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By His Excellency. Edward Lord Cornbury, His Majesty's Capt. General a...

Evans 1090.; On verso: 1206 XLVIII P.R.O., September 17, 1702, Cal. 1702, No. 1206 XLVIII. Evans 1090. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as ful... more

By His Excellency Edward Lord Cornbury, His Majesty's Capt. General an...

Evans 1086.; On verso: 1206. XLIX P.R.O., September 17, 1702, Cal. 1702, No. 1206 XLIX. Evans 1086. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full ... more

By His Excellency Edward Lord Cornbury, His Majesty's Capt. General an...

Evans 1089.; On verso: 1206 XLVII P.R.O., September 17, 1702, Cal. 1702, No. 1206 XLVII. Evans 1089. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full ... more

A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey, anno Domini, M[D...

Scale ca. 1:3,300; foot 660 to one 8 of a mile. "To the Honourable James De Lancey ... this plan of the City of New York is humbly dedict. by your honours most obet. & humble servant G. Duyckinck." Shows ward b... more

The south prospect of the city of New York in America

Print shows the waterfront on the south side of New York City with ships and boats in the foreground; prominent features numbered, legend not included.

Plan of the city of New York ; An exact prospect of Charlestown : the ...

New York City map shows streets, wharves, ferries, principal buildings, and built-up area. Charleston view is panorama of waterfront and quays with principal buildings lettered for identification (no index pres... more

Articles and regulations of the Friendly society of tradesman, house c...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 102, Folder 44a.

To His Excellency Sr. Henry Moore, Bart., captain general and governou...

"Survey'd in 1767." Shows ward names and boundaries. Relief shown by hachures. First state--before addition of Faden & Jefferys imprint. Includes index of "References" and coat-of-arms. Available also through t... more

A south east view of the city of New York, in North America Vue de sud...

Print shows two men sitting on a knoll under a tree in the foreground and a distant view of New York City with King's College, now Columbia University, the most prominent building visible. Title from item. Prin... more

Mr. Jauncey heartily thanks his worthy friends in this City, for the g...

Imprint 2.; Political campaign.; On verso: S; Jan 20, 1769. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection;... more

To the people called freeholders and freemen of the "dirty corporation...

Imprint 2.; Title. @+@; On verso: S; 1772, ?. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 104... more

The melancholy case of Mrs. Ackerman. Copy of a letter from a Dutch fa...

Title.; Imprint 2.; On verso: S; Jan 29, 1772. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 10... more

To the worthy inhabitants of the City of New York. Every good citizen ...

Imprint 3.; Title.; On verso: S; 1773. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 105, Folder 1.

To the agents of their high mightinesses the Dutch East-India company,...

Imprint 2; Dutch East India company.; Tea, duty ob.; On verso: S; Oct 28, 1773. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed ... more

New York City. ff. Personally appeared Moses Sherwood and William Benn...

Positive Photostat; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 105, Folder 7.

To the inhabitants of the City and County of New York. Gentlemen, It i...

Upper portion wanting.; Imprint 2.; On verso: S; July 12, 1774. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collect... more

To the public. New York, October 27, 1774. Whereas Thomas Charles Will...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; Oct 27, 1774. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 107, Folder 8.

The following are the names of the persons proposed to be elected as a...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; Nov 17, 1774. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 107, Folder 10.

To the respectable body of gentlemen nominated by the publick voice as...

Imprint 3.; Title.; On verso: S; Sept 30, 1774. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1... more

To the freeholders, freemen, and inhabitants of the City and County of...

Imprint 2.; On verso: S; July 9, 1774. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 106, Folder 14.

New York, May 11, 1774. The mechanicks of this city are requested to m...

Evans 13490.; On verso: S; May 11, 1774. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 106, Folder 5a.

New York, October 1, 1774. To the publick. We the subscribers having b...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; Oct 1, 1774. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 107, Folder 7.

At a meeting of the True Sons of Liberty, in the City of New-York, Jul...

Imprint 2.; True sons of Liberty.; On verso: S; July 27, 1774. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collecti... more

Extract of the proceedings of the committee of correspondence of this ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 106, Folder 12. Copy scanned: 1

To the freemen, freeholders, and other inhabitants of the City of New ...

