Extent: 10 boxes The Collection on Social Events includes invitations, menus, calling cards, and dance cards related to balls, parties, dinners, and other invitation-only events held in New York City from […]
Extent: 6 boxes, 2 oversize drawers The Museum of the City of New York Collection on Education & Religion consists of ephemera spanning from 1705-2003 related to public and private schooling, […]
Extent: 2 boxes The Museum of the City of New York’s Collection on Women’s Suffrage contains two and three-dimensional ephemera ranging from 1890 to 1920, relating primarily to the suffrage movement […]
Extent: 10 boxes (4 oversize) The Museum of the City of New York Collection on Dining and Entertainment contains materials related to New York City’s restaurants and hotels between the […]
Extent: 1 box This collection consists of ephemera from the American Civil War (1861-1865), the bulk of which relates to the United States Sanitary Commission. The primary mission of the […]
Extent: 2 boxes The Museum of the City of New York Collection on Culture and Entertainment contains materials related to New York City’s museums, theaters, lectures, and special events between […]
Extent: 3 boxes, 1 oversize drawer The Museum of the City of New York’s Collection on Politics consists of a variety of material types spanning from 1774 to 2013 and […]
Extent: 83 boxes The Collection of Pamphlets contains printed materials related to a broad range of topics: museums and exhibitions, historical perspectives, corporations’ annual reports, infrastructure and New York City neighborhoods. […]
Extent: 2 boxes (1 linear foot) The Collection on the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform contains materials dating from 1929 to 1933 that illustrate the organization’s mission – strict repeal […]
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 […]
