Group of children in a barrel, two children sitting on the ground with a dog and a cat sitting on a chair. Handwritten note reads "Roses are red, violets are blue, suger is sweet and so are you." Signed, Alice Penny, March 25, 1906.
Lithographs; Buildings; Dwellings; Horses; Horse railroads; Street railroads;
Top caption reads: Residence of Edgar B. Newkirk Cas. of The National Bank of Rondout, N.Y. Bottom caption reads "Mapleton Mansion" summer boarding house, Kingston, N.Y. The property of E.B. Newkirk, Rondout, N.Y.
Notice dated January 24, 1803 offering a ten dollar reward for the return of a slave named Susanna and her son, Abraham. The two ran away from Robert Gill. The notice states that Susanna's husband, Peter, a free man, may have helped her and her son...
Kingston, NY newspaper article concerning the death of George Peter Newkirk, known as "George Pete" at the age of 117. George was said to be the first black voter in New York.
