Post card advertising the Pullmanette Davenport sold by Chas. J. Stones Furniture Co. of Newburgh, New York.
Sent to Mrs. Geo. H. Mapes of Chester, N. Y.
Pictured is a student named Matt wearing an Emerson, Lake and Palmer t-shirt. He is standing behind a camera and wearing a headset. There is a bulletin board in the background with "Cooking Rules" listed on it.
An indenture of a young African-American boy named Tom to Abraham Corneilson. Abraham Cornelison was a Doctor in Clarkstown, NY. Tom was indentured until he was 28 years old. Tom was alive when New York State was gradually banning slavery in...
In 1810 a group of New Paltz slave holders joined together to form "The Society of Negroes Unsettled". This group of twelve men appointed four among them to search for slaves that had run away from the group. They were to be paid $14 a day for...
