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1 New York City: A History Through Objects November 25th, 2014 Professor Kenneth T. Jackson Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, Columbia University

2 1863 Draft Wheel http://www.nyhistory.org/civil-war-draft-wheel

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

4 High heeled shoes discarded in the stairwell of the World Trade Center http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/09/remembering-9-11-the-tenth-anniversary

5 http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/damaged-front-door-rescue-copmany-2-rig Damaged front door of Rescue Copmany #2 rig

6 http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/saltz/m issing-person-posters-9-11_detail.asp?picnum=4 http://misterroadtripper.files.wordpress.com/201 0/09/1021.jpg 9-11 Missing Flyers

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

8 Keg with stand from Erie Canal celebration http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibits/category/about/56/table/paged/title The Marriage of the Waters, painted by C.Y. Turner, 1905

9 Union Uniform 1863 http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/coat-5

10 Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground C. 1905 Museum of the City of New York

11 http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/general-slocum-victims-remembered-109- years-article-1.1373359 Steamship Slocum Memorial All Faiths Cemetery, Queens

12 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire March 25,1911

13 Martyrs Monument

14 Burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum, NYC Draft Riots 1863 Harpers Weekly


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