New York City – First Events In Old New York
First Woman Suffrage Bill Fifty years ago the Legislature of the Territory of Wyoming passed a bill granting equal civil rights to womenthe first legislation of the kind adopted in America. First...
View ArticleNew York City – Some Associations Of Old Ann Street, 1720-1920
Ann Street is one of those strange, irregularly laid-out thoroughfares commencing at both Broadway and Park Row, and then running in an easterly direction, crossing Nassau and William Streets, and...
View ArticleNew York City – Christ Church In Ann Street
There is a certain dignity attached to this street, a higher regard for its earlier history and traditions, when we are informed that it possessed the second Episcopal Church in the city. A reverence...
View ArticleNew York City – Barnum’s Museum
Who can realize, that at the southeast corner of Broadway and Ann Street, where the St. Paul building (built 1897) rears its 307 feet of masonry skyward, once stood the celebrated Barnum’s Museum,...
View ArticleNew York City – Printers And Booksellers
It is a well-established fact that Ann Street has been a mart for members of the printing craft from the time that George Borkinbine and William Copp, at numbers 20 and 21 Ann Street respectively,...
View ArticleNew York City – Curious Items
New York, February 28, 6 O’Clock, P. M.Just now we received the melancholy account, That this Morning the Wife of Capt. Hermanus Rutgers of this city, being in perfect Health, eat her Breakfast as...
View ArticleNew York City – The Metropolitan Museum
The Convention of the American Federation of Arts at the Metropolitan Museum Viewed in perspective and as an accomplished fact, the Tenth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Arts may be...
View ArticleNew York City – Reveries Of A Bachelor And Lower Fifth Avenue
Ever since 1827 when the old Potter’s Field was converted into the Washington Parade Ground a unique and distinctly interesting character has attached to the neighborhood. Readers of Henry James will...
View ArticleNew York City – William Hamlin Childs’ Case
The case of William Hamlin Childs, head of the Fusion Committee that supported Mayor Mitchell, has become one of great importance as an instanceperhaps the only one in our historyin which an attempt...
View ArticleNew York City – Skating In Old New York
When I read of the winter sports the inhabitants of New York enjoyed fifty or sixty years ago, I sometimes wish I had been of the former generation. The idea of a skating club privileged to have a...
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