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• Famous families of New York; historical and biographical sketches of families which in successive generations have been identified with the development of the nation (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1902), by Margherita Arlina Hamm (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minutes. (Augustana Book Concern., 1881), by Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church. New York Conference (page images at HathiTrust)

• American vital records from "The Baptist register" / compiled by Elizabeth Hayward. (American Baptist Historical Society, 1956), by Elizabeth Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogical records; manuscript entries of births, deaths and marriages taken from family Bibles, 1581-1917 (New York, 1917), by Jeannie Floyd Jones Robison, Henrietta C. Bartlett, and National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous families of New York; historical and biographical sketches of families which in successive generations have been identified with the development of the nation (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1902), by Margherita Arlina Hamm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old homesteads and historic buildings, genealogy and family lore; architectural-pictorial-historical exhibition collected by Manhattan chapter, Daughters of the American revolution, New York city (The Commercial publishers co., 1930), by New York Daughters of the American Revolution. New York Organization. Manhattan chapter and Lura Sarah Nordyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogical and family history of western New York; a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation. (Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1912), by William Richard Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogical and family history of northern New York; a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation (Lewis historical publishing company, 1910), by William Richard Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful (Ithaca, NY and London: ILR Press, c2015), by Susan C. Ball (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The New York conspiracy, or A history of the Negro plot, with the journal of the proceedings against the conspirators at New York in the years 1741-2. Together with several interesting tables, containing the names of the white and black persons arrested on account of the conspiracy, the times of their trials, their sentences, their executions by burning and hanging, names of those transported, and those discharged. With a variety of other useful and highly interesting matter. (Printed and published by Southwick & Pelsue, no. 3, New Street, 1810), by Daniel Horsmanden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c1999), by Marc Linder and Lawrence Zacharias
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• Cultural landscape report for Floyd Bennett Field, Gateway National Recreation Area, Brooklyn, New York (Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, National Park Service, 2009), by Sarah K. Cody, John E. Auwaerter, and Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early New York houses : with historical & genealogical notes (Francis P. Harper, 1900), by William S. Pelletreau (page images at HathiTrust)

• A history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a chapter on the early institutions of art in New York ([Printed at the Gilliss Press], 1913), by Winifred E. Howe and Henry Watson Kent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Century of banking in New York. (George H. Doran, 1922), by Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chase National Bank of the City of New York, 1877-1922. (De Vinne Press, 1922), by Chase National Bank of the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some mile-stones in the history of the National Park Bank of New York (Priv. print. by the National Park Bank of New York, 1917), by Ernest Fletcher Clymer and National Park Bank of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Finance and industry (Historical Pub. Co., 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through 50 years, the story of a bank's progress, 1855-1905 (New York County National Bank, 1905), by New York County National Bank (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred years of the Greenwich savings bank ([s.n.], 1933), by Joseph Husband (page images at HathiTrust)
• Finance and industry : the New York Stock Exchange : banks, bankers, business houses, and moneyed institutions : the great metropolis of the United States : copyrighted. (Historical Publishing Company, 1866), by Historical Publishing Company (N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of the Bowery savings bank, containing history of the institution, original charter, general savings bank law, by-laws, etc., etc. (New York, 1888), by Bowery Savings Bank of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retrospective history of lower New York (Seaboard National Bank], 1921), by Samuel G. Bayne, Seymour B. Durst, and N.Y.) Seaboard National Bank (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appeal to the public on the conduct of banks in the city of New-York (Printed at the office of the New-York Courier, 1815), by Citizen of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Citizens' Savings Bank, its founders, history and homes, 1860-1924 : issued on the completion of its new building, November 1924. (The Bank, 1924), by N.Y.) Citizens' Savings Bank (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bank of the Manhattan Company, Chartered 1799: A Progressive Commercial Bank (Gutenberg ebook)

