Series III: Oversize Files

is a chromolithographed poster of E. Carter & Co.'s 1870 "Advertising Directory of the Principal Business Firms of Fishkill Landing, New York"

is one 1858 chart Showing the Track of the Great Submarine Atlantic Telegraph. The chart includes portraits of Cyrus Field and Samuel Morse, as well as a chart of the telegraphs' route, and a text account of the cable laying process and of the telegraph process.

includes many printed copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Emancipation Proclamation, as well as several copies of southern states' secession statements. There are several copies of a Declaration of Independence designed by John Binns, with ornamental seals representing the states of the Union and Washington, Jefferson, and Hancock. A rare sheet shows the Declaration of Independence surrounded by charts of statistical and historical information about the United States, all within an ornamental arch and border. It was published by Humphrey Phelps and Bela Squire in New York in October of 1832. A lithographed "Facsimile of the Emancipation Proclamation" was issued in Chicago in 1863, to be sold for $2 each; the resulting money was to be used for the erection of a permanent home for the sick and disabled soldiers of the Union Army. Lithographed copies of secession ordinances, printed in the 1860s, are from Virginia, Louisiana (printed in English and French) and South Carolina. Notable among other documents included here are a "Declaration of Sentiments, adopted by the Peace Convention, held in Boston, September 18, 19, and 20, 1838;" a hand-colored "Pictorial History of the United States" from 1846, and an illuminated parchment broadside with hand-calligraphy, a gift from the Netherlands Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee to the New York Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee, at the time of the 1909 Hudson-Fulton celebration.

includes one blank "Ancestral Fan-Chart" printed and for sale by Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. It also contains two charts relating to the geneology of the Beekman family.

includes several scenes of Americans celebrating the Fourth of July.

includes multiple copies of two prints engraved by Otto Boetticher, an 1856 view of the National Guard 7th Regiment, and an 1859 view of the Washington Greys, 8th Regiment.

Ethnic groups- African- Americans

includes a rare broadside with "Illustrations of Miller's Views of the End of the World in 1843."

is mainly prints of horse racing, including many of races at Jerome Park in the Bronx. Several other prints show pigeon shooting and other sporting activities. One print is a view of "The International Contest Between Heenan and Sayers at Farnborough, on the 17th of April 1860." It was lithographed by W. L. Walton and George Gantz after Walton's drawing, and published in both the United States and London.

Three folders: Several copies of prints showing F1) the "Marriage of Pocohontas" and F2) the "Signing of the Compact in the Cabin of the Mayflower." Folder 3 holds a photograph of a mural painted by Francis Newton in 1908 for the Office of the New York Police Commissioner depicting the New Amsterdam "Rattle Watch" of 1658; the mural was not installed and was destroyed. Explanatory notes in folder with item. This last item was a gift of the artist's brothers, Richard N. Newton Jr. and F. Maurice Newton, 1945. Found in the stacks in 2022; unframed by conservator Alan Balicki and added to the collection by archivist Larry Weimer, September 2022.

contains a print of the "French and Indian War" and several items relating to the "United States Revolution." These include two copies of a print engraved by John C. McRae which shows the pulling down of a statue of King George in New York City in 1776.