Jeff Kisseloff brings together 137 New Yorkers who witnessed daily life in Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II. Dividing the city into ten neighborhoods and devoting a chapter and about a dozen voices to each, Kisseloff offers a brief introduction, then lets the eyewitnesses speak for themselves. We hear a survivor's account of the harrowing Triangle Shirtwaist fire as well as tales of the ...

Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Written By: Julius M Bloch

Manufacturer: Q.F. Veit
Written By: Quentin F Veit

Manufacturer: Who's who in New York City and State, Inc
Written By: William F Mohr

In the tradition of Wild Swans, this rich and compelling family saga by the author of Children of the Holocaust brings to life three generations of Czech-Jewish women--from the 19th century to the Holocaust and beyond. of photos. Print features in women's magazines.

Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
Written By: Helen Epstein

Manufacturer: R.W. Denison
Written By: Denison Ray W

In this volume compiler Karen Livsey has extracted all useful genealogical data from the Land Tables of the Holland Land Company. Working from microfilm copies of the original records now in the custody of the Municipal Archives of Amsterdam, Holland, Mrs. Livsey--for each of the 70,000 transactions that took place between 1825 and 1835--supplies the name of the purchaser, the date of ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Karen E. Livsey

The Holland Land Company was a stock corporation formed by six Dutch banking houses for the purpose of buying land in New York. By the year 1797 the Company had purchased some 3.3 million acres of land in western New York, west of the Genesee River. Known as the Holland Land Purchase, all this land was sold off by 1839. This present work is an index to the records, the Land Titles, of ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Karen E. Livsey

Today, more than half of Americans live in suburbs. A far cry from the "crabgrass frontier" of modest bedroom communities built for urban strivers, today’s sprawling, self-contained suburbs define our cultural landscape. This fascinating book chronicles—in word and images—the history, development, and character of suburban America with an illuminating account of one of its signature places: ...

Manufacturer: Copublished with the Hudson River Museum

Manufacturer: Heritage Books Inc
Written By: Norman Davis