Collection Highlights
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
Date:
1932
Object Number:
LIB.NS11.M14.1.20
Medium:
black and color ink on paper, backed with cloth
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Toll Bridge Sign
Object Number:
INV.1171
Date:
1825-1875
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 46 x 21 1/2 x 1 in. ( 116.8 x 54.6 x 2.5 cm )
Marks:
painted: in white: "NIANTIC BRIDGE/ RATES OF TOLL/ Top wagon one horse one way 15 [cents]/ [ditto signs] both ways same day 25/ [ditto signs] two one way/ Hack or Baruche one way 30/ No top one horse each way 10/ [ditto] two [ditto] 15/ wagon or cart lloa
Description:
Rectangular sign with obverse painted brown with white painted inscription reading "NIANTIC BRIDGE RATES OF TOLL" and list of toll rates; another list of toll rates painted in brown on white ground on reverse.
Gallery Label:
Niantic, Connecticut is located in the southeastern part of the state, on Long Island Sound. The bridge was built in about 1796 and opened thereafter.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
