from Nancy Robertson
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I am working on a project to develop a fourth-grade
curriculum using the Hudson-Fulton celebration of
1909 as a way to talk about what life was like
for children at the turn of the century (including
work, transportation, and leisure) as well as themes of
pageants, inventions, discoveries, and explorations.

I am aware of secondary material by Glassberg, Nye,
and McNamara; I have looked at Readers Guide to
Periodical Literature and the New York Times index; I have
done an RLIN search and read materials at Museum
of the City of New York and at New-York Historical.

I am particularly interested in first-hand accounts--
especially those appealing to children--or visuals.
Given that some 1,000,000 people came to NY,
some 2,000,000 people watched the parades,
and some 300,000 children participated in the big and small
pageants, debates, etc. I assume that some people
wrote about it.   Although the focus of my
project is on the festivities in New York City, I
would also be interested in first-hand accounts from
the events as they went up the Hudson River.

Thank you, Nancy Robertson
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