New York Aquarium Postcards

Wildlife Conservation Society (New York, N.Y.)
New York Aquarium

The New York Aquarium is the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States, having opened in Castle Garden in Battery Park, Manhattan in 1896. Since 1957, it has been located on the boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The Aquarium is managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

Originally owned by the City of New York, the New York Aquarium opened on December 10, 1896, at Castle Garden in Battery Park. On October 31, 1902, the City transferred control and operation of the Aquarium to WCS (then known as the New York Zoological Society). At that time, the Aquarium housed only 150 specimens of wildlife. During the tenure of its most famous director, the distinguished zoologist Charles Haskins Townsend, the collections grew considerably, and the Aquarium attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

In October 1941, the Aquarium at Battery Park was closed by NYC Parks Commissioner Robert Moses in preparation for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. Many of the Aquarium’s inhabitants were temporarily housed at the Bronx Zoo's Lion House until the new aquarium was built after World War II. On June 6, 1957, the New York Aquarium opened at its new location in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

The Aquarium has a long history as a beloved New York City attraction, and the postcards on display here show off the sights that have dazzled its viewers over the years.

Wildlife Conservation Society (New York, N.Y.)

Wildlife Conservation Society Archives

postcards

Collection

Art Resources from the Mid-20th Century: Digitized Highlights from the Collections of Hilla Rebay and Juliana Force

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Museum of Non-Objective Painting
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art, Modern
Artists

The Art Resources from the Mid-20th Century collection contains digitized versions of key selections from the personal libraries of two women who helped shape the mid-century New York art world— Hilla Rebay at the Guggenheim (then the Museum of Non-Objective Painting) and Juliana Force at the Whitney. These items allow for a closer look at the movements, artists, and ideas that influenced the founding directors of two of New York City’s most prominent art museums, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Materials include American and European art historical texts, art exhibition catalogs, biographies of artists and collectors, philosophical and political treatises, and New York City guides and tourism pamphlets, and range in date from the late 1800s to the 1960s.

Art Resources from the Mid-20th Century is a collaborative project between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art

Rebay, Hilla, 1890-1967
Force, Juliana, 1876-1948

books
exhibition catalogs

Collection

Documenting the Gilded Age (Phase 2)

Brooklyn Museum. Libraries and Archives.
Frick Art Reference Library.
Art--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions--History--19th century.
Art--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions--History--20th century.
Exhibition catalogs--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.

The art exhibitions of galleries, clubs, and associations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries chronicle the emergence of New York City as an international center for the production of art and the art market. Ephemeral exhibition checklists, pamphlets, and catalogs from this period document artistic movements and artists of the time and of the past, economic markets, and the social and cultural history of New York and the United States. Materials from the collections of the Frick Art Reference Library and the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives comprise the Documenting the Gilded Age digital collection. Spanning the period from 1875 to 1922, documents in this exhibition tell the story of the role 97 institutions played in the history of the New York art scene. Galleries represented include Arlington Galleries, Brandus Gallery, C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Ehrich Galleries, Folsom Galleries, Frederick Keppel & Co., Kennedy & Co. and Scott & Fowles. Approximately 500 items were digitized.

Frick Art Reference Library

Brooklyn Museum. Libraries and Archives.

Exhibitions catalogs
Leaflets (printed works)
Pamphlets

Collection

G.E.E. Lindquist Native American Photographs

Columbia University. Libraries.
Burke Library (Union Theological Seminary). Archives.
Lindquist, G. E. E. (Gustavus Elmer Emanuel), 1886-1967.
Indians of North America--20th century--Pictorial works.
Indians of North America--20th century--Databases.

An online presentation of the 1322 photographs, 124 postcards, 388 negatives, and 34 glass plate negatives/lantern slides, which derive from the G.E.E. Lindquist Papers archival collection at The Burke Library. They depict the people, places, and practices of Native Americans and their communities from at least 34 States, plus Canada and Mexico in the period from 1909-1953. The majority of the images were taken by G. E. E. Lindquist (1886-1967), an itinerant representative of the ecumenical Home Missions Council of the Federal Council of Churches.

Columbia University. Libraries.

Burke Library (Union Theological Seminary). Archives.

Lindquist, G. E. E. (Gustavus Elmer Emanuel), 1886-1967.

photographs

negatives (photographic)

postcards

lantern slides

Collection

Bronx Park Postcards

Wildlife Conservation Society
The New York Botanical Garden
Bronx Zoo
Zoo animals
Bronx River (N.Y.)
Paths and walkways

Inspired by the late-nineteenth-century urban park movement, Bronx Park was formally created by the City of New York in the late 1880s. In 1891, the City allotted 250 acres of the park to The New York Botanical Garden. An additional 250 acres were allotted to the New York Zoological Society in 1897 for the creation of what is now known as the Bronx Zoo.

