SEAPORT New York's Vanished Waterfront
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By Phillip Lopate, with photographs from the Edwin Levick Collection. Between the two world wars Edwin Levick photographed the freighters, fishing fleet, extravagant yachts, and ocean-going passenger ships in and around the great Port of New York. The author's extensive knowledge of New York puts these photos, and the lives of the people depicted, into a lively written historical prespective. 10x10 182 pages with 182 b&w photos Cloth |
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The Gates (project for Central Park NY)
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By Christo and Jeanne-Claude. This book, designed by Christo, records the evolution of The Gates project. It is their vision of 7,500 billowing saffron-colored panels gating over the 23 miles of footpaths in Central park. Weather permitting, on February 12, 2005, it will be completed, and remain for 16 days before removal. 38 color illustrations, sketches and maps illustrate the scope of the project, while many pages of b&w photos document the permitting process necessary to create it. 10x10 104 pages profusely illustrated Cloth |
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The Hamptons Long Island's East End
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Introduction by George Plimpton. Documents in color photos the endless beauty of nature and man in the Hamptons. 9x12 shrinkwrapped |
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The Mansions of Long Islands Gold Coast
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By Monica Randall. The paperback reprint of the classic book from the woman who did Phantoms of the Hudson. This is a captivating tale of life on the North Shore of Long Island, aptly named the Gold Coast, for the rich and sumptuous lifestyle there. The engaging text re-creates the glorious era in a rich evocation of a vanished time and lifestyle. Filled with photos of elegantly decorated rooms and lavish formal gardens in color and b&w. 9x10.5 200+/- pages illustrated Paper |
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The Sanctuary
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By Thomas Roma, with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This acclaimed photographer offers a compelling sequence of 52 black & white images that document the varieties of religious experience in Brooklyn - the houses of worship. 10x10 81 pages Cloth |
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Townhouses Urban Houses From 1200 to the Present Day
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Included here for the chapter on New York Brownstones, (including Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace) this full color international guide to historically significant Townhouses spans 8 centuries and the globe, focusing on the urgent need to preserve our urban past. 9 1/2x11 |
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Twin Towers
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By Angus Kress Gillespie. The life of New York City's World Trade Center. Published before 9/11, it is now an eloquent eulogy to what was one of the most resonating symbols of our American culture. Certain to be of interest to students of American politics, and engineers and architects. Some b&w images, 263 pages index and bibliography 6.5x9.5 |
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UNDER THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK
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A Transportation expert recounts the history of the New York subways in a book that is full of detail, historical anecdotes, and the wonders of twentieth century technology. A complete, thoroughly researched and annotated, and fully illustrated history that will delight subway buffs, students of urban affairs, and all those who love the city of New York. |
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UNDERNEATH NEW YORK
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By Harry Granick. Introduction by Robert E. Sullivan,Jr. This is a subterranean superintendent's guide; a vivid account of the complete anatomy of the nation's most dynamic city. The text is enhanced with nearly a hundred period photographs, maps, and diagrams. 6x9 212 pages photos/maps Paper |
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Field Guide to New England barns and Farm Buildings
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By Thomas Durrant Visser. Of the 30,000 barns in Vermont alone, nearly 1000 a year are lost to fire, collapse or bulldozers. This guide to barns, silos, sugar houses, granaries, tobacco barns and potato houses is an attempt to document not just their structure, but their traditions and innovations before the surviving architectural evidence of this rich and rural heritage is lost forever. 5.5x9 213 pages index 200+ b&w photos Paper |
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Historic Photos of Syracuse
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Syracuse was a city born in the early nineteenth century through the combination of a valuable natural resource, salt, and its fortunate position sitting astride the great engineering wonder of the age, the Erie Canal. Over time, the importance of both faded, but by then the community had become a manufacturing power. By the late nineteenth century, it was producing a wide variety of products, from typewriters to agricultural implements. And it had grown to become New York State?s fourth-largest city. Syracuse created beautiful city parks and public buildings in the early twentieth century, enjoyed a downtown retail and entertainment boom during the Roaring Twenties, successfully struggled with the hard times of the Great Depression, and then turned its factories into arsenals for victory during World War II. The postwar era brought its own challenges, Too big for flat rate envelope |
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Movie Palace Masterpiece - Saving Syracuse's Lowe's State/Landma
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On the National Register of Historic Places, Lowe's is one of the finest examples of the fantasy architecture popular for the movie theaters of the 1920s and 1930s. This book documents the history of this glorious theater, from its dazzling beginnings on Syracuse's Little Broadway in 1928 through its inspiring rescue from demolition to the 1978 rebirth as the citizen-owned Landmark Theater. With 33 beautiful color photos. 7x10 |
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STICKLEY STYLE Arts & Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition
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This elegant volume showcases exceptional examples of Stickley collections and craftsman interiors .No one played a more influential role in the triumph of the American Arts and Crafts Movement than Gustav Stickley - Furniture maker extraordinaire. 9 x 11 |
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THE FURNITURE OF GUSTAV STICKLEY
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The life and furniture of Gustav Stickley of Syracuse, New York.? 8? x 11 |
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CORNELL Then and Now
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By Ronald E. Ostman, photography by Harry Littell. Historic and contemporary views of Cornell University Campus. I was just there with an alumnus of the class of '67. The changes just since his graduation are enormous, but over the last century we are talking nothing short of extraordinary! Here is the famous college shown in historic and contemporary photos, with an insightful commentary on its 100 years of history. 11x8.5 158 pages b&w photos index |
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Landmarks of Oswego County
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With a foreward by Paul Malo and photographs by David Doody and others, this is a timeless collection of the architecture and design of the historic buildings of Oswego County in essays and photos. 7x8 |
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The Architectural Heritage of Tompkins County
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By Lynn Truame & Carol Kammen, with photographer Richard Corth. Technically, the photographer should get top billing here because his photos fill nearly every page with a black and white portrait of the historic buildings of Tompkins County. The author/historians, along with poet Fred Muratori, complete the book with accurate and - in the poet's case - reverent descriptions of these remarkable structures. 8.5x8.5 182 pages index Paper |
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Thomas Cole
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The director of the National Gallery of Art traces Thomas Cole's development, and explores the Romantic theories that guided his thinking and informed his vision. A series of breathtaking landscapes painted mostly of the Catskills. 9.5x11 Color and black & white illustrations throughout. |
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Woodstock Landscapes
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A landscape photo book of the Woodstock area. Mr Kleinhans' beautiful photographs are complimented by award winning author Gail Godwin's perfect prose. 11x8.5 |
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Bridges over the Delaware
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By Frank T. Dale. A fascinating book chronicling 35 of the most historic bridges crossing the Delaware, some of which have served the residents of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York for centuries. Along the way, the author recounts the area surrounding each bridge, including the demise of the ferry service and the stories of floods and fires that threatened not only the bridges, but the local residents also. 204 pages index b&w illus 6x9 paper |
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