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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zroXBV3Bmk

If you're from #NYC and/or a little abt #NYHistory, you'll appreciate this #MustWatchVideo from just before the primary.

#ZohranMamdani vs Liberals in rightwing clothing.

Circular fisheye optic. Trail along the old Champlain canal at "The Hemlocks", a hamlet along the Champlain Canal in a section known as the “long level”, a 16-mile section between the Stillwater and Schuylerville locks. The Hemlocks had a grocery store and day barn for stabling mules.

#canalpaths #champlaincanal #nyhistory

A fisheye lens shot of a gravel path along the green, wooded banks of an an old canal.

I'm going over all my research from NY in preparation for my lecture in a few weeks. feels like quite a daunting task at the moment😲 funny, of all the "immigrant Jewish musicians" I'm studying this is the only one who immigrated from Toronto to New York, not from Eastern Europe. although his parents were Polish Jews so it was probably an intermediate step for Manny's father on the road to a profitable music career in NY.

#MusicHistory #JewishMusic #archives #NYhistory

a snapshot of an advertisement from an old publication for a musician called Manny Fleischman. it has a photo of a moustachioed man and contact information for his orchestra.

a government form filled out by hand, a world war II American registration card. this is for Manny Fleischman, who lived in the Bronx and worked for Herman Yablokoff's 2nd ave theatre.

A thread of some photos from the Joseph and Lara Cherniavsky archival collection at YIVO. Russian Jewish musicians who were married & arrived in NYC around 1920, Lara was a pianist and arranger, and Joseph was a cellist, composer and bandleader. This seems to be backstage in the mid 1920s in Joseph's "Hasidic American Jazz Band" which was neither Hasidic nor Jazz, but was a vaudeville klezmer act featuring some of NY's finest.

#theatre #OldPhotos #klezmer #vaudeville #MusicHistory #NYhistory

An old black and white photo of a man and woman in theatrical costumes with white leggings in front of a decorated curtain. The man is seated and making a melodramatic expression while the woman stands behind him.

An old black and white photo of a man and woman in theatrical costumes with white leggings in front of a decorated curtain. Both are standing facing each other and gesturing.

looking up the Grupps in the 1910 census when Louis was only 20, you can see not only the whole musician family but two other musician families living in the same tenement (the Reichels and the Dorfmans)🕵️‍♂️ "Mollie Grupp" is the Mekhli Goyzman mentioned in the essay above.

(photo is not the exact building but same block, from NYPL: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-9583-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 )

#MusicHistory #Census #Genealogy #klezmer #EastVillage #NYHistory

black and white photo of part of an urban graveyard, some overgrown bushes and in the background a row of tenement buildings

a page from the 1910 US Census showing a long list of residents at 104-06 East Second Street in the East Village, NY

Immerse in the enigmatic portraits of New York's House of Representatives from the 1870s at #Rijksmuseum. The mystery of their identities beckons art enthusiasts and history buffs alike. Who do you think these figures represent?

#ArtHistory #Rijksmuseum #NYHistory
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-F-2001-7-1129-96

Wow.. Shared by an accordionist friend. Putting aside the exoticising tone of the newsreel, this is a fascinating glimpse of Roma life in New York at the end of the 1930s. The accordionist is recognizable as Mishka Ziganoff, a Christian Roma klezmer musician & recording artist of the 1910s and 1920s. Too bad the audio quality is so bad.
#accordion #Roma #MusicHistory #OldNewYork #NYhistory #FolkMusic
https://youtu.be/jpZRQvDVBY8?si=kvNTSw3bu7fn4NnM

Came up randomly while I was looking up some family name on FultonHistory; what a diagram🥺
Almost 100 years ago so I hadn't heard of it but apparently this was a huge train disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Times_Square_derailment
#Trains #NYhistory #diagrams #derailment

a photo of part of a page from a newspaper visibly dated august 26, 1928; the focus is on a top-down diagram of a complex train derailment with a heading "How Crash Occurred"

one genre of advertisement I've come to appreciate in my research about old Jewish musicians in New York is the ubiquitous "Kontsert un Bal" (Concert and Ball) notices. Often held for charity, in the name of socialist organizations or landsmanshaftn (the Vinnitser one, the Minsker one, etc.). Often with hilariously literal transliteration of English place names. Most interesting for me are when they name the bandleader and give me a name to look up but they usually didn't.
#Yiddish #NYhistory

an old newspaper advertisement in Yiddish with some surrounding other contents on the newspaper page visible.

Taking a journey through time with Portretten van vier leden van het Lagerhuis van de staat New York, circa 1872-1882, #Rijksmuseum - a vivid reflection of New York's political antiquity. Who's your favourite historical figure?
#ArtHistory #Rijksmuseum #NYHistory #Political
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-F-2001-7-1129-96

`A letter written by Dutch merchant Peter Schaghen to directors of the Dutch East India Company stated that #Manhattan was purchased for "60 guilders worth of trade", an amount worth ~$1,143 U.S. dollars as of 2020`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Minuit

#history #UShistory #americanHistory #NewYork #NYS #NYhistory #NY

Great description of gay culture in Greenwich Village in the mid-1940s, from an oral history of the food writer Mimi Sheraton. Beautiful blonde young men putting on lipstick in the mirrors of their convertibles. People who were out were OUT. #LGBTQ #queerhistory #NYC #NYhistory

Excerpt from an oral history of Mimi Sheraton: "It was known to be very arty, of course, and you knew all the famous people who lived here. You also knew a lot of people were gay who lived here, and the gays, if they weren’t being secret about it, were very flamboyant. I can still remember an open car, what we called a roadster, with a back open seat, and a very beautiful gay young man with blonde hair was looking in a mirror putting on lipstick. Those who were out were really blatant."

@DHamer @histodons #History #NewNetherland #NYHistory

@pfmcdevitt #NYHistory #History

It was a good day to dismantle a #brickwall. Finally matched a death certificate for my 4x great grandfather which listed his parent's names with a death notice in the newspaper that gave his daughter's name. Hallelujah! One more generation found. #geneadon #genealogy #NYhistory #familyhistory

#nyhistory

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