"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." wrote poet Emma Lazarus as a beacon bringing the world to the harbors of New York City. Our collection of NYC photography, painting, history books and more will have you "spreading the news."
Recommendations... Old New York in Early Photographs
by Mary Black
New York City as it was 1853-1901, through 196 wonderful photographs: great blizzard, Lincoln's funeral procession, great buildings, much more.
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| |  New York in the Forties
by Andreas Feininger
A former Life magazine photographer presents more than 160 photos of skyscrapers under construction, Harlem nightclubs, waterfront activity, Bowery flophouses, the Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown, Coney Island, and more. Captions.
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 New York in the Thirties
by Berenice Abbott
Nearly 100 classic images by noted photographer: Rockefeller Center on the rise, Bowery restaurants, dramatic views of the City's bridges, Washington Square, old movie houses, rows of old tenements, and many other landmarks.
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| |  The Bridges of New York
by Sharon Reier
Stirring text-and-picture tribute to over 75 New York City bridges — among them the Brooklyn Bridge, Throgs Neck, Verrazano Narrows, Whitestone, George Washington, and other splendid structures.
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 Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929
by William Lee Younger
157 photographs, many never before reprinted, show the vitality and variety of old Brooklyn: waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Heights, Ebbets Field, Luna Park, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach Hotel, more.
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| |  Old Queens, N.Y., in Early Photographs: 261 Prints
by Vincent F. Seyfried, William Asadorian
Recalls "good old days" in Maspeth, Jamaica, Astoria, Jackson Heights, other areas: DeWitt Clinton mansion, hotel where Washington slept (1790), plus recent landmarks — Astoria Studios, 1939 World's Fair, more. 261 prints.
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 How the Other Half Lives
by Jacob Riis
This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.
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Products in New York City and Environs | | |  | Bain's New York: The City in News Pictures 1900-1925
by Michael Carlebach
Original hardcover compilation of 100 images from the photographic archives of one of the United States' earliest news agencies. Police activity, immigration, politics, street life, sports — everything from the mundane to the monumental. Detailed captions.
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|  | The Battle with the Slum
by Jacob A. Riis
Classic work of reportage documents life of the urban poor at the turn of the century. Real-life tales and rare photographs celebrate efforts to demolish breeding grounds of crime and improve conditions in schools and tenements.
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| | The Bridges of New York
by Sharon Reier
Stirring text-and-picture tribute to over 75 New York City bridges — among them the Brooklyn Bridge, Throgs Neck, Verrazano Narrows, Whitestone, George Washington, and other splendid structures.
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| |  | Garden City, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1869-1919
by Mildred H. Smith
Handsome treasury of 118 vintage pictures, accompanied by captions, document the Garden City Hotel fire (1899), the Vanderbilt Cup Race (1908), the first airmail flight departing from the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome (1911), more.
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| | How the Other Half Lives
by Jacob Riis
This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.
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|  | Life in Old New York: 24 Cards
by Hayward Cirker
24 vintage views of ice skaters in Central Park, horse-drawn carriages on Fifth Avenue, strollers on Brooklyn Bridge, Coney Island, Chinatown, many more. Introduction. Notes.
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|  | The Long Island Rail Road in Early Photographs
by Ron Ziel
Over 220 rare photos, informative text document 1844 origin and development of rail service on Long Island. Vintage views of early trains, locomotives, stations, passengers, crews, much more. Captions.
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|  | The Lower East Side
by Ronald Sanders, Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.
Collection of evocative photographs chronicles evolution of immigrant neighborhood from 1870s to 1920 as waves of Jewish immigrants arrived from Eastern Europe. 99 black-and-white photographs. Introduction. Bibliography.
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|  | Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan: An Illustrated History
by Andrew Alpern
Lavishly illustrated volume provides detailed mini-histories of the Gramercy, Ansonia, Hotel des Artistes, Joseph Pulitzer's palatial residence, and many other luxurious lodgings. 175 illustrations — many from private sources — depict interiors and exteriors. Introduction. Index.
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| |  | New York Then and Now
by Edward B. Watson, Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.
Early Manhattan sites are set against more modern photos taken from same position: Times Square, Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, many more. Includes 83 early photographs from 1875 to 1925 contrasted with photos taken in 1976.
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| |  | New York for Kids: 25 Big Apple Sites to Color
by Patricia J. Wynne
The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the ships at South Street Seaport, mummies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History, and 21 other popular attractions.
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| | New York in the Forties
by Andreas Feininger
A former Life magazine photographer presents more than 160 photos of skyscrapers under construction, Harlem nightclubs, waterfront activity, Bowery flophouses, the Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown, Coney Island, and more. Captions.
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| | New York in the Thirties
by Berenice Abbott
Nearly 100 classic images by noted photographer: Rockefeller Center on the rise, Bowery restaurants, dramatic views of the City's bridges, Washington Square, old movie houses, rows of old tenements, and many other landmarks.
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| |  | New York: The Big Apple Quote Book
by Bob Blaisdell
More than 1,000 quotes from Walt Whitman, Calvin Trillin, Helen Hayes, Lenny Bruce, and others comment on skyscrapers, subways, the boroughs, Lady Liberty, and why people love and hate New York City.
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| | Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929
by William Lee Younger
157 photographs, many never before reprinted, show the vitality and variety of old Brooklyn: waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Heights, Ebbets Field, Luna Park, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach Hotel, more.
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| | Old New York in Early Photographs
by Mary Black
New York City as it was 1853-1901, through 196 wonderful photographs: great blizzard, Lincoln's funeral procession, great buildings, much more.
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