Found 4 collections related to New York (N.Y.). Police Dept

Letter (6 p.) from American newspaper journalist George M. Chester (1838-1891) to his mother, 1871 July 16, providing a vivid eyewitness account of the New York City Orange Riot of July 12. Chester was the son of John and Catherine M. Chester of Detroit, Michigan. He served in the Quartermaster’s Department during the American Civil War and later worked for several years as a journalist in New York City. He describes the riot which broke out in Manhattan on July 12, 1871, when Irish-Catholic protesters confronted a parade of Irish Protestant Orangemen commemorating the Battle of the Boyne. The marchers were cordoned under the escort of New York City Police and five regiments of the New York National Guard (the 6th, 7th, 9th, 22nd, and 84th) when shooting broke out on Eighth Avenue near 24th Street, resulting in many injuries and deaths. Serving that day in the 22nd N.Y.N.G., Chester recounts the sequence of events from the start of the parade at Eighth Avenue and 29th Street to his muster-out at the Cooper Institute, and duty the following day. Three sets of line drawings show the strategic disposition of the marchers and their guards at various times, including the disorder following the shootings. less

Engrossed copy of a resolution written by the New York City Police Department memorializing William F. Havemeyer, created for presentation to his surviving family. Havemeyer served three terms as Mayor of the City of New York (1845-1846; 1848-1849 and 1873 until his death in 1874); he was also responsible for the creation of the New York City Police Department in 1845 less

William H. Kipp was a New York City Police Department employee and New York National Guard officer. Collection consists of papers on general administration of the 7th Regiment of the New York National Guard, its armory and the celebration of Kipp's fifty years of service. Also, letters received as chief clerk of the New York City Police Dept., personal bills, fraternal notices, and papers relating to family and other matters. less