Parchment deed. Land sold by five couples, being the heirs of Pieter Stoutenburgh (1613-1699): Tobias Stoutenburgh (bricklayer) and wife, Antio (or Annetie?); Evort Boyvanko, Esquire and wife, Wyntio; Isaac Stoutenburgh (carpenter) and wife, Noltio; Albortus Ringo (cordwainer) and wife, Jannotio(?); and William Waldron and wife, Engoltio(?). Deed signed with seals by all, with three of the wives using marks. Deed recorded January 22, 1700. Later note on reverse signed by Justice David Provoost and others dated October 29, 1701. Rough typescript and notes from donor are also in the folder. (Gift of Dr. William O'Keefe, October 2019.)

2 documents. Deed (1710) from Octavo Coemaats(?) to Abraham Wendell and sixteen others. Other surnames include Hooghlands(?), Hegeman, Beekman, Van Pelt, Van Dyk, Van Duyn, Cortelyou, Gouverneur, Volkertt(?), Veghten, and Van Leuwen(?). Deed is for property in the vicinity of the Raritan River and Millstone River in New Jersey. The second document is a 1784 certificate for the appointment of Arent Van Pelt as Second Lieutenant in Nicholas Van Brunt's Company in the regiment of militia in Kings County, New York. (The certificate's frame was removed and is boxed apart from the foldered document.)

One deed from the DeLanceys to Philip Livingston, John Watts, Thomas Buchanan, Gulian Verplanck, James Watson, Moses Rogers, James Farquhar, Richard Harison, and Daniel Ludlow, for land in the 1st Ward of New York City, bounded by Broadway on the east, by Temple Street on the west, by Thames Street on the south, and by Little Queen Street on the north.

Preamble and resolutions adopted at a special meeting of Alert Hose Co., No. 3, at the Carriage House in Brooklyn W.D. memorializing their fellow firefighter William Moir Smith who died at Richmond, Virginia, of wounds from the battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861. Smith was a member of the 71st Regiment, Company A. Signed by H.A. Ransford, foreman, and W.A. Price, secretary.

Includes 8 documents: 2 graduation certificates from Rutgers Female Institute to Lizzie A. Conover (1862, 1865); Certificate of membership in the Free and Accepted Masons, Holland Lodge, No. 8, to John T. Conover (1864); Graduation certificate from Van Norman Institute to Mary Conover Jones (1888); Graduation certificate from Columbia College, School of Mines, to Edward Marwedel Jones (1894); and 3 oval pictures (drawings?) of John, Lizzie, Mary (identified by donor; not noted on the objects). (Gift, Richard K. Lewis, 2019)

Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise, with related certificate, awarded to Mabel Davison for her care of blinded French soldiers during World War I. Also a related certificate to Davison from the American Fund for French Wounded. These items, with a placard also in the folder, were originally framed together in 1940. They were a gift to N-YHS in June 1940 by Charles Stewart Davison in the context of the opening year of World War II. See Davison's contextual June 1940 letter in the institutional archives (General Correspondence, Box 191, folder 2). The items were unframed, and the frame discarded, by conservator Alan Balicki in September 2022.

Certificate awarded for the completion of studies in the College Preparatory Course. Signed by principal Mary Elizabeth Masland. Stamped with seal that reads "The Gardner School, 1857." With tied ribbon that was presumably used to hold the document in rolled form. (Historical note: Also know as the Gardner School for Girls, the organization was founded in 1857. At the time of this certificate, and since 1916, it was located at 11 East 51st Street in New York City. Masland had been its principal since 1910. The Institute closed in 1949.)

Item is a sheet of 50 3 cents stamps issued on April 30, 1939, for the "Sesquicentennial of the inauguration of Washington as first president." Sheet (#22365) is mounted to paper backing, with contextual information, indicating that the sheet was sold by New York City postmaster Albert Goldman to N-YHS Director Alexander J. Wall on the first day of issue. Goldman signed and dated the sheet and signed the backing.

Includes a watercolor of Trinity Church in lower Manhattan, which appears to be initialed VBA. With the drawing are documents that seem likely to have come from the backing of the previously framed drawing. These documents include a newspaper clipping with context and likely placing the provenance of the drawing as a gift from the artist Violet B. Alvarez to Albert Ulmann (1861-1948); with the clipping is a drawing of an artist, both mounted on paper signed by Alvarez and dated August 1942.

