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    Sky scrapers of New York City, from the North River Filmed from a moving boat, the film depicts the Hudson River (i.e., North River) shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan beginning around Fulton Street and extending to Castle Garden and Battery Park. It begins at one of the American Line piers (Pier 14 or 15, opposite Fulton Street) where an American Line steamer, either the "New York" or "Paris," is seen docked [Frame:...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Smith, James Blair
    • Date: 1903-01-01
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    Mabel T. Crawford Collection Seaman First Class, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - New York City; Washington, DC.
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    Posey H. Jacobs Collection Gunner's Mate Third Class, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - Norfolk, Virginia; New York City; British West Indies; Trinidad; Miami, Key West, Florida; New Guinea; Leyte; Philippines; Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands); Pacific Theater.
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    The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 This collection contains forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. Of these, twenty-five were made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, while the remaining twenty are Edison Company productions.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Afi/Staples (Robert) & Charles (Barbara) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1897

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    Panorama from Times Building, New York The view is from the top of the then newly-erected Times Building, at a height of approximately twenty stories. The film opens with a vertical pan, going from the street below up to the sky. The photographer then makes a pan to the north over the tops of the buildings from Bryant Park, south of 42nd Street (behind the New York Public Library) [Frame:...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - McCutcheon, Wallace - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905-01-01
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    Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York, 2011 July 18 Jack Greenberg remembers attending Columbia University Law School, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and arguing the Brown v. Board of Education case. He discusses working on many other civil rights cases, such as Coke v. City of Atlanta, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, and Griggs v. Duke Power.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Greenberg, Jack
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Glee : the final season
    Glee Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    In the exhilarating, heart-rending final season, club favorites reunite and a new group of young performers takes center stage. Following her disastrously short sitcom career, Rachel returns to McKinley High to find Principal Sue Sylvester trampling the arts, including the glee club. Without missing a beat, Rachel and a newly single Kurt set out to revitalize New Directions, hoping for a shot at the...
    • Contributor: Brennan, Ian - Morrison, Matthew - Colfer, Chris - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc - Ryan Murphy Productions - Michele, Lea - Falchuk, Brad - Lynch, Jane - Twentieth Century-Fox Television, Inc - Murphy, Ryan
    • Date: 2015
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    Patricia Francois interview conducted by Christine Lewis, 2015-12-10. Patricia recalls her history of work in New York City's domestic work industry. She talks about what she brought to the position from her life in Trinidad and Tobago. She discusses the important role that NYC's community of domestic workers played as she navigated the industry; and how she became a leader of domestic workers through the lobbying organization Domestic Workers United. She also...
    • Contributor: Francois, Patricia - Lewis, Christine Yvette - Brooklyn Arts Council - Occupational Folklife Project
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Alfred Moldovan oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York, 2011 July 19 Alfred Moldovan remembers growing up in the Bronx and the influence of his parents, who were Jewish Hungarian immigrants. He recalls serving in the air force as a radio repairman during World War II and later attending medical school. He discusses founding the Medical Committee for Human Rights and traveling to the South to assist injured civil rights activists at events such as the...
    • Contributor: Moldovan, Alfred - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond in New York, New York, 2010 October 29 Roxborough discusses how she became active in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of nine, when she sold subscriptions to the NAACP The Crisis magazine. Roxborough began working with the NAACP as a fieldworker and worked in a variety of administrative positions including as director of development.
    • Contributor: Bond, Julian - Roxborough, Mildred Bond - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Gloria Hayes Richardson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in New York, New York, 2011 July 19 Gloria Richardson recalls growing up in Cambridge, Maryland, attending Howard University, and joining Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with her daughter, Donna, after returning to Cambridge and running her father's drug store. She recalls traveling to the South with her family to assist SNCC with voter registration, organizing the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, assisting E. Franklin Frazier with research on African Americans, and marching...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Richardson, Gloria
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    John Carlos oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in New York, New York, 2013 August 18 John Carlos discusses his childhood in Harlem, New York, the changes that he saw in Harlem with the widespread use of heroin and the splintering of families, and describes the disparities in education for black children when he was growing up. He remembers the influence of black leaders including Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Carlos was recruited to run...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Carlos, John
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Caldonia Louis Jordan loses a Hollywood contract and his girlfriend, Caldonia, when Felix Paradise lures him to New York, promising filmmaking facilities beyond his economic means. Songs performed: Caldonia, Honey chile, Tillie, Buzz me.
    • Contributor: Tympany Five - Jordan, Louis - Astor Pictures - Adams, Berle - Malkames, Don - Valburn/Ellington Collection (Library of Congress) - Crouch, William Forest
    • Date: 1945
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    H. Jack Geiger oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in New York, New York, 2013 March 16 Dr. Jack Geiger discusses his early life experiences and how he came to be a leading figure in the Medical Committee for Human Rights. He describes his childhood in New York City, where he found a mentor in actor Canada Lee, his college experience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his time as a U.S. Merchant Marine. He discusses his involvement in the Commission...
    • Contributor: Dittmer, John - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Geiger, Jack
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan in New York, New York, 2010 October 23 Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial and his service in the segregated army during World War II. He recounts his career as a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including the Brown v. Board of Education case and...
    • Contributor: Sullivan, Patricia - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Carter, Robert L.
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Chris C. Dracopoulos Collection Private First Class, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Fort Devens, Massachusetts; Atlantic City, New Jersey; New York City; England; European Theater.
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    Star Theatre
    Star Theater
    Using time-lapse photography, the film shows the demolition of the famous Star Theatre. Judging from the various exposures, the work must have gone on for a period of approximately thirty days. The theater opened in 1861 as "Wallack's Theatre," and was re-christened the "Star" in 1883. It was well known for it's excellent productions, and a number of celebrated actors and actresses worked there,...
    • Contributor: Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1902