New York (State)--New York--Coney Island

A ship lies at a loading dock in Cuba or South America where they are shipping their revolutions, with scenery, military equipment, and personnel, to Coney Island. There is organization and composure in the boarding of the ship as revolutionaries and soldiers await their turns.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-10-03

Theodore Roosevelt assures Jacob A. Riis they will come, and discusses plans, including what day will work, where to meet, and the possibility of Riis spending the night at Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Dreamland Park and Rockaway Beach are on the market and the Parks and Playgrounds Association of the City of New York would like the city to purchase one of the properties. New York does not have a “seashore recreation park” and one is needed for the Convalescent Hospital and the Hospital for Bone Tuberculosis. Jacob A. Riis requests that Theodore Roosevelt join a citizens’ committee to investigate the potential sites.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-22

Creator(s)

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

Isaac Seligman reports on a productive conference with Sergei Vitte, wherein they discussed the mistreatment of Jews in Russia. The conference demanded immediate freedom from persecution for Russian Jews, and Vitte will discuss this with the government assembly.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-17

Creator(s)

Seligman, Isaac Newton, 1855-1917

Jacob A. Riis invites Edith Roosevelt to visit a hospital for crippled children on the beach of Coney Island and describes the wonders the hospital has done for the children.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-22

Creator(s)

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

The Cracker Jack Bears perform on a stage before an audience at Coney Island. One bear dances while the other balances a box of Cracker Jacks on his nose. Number five in a series of sixteen cards that were sent for free to anyone who mailed in ten sides from Cracker Jack boxes or ten cents in “silver or stamps.”

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1907

Creator(s)

Unknown

At Coney Island, people dance the tango, ride elephants, view themselves in optical illusion mirrors, have their pictures taken, and eat.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-06-20

Creator(s)

Mayer, Henry, 1868-1954

Uncle Sam welcomes several heads of state labeled “Pan-Slavism, Nihilism, Socialism, Pauperism, Communism [represented by Marianne], Fenianism, Mormonism [wearing a fez], [and] Spain” to a swim at Coney Island. They have emerged from bathhouses labeled “Austria, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, [and] England” and stand in the water. Caption: Why shouldn’t the wearied monarchs of Europe enjoy a plunge in our republican waters?

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-07-19

Creator(s)

Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913

The Harbor Line Board recommends that the proposal to extend a pier head line in the Hudson River along the Chelsea Improvement be denied. This extension would not be in the public interest as it would “diminish the navigable capacity of the North River and be obstructive to navigation.” The proposal offers “no compensating advantages to the public at large.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-02

Creator(s)

New York Harbor Line Board