Ten documents related to the family of Ernst Ammon and Maria Keim Ammon, German immigrants who lived in New York City in the mid 19th century. Includes birth, marriage, confirmation, and citizenship certificates, a deed, and National Guard payslips.

Includes a frame made of wood from the famed pear tree Stuyvesant planted at what became the northeast corner of Third Avenue and East 13th Street in Manhattan. For fuller details, and to request these items for research, read their catalog record .

Folder 3 of 3. Includes the three elevations and detail plans for the clock refurbishment prepared by Historical Arts & Casting.

Oversize items from the Charles L. Bernheimer papers, MS 58. See the finding aid for that collection for content description.

3 items removed from Society records. See MS 59 finding aid

2 folders of oversize documents from the Bradish papers, MS 71; see the Bradish finding aid for details.

Two-page advertising spread "From the first four articles by Robert A. Caro, about Robert Moses and the uses of political power in New York, beginning in this week's issue (July 22) of The New Yorker. Yes, The New Yorker." (29.5″ x 23.5″)

Oversize items from the Bill Cunningham collection, MS 3137. See the finding aid for that collection for content description.

See finding aid for Carole De Saram papers (MS 3059) for details on oversize content.

These items were in a third box of the collection, but were humidified, flattened, and moved to oversize folders by conservator Katarzyna (Bator) Vargas in September 2019. See the Bobcat entry for the Dutchess County Collection (MS 186) for the entire collection.

Taken on campus at time of 125th anniversary celebration.
• Folder 1.1 (numbered copy 1): Formerly framed (frame discarded 2021), with only accurate identification of faculty member.
• Folder 1.2 (numbered copy 2): This numbered copy was presented in Dec. 1972 by Ms. Alex Cameron, a teacher who appears in the photo. Poor condition (split in half).
• Folder 1.3 (flat copies): Three copies (one complete, two partial).

See Guide to the Erasmus Hall Records, 1325–1989 (bulk, circa 1775–1975), MS 201.

Original watercolor executed by the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York, which served as the basis for the design of the window. 25 x 28", in a large cardboard portfolio.

See Guide to the Erasmus Hall Records, 1325–1989 (bulk, circa 1775–1975), MS 201.

Reproduction certified as accurate by the State Engineer and Surveyor, 1902. 18 x 26". Gift of Herebert [sic] S. Wynkoop, 1912.

See Guide to the Erasmus Hall Records, 1325–1989 (bulk, circa 1775–1975), MS 201.

Includes various oversize items from the Myron Falk papers. See the Falk finding aid for details.

Includes various oversize items from the Myron Falk papers. See the Falk finding aid for details.

Verhovay Aid Society photographs (2).

Two large mounted photographs (mounts measure 22 x 14 inches) of attendees to the convention of the Verhovay Aid Society, a Hungarian national fraternal organization, Passaic, New Jersey, July 1914. The second of the two listed below shows the group at flag raising ceremonies on Long Island on Sunday, July 26, 1914 (see Passaic Daily News, Monday, July 27, 1914, p. 13).

• A VERHOVAY KONVENCIO DELEGATUSAI PASSAICON 1914 JULIUS HÒ-BAN BELDEGREEN FENYKEPE 52 32 AVE C N.Y. {Delegates to the Averhovay Convention, Passaic, July 1914; photographed by Beldegreen Fenykepe, 32 Avenue C, N.Y.}
• A VERHOVAY EGYLET 38 IK N.Y. FIOKJANAK ZAZLOSZENTELSI UNNE PELYE 1914 JULIUS 2GAN [26AN?] {The Averhovay Association, Branch No. 38 of New York}

For details see Guide to the Freedman Family Papers and Other Documents, 1765–1968 (bulk, 1930–1950), MS 231.

[Purse?]

For details see Guide to the Freedman Family Papers and Other Documents, 1765–1968 (bulk, 1930–1950), MS 231.

See the finding aid for the Guion family papers (MS 3013) for item content.

Includes Supplement to the Dublin Evening Post (26 March 1946), the Dublin Evening Post (31 July 1847), and U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey map of the Vanderbilt Mansion Historic Site in New York (stamped 1st Proof, June 1947).

Includes 2 posters related to the campaign to keep cars out of Washington Square Park.

Includes oversize items from the Hort collection: New York Flower Show and other posters, floor plans of the New York Coliseum and other plans related to the Flower Shows, and a set of plans for the Vanderlip estate.

2 folders: 1 small oversize, the other large. Oversize small includes photographs and certificates. Oversize large includes a poster, in French, for event at Nantes at which Hyde spoke; this is folder 2 of 2 of material for this event. The first folder includes Hyde's remarks. See the finding aid for the Hyde papers.

