The Last New Yorkers Illustrated
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The Last New Yorkers Illustrated
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Author : George Allan England
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-06
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The Last New Yorkers by George Allan England.
The Black New Yorkers
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Author : Howard Dodson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Black New Yorkers written by Howard Dodson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
New York City has been the home of African Americans for four centuries. Blacks were among the founding fathers and mothers of pioneer colonial settlements in the future boroughs, and they have remained integral players in the teeming daily drama of the city. The Black New Yorkers: The Schomburg Illustrated Chronology recreates this unique relationship between a people and a city, and through it chronicles the worldwide African American struggle for freedom and human dignity. This richly produced volume offers a monumental assembly of powerful images and engrossing text that narrates the African American odyssey from colonial times to the present day. In these pages, you’ll explore all the driving forces and seminal events in each era, from Colonial New York and the Revolutionary War, through the progress and turmoil of the nineteenth century, to the turbulence and accomplishments of the twentieth century. In highly detailed, year-by-year entries, you’ll gain insights into familiar events and discover lesser-known but important other facts about these topics and more: Politics: from the laws that whittled away black freedoms in colonial times to the civil rights victories of our own day; from the Tenderloin race riot and the Pan-African Congress to the Million Youth March; from Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth to Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X. Business and Labor: from free fur-traders and enslaved workers who built houses, roads, and bridges; to the rise of small businesses and the real estate boom in Harlem; to the ascent of entrepreneurs and corporate titans such as Ed Lewis, Earl G. Graves, and Kenneth I. Chenault. The Arts: from nineteenth-century Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge and celebrated soprano Sissieretta Jones to Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston of the Harlem Renaissance; as well as Paul Robeson, Lena Horne, Alvin Ailey, Spike Lee, and LL Cool J. Sports: from great jockey Isaac Murphy, cycling champ Marshall "Major" Taylor, and baseball legend John Henry "Pops" Lloyd—said to be the greatest player ever—to tennis star Althea Gibson, Jackie Robinson, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Resonant with tales of trial, courage, and triumph, vibrant with portraits of both famous and humble history-makers, The Black New Yorkers is a sweeping, powerful record of the richly diverse heritage of African Americans in the capital of black America. It is a perfect reference for the serious student of history and a browser’s delight for every reader interested in the black experience. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library is one of the world’s fore most research facilities devoted to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of materials documenting black life. From its founding in 1926 during the Harlem Renaissance, the Center has amassed holdings in excess of five million items.
New York
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Author : Ric Burns
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2021-11-23
New York written by Ric Burns and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-23 with History categories.
An expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York—with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations—that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city from its beginning in 1624 up to the current moment. The companion volume to the acclaimed PBS series. This landmark book traces the spectacular growth of New York from its initial settlement on the tip of Manhattan through the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War to its rise as the nation’s premier commercial capital and industrial center and as a magnet for immigrant hopes and dreams in the 19th century to its standing as a beacon of modern culture in the 20th century and as a worldwide symbol of resilience in the 21st century. The story continues here with new chapters delivering a sweeping portrait of New York at the dawn of the 21st century, when it emerged after decades of decline to assert its place at the very center of a new globalized culture. Here is a city challenged—indeed, sometimes shaken to its core—by a series of profound crises: the aftermath of 9/11, the continual struggle with racial injustice, the financial crisis of 2008, the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, the still unfolding cataclysm of the COVID-19 pandemic—whose earliest and deadliest urban epicenter was New York itself. Here too is a lively portrait of the city’s vibrant street life and culture: the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gates in Central Park, the musicals of Broadway, the explosion in location filmmaking in every borough, the pivotal rise of the tech industry, and so much more. The history of this city—especially in the tumultuous and transformative two decades detailed in the new chapters—is an epic story of rebirth and growth, an astonishing transfiguration, still in progress, of the world’s first modern city into a model and prototype for the global city of the future.
Tenements Towers Trash
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Author : Julia Wertz
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Tenements Towers Trash written by Julia Wertz and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's. In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Wertz regales us with streetscapes "Then and Now" and little-known tales, such as the lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard, and the hair-raising legend of the infamous abortionist of Fifth Avenue, Madame Restell. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts, street cleaners, and apartments both cramped and grand, Tenements, Towers & Trash is a wild ride in a time machine taxi from the present day city to bygone days of yore.
