The Brooklyn Sheet Music Collection consists of 77 covers from sheet music dating from 1869 to 1987, primarily for voice and piano, all celebrating or emanating from the borough of Brooklyn. Contents ...
"The Transactions of the Grolier Club were published in four parts beginning in 1885. Part I covered the activities of the Club from its founding in January 1884 to July 1885; Part II from July 1885 t...
This is a collection of historically significant cultural heritage materials documenting the waterways of New York state. The intent of the collection is to provide a visual record of the history and ...
"The Hall of Fame for Great Americans collection consists of 142 photographs and documents related to the selection, election, and media coverage of individuals represented in the Hall of Fame located...
The Bronx Chamber of Commerce donated this business collection to Lehman College on August 31, 1988. The Chamber wanted to make its materials available to the general public, students, researchers and...
The Carte de Visite Collection consists of 223 late 19th and early 20th century photographs of national and international figures in medicine and public health. This collection contains portraits both...
"The French Book Arts Trade Card Collection consists of XX late 19th and early 20th century business cards of French booksellers, print sellers, stationers, and other professionals involved with the b...
In 1976, as the United States celebrated its Bicentennial, the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association (MHNA) organized an exhibition of images which depicted how their neighborhood had changed over the ...
The American poet Edwin Markham was born in Oregon in 1852. At the turn of the twentieth century, with his wife Catherine Anna Murphy and their infant son Virgil, he moved East, settling first in Broo...
These broadsides and pamphlets offer a snapshot into the activities of the Catholic Church in Italy during the period of Italian unification and the Church’s responses to the many social, political, a...
The 61 images in this digital collection were part of the “Childhood in the Bronx” exhibit originally featured in the Lehman College Art Gallery from October 23 – December 14, 1986. The exhibit took f...
Inspired by the late-nineteenth-century urban park movement, Bronx Park was formally created by the City of New York in the late 1880s. In 1891, the City allotted 250 acres of the park to The New York...
This digital collection includes 112 items from the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives’ extensive collection of publications and printed ephemera created by WCS, which began in 1895 as the New Yor...
The Bronx Zoo opened on November 8, 1899. Over the course of its history, the Zoo's shape and appearance have undergone major changes as exhibits have come and gone. Brought about by such factors as t...
The New York Aquarium is the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States, having opened in Castle Garden in Battery Park, Manhattan in 1896. Since 1957, it has been located on the board...