Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

The Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy collects publications documenting American history on the national, state, and local levels, including extensive holdings on New York City history. The Division has a renowned collection of family histories and other genealogical collections, with a particular focus on the New York region. Included in the collections are published works from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society library, photographs, vertical files, postcards, and other visual ephemera.

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Printing House Square, Times building and Park Row

Printing House Square, Times building and Park Row

View of Sagg Bridge. Looking east at Bridge Lane. Bridgehampton, Southampton

View of Sagg Bridge. Looking east at Bridge Lane. Bridgehampton, Southampton

View of Windmill Cottage. From Dune Road. Southampton, Southampton

View of Windmill Cottage. From Dune Road. Southampton, Southampton

Old Pierce Butler farmhouse. Hay Ground. Bridgehampton, Southampton

Old Pierce Butler farmhouse. Hay Ground. Bridgehampton, Southampton

Old Pierce Butler farmhouse (nearly hidden by trees). Hay Ground … New residence on right occupies site of former barn. Bridgehampton, Southampton

Old Pierce Butler farmhouse (nearly hidden by trees). Hay Ground … New residence on right occupies site of former barn. Bridgehampton, Southampton

"At the Sign of the Blue Moon." South side Montauk Highway, about 1/2 mile? west of Quogue. Westhampton, Southampton

"At the Sign of the Blue Moon." South side Montauk Highway, about 1/2 mile? west of Quogue. Westhampton, Southampton

Former Warren Roadhouse. South side Montauk Highway, east of park, opp. road leading to railroad station. Water Mill, Southampton

Former Warren Roadhouse. South side Montauk Highway, east of park, opp. road leading to railroad station. Water Mill, Southampton

Haven house. North side road to Sag Harbor, east of North Sea. North Sea, Southampton

Haven house. North side road to Sag Harbor, east of North Sea. North Sea, Southampton

Capt. Harry Halsey house (1873). West side Main Street, south of Bowden Square. Southampton, Southampton

Capt. Harry Halsey house (1873). West side Main Street, south of Bowden Square. Southampton, Southampton

Harvey Rose house. North side Montauk Highway, east of Head of Pond Road. Water Mill, Southampton

Harvey Rose house. North side Montauk Highway, east of Head of Pond Road. Water Mill, Southampton

Haven house. North side road to Sag Harbor, east of North Sea. North Sea, Southampton

Haven house. North side road to Sag Harbor, east of North Sea. North Sea, Southampton

John Rogers house. East side Main Street, north of Methodist Episcopal Church and Post Crossing. Southampton, Southampton

John Rogers house. East side Main Street, north of Methodist Episcopal Church and Post Crossing. Southampton, Southampton

Harvey Rose house. North side Montauk Highway, east of Head of Pond Road. Water Mill, Southampton

Harvey Rose house. North side Montauk Highway, east of Head of Pond Road. Water Mill, Southampton

Former Warren Roadhouse. South side Montauk Highway, east of park, opp. road leading to railroad station. Water Mill, Southampton

Former Warren Roadhouse. South side Montauk Highway, east of park, opp. road leading to railroad station. Water Mill, Southampton

Former Warren Roadhouse. South side Montauk Highway, east of park, opp. road leading to railroad station. Water Mill, Southampton

Former Warren Roadhouse. South side Montauk Highway, east of park, opp. road leading to railroad station. Water Mill, Southampton

Haven house. North side road to Sag Harbor, east of North Sea. North Sea, Southampton

Haven house. North side road to Sag Harbor, east of North Sea. North Sea, Southampton

Haven house. North side road to Sag Harbor, east of North Sea. North Sea, Southampton

Haven house. North side road to Sag Harbor, east of North Sea. North Sea, Southampton

Haven house. North side road to Sag Harbor, east of North Sea. North Sea, Southampton

Haven house. North side road to Sag Harbor, east of North Sea. North Sea, Southampton

"At the Sign of the Blue Moon." South side Montauk Highway, about 1/2 mile? west of Quogue. Westhampton, Southampton

"At the Sign of the Blue Moon." South side Montauk Highway, about 1/2 mile? west of Quogue. Westhampton, Southampton

John Rogers house. East side Main Street, north of Methodist Episcopal Church and Post Crossing. Southampton, Southampton

John Rogers house. East side Main Street, north of Methodist Episcopal Church and Post Crossing. Southampton, Southampton

