Author: Peter Ross
Publisher:
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Category : Long Island (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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Author: Peter Ross
Publisher:
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Category : Long Island (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1140

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Author: Bette S. Weidman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486241364
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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175 vintage photos recall aspects of life on Long Island from post-Civil War to modern era. Village life, agriculture, local industries, celebrities, early aviation and movie industries, fabulous estates, beaches, much more. Unique document of early Nassau and pioneer photography. Full informative captions. Introduction. Indices.

Author: Mildred H. Smith
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486406695
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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Handsome treasury of 118 vintage pictures, accompanied by captions, document the Garden City Hotel fire (1899), the Vanderbilt Cup Race (1908), the first airmail flight departing from the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome (1911), more.

Author: Frederick S. Lightfoot
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Charming pictorial history of Suffolk and a bygone era: village life, farming, fishing, shipping, transportation, leisure activities, one-room schools, churches, yachts, more. 184 black-and-white photographs. Introduction. Index.

Author: Nathaniel Scudder Prime
Publisher:
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Category : Long Island (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Frederick Van Wyck
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Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 972

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Author: William Winton Goodrich
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Category : Long Island
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Marilyn E. Weigold
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814794005
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Spanning the shores of Connecticut and Long Island, New York, the Long Island Sound is one of the most picturesque places in North America. From the discovery of the Sound in 1614, to the adventures of Captain Kidd, to the sinking of the Lexington in the sound in 1840, the Long Island Sound also holds a unique place in American history. The Long Island Sound traces the growth of fishing and shipbuilding villages along the sound to the development of major industrial ports, resort towns, and suburban communities along the sound. Marilyn Weigold discusses the subsequent overcrowding and pollution that resulted from this prosperity and expansion. Originally published in 1974 as The American Mediterranean and long out of print, The Long Island Sound has been updated by the author with a new preface and final chapter describing the Sound in the twenty-first century. In this new edition, Weigold particularly focuses on environmental concerns, and describes more current milestones, like the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, who fought and won in 1995 to set aside 100,000 acres as NY State's first forest preserve; the continuous construction of the Long Island Expressway, with its forty-one miles of HOV lanes; the attempt made by several of Connecticut's coastal cities to reinvigorate urban redevelopment; and the Long Island Sound Study's investigation of toxic substances—both natural and man-made—which continue to contaminate the waterway. Through over 40 stunning photographs and many fascinating stories, The Long Island Sound tells the history of a vastly populated, but underdiscussed, part of America.

Author: Martha Bockée Flint
Publisher:
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Category : Great Neck Local History Collection
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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