Treasures of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library

: The Revolution, 1868; The front pages of the first two issues of The Revolution, a newspaper established by women's rights activists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The entire run of the newspaper has been digitized by Lewis & Clark College and is available on their website at http://digitalcollections.lclark.edu/items/browse?collection=21&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CDate. "The Organ of the National Party of New America." Editors: Jan. 1868-May 1870, Elizabeth C. Stanton (with Parker Pillsbury, Jan. 1868-July 1, 1869); June 1870-Oct. 1871, Laura C. Bullard; Oct. 1871-Feb. 1872, W.T. Clarke., New-York Historical Society

: Sheriff’s Office of the City and County of New York, December 6th, 1875. $10,000 Reward. The above reward will be paid for the apprehension and delivery to the undersigned, or his proper agents, of Wm. M. Tweed, who escaped from the Jailor of the City and; After having been convicted on numerous charges and serving a reduced, one-year jail sentence, William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, ex-leader of the Tammany Hall political machine, was arrested and imprisoned again in a civil suit brought by the City of New York to recover $6,000,000 in embezzled funds. He escaped from Ludlow Street Jail during a home visit on December 4, 1875 and fled to Spain, where he was apprehended and returned to prison in New York in 1876., New-York Historical Society

: Eadweard Muybridge's Panorama of San Francisco from California St. Hill, 1878; 360-degree panorama of San Francisco in 13 panels photographed from the roof of the Mark Hopkins residence on Nob Hill by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878. The views in this panorama are from the same perspective as those in a smaller-sized 11-panel panorama issued in 1877, but the appearance of some of the buildings confirms that they were photographed the following year. Muybridge's panorama was purchased for the New-York Historical Society by Daniel Parish in 1897. In the 1897 letter to the Librarian of the New-York Historical Society included in this digital collection, Muybridge says "permit me to suggest that you have the names of the principal buildings and places copied from those I wrote on the copy at the Astor Library [now part of the New York Public Library]". The title of each photograph is based on Muybridge's annotations on the New York Public Library's copy.

: Charity Organization Society of the City of New York, Tenement House Committee Strong-holds of poverty and Prevalence of disease maps, 1899; These 89 maps, hand-drawn and hand-colored, were created in 1899 under the leadership of Lawrence Veiller in conjunction with the Charity Organization Society of New York for display at the Tenement House Exhibition, held in Manhattan in February 1900. They depict neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, from the Battery to Harlem, in two series: “Strong-holds of poverty” and “Prevalence of disease.” Colored dots on the first series indicate the number of families requesting charitable assistance. On the second series, the dots represent instances of tuberculosis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, and diphtheria. On both series, the population of each block is stamped at its center. The maps were donated to the New-York Historical Society by Lawrence Veiller in 1920.

: Cass Gilbert presentation drawings, circa 1900-1935; This digital collection highlights 41 presentation drawings from the Cass Gilbert Architectural Collection at the New-York Historical Society. A list of Gilbert's best-known structures indicates the national scope and large scale of his commissions: the Minnesota State Capitol; United States Custom House, New York; St. Louis Art Museum; West Street Building, New York; his masterpiece, the Woolworth Building, New York; New York Life Insurance Building; and the United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C. Cass Gilbert (1859-1934) studied for a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and traveled in Europe before apprenticing with McKim, Mead & White in New York from 1880 to 1882. Gilbert then returned to St. Paul, Minnesota, and practiced in partnership with James Knox Taylor until 1892, when he started his own firm. He established a New York office in 1898 and by the end of his long career had worked on some 600 projects.

: [Grand Central Terminal, elevation on 42nd Street, Warren & Wetmore, circa 1904]; Ink on linen with pencil revisions and annotations., New-York Historical Society

: [Pennsylvania Station, New York, interior], Jules Crow, 1906; Presentation drawing of the interior of Pennsylvania Station, New York, from the McKim Mead & White architectural records held by the library at New-York Historical. Watercolor, ink and graphite on paper., New-York Historical Society

: Letter to suffragist Eleanor C. Erving from her niece Bertie, April 4, 1911; Letter requests a "votes for women" pin, with the "sufferage [sic] colors"., New-York Historical Society

: [Tracy's bootleg liquor price list, between 1920 and 1933]; One of a collection of twelve price lists for bootleg liquor and two business cards issued by liquor dealers who operated in New York City during Prohibition. The other price lists in this collection will be digitized in full at a future date. The 18th Amendment instituting national Prohibition went into effect Jan. 17, 1920, and was in force until it was repealed with the ratification of the 21st Amendment on Dec. 5, 1933., New-York Historical Society

: Borough of Manhattan, New York City, 1928 : Foreign-born nationality distribution figures / prepared by Boys’ Club Federation, New York City; Subtitle from legend: Foreign-born nationality distribution figures. Map and legend are hand colored, some areas are hand numbered. "Copied from map made by Alexander, Nelsen and Strain, Teachers College, Columbia University.", New-York Historical Society

: Total sales today 16,388,700. Good night. Oct. 29, 1929; Closing ticker tape from the New York Stock Exchange, October 29, 1929, the date of the Stock Market Crash that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression., New-York Historical Society

: Seven moments of love : an un-sonnet sequence in blues : typescript, 1939; Typescript of a series of seven poems by Langston Hughes, the African American poet and playwright. The title page is inscribed by Hughes to Earl Jones and dated 1939. Robert Earl Jones was an American actor and prizefighter and a figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career., New-York Historical Society

: Proposed Lower Manhattan crosstown expressway; Selections from "Proposed Lower Manhattan crosstown expressway", issued by the Office of the Construction Co-ordinator, New York, 1946. The Lower Manhattan Expressway, an extension of I-78 from the Holland Tunnel to the Williamsburg Bridge that would have torn through the neighborhoods of SoHo, Little Italy, and the Lower East Side and displaced countless families and businesses, was originally proposed in 1941 and approved by the City Planning Commission in 1960. It was never built, thanks to opposition by neighborhood activists led by Jane Jacobs. Letter of transmittal signed: Robert Moses, City Construction Co-ordinator [and] Hugo E. Rogers, President Borough of Manhattan. Letter dated Oct. 14, 1946 (p. [1])., New-York Historical Society

: Woodhull & Claflin’s weekly : Progress! Free thought! Untrammeled lives! Breaking the way for future generations, Vol. 2, No. 23, whole No. 49, New York, April 22, 1871, page [1]; The front page of the April 22, 1871 issue of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, one of the first newspapers published by women in the United States. It was issued from May 14, 1870 to June 10, 1876. New-York Historical holds a partial run which it plans to digitize at a future date. Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for President of the United States in the 1872 election. Together with her sister Tennessee Claflin, a suffragist, she was the first woman to open a Wall Street brokerage firm. Their weekly newspaper covered a variety of topics that were controversial at the time, including women's suffrage, vegetarianism, free love, spiritualism, and socialism, and it was also the first in the United States to publish the Communist Manifesto, on December 30, 1871. The newspaper became famous for exposing Henry Ward Beecher's sexual affair with Theodore Tilton's wife, Elizabeth Richards Tilton, which led to Woodhull and Claflin's arrest for publishing and distributing an obscene newspaper., New-York Historical Society

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