New-York Historical Society http://blog.nyhistory.org Wed, 15 May 2013 12:57:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Cherokee Nation and the Birth of a New Script http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-cherokee-nation-and-the-birth-of-a-new-script/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-cherokee-nation-and-the-birth-of-a-new-script/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 12:57:36 +0000 Staff http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=6511 Written by Geraldine Granahan, CLIR project cataloger The Patricia D. Klingenstein Library of The New-York Historical Society has several items in its collections that were printed in the Cherokee language. One example is the above almanac, Cherokee Almanac 1861, which is written in Cherokee (or Tsalagi), an Iroquoian language used by the Cherokee people. The [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/fleeting-magic-designs-arnold-genthe-and-the-dance/feed/ 0 Historians and America’s First Secret Societies http://blog.nyhistory.org/historians-and-america%e2%80%99s-first-secret-societies/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/historians-and-america%e2%80%99s-first-secret-societies/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 15:09:02 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=6407 This posting was written by Kevin Butterfield, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the New-York Historical Society, 2012-1013. Much of what we know about the past we know for one simple reason: someone took the care to record and to preserve some record of his or her time. Thankfully, people like New York’s [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/historians-and-america%e2%80%99s-first-secret-societies/feed/ 0 Happy 100th Anniversary, Woolworth Building! http://blog.nyhistory.org/happy-100th-anniversary-woolworth-building/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/happy-100th-anniversary-woolworth-building/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:04:49 +0000 Staff http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=6302 Written by Marybeth Kavanagh, Print Room Reference Librarian April 24, 1913, 7:30pm:  President Woodrow Wilson presses a telegraphic button in Washington, DC, illuminating eighty thousand bulbs in the newly constructed Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway in New York City, and ushering in the era of the modern skyscraper. Constructed in neo-Gothic style by architect Cass [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/happy-100th-anniversary-woolworth-building/feed/ 3 James Vick and his Illustrated Floral Guides http://blog.nyhistory.org/james-vick-and-his-illustrated-floral-guides/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/james-vick-and-his-illustrated-floral-guides/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:08:17 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=6190 Spring fever was as common 150 years ago as it is now, and for many winter-weary souls, the illustrated seed catalogs that began appearing in that era are still the closest thing to a cure. Among the many fine examples of early seed catalogs in our collections, my personal favorites were produced by James Vick, [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/james-vick-and-his-illustrated-floral-guides/feed/ 0 Beyond “A Photographic Mask”: An Introduction to Arnold Genthe http://blog.nyhistory.org/beyond-a-photographic-mask-an-introduction-to-arnold-genthe/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/beyond-a-photographic-mask-an-introduction-to-arnold-genthe/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:38:31 +0000 Staff http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=6233 This post was written by Maureen Maryanski, Reference Librarian for Printed Collections. One of the best known American photographers of the early 20th century, Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) taught himself photography, experimenting with focus, retouching, and color processes along the way. Trained as an academic in his native Germany, it wasn’t until he moved to San [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/beyond-a-photographic-mask-an-introduction-to-arnold-genthe/feed/ 0 Enlightenment in the Cemetery: The Adams Memorial and Buddhism in 19th Century America http://blog.nyhistory.org/adams-memorial/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/adams-memorial/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:00:03 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=6084 Even in a city with as many monuments as  Washington, D.C., the Adams Memorial is exceptional. Commissioned on the death of his wife by Henry Adams, it is one of the most widely celebrated pieces of American funerary art. Adams’ wife Clover committed suicide in December 1885. The loss so shook Adams that she is [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/adams-memorial/feed/ 2 Where to Live in New York: the Women of the Ladies Christian Union http://blog.nyhistory.org/where-to-live-in-new-york-the-women-of-the-ladies-christian-union/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/where-to-live-in-new-york-the-women-of-the-ladies-christian-union/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:50:37 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=6100 Everyone knows how hard it is to find housing in New York.  However, locating safe housing for young women in New York City in the mid-nineteenth century was particularly difficult. In 1858, a prayer group known as the “Ladies’ Christian Association” recognized this as a common problem and decided to provide housing for young women [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/where-to-live-in-new-york-the-women-of-the-ladies-christian-union/feed/ 1 Grace Hoadley Dodge and the Travelers Aid Society of New York http://blog.nyhistory.org/grace-hoadley-dodge-and-the-travelers-aid-society-of-new-york/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/grace-hoadley-dodge-and-the-travelers-aid-society-of-new-york/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:08:33 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5998 Women’s History Month is the perfect time to pay tribute to a largely unsung heroine, Grace Hoadley Dodge. Born in 1856, to a family prominent in both business and philanthropy, Grace Dodge devoted her life to helping underprivileged women.  She was instrumental in founding a number of prestigious and long-lasting aid organizations, including the YWCA, [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/grace-hoadley-dodge-and-the-travelers-aid-society-of-new-york/feed/ 0 “However, be you Scotch or Irish”: Thomas Addis Emmet’s letter to his daughter Jane http://blog.nyhistory.org/however-be-you-scotch-or-irish-thomas-addis-emmets-letter-to-his-daughter-jane/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/however-be-you-scotch-or-irish-thomas-addis-emmets-letter-to-his-daughter-jane/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:04:49 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=6004 For many significant figures, the historical spotlight is focused on their public accomplishments but being able to appreciate the aspect of their lives outside the public sphere often presents an important context for those accomplishments. An excellent example is a cache of letters by famed early nineteenth century Irish-American revolutionary and lawyer Thomas Addis Emmet [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/however-be-you-scotch-or-irish-thomas-addis-emmets-letter-to-his-daughter-jane/feed/ 0 The Traveller and the Stone: John Ledyard and the Central Park Obelisk http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-traveller-and-the-stone-john-ledyard-and-the-central-park-obelisk/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-traveller-and-the-stone-john-ledyard-and-the-central-park-obelisk/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:52:10 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5956 John Ledyard’s far from a household name in his own country even though he’s arguably the United States’ first explorer, and, had Catherine the Great not abruptly ended his circumnavigation of the globe in 1787-1788, could very well have achieved what Lewis & Clark accomplished fifteen years later. Ledyard also attended Dartmouth, participated in Cook’s Third [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-traveller-and-the-stone-john-ledyard-and-the-central-park-obelisk/feed/ 0 Free of an Empire, by Way of an Empress http://blog.nyhistory.org/free-of-an-empire-by-way-of-an-empress/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/free-of-an-empire-by-way-of-an-empress/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:45:52 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5909 This posting was written by Dael Norwood, a  Bernard & Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow at the New-York Historical Society.  