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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

A.J. Liebling collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4613
Abstract

Manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers of A.J. Liebling, an American journalist who served as reporter and columnist for the New Yorker magazine from 1935-1963.

Dates: 1920-1963.

Camp family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 891
Abstract

Includes papers of the related Osborn and Camp families.

Dates: 1817-1953.

John Rivoire, collector, New York City street broadsides

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2039
Abstract

Handbills, broadsides, and other printed items pertaining to political organizations and religious and civic groups, collected by John and Alice Rivoire in New York City.

Dates: 1960-1995.

Larry Blagg gay club matchbook covers and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 7738
Abstract

Over 300 matchbook covers from gay bars, discos, private clubs, restaurants, and bathhouses across the United States. There are also over 30 business cards from these establishments and over 30 personalized membership cards from private clubs of the early 1970s in New York.

Dates: 1969-1989.

Mary Jane Church letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 50 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251245]
Identifier: 2559
Scope and content

Letters of Mary J. Church to her brother from New York City, where she was attending Rutgers' Female College, concerning family and friends, school work, notable places in the city, impressions of Henry Ward Beecher, comments on the Civil War, and the reaction to Lincoln's assassination.

Dates: 1864-1865.

New York City Jewish congregational and benevolent association records

 Collection
Identifier: 8911
Content Description The New York City Jewish congregational and benevolent association records document the organizational activities of several Jewish benevolent associations and congregations in New York City dating from 1915 to 1980. The collection contains meeting minutes, financial records, ledgers, constitutions, by-laws, cemetery plot records, Israel bond documentation, and black-and-white photographs taken in Israel. Notable materials include minutes from the Lanzuter Benevolent Association (1956–1966),...
Dates: 1915 - 1986

Sexuality in society ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 7323
Abstract

The collection contains materials relating to sexual politics and the culture of groups defined by sexuality. Includes materials collected on the campus of Cornell University and from a wide range of U.S. and international cities.

Dates: 1960-2015.

Tools of War True School NYC summer park jam flyers

 Collection — Manuscript box 87 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070595214]
Identifier: 8072m
Scope and content

Flyers for True School NYC Summer Park Jam Series. Includes events in Manhattan (2002 First Ever King of the Beat Battle, 2002 GrandWizzard Theodore Anniversary Jam) Crotona Park (Bronx), Rufus King Park (Queens), Queensbridge Park (Queens), and Harlem. Most since 2005 were designed by Haks 180 (Hans Schmitter).

Dates: 2002-2010.

Walter Buckingham Carver papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-19-592
Scope and content

Correspondence with students and staff, drafts of published papers, notes, manuscript for a mathematics text, lecture notes, exams, roll books, grade lists, and theses. Includes faculty reports and by-laws, reprints, conference reports, and a collection of programs for concerts, plays, and sporting events in Ithaca, Corning, New York City, and Ohio.

Dates: 1906-1948.

Walter Failing letters : to Mary Jane Failing

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239786]
Identifier: 354m
Scope and content Two letters from Walter Failing in New York City to his sister Mary Jane in Watertown, New York, on June 5 and September 22, 1845, together with typewritten transcripts. Walter gives a detailed description of life in New York, including the varied inhabitants, charitable institutions, prominent buildings (including Trinity Church, at that time being built), fire districts, city government, street lights, food markets, cabs and omnibuses, street vendors, rag pickers, plays currently being...
Dates: 1845.