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Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929
157 photographs, many never before reprinted, show the vitality and variety of old Brooklyn, Manhattan's first suburb: waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Heights, Ebbets Field, Luna Park, Gravesend Race Track, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach Hotel, and more from the Long Island Historical Society collection.
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- 9780486141695
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- 1 online resource (165 pages)
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Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
In 1895, a cultured, well-educated young German named Arnold Genthe arrived in San Francisco as a tutor to the son of an aristocratic family. Almost immediately, Genthe was attracted by Chinatown, or "Tangrenbu" a teeming ten-block area of crowded buildings, narrow streets, and exotic sights and sounds in the shadow of Nob Hill. Fascinated by a living culture totally foreign to his experience,…
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- 9780486140698
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- 1 online resource (144 pages)
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Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs
Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays by Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith that offer sharply drawn vignettes of lower-class laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and other street people. A treasure trove of astonishing historical detail.
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- 9780486319919
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- 1 online resource (160 pages)
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New York Life at the Turn of the Century in Photographs
Here are 120 wonderful vintage views from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Remarkable for clarity, definition and detail, the prints comprise a richly evocative portrait of turn-of-the-century life street scenes, parks, restaurants, commercial interiors, Easter Parade, Blizzard of '99, Coney Island, a dinner for Mark Twain, etc. Informative text.
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- 9780486319407
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- 1 online resource (144 pages)
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New York in the Thirties
Nearly 100 classic images by noted photographer: Rockefeller Center on the rise, Bowery restaurants, dramatic views of the City's bridges, Washington Square, old movie houses, rows of old tenements laced with laundry, Wall Street, Flatiron Building, waterfront, and many other landmarks.
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- 9780486318806
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- 1 online resource (102 pages)
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The Depression Years as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein
Outstanding 1930s photos: famous dust storm photo, ragged children, the unemployed, much more. 120 photographs. Captions.
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- 9780486317953
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- 1 online resource (119 pages)
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Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914
215 rare vintage views from first daguerreotype made in America (1839) to eve of World War I capture the charm of yesteryear: panoramas, street scenes, landmarks, President-elect Lincoln's visit, 1876 Centennial Exposition, much more.
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- 9780486317830
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- 1 online resource (230 pages)
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Old New York in Early Photographs
New York City as it was 1853-1901, through 196 wonderful photographs: great blizzard, Lincoln's funeral procession, great buildings, much more.
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- 9780486317434
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- 1 online resource (228 pages)
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How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police…
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- 9780486129921
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- 1 online resource (256 pages)
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Building Multicopter Video Drones
Multicopters have revolutionized the television and film industry. For the cost of just a few hours of traditional helicopter rental, videographers and cinematographers can own a multicopter drone that shoots stunning aerial shots that helicopter pilots can only dream of. This book is a practical guide that aims to help you learn how to build, fly, and program your own drone. The book starts b…
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- 9781782175438
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