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Five young men from Jamaica, Queens wait for the train to take them to boot camp
Black History: All Aboard to Yaphank, the Great War, and Obscurity
They stand looking at the camera, their faces neutral, their armbands reading “LIRR Jamaica.” These five men from Queens are draftees, waiting at the Jamaica Long Island Rail Road...

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Black History Month Tour
Black History Tour Landmark, The Archives at Queens Library
Among the items in the Archives at Queens Library’s collection of original sources, documenting the history of the four counties of Long Island, are personal correspondence, financial...

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1904 photograph of the children of J.A. Homeyer. Courtesy of the Queens Library,
Happy Holidays from 108 Years Ago
The tradition of the Christmas tree was already well-established in the United States by the end of the 19th Century. Although the first national Christmas tree wasn’t set up until 1913, (...

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