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This subcategory contains 57 links An Early History of New York City's First Elevated Railway By G. J. Christiano A H I S T 0 R Y OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN INCLUDING THE OLD TOWN AND VILLAGE OF BROOKLYN, THE TOWN OF BUSHWICK, AND THE VILLAGE AND CITY OF WILLIAMSBURGH. BY HENRY R. STILES. 1867 "Throughout the 1800s religious fervor roiled Western New York. Shakers, Spiritualists,Mormons and others found solace in a land of free thinkers." voluminous From PBS "The Cornell University Library and the Cornell Daily Sun are collaborating on an ambitious new digitization project to provide online access to the Sun's historical files. All of the original newspapers will be scanned and made available on a web site maintained by the Cornell University Library." Independent, LV (Aug, 13, 1903), 1920 24. From Digital History Old Fort Niagara, Youngstown, NY. A Registered National Historic Landmark Coney Island. The Erie Canal is over 300 miles long, stretching across the whole state of New York from Albany to Buffalo. But we don't have to travel the whole length of the canal to learn about it — although it might be fun! The canal came right through the city of Rochester. By looking at the canal here, maybe we can find out how the canal worked in those far-away places. Newsletter. Photographic essay with links. by Joe Brennan "Long Island: Our Story, the most extensive series ever undertaken by Newsday, documents local history from the Ice Age to the Space Age. In addition to the hundreds of pages produced for Newsday's print editions, this site offers a wealth of additional photos, source documents, audio, video and more." Interesting site concerning a tenement which has been preserved sinvce 1935. New York. By Peter Laskaris Guide to the canals, the most famous of which was the Erie Canal. "Welcome to the premiere unofficial site about the history of New York City's subway system-- and other transit systems around the world." Flickr photos Historians, material for kids, jobs, genealogy, and more! Great collection of materials. More than New York. Well-organized site by a powerful state archive. Walker Evans had a reputation, if not a steady income, as a photographer when Roy Stryker hired him at the Resettlement Administration in October 1935. Evans had taken up photography in 1928, at the age of twenty-five. He lived, in his own words, "very shabbily" in New York City, where he began to experiment with the medium by photographing city street life and vernacular architecture and by making portraits of his artist and intellectual friends. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, his paid projects included illustrating a book that exposed the evils of Cuba's Machado regime and photographing African sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art. NYNYm a series of ever-expanding timelines covering New York City and State, from approximately 1,100,000,000 BC to 1990 AD. Syracuse University Library The official website of the Colonial Albany Social History Project. It is intended to introduce everyone to the people of colonial Albany and their world. It is also the best contact point for the operations and programs of the Colonial Albany Project. Onondaga Pottery Company The Story in Words and Pictures. Part I. by Thomas J. Kriger PowerPoint presentation. Barnum's New York City Museum, 1841 Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City Joel Schwartz Scholarly books by Marilynn Wood Hill New York City Fascinating information about a set of about 50 people who lived in New York City in 1920. See hoe people lived! WELCOME to Virtual New York, a website devoted to the history of New York City and its people. Produced by the New Media Lab at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, VNY offers resources on New York City's past unavailable elsewhere on the Web and, informed by the latest scholarship, new ways to understand that history. Virtual New York's inaugural exhibit "DISASTER!" examines the worst of times and how they changed the city. "Historic Weeksville was a nineteenth century community located in the Ninth Ward of Brooklyn, New York. It was named for James Weeks, an African American who purchased land there in 1838 from Henry C. Thompson (another free African-American)." Snapshots of Syracuse history. The rise and fall of a city center. |
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