Title.; Imprint 3.; On verso: S; Jan 19, 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 10... more

New York, April 28, 1775. To the public. At a meeting of a great numbe...

Imprint 2.; Not in Evans.; On verso: S. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 11.

To the publick. I the subscriber, Abraham H. Van Vleck, of the City of...

Imprint 2.; On verso: S; Aug 4, 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 32.

To the freemen and freeholders of the EastWard of the City of New York...

On verso: S; Sept 28, 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 37.

City of New-York. ss. Personally appeared before me Benjamin Blagge, o...

Imprint.; Port of Boston. Closing.; On verso: S; Apr 17, 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collecti... more

New York, May 8, 1775. Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, to a gen...

New-York, April 29, 1775. A general association, agreed to, and subscr...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; Apr 29, 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 12.

To all true whigs, and particularly to such as are independent elector...

Imprint 2.; On verso: S; Sept 28, 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 36.

New-York, Committee-Chamber, May 15, 1775. Resolved that copies of the...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; May 15, 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 21.

New-York, June 21, 1775. The General Committee for the City and County...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; June 23, 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 30.

New York, May 8, 1775. Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, to a gen...

To the respectable inhabitants of the City and County of New-York. Fri...

Evans 14320.; Imprint 3.; On verso: S; Mch 29, 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfo... more

In Council of Safety. Philadelphia, November 14th, 1776. 12 o'Clock, T...

A plan of the city and environs of New York in North America.

General street map showing selected letter-keyed buildings in built-up area and field lines with generalized land use in rural areas. Relief shown by hachures. Also shows "Road to Kings Bridge where the Rebels ... more

Committee-Chamber. New York, April 13, 1776 The following persons of t...

Imprint 3.; Political campaign.; On verso: S; Apr 13, 1776. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection;... more

To His Excellency Sr. Henry Moore, Bart., captain general and governou...

Scale ca. 1:5,000. "Survey'd in 1767." Shows ward boundaries. Includes numbered index to buildings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1107 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ... more

In Council of Safety. Philadelphia, November 14th, 1776. 12 o'Clock, T...

New York, April 16, 1776. The Mechanics in union and their associates,...

Imprint 2.; Political campaign.; On verso: S; Apr 16, 1776. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection;... more

A plan of New York Island, with part of Long Island, Staten Island & e...

Scale ca. 1:85,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows information to Sept. 23, 1776. Pictorial map. Annotated in lower right corner in pencil: 3rd impression. Includes "Re... more

Plan of the city of New York, in North America: surveyed in the years ...

Cartouche showing allegorical scene with an English trader standing on the shore among barrels and bundles of merchandise and a Native wearing feathered headdress and skirt standing among barrels. Title from it... more

The Freemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the City of New-York are ...

Evans 14762.; On verso: S. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 109, Folder 5a.

The following are recommended as proper persons to represent the City ...

New York, July 1, 1776. By the arrival of Capt. Williams, at Philadelp...

Imprint 2.; On verso: S; June 30, 1776. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 109, Folder 8.

[A Plan of the city of New York.

New York, with the entrance of the North and East rivers

Print shows distant view of New York City at the confluence of the North and East rivers. Title from item. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.... more

Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali ... Neu Jor...

Print shows cartouche and ornament on map of the eastern seaboard of America; a procession of suppliants bearing gifts to present to a seated figure, possibly George III, also shows a bird's-eye view of New Yor... more

By James Pattison, Esquire; Major-general of his Majesty's forces, com...

Not in Evans.; On verso: 1780, Jan. 24, P.R.O., C.O.5. 182. F. 529. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Col... more

By James Pattison, Esq; Mayor general of his Majesty's forces and comm...

Not in Evans.; On verso: 1780, January 20, P.R.O., C.O.5. 182. f. 528. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera ... more

Incendie de New-York / dessiné par le Barbier peintre du Roi ; gravé p...

Print shows a riot in New York City and several buildings on fire. Title from item. Illus. in: Essais historiques et politiques sur les Anglo-Américains, ... / par M. Hilliard d'Auberteuil .... Bruxelles : 1782... more

To the independent electors of the City of New York. There was a time ...