• The physiology of New York boarding-houses. (Mason Brothers, 1857), by Thomas Butler Gunn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Four private libraries of New York : a contribution to the history of bibliophilism in America (New York : Duprat & Co., 1892., 1892), by Henri Pène du Bois, Bruce Rogers, Octave Uzanne, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress), and Duprat & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• The old merchants of New York City (Thomas R. Knox & Co., 1885), by Walter Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• A brief sketch of the history of the Catholic church on the island of New York. (E. Dunigan & brother, 1853), by James Roosevelt Bayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early history of the Catholic Church on the island of New York (Catholic Publication Society, 1870), by James Roosevelt Bayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated guide book with historical sketch of the Little Church Around the Corner, New York City (The Church, 1963), by N.Y.) Church of the Transfiguration (New York and Suzette G. Stuart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Reminiscences of St. Augustine's Parish and it pastor (s.n., 1920), by William Harper Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catholic footsteps in old New York, a chronicle of Catholicity in the city of New York from 1524 to 1808. (Schwartz, Kirwin and Fauss, 1909), by William Harper Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)

• State of the research : Naval Hospital Cemetery historical documentation, Naval Station Brooklyn, New York ([s.n.], 1999), by Joan H. Geismar and Inc TAMS Consultants (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New York and its institutions, 1609-1873 : the bright side of New York : a library of information, pertaining to the great metropolis, past and present, with historic sketches of its churches, schools, public buildings, parks and cemeteries, of its police, fire, health and quarantine departments, of its prisons, hospitals, homes, asylums, dispensaries and morgue and all municipal and private charitable institutions (E.B. Treat, 1873), by J. F. Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trial and acquittal of John J. Corcoran ([publisher not identified], 1881), by John J. Corcoran, Horace Russell, and New York (State). Court of General Sessions (New York County) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Souvenir für das 17. Nationale Sängerfest des Nordöstlichen Sängerbundes : abgehalten vom 22. bis 27. Juni 1894 in New York (Herausgegeben von den "Vereinigten Sängern von New York", 1894), by Nordöstlicher Sängerbund (page images at HathiTrust)

• The review of a generation : a sermon delivered in the Middle Dutch Church, Lafayette Place (Chas. H. Jones & Co., 1880), by Talbot W. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• 25jaehrigen Jubilaeum der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Dreieinigkeits-Gemende zu Long Island City, New York (The Church?], 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)

• New clinics for old : a study of clinics unattached to hospitals in New York city : the passing of the old "dispensary" and the rise of health centers and of other clinics rendering health services (Committee on dispensary development of the United hospital fund of New York, 1927), by Michael M. Davis and Anna Mann Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and Reform in the New York City Garment Industry (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), ed. by Daniel Soyer (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Established 1818 (Printed for Brooks Brothers at the Cheltenham Press, 1918), by Brooks Brothers (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and Reform in the New York City Garment Industry (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), ed. by Daniel Soyer (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Canadian Club of New York : historic highlights of half a century, 1903-1953. (s.n.], 1953) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Henry Street Settlement, 1893-1918. (Henry Street Settlement, 1918), by N.Y.) Henry Street Settlement (New York and Lillian D. Wald (page images at HathiTrust)

• New clinics for old : a study of clinics unattached to hospitals in New York city : the passing of the old "dispensary" and the rise of health centers and of other clinics rendering health services (Committee on dispensary development of the United hospital fund of New York, 1927), by Michael M. Davis and Anna Mann Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manual of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, with a concise history of the building, and the events connected with it. (Printed by John Gray, 1842), by N.Y.) Broadway Tabernacle (New York and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Year book of the Broadway Tabernacle Church <1914> ([Broadway Tabernacle Church], 1880), by N.Y.) Broadway Tabernacle (New York (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lucius Polk Brown and progressive food and drug control : Tennessee and New York City, 1908-1920 (Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), by Margaret Ripley Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dutch schools of New Netherland and colonial New York (Govt. print. off., 1912), by William Heard Kilpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New York public school; being a history of free education in the city of New York (The Macmillan company, 1905), by Archie Emerson Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lancasterian system of instruction in the schools of New York city (Teachers college, Columbia University, 1916), by John Franklin Reigart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lancasterian system of instruction in the schools of New York city (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1916), by John Franklin Reigart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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