paul leibow

Leonia NJ

Indian Beads
Riffle/Bayonet
Brick
Trolly
Hot dog
Subway token
I beam (cast iron)
Radiator
Broadway Playbill
Speak Easy Liquor bottle

Beads: traded for island of Manhatten from Indians
Riffle/Bayonet- influential in draft wars and securing NYC from the british.
Brick: Used in early construction of buildings
Trolly: Early mass transportation
Hot dog: Displays both a food from immigrants, German knock wurst and Politics from Nathan's.
Subway token: advance mass trans. from trolly to the underground which worked within the sewer system construction and help develop NY City with fresh water aquifers.
I beam: to display early building for highrise such as the Empire state building in which the name of NY State is known as, along with all the tallest buildings of that era.
Radiator: Another display of immigrants in tenement housing and what is connected to those buildings mostly now remain on Orchard and Delancy st. area, where my father happened to also grow up.
Broadway Playbill: The great white way, why tourists flocked to NYC and actors became stars!
Speak Easy Liquor bottle: Indicates organized crime from tammany hall and Boss Tweed political machine.