On February 22, 1784, a small ship with big ambitions weighed anchor, and sailed down the East River. Commanded by John Green, the Empress of China left New York on George Washington’s birthday aiming to be [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/free-of-an-empire-by-way-of-an-empress/feed/ 0 “Jeff: Davis, aint this a Go?”: Hiram Rhoades Revels takes his seat in the Senate http://blog.nyhistory.org/jeff-davis-aint-this-a-go-henry-rhoades-revels-takes-his-seat-in-the-senate/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/jeff-davis-aint-this-a-go-henry-rhoades-revels-takes-his-seat-in-the-senate/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:30:46 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5871 On February 25, 1870 Hiram Rhoades Revels, a preacher from Mississippi was sworn into the United States Senate. That occasion marked the first time a man of African descent served in either house of congress. While his service is a landmark in American history, Revels would not seek a second term but did go on [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/jeff-davis-aint-this-a-go-henry-rhoades-revels-takes-his-seat-in-the-senate/feed/ 3 The Tale of the Wandering Washington, No. 2 http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-tale-of-the-wandering-washington-no-2/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-tale-of-the-wandering-washington-no-2/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:43:02 +0000 Staff http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5832 This post was written by Mariam Touba, Reference Librarian. Last year at this time, we commemorated George Washington’s birthday by following a wooden statue of the general and President in its convoluted journey from city monument to private hands to mythologizing.  It would not be the only sculpture to share such a fate, and this [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-tale-of-the-wandering-washington-no-2/feed/ 0 A Short, Incomplete History of American Traditional Tattooing http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-short-incomplete-history-of-american-traditional-tattooing/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-short-incomplete-history-of-american-traditional-tattooing/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:37:34 +0000 Staff http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5762 This post is written by Joe Festa, Print Room Reference Assistant As my colleague Ted pointed out in his previous blog post, the electric tattoo machine revolutionized tattooing at the end of the 19th century. However, it wasn’t just electric current that propelled the industry; another factor can be attributed to the circulation of what’s [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-short-incomplete-history-of-american-traditional-tattooing/feed/ 0 Almost an Alleghanian: or how N-YHS tried to change the nation’s name to the United States of Alleghania http://blog.nyhistory.org/almost-an-alleghanian-the-new-york-historical-societys-bid-to-change-the-nations-name-to-the-united-states-of-allegania/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/almost-an-alleghanian-the-new-york-historical-societys-bid-to-change-the-nations-name-to-the-united-states-of-allegania/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:05:52 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2887 Given the New-York Historical Society’s reluctance to change so much as the hyphen in its own name (see “It Can Hyphen Here: Why the New-York Historical Society Includes a Hyphen”), it may come as a shock to learn that in 1845, N-YHS spearheaded an effort to give an entirely new name to the whole country. [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/almost-an-alleghanian-the-new-york-historical-societys-bid-to-change-the-nations-name-to-the-united-states-of-allegania/feed/ 0 Snakes in the Mail http://blog.nyhistory.org/snakes-in-the-mail/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/snakes-in-the-mail/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:07:18 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5525 Although he lived at the Waldorf-Astoria, died at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital and is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, George A. Treadwell spent the bulk of his career as a mining engineer out west, much of it in the sweltering Arizona desert. Naturally, his papers document this mining work but they also contain some curious incoming [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/snakes-in-the-mail/feed/ 0 It Can Hyphen Here: Why the New-York Historical Society Includes a Hyphen http://blog.nyhistory.org/it-can-hyphen-here-why-the-new-york-historical-society-includes-a-hyphen/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/it-can-hyphen-here-why-the-new-york-historical-society-includes-a-hyphen/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:38:43 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4950 Visitors to the New-York Historical Society (as well as many copy editors and printers throughout the ages) have often wondered why the title of our institution includes a hyphen between the “New” and “York”.  The answer is simple; when the New-York Historical Society was founded in 1804, New York was generally written as “New-York.” This [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/it-can-hyphen-here-why-the-new-york-historical-society-includes-a-hyphen/feed/ 1 “Freely for games and recreative sports”: New York and the small municipal park http://blog.nyhistory.org/freely-for-games-and-recreative-sports-new-york-and-the-small-municipal-park/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/freely-for-games-and-recreative-sports-new-york-and-the-small-municipal-park/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:49:59 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5349 Central and Prospect Park parks dominate New York City park history. While that’s somewhat understandable, it’s time smaller parks got some attention of their own. Despite New York’s long history, small, city-owned public parks didn’t really become a common feature until the waning years of the nineteenth century. It was then that waves of  immigration and [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/freely-for-games-and-recreative-sports-new-york-and-the-small-municipal-park/feed/ 1 “Are and henceforward shall be free”: Marking the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation http://blog.nyhistory.org/are-and-henceforward-shall-be-free-marking-the-150th-anniversary-of-the-emancipation-proclamation/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/are-and-henceforward-shall-be-free-marking-the-150th-anniversary-of-the-emancipation-proclamation/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:33:23 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5553 If you’ve been preoccupied with the “fiscal cliff” saga over the last several days, you may have missed a rather significant milestone. 