Capt. Elias White house. North side White's Lane, Sebonac. Tuckahoe, Southampton

Capt. Elias White house. North side White's Lane, Sebonac. Tuckahoe, Southampton

Capt. Elias White house. North side White's Lane, Sebonac. Tuckahoe, Southampton

Capt. Elias White house. North side White's Lane, Sebonac. Tuckahoe, Southampton

Capt. Elias White house. North side White's Lane, Sebonac. Tuckahoe, Southampton

Capt. Elias White house. North side White's Lane, Sebonac. Tuckahoe, Southampton

Capt. Elias White house. North side White's Lane, Sebonac. Tuckahoe, Southampton

Capt. Elias White house. North side White's Lane, Sebonac. Tuckahoe, Southampton

Capt. Elias White house. North side White's Lane, Sebonac. Tuckahoe, Southampton

Capt. Elias White house. North side White's Lane, Sebonac. Tuckahoe, Southampton

Collections in the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy

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Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
34,742 items
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Scrapbooks of New York City views
3,128 items
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Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library. Supplement.
1,569 items
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Photographic views of the United States
1,326 items
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Photographs taken by inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department
1,102 items
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Collection of photographs of New York City
813 items
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Collection of photographs of New York City, New York State and more by Max Hubacher
785 items
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Staten Island post cards
766 items
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The Eugene L. Armbruster collection of Long Island photographic views
711 items
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Collection of photographs of New York City, 1931-1942
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The World's loose leaf album of apartment houses: containing views and ground plans of the principal high class apartment houses in New York City, together with a map showing the situation of these houses, transportation facilities, etc.
304 items
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Apartment houses of the metropolis
301 items
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Morris Rosenfeld Photographs
260 items
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Bill Barvin Location Photograph Archive
215 items
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Collection of photographs taken by Daniel B. Austin and his associate, Adam Dove, depicting buildings, street scenes and Brooklyn and Long Island views, particularly Flatbush, Gravesend and New Utrecht, and generally for the period 1885-1914
215 items
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New York City directories
156 items
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London Terrace news
101 items
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Collection of photographs of East River and Hudson River piers, Manhattan
99 items
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Frank E. Downs. Trip to Nome, Alaska, May to Sept. 1900: An album of mounted photographs
96 items
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A Pictorial description of Broadway
94 items
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Fifth Avenue, New York, from start to finish
84 items
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Supplement to Apartment houses of the metropolis
80 items
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Collection of photographs by Daniel B. Austin and his associate, Adam Dove, taken in California about 1900-1902
80 items
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Lloyd Acker collection--views of New York City buildings [1935-75]
76 items
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Photographic negatives of the New York City Tenement House Department
69 items
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Itineraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson et des parties laterales de l'Amerique du Nord, d'apres les dessins originaux pris sur les lieux. Atlas
55 items
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Views of Brooklyn
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1913 supplement to the World's loose leaf album of apartment houses...
47 items
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Photographs of Madison Square Garden
45 items
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Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899 : a companion volume to King's handbook of New York City.
32 items
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Photographic views of the construction of the New York City subway system, 1901-1905
31 items
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London Terrace tatler
30 items
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The Vanguard: a register of those in front
29 items
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Photographs of Brooklyn
28 items
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Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828
24 items
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Early Western prints and photographs [1790-1887]
22 items
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San Francisco views before and after the earthquake and fire of 1906
21 items
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Ancestral charts: Families Beekman, Bennett, Brock, Cole, McSpadden, Steinhauer, etc
20 items
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Collection of Photographs of New York streets, showing work on subway in the vicinity of Elm St. Dec 20-21, 1900
16 items
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Decorations [in the] City of New York to Honor the British, French, Italian, Japanese, and Russian War Commissions
16 items
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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society collection
16 items
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New York City architecture, parks, and skyline views
13 items
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L'Hommedieu family genealogical research files, 1923-1941
12 items
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Photographic views of the construction of the Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York City
10 items
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Amerique septentrionale : vues des chutes du Niagara
7 items
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Emigrant Savings Bank records
7 items
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St. Joseph city directory and business mirror ...
5 items
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The Van Rensselaers of the manor of Rensselaerswyck
4 items
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Gramercy Park's illustrated bulletin
4 items
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Catskill Aqueduct, Croton Division: collection of photographs illustrating its construction
3 items
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Battles and leaders of the Civil War: being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers : based upon "The Century war series"
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Early Western photographs, 1857-1899
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Hotel Savoy illustrated, Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, New York City
3 items
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New York illustrated
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Aerial views of New York City, 1927-1939
3 items
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Picturesque America, or, The land we live in . . .
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American scenery, or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature
3 items
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Genealogy of the Willcomb family of New England (1665-1902): together with a condensed history of the town of Ipswich, Massachusetts
2 items
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Trow business directory of the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, city of New York
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Cartoons of our war with Spain
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The Greenwich Village spectator.
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Illinois at Vicksburg: pub. under authority of an act of the forty-fifth General assembly by the Illinois-Vicksburg military park commission.
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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation
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The annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York
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The picturesque beauties of the Hudson River and its vicinity
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My story of the war : a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union Army . . .
2 items
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The Great metropolis, or New-York almanac
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Harper's pictorial history of the war with Spain
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New York by sunlight and gaslight: A work descriptive of the great American metropolis...
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Historical notes of Saint James Parish, Hyde Park-on-Hudson, New York, in commemoration of the belated centenary anniversary of the consecration of the first parish church, October 10, 1811
