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The Manhattan New York Book Collection is a collection of 23 volumes relating to the history of the Manhattan and its people primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several of the volumes have great period illustrations and portraits of relevant historical figures. These books are an excellent resource for history and genealogy researchers of this area.

All the titles contained on this DVD are listed below.

1. The story of Manhattan (1901) - Hemstreet, Charles - 249 pages
2. Vignettes of Manhattan (1894) - Matthews, Brander - 180 pages
3. How the Dutch came to Manhattan: (1897) - McManus, Blanch - 82 pages
4. Annals of old Manhattan, 1609-1664 (1901) - Colton, Julia Maria - 238 pages
5. The Indians of Manhattan Island and vicinity (1915) - Skinner, Alanson - 54 pages
6. Private commercial schools, Manhattan and the Bronx (1918) - Stevens, Bertha Morton - 144 pages
7. How Manhattan is governed : illustrated with 58 photographs and drawings. Facts you should know about the administration of the borough of Manhattan (1906) - 120 pages
8. History of the Manhattan club; a narrative of the activities of half a century (1915) - Watterson, Henry - 152 pages
9. Manhattan: historic and artistic; a six day tour of New York city; (1892) - Ober, Corolyn Faville, Mrs; Alden, Cynthia May Westover - 232 pages
10. The origin of the name Manhattan : with historical and ethnological notes (1901) -Tooker, William Wallace - 75 pages
11. The story of Manhattan beach; a practical and picturesque delineation of its history, development and attractions .. (1879) - Denny, Edward W. - 61 pages
12. Relics of the revolution : the story of the discovery of the buried remains of military life in forts and camps on Manhattan Island (1916) - Bolton, Reginald Pelha - 214 pages
13. The history of municipal ownership of land on Manhattan Island to the beginning of sales by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund in 1844 (1897) - Black, George Ashton - 117 pages
14. New York city guide; a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond (1939) - Federal Writers' Project (N.Y.) - 708 pages
15. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : Volume 1 (1915) - Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps); Paltsits, Victor Hugo; Wieder, F. C. (Frederik Caspar) - 473 pages
16. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : Volume 2 (1915) - Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps); Paltsits, Victor Hugo; Wieder, F. C. (Frederik Caspar) - 452 pages
17. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : Volume 3 (1915) - Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps); Paltsits, Victor Hugo; Wieder, F. C. (Frederik Caspar) - 1026 pages
18. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : Volume 4 (1915) - Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps); Paltsits, Victor Hugo; Wieder, F. C. (Frederik Caspar) - 986 pages
19. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : Volume 5 . (1915) - Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps); Paltsits, Victor Hugo; Wieder, F. C. (Frederik Caspar) - to page 2078
20. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : Volume 6 (1915) - Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps); Paltsits, Victor Hugo; Wieder, F. C. (Frederik Caspar) - 677 pages
21. Early memoirs of the Stilwell family, comprising the life and times of Nicholas Stilwell, the common ancestor of the numerous families bearing that surname, with some account of his brothers John and Jasper and incidentally a sketch of the history of Manhattan island and its vicinity, under the Dutch, with some contributions to a genealogy of the family (1878) - Stilwell, Benjamin Marshall - 289 pages
22. The Tourist's hand-book of New York, giving an up-to-date list of the various places and objects of interest in New York City, together with a brief description of same ... also a chronological history of Manhattan Island, from 1524 to 1905 (1905) - Doyle, H. J. - 47 pages
23. The New "red book" information guide to New York city, Manhattan and Bronx; (1919) - 192 pages

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