150 years ago yesterday, on January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in all rebellious states, enacting what has been described as, behind the Declaration of the United States, perhaps “the single [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/are-and-henceforward-shall-be-free-marking-the-150th-anniversary-of-the-emancipation-proclamation/feed/ 0 The Constitution, the Java, Patrick O’Brian, and …Audubon’s Birds http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-constitution-the-java-patrick-o%e2%80%99brian-and-%e2%80%a6audubon%e2%80%99s-birds/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-constitution-the-java-patrick-o%e2%80%99brian-and-%e2%80%a6audubon%e2%80%99s-birds/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:38:56 +0000 Staff http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5286 This post was written by Mariam Touba, Reference Librarian. We last met “Old Ironsides” on this blog when she won her War of 1812 victory in August 1812 against the HMS Guerrière off of Massachusetts.  Less than six months later, the USS Constitution had been refitted in Boston, assigned a new captain, and in late [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-constitution-the-java-patrick-o%e2%80%99brian-and-%e2%80%a6audubon%e2%80%99s-birds/feed/ 5 Louis Prang, Father of the American Christmas Card http://blog.nyhistory.org/prang/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/prang/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:42:22 +0000 Staff http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5386 This post was written by Marybeth Kavanagh, Print Room Reference Librarian. It’s widely accepted that the  first Christmas card was printed in London in 1843, when Sir Henry Cole hired artist John Calcott Horsley to design a holiday card that he could send to his friends. But it was Boston-based printer Louis Prang who introduced [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/prang/feed/ 0 A Soldier’s Story of World War I in Words and Pictures http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-soldiers-story-of-world-war-i-in-words-and-pictures/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-soldiers-story-of-world-war-i-in-words-and-pictures/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:34:50 +0000 Staff http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5289 This post was created by intern Alison Dundy. The illustrated letters of Salvator Cillis are a highlight of the New-York Historical Society’s World War I Collection (MS 671). Cillis was an artist with an edgy sense of humor. His humorous letters and drawings trace the arc of this soldier’s war experience, from enthusiastic patriotism at [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-soldiers-story-of-world-war-i-in-words-and-pictures/feed/ 2 John Ruggles Strong: another “Strong” diarist http://blog.nyhistory.org/john-ruggles-strong-another-strong-diarist/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/john-ruggles-strong-another-strong-diarist/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:12:26 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4977 If not quite a household name, George Templeton Strong enjoys a certain notoriety among historians as a pungent observer of 19th century New York. His 2250-page diary, held by the New-York Historical Society, has been described as “the greatest of American diaries, and one of the world’s great diaries,” and has been cited or quoted [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/john-ruggles-strong-another-strong-diarist/feed/ 0 Cuttin’ the mustard: Gulden’s and the American Institute http://blog.nyhistory.org/cuttin-the-mustard-guldens-and-the-american-institute/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/cuttin-the-mustard-guldens-and-the-american-institute/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:36:36 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5026 Let’s talk mustard. Even if you’ve never actually tried it, it’s unlikely you’d have trouble recognizing a bottle of Gulden’s. Its distinctive gold and crimson label is, at least as far as condiments go, iconic. But have you ever taken a closer look? Like many brands, Gulden’s slapped images of medals  earned in bygone days on [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/cuttin-the-mustard-guldens-and-the-american-institute/feed/ 0 From Kilted Soldiers to Scottish Poets–The New York Caledonian Club http://blog.nyhistory.org/from-kilted-soldiers-to-scottish-poets-the-new-york-caledonian-club/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/from-kilted-soldiers-to-scottish-poets-the-new-york-caledonian-club/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:54:47 +0000 Staff http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5022 This post was written by N-YHS intern Alison Shore Dundy. The recently acquired New York Caledonian Club Records (MS 2923) are a gateway to gemstones from the history of Scottish immigrants in New York City.  The records of the Caledonian Club document the work, activities, and membership of this society dedicated to the preservation of [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/from-kilted-soldiers-to-scottish-poets-the-new-york-caledonian-club/feed/ 0 A Different Booth: William Henry Seward corresponds with Mary L. Booth http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-different-booth-william-henry-seward-corresponds-with-mary-l-booth/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-different-booth-william-henry-seward-corresponds-with-mary-l-booth/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:49:29 +0000 Staff http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=5032 This post was written by Maureen Maryanski, Reference Librarian for General Collections. Where we start is not necessarily where we end. This statement is quite true of my research into William Henry Seward, prominent political figure and Secretary of State for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. What started as an inquiry into his public life, [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-different-booth-william-henry-seward-corresponds-with-mary-l-booth/feed/ 1 William Waldorf Astor’s Premature “Brush” With Death http://blog.nyhistory.org/william-waldorf-astors-premature-brush-with-death/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/william-waldorf-astors-premature-brush-with-death/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:01:47 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4928 Celebrity train wrecks are pretty standard fare for today’s news media (thank you TMZ) but that doesn’t mean history lacks its share of eccentric and ill-advised antics; among these is the the premature report of William Waldorf Astor’s death in 1892. After a middling political career and having inherited a personal fortune that drew the unrelenting [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/william-waldorf-astors-premature-brush-with-death/feed/ 0 “Meet Me at the Double R Coffee House” http://blog.nyhistory.org/meet-me-at-the-double-r-coffee-house/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/meet-me-at-the-double-r-coffee-house/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:12:19 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4669 Coffee’s big in the “city that never sleeps”. And it’s not a new thing either: a great little snapshot of this love affair has popped up in the form of a menu and an advertisement for the Double R Coffee House. Sure, you’ve never heard of it but the venture’s partners were none other than [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/meet-me-at-the-double-r-coffee-house/feed/ 1 A Drunken Bookbinder in the Stacks? http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-drunken-bookbinder-in-the-stacks/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-drunken-bookbinder-in-the-stacks/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:33:42 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4794 This post was written by Henry Raine, Director of Digital Programs and Library Technical Services Contrary to popular belief, previously unknown treasures rarely turn up in the stacks of a great research library. Most collections are cataloged, and even if they aren’t, curators, librarians and archivists tend to know what they have in their collections. [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-drunken-bookbinder-in-the-stacks/feed/ 0 Top Secret: the Stager ciphers in the Civil War