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Search results: 26 Finding Aids
Guide to the Edward Robb Ellis Papers ca. 1902-1998 MSS 68
The bulk of the collection is a continuous diary kept from 1927 up until Edward Robb Ellis' death in 1998. The diary includes handwritten and typed entries as well as photographs and correspondence and consists of bound volumes and loose pages. Also included in the collection are clippings arranged into subject files, book typescripts and audio and visual media.
Guide to the John Albok Photograph Collection 1928 - 1997 (Bulk: 1930 - 1980) PR 001
Photographs of New York City street scenes and events
Guide to the Album File [ca. 1880-ca. 1980] (Bulk 1860-1920) PR-002
The Album File consists of published and unpublished volumes and scrapbooks acquired from various sources. Styles of albums vary from manufactured carte-de-visite albums to scrapbooks made by pasting images and clippings into accounting ledgers, and fine presentation albums with leather or velvet covers and ornate metal clasps. Albums were created to document families, places, or events, or to honor a person's career. Some volumes included in the file are published works documenting well know locations or persons. The materials comprising the albums are primarily photographic including tintypes, albumen prints, silver gelatin prints, platinum prints and cyanotypes, but also include clippings, engravings and etchings, drawings and other materials. Various photographers, printmakers, and artists are included in the collection.
Guide to the Alexander Alland Photograph Collection 1885-1905, 1940 PR 110
The collection primarily contains photographs of New York City and its inhabitants. Two series focus on Gypsies in the Lower East Side and African American Jews in Harlem. Other photographs detail New York City life at the turn of the 20th century.
Guide to the Jessie Tarbox Beals Photograph Collection [1900-1940] (Bulk 1904-1920) PR 004
Jessie Tarbox Beals, the first female photojournalist, lived in New York City for many years and documented the Greenwich Village bohemian scene, city scenes, and backyard gardens.
Guide to the Lucius H. Cathan Photograph Collection [1880-1890], undated PR 139
Collection of negatives and photographs taken by Lucius H. Cathan consisting of studio portraits of unidentified individuals, portraits of the Cathan family, and views of the Brattleboro & Whitehall Railroad in Vermont.
Guide to the Papers of David Edward Cronin 1861-1910
This collection consists of material relating to and collected by the artist David E. Cronin, Civil War illustrator and member of the 1st N.Y. Mounted Rifles. Material includes memoirs, correspondence, and documents of Cronin and other Civil War soldiers, as well as Cronin's sketches of Civil War subjects, and a number of published volumes hand-illustrated by Cronin.
Guide to the de Groot Family Photograph Collection 1853-[1967], undated PR 120
Collection of photographs of Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967) and portraits of members of her extended family including her parents, siblings, cousins, and their ancestors. Includes photographs of war work in France during World War I.
Guide to the Arnold Genthe Photograph Collection [1895]-1942 (Bulk 1906-1927) PR 019
The Arnold Genthe Photograph Collection primarily contains examples of Genthe's early work in San Francisco's Chinatown, later portraits of well-known personalities in the arts, politics, and society, classic photographs of Isadora Duncan and other early modern dancers, and both color and black-and-white landscapes of Long Island and Westchester, New York, and of international destinations such as Guatemala and Japan.
Collection of personal photographs of Mabel Herbert Urner and Lathrop Colgate Harper, their extended family, their Gramercy Park home and their extended vacations to Europe. Publicity photographs taken for Mabel Urner's newspaper column are included.
The collection consists of ca. 3,500 prints of United States presidents, vice-presidents, cabinet officers, and Supreme Court justices. Most are engravings or lithographs but also present are woodcuts, etchings, photogravures, illustrations from books, portrayals on sheet music covers, and profiles on silk badges.
The James Hazen Hyde Collection consists of 766 prints and some posters from the 16th-20th centuries, the majority of which relate to the theme of the Four Continents. Other minor themes in the collection include historical, religious and political subjects, with a small folder devoted to material on Benjamin Franklin. There are also a number of playing cards, caricatures, and popular prints from Épinal.
