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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.
Items in the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy See More
The Brooklyn city directory... 1933/1934
David F. Haynes, page 209 (detail)
Polk's New York City directory (boroughs of Queens and Richmond), 1933/1934
Columbus Circle from Central Park West and Sixty-third Street
New York City (Manhattan and Bronx) residential directory and advertisers' classified section, 1931
Polk's Staten Island (Borough of Richmond) directory: containing an alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens with wives' first names shown, a street and avenue guide, and much information of a miscellaneous character : also a buyers' guide and a complete classified business directory. Vol. 1, 1933-34
Descent of Frances Lincoln (Brock) Eliot from Tristram Coffyn, Esq., of Nantucket
Stampede of the Eleventh Corps on the Plank Road.
The Confederates charging Howard's breastworks.
Retreat of the Union Army across the Rappahonnock at United States ford, from a war-time sketch.
57 Bank Street, Series 63, frame 6
NWC of Fifth Avenue and 44th Street: Bank of New York, no. 0106
Apartment houses of the metropolis, Title page
Title page, verso
Introduction (text)
471 Park Avenue
Four apartment houses. West 164th Street, between Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue.
A model tenement house. 310 East Houston Street; Plan of first floor; Plan of upper floors.
A model tenement house. 224-226 Avenue B; Plan of first floor; Plan of upper floors.
Two model tenement houses. 504-508 East 12th Street; Plan of first floor; Plan of upper floors.
An Essay on Duplex Apartments in general, and those at 471 Park Avenue in particular, by Richard Morton; Plan of Ground Floor.
471 Park Avenue. Typical plan of mezzanine or chamber floor; Typical plan of main or living room floor.
The Chatsworth and Annex, 72nd Street and Riverside Drive
The Chatsworth. Plan - 2nd, 3rd & 4th Stories; Plan - 6th, 8th & 10th Stories.
The Chatsworth. Plan - 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th & 12th Stories; Typical floor plan.
Collections in the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
34,740 items
Scrapbooks of New York City views
3,129 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library. Supplement.
1,569 items
Collection of photographs of New York City, New York State and more by Max Hubacher
1,568 items
Photographic views of the United States
1,326 items
Photographs taken by inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department
1,102 items
Collection of photographs of New York City
813 items
Staten Island post cards
766 items
Collection of photographs of New York City, 1931-1942
335 items
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
Apartment houses of the metropolis
301 items
New York City Directories
288 items
Morris Rosenfeld Photographs
260 items
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
Bill Barvin Location Photograph Archive
213 items
Lloyd Acker collection--views of New York City buildings [1935-75]
104 items
Collection of photographs of East River and Hudson River piers, Manhattan
99 items
Frank E. Downs. Trip to Nome, Alaska, May to Sept. 1900: An album of mounted photographs
96 items
Pictorial description of Broadway
94 items
Fifth Avenue, New York, from start to finish
84 items
Supplement to Apartment houses of the metropolis.
80 items
Collection of photographs by Daniel B. Austin and his associate, Adam Dove, taken in California about 1900-1902
80 items
Photographic negatives of the New York City Tenement House Department
69 items
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
Views of Brooklyn
49 items
1913 supplement to the World's loose leaf album of apartment houses...
47 items
Photographs of Madison Square Garden
45 items
Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899 : a companion volume to King's handbook of New York City.
32 items
Photographic views of the construction of the New York City subway system, 1901-1905
31 items
Photographs of Brooklyn
28 items
Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828
24 items
Early Western prints and photographs. [1790-1887].
22 items
San Francisco views before and after the earthquake and fire of 1906
21 items
Emigrant Savings Bank records
21 items
Collection of Photographs of New York streets, showing work on subway in the vicinity of Elm St. Dec 20-21, 1900
16 items
Decorations [in the] City of New York to Honor the British, French, Italian, Japanese, and Russian War Commissions
16 items
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society collection
16 items
Ancestral charts: Families Beekman, Bennett, Brock, Cole, McSpadden, Steinhauer, etc
16 items
New York City architecture, parks, and skyline views
13 items
Hommedieu family genealogical research files 1923-1941
12 items
Photographic views of the construction of the Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York City
10 items
Amerique septentrionale : vues des chutes du Niagara
7 items
Catskill Aqueduct, Croton Division: collection of photographs illustrating its construction
6 items
Van Rensselaers of the manor of Rensselaerswyck.
4 items
The Eugene L. Armbruster collection of Long Island photographic views
4 items
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
4 items
American scenery; or land, lake, and river: illustrations of transatlantic nature.
3 items
Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers : based upon "The Century war series"
3 items
Early Western photographs, 1857-1899
3 items
Hotel Savoy illustrated, Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, New York City
3 items
New York illustrated.
3 items
Aerial views of New York City, 1927-1939
3 items
Census Maps
2 items
Cincinnati sonst und jetzt
2 items
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...
2 items
The secrets of the great city
2 items
Genealogy of the Willcomb family of New England (1665-1902): together with a condensed history of the town of Ipswich, Massachusetts
2 items
Trow business directory of the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, city of New York
2 items
Cartoons of our war with Spain
2 items
Valentine's manual of old New York
2 items
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...
2 items
Greenwich Village spectator.
2 items
Illinois at Vicksburg: pub. under authority of an act of the forty-fifth General assembly by the Illinois-Vicksburg military park commission.
2 items
The New York red book
2 items
Inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in the burying grounds of the First Presbyterian church and St. Johns church at Elizabeth, New Jersey: 1664-1892
2 items
My story of the war : a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union Army . . .
2 items
Annual report of the City History Club of New York
2 items
Great metropolis, or New-York almanac.
1 item
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. Privately published.
1 item
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
1 item
History of Long Island, from its earliest settlement to the present time
1 item
The Chouteau family: a genealogy of descendants and collateral branches, compiled by Beatrice Clark Turner
1 item
Woman republican
1 item
Official letter books of W.C.C. Claiborne, 1801-1816.
1 item
The Greenes of Rhode Island: with historical records of English ancestry, 1534-1902
1 item
Real Estate Catalogs
1 item
Our whole country, or, The past and present of the United States : historical and descriptive ...
1 item
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.
1 item
Ink pot.
1 item
The new pictorial and illustrated family magazine
1 item
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.
1 item
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...
1 item
Plan of the town of Ridley Park, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
1 item
Harper's history of the war in the Philippines
1 item
Descendants of George Drake and Mary Oliver
1 item
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.
1 item
Confederate veteran.
1 item
Prison ship martyr: Captain Jabez Fitch: his diary in facsimile, 1776.
1 item
Printer's helper
1 item
Days and ways in old Boston
1 item
Leslie's official history of the Spanish-American War; a pictorial and descriptive record with 1500 original illustrations
1 item
The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated: embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts
1 item
Wade genealogy : miscellaneous notes and letters.
1 item
The Washington sketch book; a society souvenir
1 item
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
1 item
history of the Kägy relationship in America from 1715 to1900.
1 item
New York City - Numbered Streets
1 item
Plan for permanent world capitol at Flushing Meadow Park
1 item
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
1 item
Organization and objects.]
1 item
Story of Louisiana.
1 item
Miller's New York as it is; or, Stranger's guide-book to the cities of New York, Brooklyn, and adjacent places ...
1 item
Stow, Massachusetts; 1683-1933. Compiled in honor of the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the town.
1 item
A history of the city of Baltimore, its men and institutions: biographical sketches of leading citizens
1 item
Americana.
1 item
daily graphic
1 item
The dangerous classes of New York and twenty years' work among them
1 item
Citizen and strangers' pictorial and business directory for the City of New-York and its vicinity.
1 item