Brooklyn Ferry, Fulton Street; Steam boat wharf, Whitehall Street

James Smillie after Charles Burton

ID NYPL number: 54373

1831

I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Mercantile Library Association, Clinton Hall

The Mercantile Library Association was founded in 1820 by a group of merchants that included men like Jacob Lorillard. Their goal was to instill good habits among the growing number of clerks in the city. In particular, they encouraged book reading, and sponsored lectures.

NYPL ID number: 1650725

circa 1830

Eno Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs,The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Broadway

Laurent Deroy, after Augustus Kollner

NYPL ID number: 1659121

Printed by Cattier; New York & Paris, published by Goupil & Co.

1850

Eno Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs,The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Philip Hone

Merchants often chose to resell their goods at auction houses such as the one run by the Hone brothers. There is where Philip Hone made his fortune before choosing to enter politics and serve as New York’s mayor for one term.

NYPL ID number: 1262609

n.d.

Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

New York--Hanging and Burning A Negro in Clarkson Street

Mobs lynched many of the black men they caught on the streets, hanging them on trees or lamp posts.

NYPL ID number: 809569

188?

Picture Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Draft Riots Vignettes

These vignettes provide a vivid picture of mob mentality.
Mob leaders harangue the crowd--composed of a motley crew of men and women--inciting them to violence.
Violence erupts when the crowd captures a black man and drags him along the street with a noose around his neck.
Given the frenzy of the mob, police have a hard time restoring law and order and must themselves resort to violence.

43200

The New York Illustrated News

August 8, 1863

New York Historical Society

Rioters Chasing Negro Women and Children, NYC Draft Riots

Rioters chose their victims at random regardless of gender or age. Women and children were attacked with impunity and lost their lives.

40828

1863

New York Historical Society

The Riots in New York; Destruction of the Coloured Orphan Asylum

During the draft riots of 1863, the asylum was burned to the ground on the very first day of the violence.

NYPL ID number: 812649

1863

Picture Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations