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.*

**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**

**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.*

**[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...*

**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.*

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

**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.*

**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*

**Collegium S. Bonaventurae**
*Estote autem factores verbi. Bonus miles Christi Jesu.*

**Ottignon's Gymnasium. Sixth Semi-Annual Exhibition**
*159-161 Crosby Street. Music by Dodworth's Band. April 25, 1854*

**Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York 142nd Annual Banquet**
*November 17, 1910.*

**Lucky Lindbergh Coin**
*The Spirit of St. Louis. Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh. First non-stop flight from New York to Paris, May...*

**[Certificate of membership to the New York Marine Society issued to Richard Varick on March 22.]**
*J. L. Winn Inv. et Delin. Morrison Sculp. Moorfields London.*

**Saloon Passenger List. Steamship "Germanic"**
*October 17, 1878. Commander C. W. Kennedy. White Star Line. Royal and United States Mail Steamers.*

**[Coaching Club dinner.]**
*May 22, 1886.*

**[Wedding of Jennie MacKnight and E. Howard Mosher.]**
*2028 Lexington Avenue, March 16, 1887.*

**400th Anniversary - Christopher Columbus - 1492-1892**

**Testimonial Dinner to the Right Reverend William T. Manning, D.D. Bishop of New York**
*Given by the Citizens Committee. May 21, 1941*

**Opening of the Fourth Avenue - Sea Beach Subway**
*Admit Mr. Charles R. Bott to special train, Chambers Street station, Municipal Building. June 19, 1915...*

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