Museum of the City of New York

Ephemera

The Museum’s Ephemera Collections include advertisements, handbills, pamphlets, menus, invitations, medals, pins, buttons, badges, three-dimensional souvenirs, and printed textiles. As utilitarian objects, these items served as the connective tissue between citizens and their city, organizations and their members, and populations and the social geography of daily life. Today these objects – dating from the Colonial era on—continue to provide visual and material insight into New Yorkers’ engagement with the city. The Museum is thankful for the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is allowing us to make these objects freely and publicly accessible.

**City Hall, Wall St. N.Y.**
*Erected in 1700, demolished 1812. A British prison during the Revolution. No. 2, Aug. B. Sage's historical...*

**Launching of the Municipal Ferryboat "Melrose"**
*The Commissioner of Plant and Structures, Honorable Albert Goldman, requests the presence of J. Clarence...*

**Clionian Society. Eighteenth Anniversary.**
*April 27, 1869. Printed by J. F. Haviland, New York.*

**Curious Complication of Names, Taken from the New York Directory**
*David H. Gildersleeve, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.*

**The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 50 Year Club**

**[To meet the Venerable Archdeacon Farrar, D.D.]**
*At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus W. Field, 123 East 21st Street, on December 4.*

**Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the Board of Aldermen, 1665**
*Issued by the Holland Society of New York, 1915.*

**Seth M. Harris**
*Importer of children's and misses' suits and hats. No. 891, Broadway, New-York.*

**The Ceremony of Breaking Ground for the Triborough Bridge**
*October 25, 1929 at Astoria Park.*

**A. Smith - Elocution**
*St. James's School.*

**The State of New York. Centennial Opening of the Original Erie Canal**

**Frank P. Basset, Wholesale Dealer in Produce**
*No. 22 Old Slip, New York.*

**To commemorate the first scheduled passenger flight into the World's greatest airport, New York's La Guardia Field**
*E. S. Pinney was a passenger aboard the TWA "Benjamin Franklin" on its arrival at 12:03 a.m. December...*

**Bartholdi Statue Liberty Enlightening the World**

**Sermon by the Right Rev. William T. Manning, D.D. Bishop of New York at the Opening of the Entire Length of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine**
*November 30, 1941*

**Sixth Annual Ball of the Lexington Association**
*In commemoration of the Battle of Lexington, at Gothic Hall, April 19, 1854.*

**[Dinner with Mr. D. S. Jones.]**
*No. 2 Bond Street.*

**About the Music**
*Tribute dinner to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Tschirky. Golden wedding anniversary. October 7, 1937*

**[Wedding of Nellie Elizabeth Curran and Joseph Stephen Kery, Jr.]**
*Grace Episcopal Church, April 24, 1915.*

**The Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Co. List of Subscribers, September 1, 1894**
*Addendum No. 2. November 1, 1894*

**[Invitation to attend a reception and promenade concert at the Seventh Regiment Armory.]**
*The Committee of Arrangements for the Celebration of the Centennial of the Evacuation of New York by...*

**Special Meeting of the Board of Engineers and Foremen at Fireman's Hall on June 13, 1859**
*Addressed to J. H. Arnold, Foreman of Hose Company No. 30, on June 7, 1859.*

**Guest Speaker - Brooklyn Rotary Club**

**[Badge in the shape of a shield.]**
*Robbins Co. Attleboro, Mass.*

**Old Public School No. 40 Second Annual Re-union Dinner of the Alumni Association**
*February 1, 1912*

**Durant, Lathrop & Co.**
*Forwarders and dealers in grain and flour. T. C. Durant, 7 South Street, New York.*

**Teamsters - Local 819**
*International Brotherhood of Teamsters.*

**Pataki Cuts Crush Transit**
*Less service, higher fares.*

**135th Annual Banquet, of the Chamber of Commerce**
*November 17, 1903. | Menu and information about statue unveiling.*

**Epicure**
*40 East 52nd Street, New York.*

**New Mona Lisa**
*64 West 55th Street, New York City.*

**Happy Days Are Here Again**
*Don't throw me away. You may need me some day. CIrcle 7-8966, 5974, 8974.*

**Dinner to the Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States from Canada the Honourable Vincent Massey, P.C.**
*And to other distinguished Canadians given by the Pilgrims of the United States. December 10, 1928.*

**Welcome to the Right Honourable David Lloyd George, O.M., M.P.**
*November 2, 1923*

**The Mayor of the City of New York requests the company of Mr. Davies at dinner**
*Monday, October 14, 1912, in honor of the President of the United States, his Cabinet, and the Officers...*

**Welcome of the Atlantic Fleet by the City of New York Smoker**
*Saturday, October 12, 1912. | Printed by the Rob't. H. Bartsch Press, 87 Frankfort St., New York.*

**[Certificate of membership to the Marine Temperance Society of the Port of New York.]**

**Reception at the Lawyers' Club**
*April 29, 1889. To Hon. Joseph Blumenthal.*

**Sixty-eighth Annual Dinner of the St. Patrick Society of Brooklyn**
*March 17, 1917.*

**Department of Docks and Ferries, the City of New York**
*Maurice Featherson, Commissioner. Launching of ferryboat Richmond, at Port Richmond, S.I. The Burlee...*

**For a Further Unification of the People**
*Lincoln Tunnel dedicated 1937. Built and owned by the Port of New York Authority.*

**The Fifth Avenue Hotel**
*"Passing of a famous hostelry". Building to be torn down May 1, 1908. Catalogue No. 4. Augustus W. Clarke,...*

**Light, Liberty, Law**
*The New York Free Academy was founded 1847, by act of the legislature and vote of the citizens; and its...*

**That the World Shall Have a New Birth of Freedom**
*Guest. The Mayor and Committee of Citizens of the City of New York honor and welcome the Italian Royal...*

**The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal**
*Awarded annually for preeminence in zoology or paleontology.*

**The Evening Telegram Bicycle Parade**
*June 5, 1897*

**Spring Fashions for 1877. Wilson & Greig**
*771 Broadway, New York.*

**[Rental of pew number 85 for one year in St. Bartholomew's Church.]**
*To Miss Phoebe Pearsall for $165, from November 1, 1884 to November 1, 1885.*

**Dinner to the American Medical Association, by the Physicians of New York City**
*May 5, 1853*

**"The Feasts of the Saints" or "Fiestas of Our Little Italies"**
*Under this title I offer the first of a series of lectures on the Prowler's New York - the By-ways of...*

**Francis McCarthy, Marshal, 5th Brigade [of the military parade for the New York Columbian Celebration.]**
*Barclay and Broadway. October 12, 1892*

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