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Guide to the Mick Moloney Irish-American Music and Popular Culture Irish Americana Collection AIA.031.004

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
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New York, NY 10012
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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Collection processed by Marion R. Casey and Rebecca Altermatt

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on October 12, 2022
Description is in English using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Container List

Series VI: Ephemera, 1833-1961

Scope and Content Note

Series VI: Ephemera, 1856-1960 consists of cartoons, advertisements, and other examples of Irish-American imagery from journalism and marketing. Of particular interest are illustrations published in Harper's Weekly and  Puck from the 1860s and 1870s, as well as cigar-box art from the late nineteenth century, and print advertisements for Irish International Airlines, Jameson's Irish Whiskey, and Coca-Cola published in the middle of the twentieth century.

Sub-series VI.A: General, 1833-1961

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 58 Folder : 22 Academy of Music Irish Famine Relief Fund Special Programme
1880
Box: 58 Folder : 23 "Ashore" (Print)
1889
Box: 56 Folder : 1 Association of Irish Musicians, Philadelphia, flyer
Aug 24, 1957
Box: 58 Folder : 6 BF Keith Palace Theatre Program Magazine
1926
Box: 56 Folder : 2 Bookmarks (10)
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 31 Broth of a Boy (misc)
undated
Box: 58 Folder : 7 Buttons
undated
Box: 56 Folder : 3 Cartes de Visite (5)
1893, undated
Box: 55 Folder : 32 Cottages (2) (photos)
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 57 Courant, Supplement. Hartford, CT
Apr 5, 1956
Box: 56 Folder : 4 Federation of American Societies for Irish Independence, News Bulletin
Oct 11, 1949
Box: 55 Drawer : 27 Feis Eireann
1955
Box: 58 Folder : 21 Friends of Irish Freedom Card
1916
Box: 57 Folder : 1-3 Gaelic American (photostats of individual pages)
1904-1932
Box: 56 Folder : 5 Galeophone (book of Irish text and English translation)
1910
Box: 56 Folder : 6 Great Irish Musician's Union Ball, Philadelphia, program
May 29, 1953
Box: 56 Folder : 7 Greeting Cards (16)
undated
Box: 58 Folder : 24 The Illustrated History of the Mulligan Guard
1874
Box: 56 Folder : 8 Ireland's National Feis: Ladies Day in Harvest, Harp and Shamrock Club of Chicago, program
Aug 15, 1946
Box: 58 Folder : 15 Irish Airs - Victor Records Program
undated
Box: 56 Folder : 9 Irish-American Annual Dance, Philadelphia, program
Dec 15, 1945
Box: 56 Folder : 10 Irish Book Shop, New York City, catalogue
circa 1950s
Box: 59 Folder : 7 Irish Festival Music Programs
2001
Box: 56 Folder : 11 Irish Musical Association of Philadelphia, program
Feb 18, 1947
Box: 55 Folder : 28 Irish Musicians Union, Philadelphia, PA, poster
circa 1950s
Box: Shared Tamiment 162 Folder : 6 The Irish Reel (Drawing)
1913
Box: 55 Folder : 30 Irish Show of the Year, Irish Center, Philadelphia, flyer
Dec 3, 1956
Box: 58 Folder : 25 John McCormack - Symphony Hall Boston Program
1923
Box: 58 Folder : 18 "Judge's Library - All Sorts"
1894
Box: Shared Tamiment 164 Folder : 3 Life Magazine "Irish In America"
1961
Box: 56 Folder : 12 Martin Costello Orchestra, flyer
circa 1960s
Box: 55 Folder : 33 Middle Lake, Killarney (photo)
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 34 Moonan, George and Mother, Mary Ann Tiernan Moonan (photo)
Aug 31, 1928
Box: 56 Folder : 13 National Celtic Association, Chicago, circular
Aug 9, 1963
Box: 58 Folder : 17 The "New Irish Movement"
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 26 "New Year's Eve in Ireland" drawing
Jan 15, 1870
Box: Shared Tamiment 162 Folder : 7 The New York Clipper Newspaper
1891
Box: Shared Tamiment 164 Folder : 1 Newspaper Clippings
1880, 1887, undated
Box: 58 Folder : 28 Notebook with Theater Cast Lists
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 29 Pat Taggart's Furniture City, Philadelpia, Advertisement
circa 1950s
Box: 59 Folder : 8 Photograph - Unidentified Group
undated
Box: 63 Folder : 21 Poster of "Erin" Statue
undated
Box: 56 Folder : 14 Print matter and artwork, various (16 items)
1877-1953
Box: 58 Folder : 16 "Puck's Library"
1892
Box: 55 Folder : 6 "Speak or Die!" Weekly National Press
March 1892
Box: 58 Folder : 26 Thomas Moore (prints)
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 35 Three Little Maids from County Cork (photo)
1929
Box: 56 Folder : 15 Tobacco/Cigar Box Art (12 items); includes images of Peggy O'Moore, Peggy O'Neal, Robert Emmet, Denis O'Sullivan
1868, undated
Box: 58 Folder : 27 Trade Cards
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 36 Weller & Graham, map of Ireland
undated