http://blog.nyhistory.org/top-secret-the-stager-ciphers-in-the-civil-war/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/top-secret-the-stager-ciphers-in-the-civil-war/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:54:33 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4801 Anson Stager is not exactly a household name, but perhaps that is only fitting for a man whose main claim to fame is that he created the most widely used — and most effective — secret code during the Civil War. Born in Ontario County, New York, in 1833, Anson Stager began his career as [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/top-secret-the-stager-ciphers-in-the-civil-war/feed/ 0 The Pastoral Records of Frederick W. Geissenhainer http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-pastoral-records-of-frederick-w-geissenhainer/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-pastoral-records-of-frederick-w-geissenhainer/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:59:38 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4783  This post was written by Bob Greiner who is working on behalf of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society to index the Reverend Frederick W. Geissenhainer records at the New-York Historical Society . The Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at the New-York Historical Society maintains the pastoral records of the Reverend Frederick W. Geissenhainer in its manuscript collection [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-pastoral-records-of-frederick-w-geissenhainer/feed/ 1 Remembering Antietam http://blog.nyhistory.org/remembering-antietam/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/remembering-antietam/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:11:41 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4620 This post was written by Alice Browne, N-YHS cataloguer September 17 marks the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War, which left almost four thousand dead. It was not a conclusive victory for either side, but did put an end to Lee’s invasion [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/remembering-antietam/feed/ 1 Snake Oil Almanacs: Patent Medicine Advertising in the 19th Century http://blog.nyhistory.org/snake-oil-almanacs-patent-medicine-advertising-in-the-19th-century/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/snake-oil-almanacs-patent-medicine-advertising-in-the-19th-century/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:59:56 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4710 This post was written by cataloger Catherine Falzone. The Patricia D. Klingenstein Library of the New-York Historical Society has a number of almanacs that were printed as advertisements by patent medicine companies.  Most people in the nineteenth century bought an almanac every year and considered them trustworthy sources of information.  Unscrupulous patent medicine manufacturers capitalized [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/snake-oil-almanacs-patent-medicine-advertising-in-the-19th-century/feed/ 0 Postmortem photography at the turn of the 20th century http://blog.nyhistory.org/postmortem-photography-at-the-turn-of-the-20th-century/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/postmortem-photography-at-the-turn-of-the-20th-century/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:17:26 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4673 By Joe Festa, Print Room Reference Assistant Today, photographs of dead humans are seen as taboo, and talk of death is almost always avoided at all costs. But this hasn’t always been the case. During the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, capturing the image of a corpse was commonplace, and was viewed as a normal, culturally acceptable [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/postmortem-photography-at-the-turn-of-the-20th-century/feed/ 4 Death Warrant signed by George Washington http://blog.nyhistory.org/death-warrant-signed-by-george-washington/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/death-warrant-signed-by-george-washington/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:15:47 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4596 This post was written by N-YHS intern Catherine Newton While working with the Oversize Manuscripts Collection this summer, my coworker and I uncovered a death warrant signed by George Washington and dated October 25, 1778. Best known for his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later as the first president of the United [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/death-warrant-signed-by-george-washington/feed/ 0 The cure for nostalgia: nineteenth-century coroner’s reports http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-cure-for-nostalgia-nineteenth-century-coroners-reports/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-cure-for-nostalgia-nineteenth-century-coroners-reports/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:49:10 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4634 This post was written by N-YHS intern Audrey Belanger If you, like me, occasionally suffer from bouts of longing for life in the 19th century (Carriages! Balls! Needlepoint!), there is no better cure than perusing 19th century death records in the N-YHS manuscript collection.  Not only were sicknesses such as consumption, dropsy, smallpox, and hives [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-cure-for-nostalgia-nineteenth-century-coroners-reports/feed/ 1 Old Ironsides Earns Her Nickname: The USS Constitution versus HMS Guerriere http://blog.nyhistory.org/old-ironsides-earns-her-nickname/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/old-ironsides-earns-her-nickname/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:54:43 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4534 Post written by Mariam Touba, Reference Librarian The logbook’s entry for the morning, 200 years ago, of August 19, 1812 records hazy weather, temperature 64° in the air and a similar 65° in water. By “3/4 past 11 am” the weather is cloudy with fresh breezes, so the mizzen topsail is set. And then it [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/old-ironsides-earns-her-nickname/feed/ 0 NYC 2012: Imagining the Olympic Games in New York City http://blog.nyhistory.org/nyc-2012-imagining-the-olympic-games-in-new-york-city/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/nyc-2012-imagining-the-olympic-games-in-new-york-city/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:31:06 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4550   From 2000-2005, New York planned a bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympic games. It was New York City’s first bid to host an Olympics and was managed by Daniel Doctoroff and his private non-profit organization, NYC2012. New York City was one of five candidates for the games but came in fourth behind London, [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/nyc-2012-imagining-the-olympic-games-in-new-york-city/feed/ 0 Croquet, an Olympic Sport? http://blog.nyhistory.org/croquet-an-olympic-sport/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/croquet-an-olympic-sport/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:51:47 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4520 It was in 1900, for the first and only time.   The 1900 Olympics, held in Paris, were also the first which allowed women to compete (an Olympic tradition which has, happily, had a longer track record than croquet).  