Positive Photostat.; Evans 21501.; On verso, Copy 1: 2-87-245.31; S; Apr 27, 1788.; On verso, Copy 2 and Copy 3: {stamp} Gift Herbert Putnam Sept, 22 1938. {stamp} ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION... more

View of the federal ediface in New York

Print shows exterior view of Federal Hall, designated the site of the federal government in 1788, New York City, New York. Title from item. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphi... more

Plan of the city of New York.

Scale ca. 1:13,000. Hand colored. Shows ward boundaries. Includes index to buildings. Wheat & Brun. Maps and Charts (1978 ed.) 387 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1113 Available also through the Library of... more

To the mechanics of the City of New York. I have seen a piece, signed ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 111, Folder 16d.

City of Albany, February 16, 1792. On the 13th instant a letter was re...

Imprint 3.; Jay, John.; Rensselaer, Stephen van.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collecti... more

City of New York ss. At a Common Council held on Monday the 28th day o...

Imprint 2.; On verso: No. 714. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 112, Folder 13.

City of New York, ss. Be it remembered, that on the day of in the year...

Blank for a licence to keep an inn or tavern filled in in mss. for John McPherson and signed by Richard Varick, Mayor.; On verso: 443. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as f... more

City of New York ss. At a Common Council held on Thursday the 8th day ...

To the electors of the City of New York. Fellow-citizens. The aristocr...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 112, Folder 23b.

To the inhabitants of the Ward of the City of New York, being the Coll...

City Hall, New York

U.S. Reports: Dupont v. Pichon, 4 U.S. (4 Dall.) 321 (1805)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 4; Dallas Volume 4; March Term, 1805; Dupont versus Pichon

Map of land patents from original surveys : [Newburgh city region, New...

Cadastral map of original land patents, real-property tracts, dates when properties were established, acreages, and landowners' names in the Newburgh city region west of the Hudson River (parts of Orange and Ro... more

Five hundred dollars reward. Proclamation, by the deputy-mayor of the ...

2101 F 26 29 My 46.; Rec. 6-21-46.; $10.00.; On verso: 2101E26 29 My 46. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemer... more

This map of the city of New York and island of Manhattan, as laid out ...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows ward boundaries, selected buildingsm and landowner's names. "Entered according to act of Congress Novr. 16th 1811." Oriented with north toward the upper right. Haskell, D.C. Manh... more

Plan of Forts Green, Laurence & Swift and lines of intrenchments const...

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Oriented with north to the upper right. Handwritten annotation on recto: No. 39. "Office of Chief of Engineers, War Department. 58510 6199" on vers... more

Orders and regulations for the Port of New-York ... Harbour Master's O...

Imprint 3.; Port of New York. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1... more

The City of New York as laid out by the Commissioners with the surroun...

Street planning map. Covers all of Manhattan Island (New York, N.Y.) and substantial parts of adjacent counties in New York and New Jersey. Shows existing and proposed streets; also buildings and other struct... more

A view of Cooke's tomb in St. Paul's Church yard, N. York / painted an...

Print shows the actor Edmund Kean standing with another man, identified as "the physician who attended Mr. Cooke in his last illness", next to the monument Kean had erected in honor of George Frederick Cooke in... more

Address of the General Committee of Republican young men of the City o...

Imprint 2.; Political campaign.; Jackson, Andrew. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... more

Map of 400 valuable lots in the eastern section of the city of New Hav...

Cadastral map showing lots and lot numbers. Also shows selected buildings. Oriented with north to the right. In upper left corner: 744. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as ... more

A gone case. A scene in Wall-Street

A comic scene representing two New York city political factions, the Whigs and the radical Democrats (or "Loco Focos"), as scuffling newsboys. The scene takes place before the half-built Customs House, where se... more

A Democratic voter

The artist satirizes the split in party loyalties between the Locofoco and Tammany factions of New York City Democrats. In particular he belittles the Irish immigrants widely recruited by the party at the time... more

Working men, attention!! it is your imperious duty to drop your hammer...

