New York State Guide
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Services
to the States: New York
The collections of the American Folklife Center contain
rich and varied material that documents the diverse ethnic,
religious, and other folk traditions of the Empire State.
New
York's Local Legacies Projects, an exploration of
local traditions and celebrations is available on the
Center's Web page.
America's Library is especially designed for elementary
and middle school students.
Explore
the States: New York
Jump Back in Time
Otis
Opened Elevator Factory, September 20, 1853
New
York Stock Market Opened on Wall Street, January 4,
1865
The
Very First Labor Day, September 5, 1882
The
Metropolitan Opera House Opened in New York, October
22, 1883
The
Statue of Liberty Arrived in New York Harbor, June 19,
1885
The
First Immigrant Landed on Ellis Island, January 1, 1892
New
York City Police Parade, June 1, 1899
Carnegie
Gives Money to Build Libraries, March 12, 1901
New
Yorkers Celebrated the Opening of the Williamsburg Bridge,
December 19, 1903
New
York Subway System Opened for Business, October 27,
1904
Cameraman
Fred A. Dobson Began Filming "The Skyscrapers of
New York", November 8, 1906
The
Experimental Playwrights' Theater Opened, November 3,
1916
The
Empire State Building Opens, May 1, 1931
Radio
City Music Hall Opened to the Public in New York, December
27, 1932
New
York City's Hippodrome Closed Its Doors for the Last
Time, August 16, 1939
Marian
Anderson Performed at the Metropolitan Opera, January
7, 1955
Attack
on the United States, September 11, 2001
Chronicling
America
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages
from 1880-1910 from the following states: California,
Florida, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and
Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia. Search
this collection to find selected newspapers from New
York.
The
African-American Mosaic: African-American Culture and History
This exhibit marks the publication of The African-American
Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study
of Black History and Culture. Covering the nearly
500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere,
the Mosaic surveys the full range, size, and variety of
the Library's collections, including books, periodicals,
prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.
The exhibit includes several items pertaining to New York,
including the poster in the WPA
section, Books
are Weapons. Read About...The Negro in National Defense;
Africa and the War; Negro History and Culture, welcoming
readers to use the New York Public Library's Schomburg
Center for Black History and Culture.
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Acts
Passed at a Congress
The first session of the First Congress met in New
York from March 4 to September 29, 1789. It established
procedures for dealing with the President, passed laws
establishing the executive departments (State, War,
Treasury) and the federal judiciary, and set the tariff
on imports, which supplied most of the revenue of the
federal government.
A
Ballet for Balanchine
Igor Stravinsky's ballet Agon (meaning "contest")
was first danced on December 1, 1957, by the New York
City Ballet, with choreography by another Russian emigre
artist, George Balanchine (1904-1983).
The
Cotton Exchange
The New York Cotton Exchange, designed by architect
George Post and completed in 1885, was one of illustrator
Hughson Hawley's first commissioned renderings.
Documenting
the Lower West Side
In the early 1970s, Milton Rogovin photographed working
families on Buffalo's Lower West Side.
First
Thrill of Liberty
This image depicts a ship of immigrants entering New
York Harbor, en route to Ellis Island, where symbols
of freedom--the Statue of Liberty and an American flag--greet
the aspiring citizens.
The
Home Front During World War II
In this striking image, couples, family groups, and
men and women in uniform, move through the monumental
interior of New York City's Penn Station, illuminated
by glowing lights and the bright backdrop of a huge
American flag hanging within an arched niche.
Hoyt's
Milk White Flag
On April 23, 1896, the Vitascope movie projector made
its debut at Koster & Bial's Music Hall in Herald
Square, New York City.
Justice
At Last!
During William M. "Boss" Tweed's stewardship
of Tammany Hall, he acquired almost total control of
New York City Democratic politics and managed to loot
the city's coffers of between $50 million to $200 million.
The New York Times entered into one of the
toughest journalistic fights in New York history when
it published editorials questioning how "Boss"
Tweed and his associates managed to acquire such vast
wealth.
Koster
& Bial
On April 23, 1896, the Vitascope movie projector made
its debut at Koster & Bial's Music Hall in Herald
Square, New York City.
New
York City
Joseph Pennell launched his career as an illustrator
by selling picturesque drawings of south Philadelphia
to Scribner's Monthly in 1881. Pennell taught
for several years at the Art Students' League in New
York City. It was there that he created a visual portrait
of New York, which he called the "unbelievable
city".
New
York's Skyline, September 11, 2002
Graphic artist Rebecca Minnich depicts the section
of the New York City skyline with the World Trade Center
in a striking series of images that re-create the stages
of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
The
North Star
Frederick Douglass' North Star was founded
in Rochester, New York, in 1847. In 1851, the paper
was renamed Frederick Douglass's Paper and continued
for another ten years until Douglass (1817?-1895) was
forced to close the paper for financial reasons.
The
Seneca Falls Convention
In July 1848, more than 300 men and women assembled
in Seneca Falls, New York, for the nation's first women's
rights convention.
The
Woolworth Building
On April 24, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson pressed
a button in Washington, D.C., that first illuminated
the more than 5,000 windows in New York City's Woolworth
Building.