According to Olympic games historian Bill Mallon, two women competed (with other men) in a croquet [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/croquet-an-olympic-sport/feed/ 0 Who really created the Teddy (Roosevelt) Bear? http://blog.nyhistory.org/who-really-created-the-teddy-roosevelt-bear/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/who-really-created-the-teddy-roosevelt-bear/#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:00:38 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4436 Brooklyn is justly known as the borough of churches and the rightful home of the Dodgers — but did it also give birth to the Teddy Bear? Credit for inventing the teddy bear is generally given to Morris Michtom, a Russian immigrant who is said to have opened a candy store at 404 Tompkins Avenue [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/who-really-created-the-teddy-roosevelt-bear/feed/ 1 Before Rosa Parks: Taking on New York’s Segregated Street Car Companies http://blog.nyhistory.org/taking-on-the-segregated-street-car-companies/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/taking-on-the-segregated-street-car-companies/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:59:29 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4463 Post written by Eric Robinson  So much has been written about the struggle against slavery and segregation in the American south that it is easy to forget that race relations in the north have been just as knotty. It is comparatively unknown that nineteenth-century New York City’s public transportation systems were racially segregated: African-Americans were [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/taking-on-the-segregated-street-car-companies/feed/ 0 “Undesirable edifices generally”: The 1916 Zoning Resolution http://blog.nyhistory.org/undesirable-edifices-generally-the-1916-zoning-resolution/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/undesirable-edifices-generally-the-1916-zoning-resolution/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:43:42 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4437 The built environment, especially in so eclectic a place as New York City, has a way of hiding history in plain sight. With that in mind, if you have never noticed how many of the profiles of early 20th century buildings in New York retreat incrementally from the sidewalk as the building grows taller, then [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/undesirable-edifices-generally-the-1916-zoning-resolution/feed/ 0 Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? http://blog.nyhistory.org/who-wrote-the-declaration-of-independence/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/who-wrote-the-declaration-of-independence/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:30:44 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4408 It sounds like an easy question, right? Well, Thomas Jefferson certainly wrote it — in terms of authorship. But do you know whose hand it was that literally produced the famous handwritten copy? If you’re not sure, don’t worry, historians aren’t completely certain either. That said, there is consensus that it was “probably” Timothy Matlack, of [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/who-wrote-the-declaration-of-independence/feed/ 0 Golf and the Gilded Age at Newport Golf Club http://blog.nyhistory.org/golf-and-the-gilded-age-at-newport-golf-club/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/golf-and-the-gilded-age-at-newport-golf-club/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:34:59 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4347 It’s probably no consolation for last week’s heat wave but if you were a well-heeled New Yorker living in the late nineteenth century, you would probably be spending the sultry days of summer living it up in Newport, RI. Not surprisingly, the story of Newport and New York’s richest dwellers is well documented at the N-YHS. [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/golf-and-the-gilded-age-at-newport-golf-club/feed/ 0 Davy Crockett Almanacs http://blog.nyhistory.org/davy-crockett-almanacs/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/davy-crockett-almanacs/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:31:44 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4295 This post was written by cataloger Catherine Falzone. As my colleagues and I work to catalog the thousands of almanacs held by N-YHS, thanks to a Hidden Collections Program grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), we have come across some unusual items that bear a closer look. Some of my favorite [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/davy-crockett-almanacs/feed/ 7 The Serious Side of Drinking: Political Toasts http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-serious-side-of-drinking-political-toasts/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-serious-side-of-drinking-political-toasts/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:13:31 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4201 Tippling is mainly a recreational sport today, but beer was an important source of nutrition in colonial New York.  And alcohol also played a role in early American politics, through the time-honored ritual of drinking toasts. In 18th century America, nearly every public occasion ended with a score of ceremonial drinks and toasts. Verbatim transcripts [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-serious-side-of-drinking-political-toasts/feed/ 1 Transits of Venus from Times Past http://blog.nyhistory.org/transits-of-venus-from-times-past/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/transits-of-venus-from-times-past/#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:17:56 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4232 On June 5th a rare transit of Venus will occur that can be seen from most of North America.  During the transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black dot moving across the sun.  A transit, in which Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, is exceptional in that it occurs [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/transits-of-venus-from-times-past/feed/ 0 Who put the “Williams” in Williamsburgh? http://blog.nyhistory.org/who-put-the-williams-in-williamsburgh/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/who-put-the-williams-in-williamsburgh/#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 20:43:30 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4185 Today uttering Williamsburg  is more likely to precede a snarky comment about hipsters than it is to spur thoughts of its namesake. After all, time has heaped layers of meaning onto New York’s place names, and while places like Fort Greene and Fort Tryon require little effort to discover that they were once military installations, other [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/who-put-the-williams-in-williamsburgh/feed/ 2 Johnny Reb in the Big Apple: The Confederate Veteran Camp of New York http://blog.nyhistory.org/johnny-reb-in-the-big-apple-the-confederate-veteran-camp-of-new-york/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/johnny-reb-in-the-big-apple-the-confederate-veteran-camp-of-new-york/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 14:58:52 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4085 This post was written by N-YHS intern Rachel Schimke, a graduate student in the Archives and Public History program at NYU, who processed the Alexander Robert Chisolm Papers. Though most war-weary Confederate soldiers returned home following Lee’s surrender, not all had the ability or interest to recover their lives in the South. Founded in 1890, [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/johnny-reb-in-the-big-apple-the-confederate-veteran-camp-of-new-york/feed/ 0 New York cyclists and the “Orange Riding District” http://blog.nyhistory.org/new-york-cyclists-and-the-orange-riding-district/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/new-york-cyclists-and-the-orange-riding-district/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 15:57:49 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4063 It’s National Bike Month again, and it so happens that Albert B. Barkman’s Road-Book of Long Island (1886) recently crossed our path. It’s an unassuming book at best, but like a great deal of our collections, when given a dose of context it turns out to be an interesting little piece of bicycling and mapmaking history. The Road-Book contains [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/new-york-cyclists-and-the-orange-riding-district/feed/ 0 The Promise and Loss of the Hindenburg http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-promise-and-loss-of-the-hindenburg/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-promise-and-loss-of-the-hindenburg/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 21:46:32 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4051 Post written by Mariam Touba This spring we have heard much that commemorates the disaster that befell the ocean liner Titanic, but it is not the only mournful anniversary of the destruction of a beautiful, efficient and luxurious way to cross the Atlantic. Seventy-five years ago, on May 6, 1937, the airship Hindenburg caught fire [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-promise-and-loss-of-the-hindenburg/feed/ 0 Clarke and Rapuano, Landscape Architects http://blog.nyhistory.org/clarke-and-rapuano-landscape-architects/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/clarke-and-rapuano-landscape-architects/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:06:26 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=4028 April — better known as the month of showers, Frederick Law Olmsted’s birthday, and Earth Day — has also been designated National Landscape Architect month.  