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A letter to the inhabitants of the city and state of New-York ; on the subject of the commerce of the western waters

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    New York State Chamber of Commerce letter to Henry E. Huntington

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    Also: copy of letter from Huntington to New York State Chamber of Commerce, 1925 January 28; and receipt for dues paid, 1925 January 1.

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    Photograph album of Western United States and New York State

    Visual Materials

    An album with 66 photographs of various locations in New York State and the Western United States, including California, Washington, Texas, and Arizona. Images of New York include the New York City harbor, Battery Park, the Flatiron Building, Thousand Islands, the town of Clayton, and the city of Ogdensburg. Views of the Western states include street scenes in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; the Cascade Range of mountains; an "Indian Fair" in the city of Toppenish and other places in the Yakama (also spelled Yakima) Indian Reservation in Washington; the city of San Antonio in Texas; and the Mojave Desert in Arizona. There are also single views of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Northern Pacific Railway, and New Orleans.

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    Northeast - New York (State) - New York City - Niblo's

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    This collection contains approximately 1,000 printed 19th and early 20th century entertainment broadsides, playbills, and related advertisements, and forms a subset within the Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment. These items advertise theatrical performances including plays, variety entertainment such as minstrel, burlesque, and vaudeville shows, and optical displays such as dioramas, living statues, and tableaus. Over 250 theaters primarily from the Northeastern United States are represented in the collection, though there are also materials from theaters in the Midwestern, Southern, and Western United States, and approximately 26 items from Canada, Ireland, England, and Scotland. The materials range in size from approximately 9 1/2 x 6 inches to 42 1/2 x 14 inches and consist of single-sheet unfolded advertisements for theatrical productions that were intended to be distributed by hand, posted on walls, fences, or in windows, or sold to playgoers entering the theater. Among the names given to these types of advertisements, according to their size and mode of distribution, are broadsides, dodgers, handbills, hangers, playbills, posters, and show bills.

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