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[Maps of New York, Brooklyn, and Boston]

Description: Map shows street names, parks, railroads, docks, ferries, military facilities, cemeteries, select buildings, and some businesses; one-mile interval bullseye circles centering on City Hall for New York. Includes key to railroads types and list of oceanliner routes; number key to buildings for Boston on verso. Scale not given.
Date: [1878..1898]
Creator: Cram, George Franklin, 1841-1928
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Maps of New York, Brooklyn, and Boston]

Description: Map shows street names, parks, railroads, docks, ferries, military facilities, cemeteries, select buildings, and some businesses; one-mile interval bullseye circles centering on City Hall for New York. Includes key to railroads types and list of oceanliner routes; number key to buildings for Boston on verso. Scale not given.
Date: [1878..1898]
Creator: Cram, George Franklin, 1841-1928
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Brooklyn.

Description: Map shows street names, railroads, elevated railroads, street car lines, parks, cemeteries, select buildings, public institutions, docks, ferries, military facilities, and some businesses. Includes index. Scale [ca. 1:49,450].
Date: [1880..1900]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Photograph of Admiral Bryant and Captain Baker]

Description: Photograph of Rear Admiral Carleton Bryant standing with Captain Charles Baker on board the U.S.S. Texas in the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York. According to the photo, the large shell between the men was one that "penetrated the ship off Cherbourg." Both men are wearing their black dress uniforms, with the ship's large guns looming overhead.
Date: October 12, 1944
Creator: United States. Navy.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

[Sailors Around a Decorated Fireplace]

Description: Photograph of a group of sailors around a fireplace decorated for Christmas. These decorations were placed in one of the open rooms inside the U.S.S. Texas; this picture was taken while the ship was docked at the navy yard in Brooklyn, New York.
Date: 1929
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

[Portrait of James Moreau Brown]

Description: Portrait of James Moreau Brown in a black and white suit and long sideburns; the text on the back of the photograph describes Brown's relationship to his son and his son after that, etc.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bather, W. T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Galveston Historical Foundation

[Postcard from Milton Andrew Matlock]

Description: Postcard from Milton Andrew Matlock with a photograph of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York, and showing ships passing underneath the bridge. There is a note on the back of the card written by Matlock that says in part: "500 gallons of beer was furnished by the U. S. Gov."
Date: 1911?
Creator: Matlock, Milton Andrew
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Louise Kinch]

Description: Photograph of a young woman wearing a dress and gloves. She is standing on a curb; trees are visible in the background. (back of photo) Louise (a member of St. Matthews Parish, Brooklyn, N.Y.C. married Bill Kinch.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palestine Public Library

[Coney Island Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park ferris wheel and visitors]

Description: Photograph of a large ferris wheel at Coney Island in New York with a red metal sign at the base and center of the ferris wheel in capital letters stating, "Wonder Wheel." The entrance to the ferris wheel is a ramp that goes underground and under the ferris wheel. Other carnival rides are shown to the left and right side of the ferris wheel. Visitors including adults and children are in the foreground, middleground, and background of the image and all of them are wearing face masks.
Date: May 9, 2021
Creator: Brown, Stephanie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 40.573589 -73.979158
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Stephanie Brown and wife on the Tilt-A-Whirl ride at Coney Island's Deno Wonder Wheel Amusement Park]

Description: Photograph of creator Stephanie Brown and her wife wearing face masks and taking a selfie. Either Stephanie or her wife is the one wearing a pink sweatshirt, black t-shirt, brown tortoise shell sunglasses, and a yellow face mask with small pink flowers. The other sitting on the right is wearing a greyish black zip-up jacket, a black hat with a black logo of the letter "C" and a bear, and a white disposable face mask.
Date: May 9, 2021
Creator: Brown, Stephanie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 40.573331 -73.979155
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Postcard of Woman on Bicycle]

Description: Postcard of a woman in a red dress and stockings riding a red bike, with the caption "Free-Wheeling." A handwritten note on the back of the postcard, addressed to Miss Helen Aten in Bloomsburg, PA from Fort Hamilton, says "See many sights like this here in N.Y. Ted."
Date: July 30, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Teachers and children at an unidentified school in New York]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified school in New York. The predominantly African-American school children are standing three rows deep, with a white female teacher on crutches on the right side of the picture, a white male teacher with glasses in back, center of the class and an African-American female teacher with glasses on the far left side of the class. There is one white girl with a ribbon in her dark hair, standing in the middle of the picture between an African-American boy on her right and… more
Date: April 16, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: George Ranch Historical Park
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