New York City:A History

Through ObjectsNovember 25th, 2014

Professor Kenneth T. JacksonJacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences

and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, Columbia University

1863 Draft Wheelhttp://www.nyhistory.org/civil-war-draft-wheel

NYC Wooden Water Pipe Circa 1800http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/early-water-delivery-system-in-the-city-cut-corners-and-trees

High heeled shoes discarded in the stairwell of the World Trade Center

http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/09/remembering-9-11-the-tenth-anniversary

http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/damaged-front-door-rescue-copmany-2-rig

Damaged front door of Rescue Copmany #2 rig

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/saltz/missing-person-posters-9-11_detail.asp?picnum=4

http://misterroadtripper.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/1021.jpg

9-11 Missing Flyers

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/nyregion/28veto.html

Keg with stand from Erie Canal celebrationhttp://www.nyhistory.org/exhibits/category/about/56/table/paged/title

The Marriage of the Waters, painted by C.Y. Turner, 1905

Union Uniform 1863

http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/coat-5

Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground C. 1905

Museum of the City of New York

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/general-slocum-victims-remembered-109-years-article-1.1373359

Steamship Slocum Memorial All Faiths Cemetery, Queens

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory FireMarch 25,1911

Martyrs Monument

Burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum, NYC Draft Riots 1863

Harpers Weekly