A picture of a page from the Daily Graphic, January 27, 1885, pg.630. A collage of sketches, one depicts President-elect Cleveland at the closing exercises of the New York State Normal School, and another is a sketch of Edward P. Waterbury, President of New York State Normal School from June 22, 1882 to August 8, 1889. Sketches by R.Sheridan. Original is in flat file.(3 Copies: 1 in Sesquicentennial Binder and 2 in Photofile)
Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) President William McGowan with then CSEA Treasurer (now Executive Vice President) Mary Sullivan and then CSEA Secretary Irene Carr in front of the State Capitol in Albany, New York, preparing to cut a 24-foot, 450-pound birthday cake to be served to thousands of workers. May is Public Employee Recognition Month in New York State and CSEA was celebrating the anniversary of the signing of the nation's first civil service law by Governor Grover Cleveland in May, 1883.