May- Day In The City - Harper's Weekly April 30, 1859
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| MAY 1ST MOVING DAY |
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May 1st Moving Day
"The good people of Gotham seem to possess an irresistible desire to change their residence on the first of May annually, and the ludicrous scenes produced by everybody, and everybody's furniture, being in the street at the same time, has been the subject of many a humorous poem, and laughable sketch."Everyone whose lease was up moved on May 1st - businesses and flat dwellers alike. Several New York Times articles indicate that October 1 was also a busy moving day. |
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May- Day In The City - Harper's Weekly April 30, 1859
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Undated. publication unknown,
collection of Maggie Land Blanck, April 2012
"REPRESENTATION OF THE FIRST OF MAY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK"
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| Harper's Weekly, May 4, 1867, collection of Maggie Land Blanck, April 2012 |
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"THE FIRST OF MAY" - THE DISCOMFORTS OF MOVING With bang and crash and clatter-clat, Agustus Comstock |
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Harper's Weekly, May 8, 1869,
collection of Maggie Land Blanck, April 2012
"THE FIRST OF MAY IN NEW YORK CITY"
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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 30, 1887,
collection of Maggie Land Blanck, April 2012
MAY-DAY MORNING OR "MOVING DAY" IN NEW YORK CITY - AN UPSET
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Twinkles a Serio-Comic Weekly Published by the New York Tribune, May 1, 1897
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