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

Abraham Lincoln to William Kellogg, rejecting his attempts to secure a cotton permit for former Illinois legislator, Amos Babcock. Lincoln scolded Kellogg for his single-minded pursuit of a permit and observed the corruption already associated with…

Advertisement listed in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Peter Henderson & Company, which was a New York City based seed distributer

Article from WNYC reporting on the agreement between Mayor Bloomberg and State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, protecting gardens from further private development.

Weekly Column by Mayor Giuliani in September 2001, arguing for the destruction of community gardens to make room for housing development projects.

Press Release from May 1999, announcing 114 Greenthumb Gardens would be sold to the Trust for Public Land and the New York Restoration Project for $4.2 million, both nonprofit groupsthat conserves land for people to ensure livable communities and a…

Poster for Reclaim the Street's Festival of Resistance, June 1999

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…

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.

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