This digital collection brings together postcards held by the Wildlife Conservation Society Library (which houses the archives of the Bronx Zoo) and The New York Botanical Garden’s LuEsther T. Mertz Library. These 450 postcards, which range in date from 1903 to the 1980s, depict Bronx Park's natural beauty and highlight the buildings, landscapes, and inhabitants of the two iconic institutions located on this land.

Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
Archives of The New York Botanical Garden

Wildlife Conservation Society Archives
Archives of The New York Botanical Garden
New York Zoological Society, publisher

Postcards

Collection

JDC Archives: Exhibits

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Humanitarian assistance
Jewish people

Each online exhibit is a dynamic curated presentation highlighting a significant aspect of JDC’s critical work assisting Jews in crisis since 1914 and drawn from the Archives’ remarkable collection of images and documents. The exhibits section includes: A Joint Effort: JDC's Beginnings, 1914-1921, Beyond Relief: JDC's work in Ukraine and Crimea between the Wars, Everything Possible: JDC and the Children DP Camps, and In Memoriam.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

digital images

JDC Archives: Names Index

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Humanitarian assistance
Jewish people
Indexes
Refugees

The JDC Names Index is an indispensable resource tool for genealogists, personal historians, and scholarly researchers alike. Search over 600,000 names found in historic documents, client lists and registration cards of those who received JDC financial, diplomatic or material aid. Currently indexed material includes lists of people helped from 1914 to 1973.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

image databases, online reference services

JDC Archives: Photograph Collection

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Humanitarian assistance
Jewish people

The photo collection in the JDC Archives provides visual documentation of JDC’s work in communities across the globe and constitutes one of the most valuable sources in the world for a pictorial study of Jewish life in the 20th century. Search over 50,000 digitized photographs from a historic collection, spanning 1914 to the present.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

image databases, online reference services

JDC Archives: Text Collection

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Humanitarian assistance
Jewish people
Correspondence
Records

The JDC Archives text collection database currently comprises of over 300,000 digitized pages spanning JDC's New York Collections from 1914-1945, and special collections such as the Cyprus Collection and DORSA Collection. Because of the JDC’s intense involvement in so many of the epic human struggles of the 20th century, the Archives has one of the most significant extant archival collections for the study not only of the Jewish people, but of the broader context of modern history and humanitarian assistance as well.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

image databases, online reference services

Aufbau (New York, 1934-2004)

Leo Baeck Institute
Jews, German, in the Jews -- United States -- Periodicals
Jews -- United States -- Periodicals
Jewish periodicals
Periodicals -- United States
Periodicals -- New York (State) -- New York
German-language periodicals
English-language periodicals

Published: New York, N.Y.: German-Jewish Club, 1.1934 -70. 2004, 5 (April).

The Aufbau was a journal for German-speaking Jews around the globe. It was founded in 1934 by the German-Jewish Club which was later renamed the New World Club. It was published in New York until April 2004. Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Stefan Zweig wrote for the publication. The original purpose of the journal was as a monthly newsletter for the club, which included information and helpful facts for Jewish refugees. The Aufbau became one of the leading anti-Nazi publications of the German press in exile. From September 1, 1944 through September 27, 1946, the Aufbau printed numerous lists of Jewish Holocaust survivors located in Europe, as well as a few lists of victims.

Important editors and contributors: 1939-1965, edited by: Manfred George; after 1964, edited by: Hans Steinitz; occasionally after 1938: Will Schaber; 1985- 1994, Henry Marx; after 2005, edited by: Yves Kugelmann; contributor after 1941: Benedikt Fred Dolbin; after 1947: Moritz Goldstein, Pseud. Inquit; after 1946: Kurt Kersten; occasionally: Thomas Mann; Fritz von Unruh; Carl Zuckmayer; Franz Werfel; Lion Feuchtwanger; Ralph Giordano; Jens Reich; Stefan Heym; editor, contributor, illustrator, caricaturist and 1939-1982: Ludwig Wronkow; proofreader: Paul E. Marcus, PEM.

Digitization:
1951-2004: The Library of the Leo Baeck Institute New York digitized the years 1951-2004 via the Internet Archives, accessible via this website. A few issues were contributed by the New York Public Library as well as the Mikrofilmarchiv der Deutschsprachigen Presse in Dortmund. Partial funding was provided by Metropolitan New York Library Council.

1934-1950: The German National Library digitized the years 1934 to 1950 as part of its Exilpresse Digital (Exile Newspapers Digitization) Project, these years are available here: http://deposit.ddb.de/online/exil/exil.htm

Name Index: An index to personal names that appeared in Aufbau between 1941 and 2003 is available online from the Aufbau Indexing Project: http://www.calzareth.com/aufbau/search.html

Leo Baeck Institute

German-Jewish Club
New World Club, New York

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Periodical

Collection