Creative
Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop
Master printmaker Robert Blackburn changed the course
of American art through his graphic work and the Printmaking
Workshop, which he founded in New York City in 1948.
Life of
the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and
Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948
Labor advocate and garment manufacturer Ben Goldstein,
with the support of his wife Beatrice, left to the Library
of Congress and the nation a collection of American prints
and drawings informed by a sympathy for the condition
of working people. A native New Yorker, he collected works
over decades that stirred his personal interest in the
city of his birth, the American people, and the human
condition during the first half of the twentieth century.
Roger Stevens
Presents
This exhibition examines Stevens' career through the
great number of stage productions that Stevens he or fostered
indirectly, for example, through the NEA. The exhibition
includes a section on New York.
Witness
and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of
Congress
The exhibition features the collections that the Library
has amassed about the tragic events that occurred on September
11.
The
Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands
The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands
explores the history of the Dutch presence in America
and the interactions between the United States and the
Netherlands from Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage to the post-World
War II period. The project is a cooperative effort between
the Library of Congress and the National Library of the
Netherlands, which in turn enlisted the participation
of other leading Dutch libraries, museums, and archives.
Search
the project to find items related to New York, including
the Indian
Tradition of the First Arrival of the Dutch, at Manhattan
Island, Now New-York.
France
In America
Conceived in partnership with France’s national
library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France,
France in America /France en Amérique
is a bilingual digital library made available by the Library
of Congress. It explores the history of the French presence
in North America from the first decades of the sixteenth
century to the end of the nineteenth century. Search
the project to find items related to New York, including
A
Plan of the City of New York.
Meeting
of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West
Meeting of Frontiers tells the story of the
American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel
exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian
Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier
in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Project partners
include the Library of Congress, the University of Alaska
Fairbanks, the Russian State Library, the National Library
of Russia, and more than twenty libraries, archives, and
museums located in cities in Siberia and the Russian Far
East. Search
the project to find items related to New York.
Bibliographies and Guides
U.S. State
Poets Laureate
This site provides the names of all current state poets
laureate of the United States. It also includes a history
of the laureateship in each state, as well the District
of Columbia, and attempts to provide a comprehensive listing
of all prior state poets laureate. Included is information on the position of State Poet Laureate in New York.
The Guide
to Law Online
Guide to Law Online, prepared by the Law Library of
Congress Public Services Division, is an annotated guide
to sources of information on government and law available
online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable
sites for legal information on U.S states and territories,
including New
York.
American
Memory Timeline
A comprehensive look at America's history through primary
sources. The Progressive
Era section includes a Photo
Collage of New York City in the Early 1900s. Browse
the timeline to find other items that pertain to New York.
Immigration
The feature provides an introduction to the study of
immigration to the United States. It is far from the complete
story, and focuses only on the immigrant groups that arrived
in greatest numbers during the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
Port
of Entry
Students assume the role of historical detective and
travel back in time to the turn of the century. As historical
detectives, they search for clues about immigrant life
in the United States.
Primary Sources by State
The Library of Congress has rich documents and artifacts
from every state, the U.S. territories, and the District
of Columbia. Click on New
York to view historic artifacts and cultural materials
from the state.
All History Is
Local
Examine the interplay between national,
state, local, and personal history. Students produce a
digital collection of primary sources from their family
or local community based on the collections in American
Memory.
Immigration
Through Oral History
Students engage in visual and information literacy exercises
to gain an understanding of how to identify and interpret
primary historical sources, specifically oral histories.
Immigration/Migration:
Today and During the Great Depression
Students compare the immigration/migration experiences
of their families to those of people living through the
Great Depression using interviews with parents, historical
photographs, films, and documents.
Living
History Project
Students learn how to analyze life histories from American
Life Histories, 1936-1940 in American Memory. They
apply their experience by conducting interviews with people
in the community and collecting their life histories.
Marco
Paul's Travels on the Erie Canal: An Educational Voyage
Students join Marco Paul on his educational voyage in
the 1840s, experiencing the Erie Canal and "lessons
in life" firsthand. This lesson supplements the reading
of Jacob Abbott's book, Marco Paul's Travels on the
Erie Canal.
Frank
Lloyd Wright Buildings Recorded by the Historic American
Buildings Survey
This list includes structures identified as the work
of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Search the online Historic
American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering
Record (HABS/HAER) records and consult the book The
Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog
by William Allin Storrer, 2nd ed., 1974. As additional
documentation is digitized from the HABS/HAER
collection, entries will be added. The list includes
images for New
York.
Pictorial
Americana: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library
of Congress
This 1955 print publication includes prints and photographs
relating to historical events to 1899; general subjects
such as education, daily life, miners and mining; and
views of U.S. locations (text and images). It is being
prepared for the Internet in stages. Images of New
York State are included.
Prints
& Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)
Search PPOC using the subject headings United
States--New York (State) to find digital images related
to New York, such as prints, photographs, and political
cartoons. Search
all text fields in PPOC using the term New York
or names of cities, towns, and sites to locate additional
images.
Veterans
History Project Home Page
The Veterans History Project (VHP) collects and preserves
the remembrances of American war veterans and civilian
workers who supported them. Browse the database by state
of residence to locate veterans from New
York.
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