- Call number
- AZ 13-3608
- Physical description
- 4 boxes (70 posters and prints), some col, 83 x 62 cm or smaller; 4 boxes (70 posters and prints), some col, 83 x 62 cm or smaller
- Preferred Citation
- Miscellaneous oversized posters and prints, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy
- Location
- AZ 13-3608
- Access to materials
- Request a research appointment: https://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/milstein
Black and white and some color photographs, posters and prints mostly of New York City buildings and streets, including Battery Swimming Baths (Battery Park Baths), photograph by E.J. Lecocq (ca. 1900), 2 photographs of renderings of the New York Biscuit Company (ca. 1890 and 1898), 6 prints of the new Tribune Building (1873); streets depicted include Broadway, Fifth Avenue and Wall Street. Among the subjects are the New York harbor, several ships, the William Cullen Bryant memorial, and Trinity Church memorial to unknown Revolutionary War heroes, photograph by Frank E. Parshley (ca. 1900). There are also 2 prints of the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair (1864) and a house in New Utrecht, Long Island (ca. 1866), as well as a few images from other U.S. cities such as Denver and St. Paul. Portrait prints include those of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, William Nelson Cromwell, Francis L. Hawks, Robert E. Lee, and George Washington; posters include a series of newspaper advertisements one year after Pres. John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Key terms
Names
- Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
- Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
- Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Lecocq, E.J (Photographer)
- Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
- Parshley, Frank E., approximately 1853- (Photographer)
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Brooklyn and Long Island Fair in Aid of the United States Sanitary Commission (1864)
- New York Biscuit Co.
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Location
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and GenealogyStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
First Floor, Room 121