Aside from Olmsted, however, landscape architects continue to fly largely under the radar.  A case in point:  Clarke and Rapuano, a firm with enormous impact on New York City’s urban [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/clarke-and-rapuano-landscape-architects/feed/ 4 “High class freight”: The Titanic and its cargo http://blog.nyhistory.org/high-class-freight-the-titanic-and-its-cargo/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/high-class-freight-the-titanic-and-its-cargo/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:46:07 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=3993 With the centennial of its sinking having arrived, the Titanic is a big ticket these days. Fittingly, most commemorations  recognize the terrible loss of life associated with its sinking but there are certainly less somber aspects of this catastrophe too. Aside from its great quantity of passengers, the Titanic also sailed with a modest cargo, [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/high-class-freight-the-titanic-and-its-cargo/feed/ 0 “Aliens” in America: British Citizens during the War of 1812 http://blog.nyhistory.org/%e2%80%9caliens%e2%80%9d-in-america-british-citizens-during-the-war-of-1812/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/%e2%80%9caliens%e2%80%9d-in-america-british-citizens-during-the-war-of-1812/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:30:39 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=3942 Post written by Rachel Schimke, a spring intern at N-YHS who processed the Peter Curtenius Papers.  This year marks the bicentennial of the War of 1812, a conflict that is often overshadowed by the more celebrated wars in our nation’s history. The newly processed Peter Curtenius Papers offer invaluable information for researchers interested in this [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/%e2%80%9caliens%e2%80%9d-in-america-british-citizens-during-the-war-of-1812/feed/ 1 Elephants in the (Reading) Room http://blog.nyhistory.org/elephants-in-the-reading-room/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/elephants-in-the-reading-room/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:03:43 +0000 admin http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=1931 -

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/elephants-in-the-reading-room/feed/ 1 Henry Bergh: Angel in Top Hat or the Great Meddler? http://blog.nyhistory.org/henry-bergh-angel-in-top-hat-or-the-great-meddler/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/henry-bergh-angel-in-top-hat-or-the-great-meddler/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:18:08 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=3900 Written by Tammy Kiter, Manuscript Reference Assistant. Many of us are familiar with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or ASPCA. But lesser-known and truly inspiring, is Henry Bergh, its founder and the man who worked so diligently to maintain it. A native New Yorker, Bergh was born in 1813 and [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/henry-bergh-angel-in-top-hat-or-the-great-meddler/feed/ 2 American Eagle and Irish Harp: The Story of the New-York Hibernian Volunteers http://blog.nyhistory.org/american-eagle-and-irish-harp-the-story-of-the-new-york-hibernian-volunteers/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/american-eagle-and-irish-harp-the-story-of-the-new-york-hibernian-volunteers/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:48:12 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=3851 A great deal of the work done on the Irish immigrant experience focuses on the refugees of Ireland’s potato blight in the late 1840s. However, the epic story of the Irish in America, and the challenges it encountered, did not begin there. One obscure chapter of this story is captured in the tale of the [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/american-eagle-and-irish-harp-the-story-of-the-new-york-hibernian-volunteers/feed/ 0 Happy Birthday Yellowstone! http://blog.nyhistory.org/happy-birthday-yellowstone/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/happy-birthday-yellowstone/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:38:13 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=3800 Last Thursday (March 1), Yellowstone National Park marked its 140th year of existence. It’s also a perfect excuse to remind everyone that, despite our name, the New-York Historical Society’s collections document the history of the entire United States, not just of New York and its neighbors. In his 2008 television series documenting his tour of [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/happy-birthday-yellowstone/feed/ 0 Ladies, Get Ready: Its a Leap Year! http://blog.nyhistory.org/ladies-get-ready-its-a-leap-year/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/ladies-get-ready-its-a-leap-year/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:23:05 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=3770 Ever since the idea of an extra day every four years was implemented as a corrective measure for the calendar, it has been filled with traditions and superstitions.  One of these is the (shocking!) idea that a woman may propose to a man on February 29th (or anytime during a Leap Month or even the [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/ladies-get-ready-its-a-leap-year/feed/ 1 The Tale of the Wandering Washington http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-tale-of-the-wandering-washington/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-tale-of-the-wandering-washington/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:00:41 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=3382 Written by Joseph Ditta, Reference Librarian. In honor of Presidents’ Day, come with us back to 1889, when the celebrations marking the centennial of George Washington’s inauguration as first president of the United States were in full swing. Perhaps the most impressive manifestation of New York’s pride of place as the location for that memorable [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/mr-mitchells-muscular-map/feed/ 0 Currier & Currier & Ives? a tribute to Charles Currier http://blog.nyhistory.org/currier-currier-ives-a-tribute-to-charles-currier/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/currier-currier-ives-a-tribute-to-charles-currier/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:15:58 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=3211 To most people, Currier & Ives are locked together like love and marriage (in the song, at least) — as Frank Sinatra sings, “you can’t have one, you can’t have none, you can’t have one without the other.” In fact, though, Nathaniel Currier was a successful lithographer long before James Merritt Ives joined the business [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/currier-currier-ives-a-tribute-to-charles-currier/feed/ 0 Daniel E. Sickles: The Rotten Apple from the Big Apple http://blog.nyhistory.org/daniel-e-sickles-the-rotten-apple-from-the-big-apple/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/daniel-e-sickles-the-rotten-apple-from-the-big-apple/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:02:52 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=3252 