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This is a draft of a coat of arms for New Amsterdam that wasn't approved. Inspired by the coat of arms for the city of Amsterdam, this design shows the imperial crown between two beavers instead of two rampant lions. This illustration first appeared…

This permit authorized Fergus Peniston, a Louisiana cotton merchant, to transport and sell the cotton he possesses. In order to obtain this permit, Peniston wrote several petitions to Lincoln and enlisted friends of the administration to write on his…

In this report from 1863, an unknown advisor wrote to Lincoln outlining the benefits of continuing to trade for cotton, as well as precautions that would minimize the risk to the war effort. Lincoln endorsed the back of the report as "A. cotten…

Editorial written in 1864 by Edward Atkinson, a cotton mill executive and abolition activist. He argued that the current cotton trading system is inefficient and rife with corruption. Since it did not prevent money and goods from getting back to the…

The Crisis, an Ohio newspaper sympathetic to the Confederacy, published this editorial excoriating Major General Curtis for using his authority to confiscate and sell cotton. The editorial is followed by a transcript of Major General Steele's…

Destruction of the Garden of Eden in the Lower East Side, 1985

Young girls watering crops at DeWitt Clinton Park in Manhattan in September of 1902.

Volunteers carry a Ceremonial Map that marks the location of each garden in a procession to acknowledge the presense of the gardens, not as vacant lots, but as living spaces cultimated by the community with active cultural programming.

Protestors gather in 1999 for a 24-hour encampment to protect it from demoliton. Protestors built barricades and campred out in the garden. They slept in the Coqui, a large, frog-shaped tree house and a symbol of Puerto Rico. The garden was…

38th Congress Committee on Commerce Investigative Report to accompany Bill H. R. No. 805; Investigating Trade with Confederate States.