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Housing and Back Porches in the Inner City of Uptown Chicago, Illinois ... 08/1974

from U.S. National Archives

Jeugd in Harlem / Youth in Harlem

from Nationaal Archief

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  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    – From Wikipedia: "The first European settlement in what is now Harlem was by Hendrick de Forest and Dutch settlers in 1637. The settlement was formalized in 1658 as Nieuw Haarlem (New Haarlem), after the Dutch city of Haarlem, under leadership of Peter Stuyvesant. The Indian trail to Harlem's lush bottomland meadows was rebuilt by eleven black laborers on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, and eventually developed into the Boston Post Road. "After the English capture of New Netherland in 1664, the new English colonial administration renamed both the colony and its principal city "New York," but left the name of Haarlem more or less unchanged. The spelling changed to Harlem in keeping with contemporary English usage, and the district grew (as part of the borough of Manhattan) into the vibrant center of African American culture in New York City and the United States generally by the 20th century."  
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    Anyone know if that is St. Martin's Episcopal Church (Harlem), in the background? Church is at 230 Lenox Ave. (Malcolm X Boulevard), NYC. This photo was taken in 1933. The church burned (to the shell) in 1939, and was rebuilt. <-- It looks similar ... but not sure.  
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called free and proud, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called a new world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called piece of heaven, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Suffrage Day, 5/2/14, Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Cynthia Wenslow said:
    Mrs. Oliver H.P. Belmont was a prominent suffrage leader. She wrote a suffrage operetta called "Melinda and Her Sisters." Additionally, she was an early advocate for equal pay for equal work, regardless of gender. Mrs. Belmont was also known for "good works" donating time and money to hospitals etc. One of her famous quotes: "The term 'idle rich' is certainly a misnomer now if it ever had a foundation in fact."
  • Wystan said:
    Mrs. Belmont's husband, Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, was a grandson of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, whose U. S. Navy squadron defeated a British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812.
  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos of doings on Suffrage Day in New York City, May 2, 1914:
  • Richard Norton said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alva_Belmont Alva Erskine Belmont (January 17, 1853 – January 26, 1933), née Alva Erskine Smith, also called from 1875 to 1896) Alva Vanderbilt, was a prominent multi-millionaire American socialite and a major figure in the women's suffrage movement. Known for having an aristocratic manner that antagonized many people, she was also noted for her energy, intelligence, strong opinions, and willingness to challenge convention. She was married first to William Kissam Vanderbilt, with whom she had three children, and secondly to Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. She died on 26 January 1933 in Paris, France.
  • B-59 said:
    A. Belmont: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/8079896358/