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History of Cumberland, (Maryland) from the time of the Indian town, Caiuctucuc, in 1728, up to the present day : embracing an account of Washington's first campaign, and battle of Fort Necessity, together with a history of Braddock's expedition
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History of Long Island, from its earliest settlement to the present time
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The Chouteau family: a genealogy of descendants and collateral branches, compiled by Beatrice Clark Turner
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The Woman republican
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Official letter books of W.C.C. Claiborne, 1801-1816
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Census Maps
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Cincinnati sonst und jetzt
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The Greenes of Rhode Island: with historical records of English ancestry, 1534-1902
1 item
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Gibson's guide and directory of the state of Louisiana: and the cities of New Orleans & Lafayette, embracing ... an historical notice of the state, its boundaries, products, and government ... and ... an historical notice of the city of New Orleans, fr...
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Real Estate Catalogs
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History of Tulare County, California
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Our whole country, or, The past and present of the United States : historical and descriptive ...
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Washington Heights, Manhattan, its eventful past
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The secrets of the great city
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Panorama of the Hudson, showing both sides of the river from New York to Poughkeepsie, as seen from the deck of the Hudson River Day Line steamers... West Point, Newburgh and Highland views; historical sketch, legends and scenes of interest
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The Ink pot
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The new pictorial and illustrated family magazine
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Full-blooded Yankee
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Communications on public health and public improvements: Presented to the Litterary and Philosophical Society
1 item
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Philadelphia and notable Philadelphians, by Moses King ... Twenty one hundred & fifty two illustrations, fifteen hundred & sixty portraits, five hundred & ninety two views, A.D. 1902.
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Charles D. Wolf of Guadaloupe, his ancestors and descendants. Being a complete genealogy of the "Rhode Island D̓Wolfs," the descendants of Simon De Wolf, with their common descent from Balthasar de Wolf, of Lyme, Conn. (1668). With a biographical intro...
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Wade genealogy : miscellaneous notes and letters
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New Netherland families: the first five and some later generations, Van Dien, Van Duyn, and Verduyn families
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Plan of the town of Ridley Park, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
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Valentine's manual of old New York
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Harper's history of the war in the Philippines
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Grande sonate pour le clavecin ou forte-piano, oeuvre 26
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Descendants of George Drake and Mary Oliver
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Kings handbook of New York City ; an outline history and description of the American Metropolis ; with over one thousand illustrations ... Planned edited and pub. by Moses King.
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Confederate veteran
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Prison ship martyr: Captain Jabez Fitch: his diary in facsimile, 1776.
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Rambles in the path of the steam-horse: an off-hand olla podrida, embracing a general historical and descriptive view of the scenery, agricultural and mineral resources, and prominent features of the travelled route from Baltimore to Harper's Ferry, Cu...
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Description with illustrations of nine elegant residences fronting on Central Park, West, bet. 84th and 85th Sts., New York City
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De Bow genealogy
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New York and its institutions, 1609-1871: A library of information, pertaining to the great metropolis, past and present
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The Printer's helper
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De prinselijke afkomst der Nederlandsche vlag gehandhaafd ...
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Days and ways in old Boston
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Leslie's official history of the Spanish-American War; a pictorial and descriptive record with 1500 original illustrations
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The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated: embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts
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History of the 116th Regiment U.S.C. Infantry: from its organization in the early part of the spring and summer of 1864, to the present time, giving a list of names of all officers and enlisted men who have ever belonged to the regiment
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History of the Samuel Crosby family of Bristol, New York, with his genealogical record from John Crosby born in England 1440
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The New York red book
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The Washington sketch book; a society souvenir
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The story of a cavalry regiment: "Scott's 900" Eleventh New York cavalry, from the St. Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico, 1861-1865
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Official records of the Union and Confederate navies in the war of the rebellion.
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A history of the Kägy relationship in America from 1715 to1900
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Postcards of the United States
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New York City - Numbered Streets
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Plan for permanent world capitol at Flushing Meadow Park
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A voice from Harper's Ferry : a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry : with incidents prior and subsequent to its capture by Captain Brown and his men
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Life, travels, and adventures in California, and scenes in the Pacific Ocean
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall; a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum--the New York County court-house bootblack stand-- and recorded by William ...
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Recollections of Thomas D. Duncan ; a confederate soldier.
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Buckley's history of the great reunion of the North and the South and of the blue and the gray: an impartial, non-political account of the beginning of reconciliation ... in the United States
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Inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in the burying grounds of the First Presbyterian church and St. Johns church at Elizabeth, New Jersey: 1664-1892
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Burdge and allied families
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Organization and objects
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The Story of Louisiana
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The Whiteleys of Northwest Arkansas
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Miller's New York as it is; or, Stranger's guide-book to the cities of New York, Brooklyn, and adjacent places ...
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Photograph of the air ship Hindenburg over New York City
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Stow, Massachusetts; 1683-1933. Compiled in honor of the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the town.
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A history of the city of Baltimore, its men and institutions: biographical sketches of leading citizens
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Sir Thomas West, 2nd Lord De La Warr
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The tour of James Monroe : President of the United States ...
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Americana
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Annual report of the City History Club of New York
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The daily graphic
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The dangerous classes of New York and twenty years' work among them
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The Daily graphic; an illustrated evening newspaper.
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