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... Chinese in America Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Museum ofSex Museum ofthe City ofNew York Museum ofthe Moving Image N Neue Galerie New Museumof Contemporary Art New YorkBotanical Garden ...
First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York

First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York

Robert S. Grumet

... project, a study of Indian place-names in New York City submitted as a senior honors thesis in anthropology at the City College ofNew York in 1972, and published in a much revised form in 1981 by the Museum ofthe City ofNew York.
Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City

Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City

Museum of the City of New York

These essays illustrate the relationship between the disease environment of New York and changes in housing, population, social conditions, and the success of medical science, linking such factors to New York's experiences with smallpox, ...
Exploring Historic Dutch New York: New York City, Hudson ...

Exploring Historic Dutch New York: New York City, Hudson ...

Gajus Scheltema

The Museum ofthe City ofNew York and its director, Susan HenshawJones; Sarah Henry; and, most notably, Kathleen Benson have been great supporters from an early stage and protected us from many pitfalls. We are very glad and proud ...
Gilded New York: Design, Fashion, and Society

Gilded New York: Design, Fashion, and Society

Susan Gail Johnson

Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Gallery at the Museum of the City of New York.
The New Nineteenth-century European Paintings and Sculpture ...

The New Nineteenth-century European Paintings and Sculpture ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Gary Tinterow, Susan Alyson Stein, Barbara Burn. MRs. BERTRAM SMITH SPECIAL PURCHASES Since New York collectors did not favor Neoclassical. The Museum's Monet holdings are nearly ...
Gastropolis: Food and New York City

Gastropolis: Food and New York City

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Food and New York City Annie Hauck-Lawson, Jonathan Deutsch. xvi York itself. So even though it may not be possible to provide a representative portrait of the foodways of New York City, we have offered, we hope, a compelling one.
Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten ...

Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten ...

Elizabeth Albert

Each of ten chapters centers on one of New York City’s lesser-known waterfront spaces: Dead Horse Bay, where the pre-automobile city’s legions of horses once met their maker; Hart Island, New York City’s still-active potter’s field, ...
Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge

Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge

Erica Wagner

... who did some work for me there. Huge thanks to my new friend Fran Rosenfeld at the Museum of the City of New York, as well as Alex Yankovich, and Lauren Robinson. At the Brooklyn Museum, thanks to Monica Park. Jee Leong Koh and ...
Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed

Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed

Joe Andoe

His work, hailed by The New Yorker as "cowboy noir with a fashionista twist," is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, and countless other locations. He is a father. He is a writer.
A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City

A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City

Museum of the City of New York

As she searches for her absent father, Simpson's heroine, Mayan Atassi, runs into Salimiddin Atassi from Cairo near the ... No more vivifying than Rihani's " skyscraper substituting electricity for the sun," Mona Simpson's Mayan Atassi speaks of ...
Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the Year ...

Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the Year ...

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.).

Tufts College, Mass. 1889 MIcHELsoN ... ..Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 1901 OsBoRN, H. F . . . . . . . . . . . American Museum of Natural History, New York City. ... .Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. ... Columbia University, New York City.
Masterworks from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye ...

Masterworks from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 18 to Dec. 31, 1973.
The day our world changed: children's art of 9/11

The day our world changed: children's art of 9/11

Robin F. Goodman

The New York University Child Study Center and the Museum of the City of New York have collaborated on this unusual book, which presents children's artwork created in response to 9/11.
Renaissance Festivals: Merrying the Past and Present

Renaissance Festivals: Merrying the Past and Present

Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans

New York: PAJ Publications, 1983. _____. Day ofJubilee: The Great Age ofPublic Celebrations in New York, 1788–1909: Illustratedfrom the Collections ofthe Museum ofthe City ofNew York. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Picturing New York: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette and Rudy ...

Picturing New York: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette and Rudy ...

Andrea Henderson

NOTE Consultation with a clothing specialist, Phyllis Magidson, Curator of Costumes and Textiles, Museum of the City of New York, confirmed my suspicion that the photograph of Herald Square in figure n was most probably taken in the mid to ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Philippe De Montebello ... of Art." This suggestion was enthusiastically received, and during the next years the Union League Club in New York, under Jays presidency, ... Recorded information: (212) 535-7710; libraries and studyrooms: (212)879-5500; TTY: (212 ) 8790421.
High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume ...

High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 5-Aug. 15, 2010, and at the Brooklyn Museum, May 7-Aug. 1, 2010.
A Parents' Guide to Special Education in New York City and ...

A Parents' Guide to Special Education in New York City and ...

Laurie Dubos

ALSO OF INTEREST— New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools, by Clara Hemphill New York City's Best Public Middle Schools, by Clara Hemphill New York City's Best Public High Schools, by Clara Hemphill Butterfly photo by Jack ...
The Copperfield Checklist of Mystery Authors

The Copperfield Checklist of Mystery Authors

Karen T. McCallum

Joseph Bitowf; The Mysterious Bookshop, New York City John Douglas; Foul Play, New York City Alexander McCallum; Alex McCallum & Associates, Inc., New York City RECOGNITIONS An Agatha Christie Chronology, by Nancy Blue Wynne ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: Volume 14, 1986

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: Volume 14, 1986

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Signed on mount. 85.XM.248.6 PROVBNANGE: Anne Adams Helms, Redwood City, California; [Andrea Gray Stillman, New York, 1985]. 310 309 310. HENRI CARTIER—BRESSON French, b. 1908 309. KIRBY KEAN Coronation of George VI, ...
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"APHRODITE" PAGE 90 Generic Costume shirt, $110, and pants, $90, at Union, New York City; Memes, New York City; Louis Boston, Boston; Fred Segal. Acupuncture sneakers, $120, at Nylon Squid, New York City. "LASSIE'S GREAT ...
The American Style: Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis

The American Style: Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis

Donald Albrecht

Issued in connection with an exhibition held June 7 through Nov 6, 2011, at the Museum of the City of New York.
John Register: Persistent Observer

John Register: Persistent Observer

Barnaby Conrad

Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica “Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award Exhibition," Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York City Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach “Pasadena Collects the Art of Our Time,” Pasadena Art Alliance in ...
American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the ...

American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the ...

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Museum ofthe City ofNew York Bulletin 3 (May 1940), p. 69. REFERENcEs: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Fine American Furniture. . . Historical Paintings and Miniatures including Portraits, The Caflerty-Rosenberg “Wall Street Panic, I857 ...
The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict, Bicentennial Edition

The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict, Bicentennial Edition

Donald R Hickey

HU: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA JHU: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD LC: Library of Congress, Washington, DC MCNY: Museum ofthe City ofNew York, New York, NY MdHS: Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD MeHS: ...
Annual Report of New York State Library School

Annual Report of New York State Library School

New York State Library. School

Hewins, Caroline M. Librarian, Hartford (Conn.) Public Library: Historical survey of children's books Kent, H. W. Secretary, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City: The library atmosphere Legler, H. E. Librarian, Chicago Public Library: The  ...
Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of ...

Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Richard Daniel De Puma ... Richard De Puma served as consultant for Etruscan art, as Vassos Karageorghis had helped us with Cypriot antiquities ...
The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook

The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook

Pete Hamill

In this collection of thirty-four sketches, the author captures the extraordinary range of people, experiences, places and feelings that is New York City -- the city behind the glamorous facade of Manhattan, inhabited by people who remember ...
New York State documents: an introductory manual

New York State documents: an introductory manual

New York State Library

Proposed statutory amendments relating to abolishing the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York and the city magistrates' ... Public hearing held at Supreme Court Building, Brooklyn, New York on Thursday, February 10, 1966.

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