A balcony for the President
A month after the new national Government moved into New York City the Mayor of New York City wrote to Congress transmitting a resolution of the city’s Common...
A day in the life of Harlem
This street scene attempted to showcase everyday life in Harlem, New York. Until its dissolution in 1999, the U.S. Information Agency used photographs like this in...
A Founding Father in uniform
This 1923 drawing by artist D. Falls depicts Captain Alexander Hamilton, of the Provincial Company, New York Artillery, in 1776. Born in 1755 in the British West...
A general’s father
Luther Powell emigrated from Kingston, Jamaica, entering the United States at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, aboard the Manchioneal on April 26, 1920. He filed this...
A young FDR displays talent
This drawing, done by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his childhood, depicts a ship.
Abolitionists petition Congress
Starting in the 1830s a small but growing movement advocated the abolition of slavery in the United States. After 1850 abolition’s appeal spread to those who feared...
“An act ratifying certain articles . . .”
The State of New York ratified the Bill of Rights on March 27, 1790, and sent it to the Federal Government. The document, however, did not have far to travel. New...