Photograph collection, [ca. 1890]-1985.

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Photograph collection, [ca. 1890]-1985.

Photographs are primarily of buildings (including schools, churches, hospitals, residences, commercial buildings, historical buildings, libraries, and others) and streets in the Bronx. Other subjects represented are clubs and associations, personalities, transportation, parks, and sports (including the Yankees and Yankee Stadium). Slides and some glass plate negatives are available.

84 cubic ft. (ca. 15,000 items)

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New York Yankees (Baseball team)

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The club that became the New York Yankees started as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901. American League President Ban Johnson wanted a club in New York and, after outmaneuvering the politically influential New York Giants, who did not want a competing team, Johnson moved the Orioles to New York. The first ten years of its existence, the team did not do well, contending for the pennant during only one season. In 1914, Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast Huston purchased the team. This collection da...

Bronx County Historical Society

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