Broadsides relating to American labor organization activities. Reference copy may be available in Lot 4403. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card t... more

Triumphal procession of the eagle and other birds, at the April electi...

A parade of jubilant New York City Whigs, led by successful mayoral candidate Aaron Clark (at right, with walking stick). Clark, who defeated Tammany candidate John J. Morgan in the Spring election, walks arm-i... more

The death of old Tammany and his wife Loco Foco

A satirical view of the heavy losses suffered by Loco Foco and Tammany factions of the New York City Democratic party in the municipal elections of April 1837. The vote brought about not only the defeat of Tam... more

U.S. Reports: City of New York v. Miln, 36 U.S. (11 Pet.) 102 (1837)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 36; Peters Volume 11; January Term, 1837; Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York, Plaintiffs v. George Miln, The

New edition of MacBeth. Bank-oh's! Ghost

Another satire on the Panic of 1837, again condemning Van Buren's continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies as the source of the crisis. Clay shows the president haunted by the ghost of C... more

The treasury-hen alarmed

A portrayal of Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury as a hen nurturing corruption and shielding New York City customs house officials from congressional scrutiny. Woodbury spreads his wings over several chicks pec... more

The last card. Tip overthrown

A satire on the controversy surrounding charges of election fraud against New York State tobacco inspector James B. Glentworth and other Whigs during the election of 1838. The allegations were made two years l... more

Castle Garden in New York

Drawing shows Castle Garden, now known as Castle Clinton in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan, New York, from the water.

[Castle Garden from the water]

Drawing shows Castle Garden, now known as Castle Clinton in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan, New York, from the water.

The village of Flushing, Queens County, L.I. : nine miles east of the ...

Cadastral map of the incorporated village of Flushing showing lot lines, dimensions, buildings (residential/non-residential), landholders' names, marshlands, and village boundary. Oriented with north to the lef... more

Gov. Seward's letter or the triumph of liberality and justice

A dramatic prison scene, intended to contrast the clemency of New York's Whig governor William H. Seward with the vindictiveness of the Democrat-controlled New York City prison administration. In the interior o... more

Trouble in the Spartan ranks. Old Durham in the field

A complex and somewhat obscure satire celebrating the defeat of Dorrite Democrats in the Rhode Island state elections of spring 1843. The canvass was held the year following the successful suppression of the Do... more

The mountain in labor

The artist employs Aesop's fable about the mountain which was said to be in labor, its dreadful groans attracting expectant crowds only to be disappointed when it issued forth a small mouse. Here the mountain i... more

Dr. Hollick's select lectures for gentlemen only. On the philosophy an...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 197, Folder 37a.

[A. Oakey Hall, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right, eyes fr...

Mayor of New York City. Identification from engraving of a later photograph by Sarony in Daily graphic, March 31, 1883, p. 221. Scratched on back of plate: 109; Oakey Hall. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DL... more

[Shepherd Knapp, half-length portrait, slightly to right, eyes front]

Leather merchant and later a banker in New York City. Scratched on face of plate: 206; Shepherd Knapp. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of ... more

[Walter Restored Jones, half-length portrait, nearly in profile to lef...

Founder of Atlantic Mutual Marine Insurance Co., of New York City. Alternative identifications: Walter Reston Jones, d. 1855; Walter Jones of Washington; Walter James. Scratched on back of plate: 31; [illegible... more

Magdalen Female Benevolent Asylum, between 88th and 89th street, W. of...

New York City ; exterior. Illus. in: The Magdalen Female Benevolent Society, Eleventh Annual Report...1844 May 10. Reference copy may be in LOT 4399. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.... more

[Unidentified man, about 45 years of age, half-length portrait, slight...

Scratched on back of plate: 91; 289 [cancelled] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Identifie... more

Map exhibiting the experimental and located lines for the New-York and...

Detailed topographic strip map showing the coast from New York City to New Haven, Conn. Indicates drainage, relief by hachures, cities and towns, roads, and railroads. Chartered in 1844, organized in 1846, open... more

Pickpocket on the Battery

Print shows a man picking the pocket of another man in New York City. Also shows page of text. Illus. in: National Police Gazette, New York, 1846 April 4, front page. No ref. copy. This record contains unverifi... more