Collection Highlights
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
Date:
1932
Object Number:
LIB.NS11.M14.1.20
Medium:
black and color ink on paper, backed with cloth
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Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1835.49
Date:
1835
Description:
Broadside of attraction of "Joice Heth, nurse to George Washington" - 161 year old woman, former slave.
Full Title: Great attraction at the Masonic Hall! Unparalleled longevity. For two days only. Joice Heth, nurse to Gen. George Washington, (the father of our country,) who has arrived at the astonishing age of 161 years!
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
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