Extent: 1 box This collection primarily consists of speakeasy cards and bootleggers’ price lists from New York City during the Prohibition era (1920-1933), a time in which the sale, manufacture, […]
Extent: 2 boxes The Museum of the City of New York Collection on Sports contains materials related to New York City’s sports clubs, professional and college sports teams, and sports […]
Extent: 3 boxes The Museum of the City of New York Collection on Ships and Shipping consists of materials spanning from 1700 to 1976 and pertaining to the domestic and […]
Extent: 3 boxes The collection on formal dining events contains materials pertaining to organized, invitation-only, private dinners held in New York City between 1865 and 1965. Historical Note The rise […]
Extent: 15 boxes, 6 oversize drawers The Museum of the City of New York’s Collection on Clubs, Societies, and Associations consists of a variety of materials spanning from 1785 to […]
Extent: 2 boxes, 1 oversize drawer The Museum of the City of New York Collection on AIDS and Public Health contains materials relating to AIDS/HIV education, outreach, awareness, and activism […]
Extent: 91 boxes The Harry T. Peters papers consist of manuscripts, correspondence, ephemera, publications, prints, and photographs documenting Peters’s activities as a collector of American lithographs, authority on the firm […]
Extent: 1 box The Radcliff family papers consist of 34 items, primarily contracts, specifications bills and receipts for three new houses in North Pearl Street belonging to David V.N. Radcliff. […]
Extent: 1 box The collection on the New York City Marathon is an artificial collection compiled by museum staff from two separate gifts from the 1996 and 1997 New York […]
Extent: 8 Boxes The Museum of the City of New York collection on civic events contains materials from public and private events taking place in New York City between the […]
Extent: 3 boxes, 1 flat file The Museum of the City of New York Collection on World War I and World War II contains materials related to New York during […]
Extent: 5 boxes, 3 oversize drawers The Museum of the City of New York Collection on Infrastructure contains materials documenting the creation and evolution of the city’s infrastructure between the […]
Extent: 4 boxes The Martin Wong Papers collection consists of materials collected by artist and collector Martin Wong between 1980 and 1994. The bulk of the collection consists of graffiti-related […]
Extent: 1 box The Dorothy Dignam Collection on Gramercy Park consists of material focused on the Gramercy Park area. The primary formats represented in the collection are newspaper clippings, magazine […]
Extent: 10 boxes and one oversize drawer (3 linear feet) The collection on advertising is an artificial collection compiled by Museum staff since the Museum’s earliest decades of operation in the […]
Extent: 2 boxes (1 regular document case, one oversize) Fayette B. Tower worked as an engineer on the Croton Aqueduct, the water distribution system constructed between 1837 and 1842 to […]
Extent: 1 box, (.209 linear feet) The Stewart Technical School was founded in 1909 as the Stewart Automobile School, and offered courses in automobile mechanics. In 1927, the school expanded […]
Extent: 1 box (.3 linear feet) The Lewis and Osborn family papers consist of approximately 75 items, primarily correspondence and legal documents relating to properties owned by Morgan Lewis and […]
Extent: 18 boxes Like the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair 25 years earlier, the 1964-1965 Fair was held at Flushing Meadows in the Borough of Queens. The Fair’s theme was […]
Extent:47 boxes New York’s celebrated World’s Fair of 1939-1940, held on a former ash dump in Flushing Meadows, Queens, drew millions of visitors with its promise to reveal “The World […]
Extent: Three boxes (1.25 linear feet) Alfred E. Smith served as governor of New York State four times between 1919 and 1928, and was the Democratic US Presidential candidate in […]
Extent: Seven boxes (8.75 linear feet) Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photographs of New York City architecture and urban design in the 1930s. Abbott’s […]
Extent: 14 boxes, 7 oversize drawers This collection consists of material pertaining to land in and around New York City and its boroughs. It comprises a variety of documents including […]
Extent: 48 boxes (21 linear feet) The Grace Mayer Files include day-to-day external incoming and outgoing correspondence related to researching, acquiring, preserving, exhibiting, and publicizing images of New York while […]
Extent: 10 boxes, 4 oversize drawers The Museum of the City of New York’s “Society Collection” brings to life a time when gentleman dined at their “club,” ladies lunched with […]
Extent: 1 box (.25 linear feet) The Bradish Johnson Papers consist of documents relating to Johnson’s work as a sugar refiner, distiller, brewer, and property owner, including leases and deeds, […]
Extent:1 box (.3 linear feet) Ella M. Boult was born in Medina, Ohio in 1866. She graduated from Cornell University in 1888 with a degree in Chemistry, but went on […]
Extent:12 bound volumes and 2 boxes (2 linear feet) The ASCPA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) papers consist of the business correspondence of the early years […]
Extent:3 boxes (1.3 linear feet) A combination of seven gifts from Livingston family descendents, the collection contains correspondence to and from various Livingston family members. The Livingston family was one […]