New York Illustrated Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1846
New York Illustrated Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1846 with Periodicals categories.
The New York Illustrated Magazine Of Literature And Art
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1846
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New York Illustrated
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-06-12
New York Illustrated written by Anonymous and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-12 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Peaches Of New York Illustrations
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Author : U. P. Hedrick
language : en
Publisher: ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS
Release Date : 2014-11-18
The Peaches Of New York Illustrations written by U. P. Hedrick and has been published by ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-18 with categories.
Example in this ebook The present volume is the fifth in the plan of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station to make a more or less complete record of all of the different fruits grown in this region. This work differs from the preceding fruit-books but little or not at all in nature and purposes, yet a statement of its contents, even though it be almost identical with that in the prefaces of the preceding volumes, is necessary for those who may not have the other books and may be a convenience to those who have all of the series. The title implies that The Peaches of New York is written for the confines of a state; but all varieties of the peach grown in North America, as well as many known only in other continents, Europe especially, have been considered, under the supposition that all might be grown in New York and are therefore of interest to the peach-growers of the State. Broadly speaking, then, the design is to make the book as complete a record as possible of the development of the peach, wherever grown, up to this time. The book contains: An account of the history and uses of the peach; a discussion of the botanical characters of the species of cultivated peaches; an account of the peach-regions and of peach-growing in New York with the most important statistics relating to this fruit; and, lastly and in greatest detail, the synonymy, bibliography, economic status, and full descriptions of all the most important cultivated peaches, with briefer notices of varieties of minor importance and of those appearing in peach-literature which are now no longer grown. In foot-notes running through the text, biographical sketches are published of the persons who have done most in America toward improving the peach. Incidentally, all that was thought would be helpful in breeding peaches was included. So, too, whatever appeared to be of interest to students of ecology has been given a place. As in the preceding books, color-plates occupy prominent places in this volume. Pains and expense have not been spared in the attempt to make the plates the best possible with the present knowledge of reproduction in colors. All who have seen the plates in this and the first four fruit-books of the series will agree that the reproductions of peaches are more accurate than those of the apples, grapes, plums or cherries, and yet these are not as exact as might be wished. Although most carefully selected, an illustration of one or two fruits does not give an adequate picture of a variety. Neither does the camera take colors quite as the eye sees them nor can the plate-maker quite reproduce what the camera takes. The illustrations are of life-size as the peaches grow on the grounds of this Station and represent specimens of average size and color. The fruits, as shown in the plates, look small for the reason that a flat picture of a round object minifies size. To be continue in this ebook
New Yorkers A City And Its People In Our Time
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Author : Craig Taylor
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2021-03-23
New Yorkers A City And Its People In Our Time written by Craig Taylor and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-23 with History categories.
Winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people—from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices of some of the city’s best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time—and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people. Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as “a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman” (David Rakoff), acclaimed for the way he “fuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher truth of art” (Michel Faber). In the wake of his celebrated book Londoners, Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself. New Yorkers features 75 of the most remarkable of them, their fascinating true tales arranged in thematic sections that follow Taylor’s growing engagement with the city. Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each day—bodega cashier, hospital nurse, elevator repairman, emergency dispatcher. Here are those who wire the lights at the top of the Empire State Building, clean the windows of Rockefeller Center, and keep the subway running. Here are people whose experiences reflect the city’s fractured realities: the mother of a Latino teenager jailed at Rikers, a BLM activist in the wake of police shootings. And here are those who capture the ineffable feeling of New York, such as a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or a security guard at the Statue of Liberty. Vibrant and bursting with life, New Yorkers explores the nonstop hustle to make it; the pressures on new immigrants, people of color, and the poor; the constant battle between loving the city and wanting to leave it; and the question of who gets to be considered a "New Yorker." It captures the strength of an irrepressible city that—no matter what it goes through—dares call itself the greatest in the world.
New York Illustrated Magazine Annual
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
New York Illustrated Magazine Annual written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with categories.