Far be it from us to dwell on the negatives of history, but there’s no denying that New York has produced its share of heels. High on anyone’s list should be Daniel Sickles. On a Sunday morning in February of 1859, the New York born and bred Sickles shot the un-armed Philip Barton Key (the son of [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/blueprints-then-and-now/feed/ 1 Friggatriskaidekaphobes Need Not Apply http://blog.nyhistory.org/friggatriskaidekaphobes-need-not-apply/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/friggatriskaidekaphobes-need-not-apply/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:02:52 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2999 Written by Joseph Ditta, Reference Librarian Thirteenth Annual Report of the Thirteen Club, 1895 (cover) Happy Friday the Thirteenth! Are you cowering under the covers, hoping to escape the horrible tragedies that are doomed to hit you should you set foot out of bed? If you answered yes, we are sorry to say your friggatriskaidekaphobia [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/friggatriskaidekaphobes-need-not-apply/feed/ 0 The Sailor’s Life http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-sailors-life/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-sailors-life/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:43:41 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2934 Sometimes primary sources overturn history’s misconceptions while at others they simply illustrate common knowledge. The latter is a task by a cache of records from the Richard Worsam Meade 2nd Papers in conveying the colorful life of a sailor. The documents in question all cover the Civil War service of the USS San Jacinto, a screw [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-sailors-life/feed/ 1 Carriers’ Addresses: The Holiday Gratuity, With a Little Flair http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-holiday-gratuity-with-a-little-flair/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-holiday-gratuity-with-a-little-flair/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:30:00 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2890 Written by Mariam Touba, Reference Librarian It still happens at this time of year, a holiday greeting is slipped under the door from a service provider offering good wishes and a subtle hint to be remembered with an end-of-the-year gratuity.  The practice is an old one, but was, in the 18th and 19th centuries, carried [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-holiday-gratuity-with-a-little-flair/feed/ 0 A Christmas Carol: One of those quaint, simple, affecting, humoursome things http://blog.nyhistory.org/quaint-simple-affecting-humoursome-things/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/quaint-simple-affecting-humoursome-things/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:45:48 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2843 Holidays evolve — for better or worse. And while there is reason to bemoan the creep of commercialism into every niche of the holiday season, such disappointment is not necessarily as recent as one might think. Charles Dickens’ iconic work, A Christmas Carol: In Prose: Being a ghost story of Christmas arrived in America at a time when contemporaries [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/selling-for-a-song/feed/ 0 A Word about the Weather http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-word-about-the-weather/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-word-about-the-weather/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:49:17 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2768 Have you ever read a description of some idyllic, sun-soaked historical moment and wondered how a historian could have assembled such an image? Sometimes it’s pure fabrication, but if a researcher “does it by the book” there actually are sources for such details, even before official meteorological records were kept. According to the Encyclopedia of New York, [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-word-about-the-weather/feed/ 0 A Castle on the Hudson: the Bannerman Island Story http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-castle-on-the-hudson/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-castle-on-the-hudson/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:02:11 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2711 Post written by Ashley Todd, a fall intern at N-YHS who processed the Bannerman Family Papers. The collection was generously donated by Virginia Betts in 2011. If you have ever taken the Metro-North Hudson Line train to Poughkeepsie then you are probably familiar with the haunting castle ruins that sit on a small island between [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-castle-on-the-hudson/feed/ 1 A Spurious Thanksgiving http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-spurious-thanksgiving/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-spurious-thanksgiving/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:17:00 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2716 In 1900, The Century Co. published Colonial Days & Ways, by Helen Evertson Smith, a description of life in New York and Connecticut during that period. According to Smith, the book is largely derived from papers found  “tucked away under the eaves in old baskets of Indian make, or in open pine-wood boxes, and even in [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-spurious-thanksgiving/feed/ 0 African Americans and the World of Tomorrow http://blog.nyhistory.org/african-americans-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/african-americans-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:53:17 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2645 Post written by Kenneth Cleary, a summer intern at N-YHS who processed the Paul Gillespie Collection of New York World’s Fair Materials. A rich collection of photographs from the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair is newly available to researchers at the N-YHS library. Donated to N-YHS in May of this year, the Paul Gillespie Collection [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/african-americans-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/feed/ 1 Veterans Day: Remembering World War I http://blog.nyhistory.org/veterans-day-remembering-world-war-i/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/veterans-day-remembering-world-war-i/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:51:51 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2648 At 5 a.m. on November 11, 1918, the United States and its allies concluded an armistice with Germany. Later that morning, at 11 a.m. French time, World War I hostilities came to an end after one concluding salvo. In America, the day became known as Armistice Day until Congress substituted “Veterans” in 1954 to expand [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/veterans-day-remembering-world-war-i/feed/ 0 Occupying Manhattan’s Public Spaces: 1776 and Today http://blog.nyhistory.org/occupying-manhattan%e2%80%99s-public-spaces-1776-and-today/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/occupying-manhattan%e2%80%99s-public-spaces-1776-and-today/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:26:55 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2601 Post written by Eric Robinson. Love it or hate it, the forlorn but determined group camped out at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan thrust New York City back into the center of a national debate. Our city has long been considered a political outlier because of its progressive voting patterns and ability to weather recessions, [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/early-vampire-celebrations/feed/ 0 Albert Gallatin — a Big (Swiss) Cheese http://blog.nyhistory.org/albert-gallatin-a-big-swiss-cheese/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/albert-gallatin-a-big-swiss-cheese/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:04:48 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2545 “Forgotten” — undeservedly — is the adjective most commonly applied to Swiss-born statesman Albert Gallatin, whose personal papers reside in the N-YHS library. Born to a highly regarded but not particularly wealthy family in Geneva in 1761, he left nineteen years later to seek his fortune in America while the budding nation was still in [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/albert-gallatin-a-big-swiss-cheese/feed/ 0 An Occasion for a Rare “Screaming” Headline http://blog.nyhistory.org/an-occasion-for-a-rare-screaming-headline/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/an-occasion-for-a-rare-screaming-headline/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:46:58 +0000 maurita http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2382 Written by Mariam Touba, N-YHS Reference Librarian Even as we are told that newspapers are a dying medium, each of us can remember their banner headlines announcing momentous events.  