Guide to the Society of Iconophiles Print Collection 1895-1929 PR 160
Collection of prints, mostly New York scenes, issued by the Society of Iconophiles.
Guide to the Jennings Photograph Collection [1858]-1957 PR 135
Collection of albums, book manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographic prints, postcards, and negatives realting to the family and career of Arthur Bates Jennings, primarily compiled by his son Dr. Edward Allen Jennings.
Guide to the New York State Legislature Portrait Prints Collection 1798 PR 213
Collection consists of 19 stipple engraved plates containing medallion profile portraits of 57 prominent men who served in the New York State Legislature in 1798.
Portrait collection including photographs of nationally prominent people and socially prominent New Yorkers.
Guide to the Photographer File Ca. 1882-present PR 050
The collection is a file containing photographs, mainly of New York City, taken by well-known photographers.
Guide to the Pirie MacDonald Portrait Photograph Collection [1885]-1942 (Bulk 1900-1942) PR-039
The collection consists of 500 portraits of men made in New York City between 1900 and 1942. Dramatic lighting characterizes MacDonald's soft focus head-and-shoulder portraits, which are contact prints from glass negatives.
Guide to the Radio Entertainers and Announcers Collection 1937-1945 (Bulk 1942-1943) PR 095
Photographs depicting popular radio performers during World War II, often engaged in war conservation efforts.
Guide to the Saint-Mémin Print Collection 1794-1808 PR 226
Collection of engravings by the French engraver Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Saint-Mémin. Most are profile portrait engravings, but several early views of New York City are also included.
Guide to the Civil War Stereographs 1861-1865 PR-065
The Civil War stereographs cover the entire period of the Civil War, from the first Battle of Bull Run through the surrender at Appomattox, and the triumphant parade of Union forces in Washington D.C. Most of the images were made in the Eastern Theatre, with scenes in Virginia by far in the majority.
Guide to the Erika Stone Photograph Collection [1940-1999] (Bulk 1970-1989) PR 267
Working as a photojouralist, Erika Stone documented New York City parades, demonstrations and street life.
Guide to the Records of WEDA (Wyckoff Economical Dining Association) 1871-1955 (Bulk 1886-1953)
The WEDA (Wyckoff Economical Dining Association) Records contain documentation of a New York City men's club that met for dinner once a month for 118 years. The bulk of the material is scrapbooks which include menus and lists of members in attendance. Other materials include photographs, correspondence, and reports of the secretary.
Guide to the George E. Stonebridge Photograph Collection 1897-1918(Bulk 1899-1904) PR-066
Stonebridge's work preserves scenes of outdoor family activities and local events in the Bronx. A sample of subjects includes Bronx parks, Croton dam strike, Brooklyn Navy Yard, funeral of General Franz Sigel, Dewey Naval and Land Parade, Niagara Falls, Jerome Park, Van Cortlandt Park, May Walk 1898-1899, Cycle Parade 1897-1898, wrecks, fires, Sportsman's Show, Stevens airship, Fordham, portraits, Orchard Beach, City Island, clubs, houses, churches, gas works (where Stonebridge was employed), New York Zoological Park, state militia camps and activities, the Seventh Regiment and Riverside Park. There are also baseball teams in action, scenes from Garrison, N.Y., and grim views of the "General Slocum" steamboat disaster victims
Guide to the Larry Racioppo Photograph Collection 1999-2004 PR 208
The Larry Racioppo Photograph Collection spans the period from 1999-2004 and contains color photographs taken by Racioppo. Most were commissioned by the New-York Historical Society in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, or for related exhibits at the Society in the following years.
Guide to the Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection 1960-2008 (Bulk 1961-1990) PR 276
Bernard Gotfryd, a photojournalist for Newsweek magazine, traveled the world photograping well known figures and newsworthy events.
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