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New York City (New York, United States)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:

75th Meeting, Preston and 76th Meeting, New York, May 1967-October 1967

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/F.99
Scope and Contents Meetings of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (S.B.N.S.): 75th Meeting, Preston, May 1967 and 76th Meeting, New York, October 1967. The material consists of programme of the 75th Meeting, and manuscript notes by Norman Dott. Professor Almeida Lima gave the Fourth Sir Hugh Cairns Memorial Ledure at this meeting, and Dott proposed the vote of thanks. The file includes the text of the lecture (which Dott partly rewrote to clarify the English) with his vote of thanks; correspondence...
Dates: May 1967-October 1967

Addresses and Speeches, c. 1850s - 1870s

 Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.12: Series Coll-203/B14; Series Coll-203/B15
Identifier: Coll-203/B15
Scope and Contents Series of printed addresses given by Charles Lyell, including: 1) Printed Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, 15th Feb 1850 and awarding Wollaston Medal to Peter Hopkins. Unopened. 2) Printed Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, 21st Feb 1851 and awarding Wollaston Medal to Adam Sedgwick. Unopened. 3) Manuscript speech delivered by Lyell at the [New York City] Crystal Palace Banquet,...
Dates: c. 1850s - 1870s

America's Army and Navy Goes Home, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1430
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the HMS Mauritania with 'dazzle' camouflage from her time as a troop ship being pushed by a tug boat. The text beneath the photograph notes that the Mauritania has arrived in New York 'packed with American troops and that she has been carrying home US troops since the Armistice [in 1918].

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Andrew Carnegie, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3192
Scope and Contents

Four photographs and an article on Andrew Carnegie from the early 20th century. One photograph shows him in his office in New York; the Castellated Mansion in northern Scotland where he lived in his later life; the city of Pittsburgh, where he accumulated his fortune; and a caracature of him by C. de Fonaro.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Burchell's Zebras, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/325
Scope and Contents

Photographs of four Burchell Zebras of the Grant species from different angles at the New York Zoological Park.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Ephemera relating to American Tour, 1840s

 Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.14: Series Coll-203/B18; Series Coll-203/B17
Identifier: Coll-203/B17
Scope and Contents

Card of Columbia College 1853;
Certificates from Niagara Falls recording the passing behind the falls to Termination Rock 7th June 1842. One issued for Charles Lyell and one for Mary Lyell, signed Isaiah Starkey;
Handwritten itinerary of US Tours 1845, 1845 - 1846;
Chronological time line of his life from 1804 to 1875.

Dates: 1840s

Finance, 1928-1959

 Series
Identifier: BAI 1/15
Scope and Contents

notes of income and expenditure; New York names & addresses; receipts

Dates: 1928-1959

Half Horse Groomer, Sheffield Farm, Slawson Decker Co., [New York, USA], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3094
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a horse standing in a barn being groomed by three men using a half horse groomer machine at Sheffield Farm-Slawson Decker Co., [New York, USA] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Head of a Prejvalsky [Przewalski] Horse, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2122
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the head of a Prejvalsky [Przewalski] horse that was 'photographed by E A Sanborn in the New York Zoological Park in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Heiress to Many Millions To Wed To-Day, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3057
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Margaret Carnegie, daughter of Andrew Carnegie, and Ensign Roswell Miller of the US Naval Reserve who were getting married in New York, USA in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s