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Examples of Primary Sources

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FlyersDevelopment continued and ownership was expanded to a group of investors who sold lots for about $690 each starting in 1922.

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MusicVerseJohnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun,Take it on the run, on the run, on the run,Hear them calling you and me,Ev'ry son of liberty.Hurry right away, no delay, go today,Make your daddy glad to have had such a lad,Tell your sweetheart not to pine,To be proud her boy's in line.

ChorusOver there over thereSend the word, send the word over thereThat the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming,The drums rum-tumming ev'rywhereSo prepare say a pray'rSend the word, send the word to bewareWe'll be over, we're coming over,And we won't come back till it's over over there!

VerseJohnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun,Johnnie show the Hun you're a son of a gun,Hoist the flag and let her fly,Yankee Doodle do or die.Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit,Yankees to the ranks from the towns and the tanks,Make your mother proud of youAnd the old Red White and Blue.

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Photographs

157th Avenue & 87th Street -1950

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Postcards

A casino, beach, and fishing pier were added in 1915 and the name of the neighborhood was changed to Howard Beach on April 6, 1916

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The Hotel Howard was a magnificent achievement for William Howard as well as a resounding success. Construction of the two thousand foot pier supporting the hotel, bungalows, support buildings and recreation centers, was no small feat, Howard brought in all the construction materials despite the lack of roads, motor vehicles and other modem methods of transport.

When the hotel and pier were built at the turn of the century Cross Bay Boulevard did not exist; the land was a marsh. There was no Sunrise Highway; the land was just north of the marsh. The automobile had been invented but would not be seen in South Queens for a few more years; most roads were dirt trails and those going into the marshes flooded at high tide.

Yet William Howard managed to bring in all the materials needed to build his hotel and pier, accompanying buildings and even his power plant, which stood on the site Of today's Frank M. Charles Memorial Park. Hotel Howard had electricity years before the railroad, steam engines chugged over the trestle until 1905, the passengers marveling at the brightly lit Hotel Howard sitting atop its magnificent pier.

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Newspapers

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Diaries

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Memoirs

Spiegelman relates the effect of those events on the survivors' later years and upon the lives of the following generation. Each scene opens at the elder Spiegelman's home in Rego Park, N.Y. Art, who was born after the war, is visiting his father, Vladek, to record his experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland. The Nazis, portrayed as cats, gradually introduce increasingly repressive measures, until the Jews, drawn as mice, are systematically hunted and herded toward the Final Solution. Vladek saves himself and his wife by a combination of luck and wits, all the time enduring the torment of hunted outcast. The other theme of this book is Art's troubled adjustment to life as he, too, bears the burden of his parents' experiences.

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Artifacts

Edmund Stone’s Pocket Watch (Sold for $143,068)

Lunch Menu (Sold for $114,623)

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Fashions

Mary Lincoln wore this silk taffeta two-piece dress in 1861, with an evening bodice as the top piece. The pattern of black stripes and purple flowers is woven into the silk. Later in the 19th century, the original evening bodice was replaced with this daytime bodice made of fabric taken from the skirt.

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Paintings

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Plays/Musicals

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Speeches

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Artifacts & Furniture

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Oral Histories & Documents

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Interviews

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Surveys

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