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Community Service Society records, 1842-1995
423 linear feetCorrespondence, reports, memoranda, case records, photographs and printed material. The archive include central and district administrative records; cammittee correspondence and minutes; and files on the various programs--such as sheltered workshops, tuberculosis sanitariums and health centers, public baths and employment bureaus--run by the two organizations. The archive also contains hundreds of photographs, including works by Lewis Hine and Jessie Tarbox Beals; extensive casework files from the beginning of social work (originally referred to as "friendly visiting among the poor"); and copies of masters and doctoral theses from the New York School of Sociel Work and other schools. Much of the research for these theses was based on the CSS files
Ernest Born lithographs, 1930-1931
15 lithographsThis collection contains lithographs of New York City streets, buildings and other structures drawn and printed by Ernest Born during the period 1930-1931. The suite of 15 completed images are New York City subjects originally contracted by a London art house; but, due to the 1930's depression, the transaction was not completed and the project remained in the Born family archives. The original edition was 20 prints of each image, of which five to 13 of each image survive. The lithographs are titled as follows: "Brooklyn Bridge" "Late Afternoon" "Battery Place" "East River Bend" "New York Public Library" "Grand Central Station" "Park Avenue and Lincoln Building" "Trinity Church" "Wall Street" "Garment Center" "Foundation Construction" "6th Avenue Elevation" "Jeannette Park Curve" "Bank of Manhattan and US Treasury" and "Frankfort Street.".
Father Alexey G. Vislocky papers, 1920-1949
1 linear feetPhotographs, correspondence and leaflets relating to Father Alexey G. Vislocky, an active member of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church in America in the 1920s and 1930s.
Frank Altschul Papers, 1884-1986, bulk 1925-1980
90 linear feetGeorge A. Plimpton Papers, 1634-1956
24 linear feetGerald E. Markowitz and David Rosner Papers, 1923-1999, bulk 1947-1993
16.1 linear feetHerbert H. Lehman Papers, 1878-2002, bulk 1930-1963
607 linear feetHistorical subject files, 1810s-2022, bulk 1968-1972
183.06 linear feetHotel for D.O. Mills at West 39th Street and Seventh Avenue N.Y.C. / Copeland & Dole, 1905-1906
12 drawingsDrawings show plans, elevations, and sections, and structural framing plan.
Industrial Areas Foundation records, 1977-2011
25.5 linear feetThe Industrial Areas Foundation has been working in the northeast and New York metropolitan area for 35 years. The collection documents the organization's relationship with four mayors, five governors, environmental commissioners and several governors in New Jersey, numerous public and private sector leaders. Included in the collection are correspondence, op-eds, editorials, articles, and other press items, strategy documents and internal reports describing the workings of our citizens organizations in four boroughs, northern New Jersey, Long Island, and beyond. The organization has been deeply involved in many of the central issues and initiatives of the region over those years including, the rebuilding of East Brooklyn and the South Bronx, the start of the new small schools movement, the start of the living wage movement, the charter revisions that ended the old Board of Estimates and expanded the City Council, the fight to establish and preserve mayoral control of the schools, the ongoing struggles to preserve public housing, and many other matters.