Sub-series VI.B: Merchant Ads, 1916-circa 1960

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 54 Folder : 1 Vacuum Harness Oil
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 2 Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co.
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 3 Crescent Wash Board
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 4 Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 5 Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 6 Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 7 Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 8 Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 9 Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 10 Wilson Yeast and MANFG Company, Limited
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 11 Neal's Carriage Paints
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 12 "Ariosa Coffee"
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 13 "Ariosa Coffee"
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 14 Saginaw Manufacturing Co.
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 15 A New Vehicle
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 16 Pond's Extract
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 17 Schultz's Irish Soap
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 18 McSorley's Inflation
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 19 Mr. Edison's Wonderful New Phonograph
Nov, 1916
Box: 54 Folder : 20 "Have a Coke = Cead Míle Fáilte," Coca-Cola (ad)
1943
Box: 54 Folder : 21 Victor Records (ad), Ladies Home Journal
Feb, 1917
Box: 54 Folder : 22 Valiant (ad)
circa 1960s
Box: 54 Folder : 23 Irish International Airlines (ad)
1963
Box: 54 Folder : 24 The Luck of the Irish (ad)
1948
Box: 54 Folder : 25 Shillelagh Apples (ad)
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 26 Welcome Answer, The
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 27 Jameson's Irish American Whiskey (ad)
undated
Box: 54 Folder : 28 Columbia Hour of Musical Broadcasting
Oct 1, 1927
Box: 54 Folder : 29 Victor - Victrola
Mar 29, 1913
Box: 54 Folder : 30 Irish Airlines (ad)
circa 1960s
Box: 54 Folder : 31 Globe Clothing House (ad)
undated
Box: Shared Tamiment 162 Folder : 5 Irish Eyes Are Smiling Movie Advertisement
undated
Box: Shared Tamiment 164 Folder : 2 Irish Advertisements
1900, 1916, undated

Sub-series VI.C: Cartoons, 1865-1892

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 55 Folder : 1 Life in New York
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 2 The Fenian Pest, Punch
March 3, 1866
Box: 55 Folder : 3 Disendowment and Disarmament, Punch
April 13, 1869
Box: 55 Folder : 4 An Irish Wake, Harper's Weekly
March 15, 1873
Box: 55 Folder : 5 An Axe to Grind, Weekly National Press
Jan, 1892
Box: 55 Folder : 6 Speak or Die!, Weekly National Press
Mar, 1892
Box: 55 Folder : 7 The Irish Skirmishers 'Blind Pool', Puck
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 8 Last Reception of the Season, Puck
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 9 O'Donovan Rossa's Shooting Gallery, Puck
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 10 St. Patrick's Cathedral, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
June 7, 1879
Box: 55 Folder : 11 Fenian Congress, Harper's Weekly
Nov. 4, 1865
Box: 55 Folder : 12 Land Agitation, Harper's Weekly
1880
Box: 55 Folder : 13 Europe, Church & State, United States, Harper's Weekly
Feb. 1870
Box: 55 Folder : 14 Would You Marry Your Daughter to a Nigger?, Harper's Weekly
July 1, 1868
Box: 55 Folder : 15 The Irish Tempest, Punch
March 19, 1870
Box: 55 Folder : 16 The Irish Treason Shop, Punch
Dec. 4, 1869
Box: 55 Folder : 17 Leading Him a Lively Dance (cartoon)
undated
Box: 55 Folder : 18 Round the Cauldron, Punch
March 26, 1887
Box: 55 Folder : 19 Waiting for the Return of a Sunday Excursion, The Judge
July 15, 1882
Box: 55 Folder : 20 St. Patrick in New York, Harper's Weekly
April 2, 1870
Box: 55 Folder : 21 Roman Cathlics Disgracing Themselves, Harper's Weekly
May 7, 1870
Box: 55 Folder : 22 Champion of the Fenians, Harper's Weekly
Oct. 21, 1876
Box: 55 Folder : 23 The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things, Harper's Weekly
Sept. 2, 1871
Box: 55 Folder : 24 Little Orphan Annie, New York Herald
1904
Box: 55 Folder : 25 An Xmas Greeting to Waterford, Weekly National Press
1891
Box: Shared Tamiment 161 Folder : 5 (Mixed Materials [31142063104353]) Political Cartoons
1884, 1888-1891
Box: Shared Tamiment 164 Folder : 4 (Mixed Materials [31142067168123])
Box: 58 Folder : 19 Various
undated
Box: 58 Folder : 20 The Punch Bowl, Killarney
undated

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