Author: United States. National Park Service
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Category : Castle Clinton (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2

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Author: Sara Donati
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425271811
Category : Historical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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Haunted by childhood losses in spite of successful medical careers in 1883 New York City, surgeon Anna Savard and her obstetrician cousin, Sophie, consider taking in a child and helping a desperate young mother, while avoiding dangerous anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock.

Author: Barry Moreno
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738549613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Few buildings in Manhattan have had a richer and more varied life than 200-year-old Castle Clinton, the magnificent red sandstone structure that lies in historic Battery Park. Although originally built as a fortress just before the outbreak of the War of 1812, its actual fame rests on the years when it was known worldwide as Castle Garden, a name that underlined its intimate connection with the surrounding park. Under that name, it served successively as Manhattan's preeminent public events hall and theater (1824-1855), then as America's first great landing place for millions of immigrants (1855-1890), and finally as the oldest and grandest municipal aquarium in the United States (1896-1941). Castle Garden and Battery Park invites readers to step back in time and dip into this legendary monument's dramatic story and learn how it has managed to survive into the 21st century.

Author: James Nevius
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493008404
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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NYC tour guides and authors James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of 20 iconic New Yorkers—from Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant to Alexander Hamilton, park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.—and use them to guide the reader through four centuries of the city’s story. Beginning with the oldest standing building in the city, , a 1652 farmhouse in Brooklyn, and journeying all the way to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, the book follows in the footsteps of these iconic New Yorkers. The authors tell the stories of everyone from slave traders and long-forgotten politicians to the movers and shakers of Gilded Age society and the Greenwich Village folk scene. One part history and one part personal narrative, Footprints in New York creates a different way of looking at the past, exploring new connections and forgotten chapters in the story of America’s greatest metropolis. Visit www.footprintsinny.com for more.

Author: Dwight T. Pitcaithley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1548

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Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2204

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1944

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Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1592

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