A History of the Public Land Policies. By Benjamin Horace Hibbard. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Pp. xix, 591.)

George and Serena Croghan’s son, St. George Croghan, inherited Locust Grove and moved from New York with his young family in hopes of farming the estate. He failed, and after mortgaging the place, returned to New York to spend years litigating his wife’s inheritance. With no means of support, he joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and was killed that November. The Croghan homestead was rented, then sold, and today stands as a National Historic Landmark museum open to the public. The enslaved Croghan workforce was freed in 1856 by the terms of Dr. Croghan’s will, and although Stephen Bishop and the slave guides eventually opened a hotel for black tourists who visited Mammoth Cave, the farm’s enslaved people moved to the city and disappeared from the history of the place where most of them had been born.

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The Brief History of the New-York Coffeehouse Company Limited

Economic and Social Changes: Historical Facts, Analyses and Interpretations - Studies on Economic and Social History from Southern Transdanubia ◽

10.15170/seshst-01-11 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 95-104

Author(s):

Sára Czina ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social Life ◽

Joint Stock Company ◽

Stock Company ◽

The Public ◽

The Great Depression ◽

Company Limited ◽

The Everyday ◽

The World ◽

History Of

At the turn of the 20th century, Budapest was famous for its Coffeehouse Culture. One of the most popular Café was the New-York Coffeehouse; today, it is remembered for its literary life. After 20 years of operation, in 1913, new people bought the tenant’s rights and established the first Coffeehouse joint-stock company in Hungary, called New-York coffeehouse Company Limited. This paper aims to analyze the operation of the Company in relation to the stock transfers, analysis of its profitability, and the changes in the transformations in the shares. The main goal was to figure out how the profitability and the stock transfers were connected to the contemporary social and economic circumstances. The years of the World Wars, Revolutions, the Great Depression, and the cultural/social life of the twenties had their deep effects on the life of the Company. The changes were perceptible for the public, too. Many articles were published about the hardships of the Company and the changing atmosphere of the Coffeehouse. These were different; not all of them damaged the interest of the Company Limited equally. Still, the difficulties influenced the stock transfers, profitability, and the everyday life of the Managers and Shareholders. These circumstances are parallel to the changes of the Company.

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The Great School Wars: New York City, 1805-1973: A History of the Public Schools as Battlefield of Social Change. Diane Ravitch

The School Review ◽

10.1086/443299 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 84 (4) ◽

pp. 629-631

Author(s):

Edgar B. Gumbert

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Public Schools ◽

Social Change ◽

York City ◽

The Public ◽

History Of

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The Motion Picture Industry

The Business History Review ◽

10.1017/s0007680500014021 ◽

1930 ◽

Vol 4 (5) ◽

pp. 1-4

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Motion Picture ◽

Motion Pictures ◽

Motion Picture Industry ◽

Business History ◽

The Public ◽

History Of ◽

Business Negotiations

The early business career of motion pictures lies entangled in the correspondence and documents of the firm of Raff & Gammon which have been presented to our organization through the kindness of Terry Ramsaye, Editor-in-Chief of Pathé Exchange, Inc., New York. Lost in the volumes of vituperative letters from impatient dealers and the business negotiations of Raff & Gammon for the sale of monopoly rights for whole states, the business history of the industry awaits a thorough ransacking of the available documents. What is most apparent immediately is the excitement of the public in the new invention and the rush of the more adroit to seize the profits from its immediate exploitation.

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