Tag Archives: Great Depression

Minniesland, Home Of The John James Audubon Estate in Harlem

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Minniesland was the name of the Harlem, New York estate that John James Audubon, his wife Lucy, and sons built for themselves in 1842 with the funds they were realizing from subscription sales of Audubon’s octavo edition of The Birds of America. Continue reading

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City Opens historic Harlem Health Center

The New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. heralded the opening on Thursday of the $325 million Harlem Hospital Center Mural Pavilion as “one of the largest major public hospital modernization projects in the city’s history.” Continue reading

New Harlem Manuscript Found Written By Claude McKay

 

A new novel by Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay, titled “Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem,” was discovered by a Columbia University graduate student and recently declared to be authentic. Continue reading