"Joan Murray (1937-) was the first African American female television news reporter in the United States, as well as an entrepreneur, small plane pilot, and writer. The Joan Murray papers detail her career in media and marketing; her personal life...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 10, 2026 20:28
Joan Murray papers, Sc MG 847, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public L...
“Demolition of the old Rothschild’s department store began this morning, while 40 paces away the new store is nearing completion on schedule. The old store first opened its doors in 1889. It will remain in business until Friday, Aug. 15, when it...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 03, 2026 22:14
“Down Tumbles the Old, Up with New Rothschild’s,” Ithaca Journal, August 5, 1975, 3.
“Demolition of the old Rothschild’s department store began this morning, while 40 paces away the new store is nearing completion on schedule. The old store first opened its doors in 1889. It will remain in business until Friday, Aug. 15, when it...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 03, 2026 22:13
“Down Tumbles the Old, Up with New Rothschild’s,” Ithaca Journal, August 5, 1975, 3.
“Demolition of the old Rothschild’s department store began this morning, while 40 paces away the new store is nearing completion on schedule. The old store first opened its doors in 1889. It will remain in business until Friday, Aug. 15, when it...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 03, 2026 22:14
“Down Tumbles the Old, Up with New Rothschild’s,” Ithaca Journal, August 5, 1975, 3.
“Demolition of the old Rothschild’s department store began this morning, while 40 paces away the new store is nearing completion on schedule. The old store first opened its doors in 1889. It will remain in business until Friday, Aug. 15, when it...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 03, 2026 22:14
“Down Tumbles the Old, Up with New Rothschild’s,” Ithaca Journal, August 5, 1975, 3.
“Demolition of the old Rothschild’s department store began this morning, while 40 paces away the new store is nearing completion on schedule. The old store first opened its doors in 1889. It will remain in business until Friday, Aug. 15, when it...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 03, 2026 22:14
“Down Tumbles the Old, Up with New Rothschild’s,” Ithaca Journal, August 5, 1975, 3.
Moving to Duncannon and Berwick, PA. “The silk spinning business was a new venture in Ithaca and all of the employes has to be specially trained for the work. The company at one time had 100 employes. The capacity of the plant was 160. ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on July 26, 2024 18:06
“Silk Company Moves Mill to Pennsylvania,” Ithaca Journal-News, February 7, 1921, 5.
“Demolition of the old Rothschild’s department store began this morning, while 40 paces away the new store is nearing completion on schedule. The old store first opened its doors in 1889. It will remain in business until Friday, Aug. 15, when it...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 03, 2026 22:14
“Down Tumbles the Old, Up with New Rothschild’s,” Ithaca Journal, August 5, 1975, 3.
“A promise of good behavior on the part of the Skull fraternity, not for themselves, but for their pet bull dog, Napoleon, has once more saved the life of that well-known canine. Patrolman Smith also was inclined to leniency and since he was the o...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 01, 2024 17:19
“‘Nap’ Let Off On Pledge To Be Good,” Ithaca Journal, October 22, 1915, 2.
“Miss Elliott, who has for many years conducted a cigar box factory at 131 East Green street, is going to move to the floor above the Star Theater. The building she now occupies will be torn down and the ground graded, making a west side exit from...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 28, 2026 18:01
Ithaca Daily Journal, February 3, 1909, 6, accessed March 13, 2026, https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj19090203-01.1.6
108-110 North Tioga St. Historic names: Ithaca Trust Company, Tompkins County Trust Company "Three-story, two-bay, brownstone and buff brick Renaissance Revival-style bank building; street-level facade retains rusticated brownstone below the wat...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 29, 2024 00:47
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Ithaca Downtown Historic District, December 18, 2004
"The Ithaca architectural firm of Vivian & Gibb designed the impressive three-story stone, terra cotta, and brick headquarters of the Ithaca Trust Company in 1895 to replace an office building on the site. The architects’ chosen mix of materials g...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 29, 2024 00:49
Tompkins Center for History and Culture, https://thehistorycenter.net/TCHC accessed September 28, 2024
"Seneca Street was vastly changed by urban renewal, a massive federal effort in the 1950s and 1960s that resulted in the demolition of old buildings to make way for new construction and parking. At the southeast corner of Seneca and Tioga streets...
Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on April 03, 2025 00:23
Historic Ithaca, DeWitt Park Historic District and Downtown Ithaca: An Architectural Walking Tour, 22. http://www.historicithaca.org
"Construction of the post office building was authorized by an act of Congress in 1902 and undertaken in 1909-10. The Beaux Arts design reflects the return to classical and Renaissance architectural forms in federal buildings. U.S. Treasury archit...
Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on April 03, 2025 00:38
Historic Ithaca, DeWitt Park Historic District and Downtown Ithaca: An Architectural Walking Tour, 14. http://www.historicithaca.org/
119-121 S Aurora St Travelers Hotel, Harry E Potter, Proprietor
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 01, 2025 23:54
Manning’s Ithaca Directory, March 1949 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY
119-121 S Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899) 15-17 S Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1878) 14 S Aurora St Ithaca