Such headlines, however, did not always come with newspapers.  How then did early newspapers alert their readers to important occurrences?  The answer is, “very subtly,” at [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/an-occasion-for-a-rare-screaming-headline/feed/ 0 Prohibition’s Prelude http://blog.nyhistory.org/prohibitions-prelude/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/prohibitions-prelude/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:24:18 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2393 As viewers of Ken Burns Prohibition documentary this week will know, there was a year-long lag between the date the 18th Amendment was ratified (January 16, 1919) and the date it went into effect (January 17, 1920).  This gave Tin Pan Alley plenty of time to ponder questions like:  Bella Landauer Collection of Business and [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/prohibitions-prelude/feed/ 0 Making fun of fashion http://blog.nyhistory.org/making-fun-of-fashion/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/making-fun-of-fashion/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:53:23 +0000 sue http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2371 Fashion week, Alexander McQueen at the Met . . . . lately, we’ve been looking at fashion very seriously.   But fashion has always had its funny side too.   Take, for example, this 1776 caricature of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Caricature File, PR 010 One of a series of satires by the husband-and-wife team Matthew [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/making-fun-of-fashion/feed/ 2 Laudanum: A Dose of the Nineteenth Century http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-dose-of-the-nineteenth-century/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/a-dose-of-the-nineteenth-century/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:00:59 +0000 Edward O'Reilly http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2343 Coroner’s report for the suicide of Richard D. Hamilton, 18 August, 1822. BV New York City Coroner’s Reports, MS 1957 A great primary source often elicits a visceral sense of what it meant to live in the moment of the document’s creation. It’s difficult not to have this reaction when reading through two manuscript volumes [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/edison-and-the-tattoo/feed/ 1 Vegetables are people too! http://blog.nyhistory.org/vegetables-are-people-too/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/vegetables-are-people-too/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:33:30 +0000 Ryan McCarthy http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2304 At least they are in these delightful trade cards from Rice’s Seed Company.  Bella C. Landauer Collection, PR 031 Talk about genetic engineering! How would you like to find one of these growing in your garden?  Bella C. Landauer Collection, PR 031 These amusing anthropomorphic illustrations were produced in the mid-1880’s, a time when – [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/vegetables-are-people-too/feed/ 0 What really happened to Hog Island? http://blog.nyhistory.org/what-really-happened-to-hog-island/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/what-really-happened-to-hog-island/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:44:46 +0000 admin http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2298 Lore has it that Hog Island – a little spit of land off the coast of Far Rockaway that was said to resemble the back of a hog — was washed away in the hurricane of 1893.  But though this story is trotted out every time New York City is threatened (like now) by another [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/what-really-happened-to-hog-island/feed/ 0 Saving (at least some of) America’s Treasures http://blog.nyhistory.org/saving-at-least-some-of-america%e2%80%99s-treasures/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/saving-at-least-some-of-america%e2%80%99s-treasures/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:44:16 +0000 admin http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2293 When the Hotel Pennsylvania opened in 1916, it was the world’s largest hotel, a stately complement to the grand Pennsylvania Railroad Station across Seventh Avenue. Its guests enjoyed a rooftop restaurant, Turkish baths, and Roman decorative flourishes. Now, close to a century later, it merely lingers while the building’s owners make plans to replace it [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/saving-at-least-some-of-america%e2%80%99s-treasures/feed/ 1 Taking the Plunge: Pools of New York City http://blog.nyhistory.org/taking-the-plunge/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/taking-the-plunge/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:41:19 +0000 admin http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2287 It may come as a surprise that the so-called concrete jungle of New York City has no fewer than 54 outdoor pools maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation. Astoria Park Pool.  Geographic File, PR 020. New Yorkers have been taking the plunge in the Big Apple since the late 1800s, when the state [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/taking-the-plunge/feed/ 0 One Temporary Friend, One Permanent Enemy http://blog.nyhistory.org/one-temporary-friend-one-permanent-enemy/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/one-temporary-friend-one-permanent-enemy/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:35:57 +0000 admin http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=2283 The U.S. Marshal Service has been providing protection for federal judges since 1789. In 2010, Marshals investigated about 1,400 threats and inappropriate communications to the federal judiciary, and provided protection for more than 2,000 federal judges. Although there has been a noted increase in recent years, threatening federal judges is hardly a new phenomenon. When [...]

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/east-hamptons-hooch/feed/ 0 Of the late, tremendous tornado. Or not. http://blog.nyhistory.org/of-the-late-tremendous-tornado-or-not/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/of-the-late-tremendous-tornado-or-not/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:05:31 +0000 admin http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=1423 -

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]]> http://blog.nyhistory.org/the-golden-age-of-bicycling-account-book/feed/ 0 William H. Paine: assistant engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge http://blog.nyhistory.org/william-h-paine-assistant-engineer-of-the-brooklyn-bridge/ http://blog.nyhistory.org/william-h-paine-assistant-engineer-of-the-brooklyn-bridge/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 19:47:03 +0000 admin http://blog.nyhistory.org/?p=1215 May 24th marks the 128th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. While the name John Augustus Roebling is widely associated with the bridge’s design and production, the contributions of the six other men involved in the bridge’s engineering is rarely acknowledged in popular history. Paine (believed to be second from right), pictured on [...]

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