Papers, 1897-1965, 1910-1940 (bulk)

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Papers, 1897-1965, 1910-1940 (bulk)

Speeches, reports, press releases, leaflets, and news clippings concerning Ingersoll's public activities as an impartial labor arbitrator, Brooklyn Park Commissioner, and Brooklyn Borough president. Records of the New York Committee on Congestion of Population, 1911-1914, and the League to Enforce Peace, 1918-1919. Correspondence, including letters to and from Al Smith. Photographs of Ingersoll and of Brooklyn locations and parks.

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Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944

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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bri...

New York Committee on Congestion of Population.

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Ingersoll, Raymond V. (Raymond Vail), 1875-1940

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Lawyer, labor mediator, politician in Brooklyn, N.Y. Brooklyn Park Commissioner (1914-1917) and Brooklyn Borough President (1934-1940). From the description of Papers, 1897-1965, 1910-1940 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155456274 ...

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Office of the President.

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League to Enforce Peace.

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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Park Commissioners

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The vast urban park system in New York City (over 29,000 acres) has its origins from a 1686 charter by Governor Thomas Dongan which provided for municipal stewardship of vacant and unappropriated land. This charter enabled the city to acquire and maintain public spaces including a marketplace, a military and parade ground, and a public commons in today's lower Manhattan. Constructed on part of the land from the original public spaces, Bowling Green, the oldest public park in New Yor...