The New York
City Book Collection is a collection of 49 volumes relating to the
history of New York City and its people primarily in the 18th and
19th centuries. Several of the volumes have great period illustrations
and portraits of relevant historical figures. These books are an
excellent resource for history and genealogy researchers of this
area.
All the titles
contained on this DVD are listed below.
New York
sketches (1902) - Williams, Jesse Lynch - 133 pages
The city
of New York (1917) - Brown, Henry Collins - 288 pages
History of
the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress Volume 1
(1877) - : Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna); Harrison, Burton,
Mrs. - 786 pages
History of
the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress Volume 2
(1877) - : Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna); Harrison, Burton,
Mrs. - 820 pages
Appleton's
New York city and vicinity guide .. (1849) - Williams, W. (Wellington)
- 91 pages
New York
City and its masters (1887) - Graham, Robert - 46 pages
A home geography
of New York city (1905) - Straubenmuller, Gustave - 229 pages
The finances
of New York City (1898) - Durand, Edward Dana - 397 pages
How New York
city is governed (1866) - Parton, James - 48 pages
The old merchants
of New York City (1863) - Scoville, Joseph Alfred - 472 pages
Fifty photographic
views of New York city (1895) - 48 pages
Valentine's
manual of old New York (1919) - Brown, Henry Collins - 383 pages
A souvenir
of New York City, old and new (1918) - 369 pages
Annals and
occurrences of New York city and state, in the olden time : being
a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents concerning the
city, county, and inhabitants, from the days of the founders ...
(1846) - Watson, John F. (John Fanning) - 390 pages
Railroads
and railroad grants in the City of New York (1860) - 368 pages
New York
city and how to see it; (1876) - Ogden, Robert Curtis - 69 pages
The Columbus
historical guide and map of New York city (1891) - Bolitho, Edwin
- 82 pages
Who's who
in New York (city and state) (1904) - 798 pages
Seal and
flag of the city of New York (1915) - Pine, John Buckley - 103
pages
The practical
guide to New York city and Brooklyn .. (1877) - Morford, Henry
- 51 pages
Rand McNally
New York guide to the city and environs (1913) - 145 pages
Machine politics
and money in elections in New York City (1887) - Ivins, William
Mills - 150 pages
Longworth's
American almanac, New-York register and city directory (1816)
- 752 pages
Historical
sketch of the origin and organization of the Reformed Church in
America and of the Collegiate Church of the City of New York (1904)
- 54 pages
Laws relating
to sex morality in New York city (1917) - Spingarn, Arthur Barnett
- 139 pages
Belshazzar
court; or, Village life in New York city (1914) - Strunsky, Simeon
- 190 pages
Industrial
causes of congestion of population in New York City (1911) - Pratt,
Edward Ewing - 259 pages
Municipal
reform through revision of business methods, New York city (1910)
- 58 pages
Bankrupting
a great city (the story of New York) (1915) - Klein, Henry H.
- 188 pages
The social
evil in New York city : a study of law enforcement by the Research
committee of the Committee of fourteen (1910) - Kneeland, George
J. - 268 pages
New-York,
past, present, and future : comprising a history of the city of
New-York, a description of its present condition, and an estimate
of its future increase (1850) - Belden, E. Porter (Ezekiel Porter)
- 203 pages
The Catholic
churches of New York City, with sketches of their history and
lives of the present pastors : with an introduction on the early
history of Catholicity on the island, and lives of the most reverend
archbishops and bishops (1878) - Shea, John Gilmar - 748 pages
Charcoals
of new and old New York (1912) - Smith, Francis Hopkinson - 142
pages
Gospel work
in New York City : a memorial of fifty years in city missions
(1878) - Jackson, Lewis Evens - 200 pages
New York
city guide; a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the
metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond
(1939) - Federal Writers' Project (N.Y.) - 708 pages
Lloyd's pocket
companion and guide through New York City, for 1866-67 (1866)
- Lloyd, Thomas - 194 pages
Catholic
footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city
of New York from 1524 to 1808 (1909) - Bennett, William Harper
- 499 pages
The ladies
guide and city directory for shopping, travel, amusements, etc.,
in the city of New York (18??) - 127 pages
New York;
a historical sketch of the rise and progress of the metropolitan
city of America (1853) - Curry, Daniel - 339 pages
Progress
and prospects of New York, the first city of the world. 1492-1893
(1893) - Commercial Travelers Club of New York - 202 pages
Old buildings
of New York City, with some notes regarding their origin and occupants
(1907) - 179 pages
The St. Regis
Hotel, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, New York City (1905)
- 48 pages
History of
St. George's Church in the city of New York, 1752-1811-1911 (1911)
- Anstice, Henry - 508 pages
The women
of New York, or, Social life in the great city (1870) - Ellington,
George - 650 pages
A history
of the Brick Presbyterian Church in the city of New York (1909)
- Knapp, Shepherd - 566 pages
What I saw
in New-York; or, A bird's eye view of city life (1851) - Ross,
Joel H - 326 pages
Centennial
services of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of the city of New
York (1885) - 206 pages
Prominent
families of New York; being an account in biographical form of
individuals and families distinguished as representatives of the
social, professional and civic life of New York city (1897) -
Weeks, Lyman Horace - 641 pages
A glance
at New York: embracing the city government, theatres, hotels,
churches, mobs, monopolies, learned professions, newspapers, rogues,
dandies, fires and firemen, water and other liquids, &c., &c (1837)
- Greene, Asa - 264 pages
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