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Still, Bayrd, ed. Mirror for Gotham: New York as Seen by Contemporaries from Dutch Days to the Present (New York University Press, 1956) online edition Stokes, I.N. Phelps. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps plans views and documents in ...
Aaron Burr (DR-New York) (until March 4) George Clinton (DR-New York) (starting March 4) Chief Justice: John Marshall ; Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nathaniel Macon (DR-North Carolina) Congress: 8th (until March 4), 9th (starting March 4)
All the nations under heaven: an ethnic and racial history of New York City (1995) Burns, Ric, and James Sanders. New York: An Illustrated History (2003), large-scale book version of Burns PBS documentary, New York: A Documentary Film an eight part, 17½ hour documentary film directed by Ric Burns for PBS. It originally aired in 1999–2003 ...
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
That year, only 384 of New York City's 5,660 street lamps were gaslights. [1] Chicago turned on its first hundred-odd gaslights on September 4, 1850. [6] Gas light was up to ten times brighter than light from oil lamps, [1] but by present-day standards, the lights appeared "distinctly yellow and not very bright". [6]
The main residence, a two-story brick building set on an English basement, replaced an earlier structure that was the home of Van Rensselaer's father, General Robert Van Rensselaer (a brother of Lt. Gov. of New York Jeremiah Van Rensselaer and Catherine Van Rensselaer, who married Gen. Philip Schuyler, later a U.S. Senator).
The article "New York" describes Sir William Johnson as being a land jobber and an enemy of the nation, for example. Almost every American city, town, and county is listed, there are many biographies of Americans, and all the maps and most of the plates are original, a few plates being taken from Britannica. They are found with an inconsistent ...
Image credits: newyork1990s The city started getting cleaned up with the election of mayor Rudy Giuliani in the mid-90s, he says. “Especially the 42nd Street area, which went from a very seedy ...