1980s New York City Department of Health poster illustrating AIDS transmission through unprotected sex and needle sharing.
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1765 document signed by Governor Edmund Andros, listing appointed Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriff of New York City.
17th-century Queens County land record featuring Native American names and signature markings.
Parchment book titled “Freemen of the City of New York” with 17th-century handwritten entries of white male owners of property.
Colorful map of Dutch West India Company land grants with lot measurements, owner names, and labeled streets.
Decorative map titled “Longe Isleand” with ornate border, ships in the harbor, gardens in green, and a large compass rose.
Architectural grid drawing of a 16th-century town square with notes, alongside a faded 17th-century handwritten property deed.
1654 deed transferring Coney Island from the Nayack tribe to Gravesend settlers, signed by Chief Guttoquoh and tribal elders.
Ornate handwritten deed with decorative title page and interior pages listing an itemized inventory of belongings.
A 17th-century illustration of New Amsterdam paired with a modern photograph showing the waterfront’s transformation.
Page from the 1653 Court Minutes of New Amsterdam showing a proposed plan for the original wall that later became Wall Street.
1705 handwritten document signed by multiple Manhattan residents denouncing Catholicism.