This collection documents the day-to-day activities of former advocacy organization, New York Friends of Midwives. New York Friends of Midwives advocated for the birthing rights of mothers and practicing midwives.
Founded in 1852 in New York City, the New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Company was a company that preluded the first trans-Atlantic cable. This collection contains the minutes of meetings of this company's "corporators," including Peter Cooper, Cyrus W. Field, Frederick N. Gisborne, Moses Taylor, and others.
This collection includes a register for the South Duxbury Station dated 1882-1883; four freight registers, 1883-1890; and a record book with description of locomotive engines and a register of employees, undated, for this railroad company.
The New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company (NH) operated from 1872-1968. This collection records names, builders, repairs, renumbering, and dates of service of New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company locomotive engines since.
The collection documents a sixty-seven year time span (1928-1995) of the New York Public Welfare Association and contains a wealth of material related to the history and diverse functions of the organization including correspondence, memos, minutes of meetings, expenditures, and other files.