Two items:

1. "Stammtafel der / Genealogical Tree ISELIN von Basel," 1948.
2. "Antique Milesianæ Familiæ De O'Donnell" [O'Donnell family tree], undated.

For details, see Guide to the Iselin Family Papers and Photographs, 1880–1991, MS 3076.

See Billie Jean King collection finding aid.

Folder contains mounted Civil War documents of Tennessee Union soldier Joseph B. Wetherill (including Oath of Allegiance to the United States); Samuel Wetherill's certificate of membership in the Zelosophic Society; John Wetherill's appointment as a delegate to the Antietam Battlefield Board; and several other appointments and certificates.

Commission of Cornelius Low King as First Lieutenant in the 14th Regiment of Infantry. Signed by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Simon Cameron. (Gift of Noëlle King and the King Family, 2019.)

Includes various oversize items from the Henry R. Luce papers. See the Luce finding aid for details.

Includes various oversize items from the Henry R. Luce papers. See the Luce finding aid for details.

Includes various oversize items from the Henry R. Luce papers. See the Luce finding aid for details.

Oversize posters from Murra collection on feminism (MS 3142); see that finding aid for item list.

See Edgar J. Nathan Papers finding aid for details of content.

See Edgar J. Nathan, Jr. papers finding aid for details of content.

Holds oversize items from the 9th Regiment collection (MS 3085). See that finding aid for details of content.

Contains oversize maps and blueprints about property Olds owned in Nassau County, New York. There are references to his property being involved in the construction of the Northern State Parkway.

ELECT / JOHN LINDSAY / [portrait] / REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE / FOR CONGRESS / VOTE ROW A [1 copy]

VOTE FOR / GOVERNOR ROCKEFELLER'S TEAM! / FOR CONGRESS - 17TH DISTRICT / JOHN LINDSAY / FOR CONGRESS - 19TH DISTRICT / RICHARD S. ALDRICH / FOR STATE SENATOR / JOSEPH PINTO / FOR ASSEMBLYMAN / PAUL J. CURRAN / VOTE ROW "A" ALL THE WAY [1 copy]

RE-ELECT / CONGRESSMAN JOHN V. / [portrait] / LINDSAY / OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SERVANT / VOTE ROW A [4 copies]

Dirty air. / Dirty lungs. / Dirty laundry. / He'll do / something / about air pollution/ ELECT / JOHN / LINDSAY / MAYOR / Vote the Lindsay Team / Lindsay-Mollen-Costello [1 copy, on stiff cardboard]

"He is fresh and everyone else is tired." / VOTE FOR / JOHN LINDSAY / FOR MAYOR [full length portrait in two parts]

Milton Mollen / FOR COMPTROLLER / [portrait] / Elect Lindsay/Mollen/Costello [1 copy]

Poster: The Big Apple / You have to be a little crazy to live in New York, but you'd be nuts to live anywhere else. April '76; inscribed "To my good friend Nick Scoppetta / With great affection and warm regards / Abe Beame."

Award certificate: Children's Aid Society / Presented by the / Trustees / to / Nicholas Scoppetta / President / 1987-1993; with a reproduction of a historic photograph of children playing in a tenement-lined street.

Nine photographs:

Photographs (3 panoramas) | McAllen, Texas |1916

Photograph (1 print) | "Living Insignia | of the | Twenty-Seventh Division | "New York's Own" | Breakers of the Hindenburg Line. | Formed of 10,000 Officers and Enlisted Men | Major-General John R. O'Ryan, Commanding." | 1919

Photographs (3 prints) | Manufacturers Trust, Featherbed Lane (Bronx) | 1949

Award | Office of Price Administration | 1944

See the finding aid for the New-York Historical Society ships and shipping collection (MS 563) for item content.

See the finding aid for the New-York Historical Society ships and shipping collection (MS 563) for item content.

Oversize documents from the Stewart papers. See William George Stewart, MS 594, finding aid.

Includes one document titled "A brief state of facts" in re: Hardenbergh (or Hardenburgh) Patent. See Bobcat catalog for Taber collection for more information. Item found on shelf and added to catalog entry and to oversize fiding aid in September 2021.

Tracing paper plan of reviewing stands for dedication ceremony. See finding aid for Washington Arch records, MS 443.30

Indenture. See Abigail Belden Whelpley papers finding aid for detail.

see finding aid for MS 3111 Helen Martha Wright papers