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The New York City Book Collection is a collection of 49 volumes relating to the history of New York City 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.
- New York sketches (1902) - Williams, Jesse Lynch - 133 pages
- The city of New York (1917) - Brown, Henry Collins - 288 pages
- History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress Volume 1 (1877) - : Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna); Harrison, Burton, Mrs. - 786 pages
- History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress Volume 2 (1877) - : Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna); Harrison, Burton, Mrs. - 820 pages
- Appleton's New York city and vicinity guide .. (1849) - Williams, W. (Wellington) - 91 pages
- New York City and its masters (1887) - Graham, Robert - 46 pages
- A home geography of New York city (1905) - Straubenmuller, Gustave - 229 pages
- The finances of New York City (1898) - Durand, Edward Dana - 397 pages
- How New York city is governed (1866) - Parton, James - 48 pages
- The old merchants of New York City (1863) - Scoville, Joseph Alfred - 472 pages
- Fifty photographic views of New York city (1895) - 48 pages
- Valentine's manual of old New York (1919) - Brown, Henry Collins - 383 pages
- A souvenir of New York City, old and new (1918) - 369 pages
- Annals and occurrences of New York city and state, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents concerning the city, county, and inhabitants, from the days of the founders ... (1846) - Watson, John F. (John Fanning) - 390 pages
- Railroads and railroad grants in the City of New York (1860) - 368 pages
- New York city and how to see it; (1876) - Ogden, Robert Curtis - 69 pages
- The Columbus historical guide and map of New York city (1891) - Bolitho, Edwin - 82 pages
- Who's who in New York (city and state) (1904) - 798 pages
- Seal and flag of the city of New York (1915) - Pine, John Buckley - 103 pages
- The practical guide to New York city and Brooklyn .. (1877) - Morford, Henry - 51 pages
- Rand McNally New York guide to the city and environs (1913) - 145 pages
- Machine politics and money in elections in New York City (1887) - Ivins, William Mills - 150 pages
- Longworth's American almanac, New-York register and city directory (1816) - 752 pages
- Historical sketch of the origin and organization of the Reformed Church in America and of the Collegiate Church of the City of New York (1904) - 54 pages
- Laws relating to sex morality in New York city (1917) - Spingarn, Arthur Barnett - 139 pages
- Belshazzar court; or, Village life in New York city (1914) - Strunsky, Simeon - 190 pages
- Industrial causes of congestion of population in New York City (1911) - Pratt, Edward Ewing - 259 pages
- Municipal reform through revision of business methods, New York city (1910) - 58 pages
- Bankrupting a great city (the story of New York) (1915) - Klein, Henry H. - 188 pages
- The social evil in New York city : a study of law enforcement by the Research committee of the Committee of fourteen (1910) - Kneeland, George J. - 268 pages
- New-York, past, present, and future : comprising a history of the city of New-York, a description of its present condition, and an estimate of its future increase (1850) - Belden, E. Porter (Ezekiel Porter) - 203 pages
- The Catholic churches of New York City, with sketches of their history and lives of the present pastors : with an introduction on the early history of Catholicity on the island, and lives of the most reverend archbishops and bishops (1878) - Shea, John Gilmar - 748 pages
- Charcoals of new and old New York (1912) - Smith, Francis Hopkinson - 142 pages
- Gospel work in New York City : a memorial of fifty years in city missions (1878) - Jackson, Lewis Evens - 200 pages
- 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
- Lloyd's pocket companion and guide through New York City, for 1866-67 (1866) - Lloyd, Thomas - 194 pages
- Catholic footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city of New York from 1524 to 1808 (1909) - Bennett, William Harper - 499 pages
- The ladies guide and city directory for shopping, travel, amusements, etc., in the city of New York (18??) - 127 pages
- New York; a historical sketch of the rise and progress of the metropolitan city of America (1853) - Curry, Daniel - 339 pages
- Progress and prospects of New York, the first city of the world. 1492-1893 (1893) - Commercial Travelers Club of New York - 202 pages
- Old buildings of New York City, with some notes regarding their origin and occupants (1907) - 179 pages
- The St. Regis Hotel, Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, New York City (1905) - 48 pages
- History of St. George's Church in the city of New York, 1752-1811-1911 (1911) - Anstice, Henry - 508 pages
- The women of New York, or, Social life in the great city (1870) - Ellington, George - 650 pages
- A history of the Brick Presbyterian Church in the city of New York (1909) - Knapp, Shepherd - 566 pages
- What I saw in New-York; or, A bird's eye view of city life (1851) - Ross, Joel H - 326 pages
- Centennial services of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of the city of New York (1885) - 206 pages
- Prominent families of New York; being an account in biographical form of individuals and families distinguished as representatives of the social, professional and civic life of New York city (1897) - Weeks, Lyman Horace - 641 pages
- A glance at New York: embracing the city government, theatres, hotels, churches, mobs, monopolies, learned professions, newspapers, rogues, dandies, fires and firemen, water and other liquids, &c., &c (1837) - Greene, Asa - 264 pages
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