upstate New York. The Au Salle River, Lake Placid, Mirror Lake, Elizabethtown, and Lake George are shown.

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Snapshot album with images of buildings in Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island that had been designated landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Commission. Photographs are square Kodak color prints. Identification of each image is written on pen on the photo's border, or else on a piece of paper included in the photo sleeve; some of these also include the dates of construction or other information about the structures. Images are arranged by borough; some Staten Island images are loose.

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Snapshots of Magnolia, Ohio resident Wayne Joseph's trip to New York City. Includes landmarks, billboards, Jack Dempsey's Broadway Bar, Hudson River Day Line Tour, and interior and exterior shots of the Manhattan Hotel.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Eleanor Surkis, 2008

Scope and Contents

This is an album of snapshots taken by New York City resident Eleanor Surkis one or two days after 9/11, depicting businesses and homes adorned with patriotic displays.

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Album of carte de visites, cabinet cards, and prints of the families of William Seward Webb and Lila Osgood Vanderbilt, and Louisine W. Elder and Henry Osbourne Havemeyer. The photographs, along with some biographical information about some of the family members, were placed in a binder by the donor. An empty carte de visite album dated 1861 was included in the donation.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated April 15, 2015 by Ursula M. Kammer-Fox

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Unsolicited donation, Camden NJ Public Library 2015

Scope and Contents Note

This scrapbook contains items relating to the Spence School for Girls (pamphlets, commencement announcements, invitations, etc.) as well as playbills, ticket stubs, a Coney Island puzzle and a pamphlet titled "The Art of Middle Aisling for the Bridegroom."

General Note

Wife of Mayor James J. Walker; includes photos of her exercising in ship gymnasium.

Scope and Contents Note

2 pages from an album, containing vacation photographs from Niagara Falls; Erie, PA; Lake Cuba, NY; and Madison, CT.

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Four photographs of old buildings in Brooklyn and Queens, with captions. Includes images of Alley Store in Alley Park, Queens; the Ammerman house on Avenue M and Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn (2 copies); and Hendrick Lott house on Jamaica Avenue, Queens.

Immediate Source of Acquisition Note

Gift of the Holland Society of New York, 2017

Scope and Contents Note

Includes post-World War I snapshots of New York Harbor and vicinity, and landmarks in European cities such as Paris, Rheims, Versailles, Brussels, and Wiesbaden.

Immediate Source of Acquisition Note

Gift of Nancy Slicker, October 2017 (PPAC.2017.71).

Scope and Contents

Seven small photographs collected by the donor's father, some labeled: Flatiron Building viewed from inside Madison Square; downtown street view; South Ferry & Central Park horse car; view of The Tribune and other buildings from top of the "World"; Washington's tomb; Staten Island ferry and skyline behind; Statue of Liberty with four airplanes in formation flying above. (Loose, in an envelope)

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Carol Byron, 2018.

Scope and Contents

This album appears to be associated with the auction of the fan collection of Robert Walker of Uffington, England, at Sotheby's in June 1882. The album includes 52 black and white photographs of fold-out fans. (Item found on shelves and added to the collection in April 2022; source not known.)