New York (State) -- Description and travel
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- New York (State) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
- Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- Albany (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- Erie County (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- Genesee Valley (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Description and travel
- New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel
- Niagara River Valley (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel
- Thousand Islands (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel
- New York (State) -- Description and travel -- 1951-1980
- New York (State) -- Description and travel -- 1981-
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Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1964), by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, trans. by Clarissa Spencer Bostelmann (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)- Country Margins and Rambles of a Journalist, by S. H. Hammond (page images at MOA)
- Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice Made By Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels From Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada: To Which Is Annex'd a Curious Account of the Cataracts At Niagara By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish Gentleman Who Travelled There (London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1751), by John Bartram and Pehr Kalm
- A Tour From the City of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, Made Between the 2d of May and the 22d of September, 1818, by William Darby (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- A Two Years Journal in New-York, and Part of its Territories in America, by Charles Wooley, ed. by Edward Gaylord Bourne (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
- A Two Years Journal in New York, and Part of its Territories in America (New York: W. Gowans, 1860), by Charles Wooley, ed. by E. B. O'Callaghan
- Five Years' Residence in the Canadas: Including a Tour Through Part of the United States of America, in the Year 1823 (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824), by Edward Allen Talbot
- Henry, or, The Juvenile Traveller (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1836), by Mrs. Henry Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sketches of Upper Canada, Domestic, Local, and Characteristic: to Which Are Added, Practical Details for the Information of Emigrants of Every Class: and Some Recollections of the United States of America (Edinburgh; London: Oliver & Boyd ... ;G. & W.B. Whittaker ... , 1821), by John Howison (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in New-England and New-York (4 volumes; New Haven: T. Dwight, 1821-1822), by Timothy Dwight (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- Scenes in My Native Land (Boston: J. Munroe and company, 1845), by L. H. Sigourney (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
- A Hoosier Holiday (first issue, with a WW1 reference that later issues changed; New York and London: J. Lane Co., 1916), by Theodore Dreiser, illust. by Franklin Booth (multiple formats at Indiana)
- Old Roads From the Heart of New York: Journeys Today by Ways of Yesterday, Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Sarah Comstock (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- A Brief Description of New-York, Formerly Called New-Netherlands (London: Printed for John Hancock, 1670), by Daniel Denton (PDF at unl.edu)
- A Brief Description of New-York: Reproduced From the Original Edition, With a Bibliographical Note (Facsimile Text Society publication #40; 1937), by Daniel Denton, contrib. by Victor Hugo Paltsits (page images at HathiTrust)
- New York Considered and Improved, A. D. 1695, by John Miller, ed. by Victor Hugo Paltsits (PDF at unl.edu)
- Voyages from Holland to America, A. D. 1632 to 1644 (1853), by David Pietersz. de Vries, trans. by Henry Cruse Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians, and a Description of New Netherland in 1642-3 (New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1856), by Isaac Jogues and John Gilmary Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Adirondack: or, Life in the Woods, by J. T. Headley (page images at MOA)
- Adventures in the Wilderness, by W. H. H. Murray (page images at MOA)
- Woods and Waters: or, The Saranacs and Racket, by Alfred Billings Street (page images at MOA)
- Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, As They Existed Previous to the Revolution (New York: G. Dearborn, 1836), by Anne MacVicar Grant (HTML and page images at LOC)
- The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers (9th edition; Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1817), by Zadok Cramer (page images at Missouri)
- History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)
- The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo (Buffalo: Buffalo Historical Society, 1912), ed. by Frank H. Severance (page images at Cornell)
- The Catskills (New York: The Century Co., 1918), by T. Morris Longstreth (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)
- The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around (New York: Taintor Brothers, 1869), by Charles Rockwell (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)
- History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)
- A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America (second edition, with considerable additions; includes most of Filson's book on Kentucky; London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1793), by G. Imlay, contrib. by John Filson and Daniel Boone
- A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America (third edition, with considerable additions; includes most of Filson's book on Kentucky, and other works; London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1797), by G. Imlay, contrib. by John Filson, Jonathan Heart, Thomas Hutchins, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Kennedy
- The Hudson, From the Wilderness to the Sea (Troy, NY: H. B. Nims and Co., n.d.), by Benson J. Lossing (multiple formats at archive.org)
- New York is Not America: Being a Mirror to the States (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1927), by Ford Madox Ford (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The Color of a Great City (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Theodore Dreiser, illust. by C. B. Falls (multiple formats at archive.org)
- De Paris au Niagara: Journal de Voyage d'une Délégation (in French; Paris: A. Dupret, 1887), by Charles Bigot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Journey of the Iconophiles Around New York in Search of the Historical and Picturesque (New York: Gillis Press, 1897), by William Loring Andrews
- Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City (c1872), by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Loiterer in New York: Discoveries Made by a Rambler Through Obvious Yet Unsought Highways and Byways (New York: G. H. Doran Company, c1917), by Helen W. Henderson, contrib. by Paul Wayland Bartlett
- The New New York: A Commentary on the Place and the People (New York: Macmillan, 1909), by John C. Van Dyke, illust. by Joseph Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
- New York (London: A. and C. Black, 1911), by Hildegarde Hawthorne, illust. by Martin Lewis
- New York in Slices (New York: W. F. Burgess, 1849), by George G. Foster (page images at MOA)
- The Picture of New-York: or, The Traveller's Guide Through the Commercial Metropolis of the United States (New York: I. Riley and Co., 1807), by Samuel L. Mitchill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City, by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text)
- Sunshine and Shadow in New York (1869), by Matthew Hale Smith (page images at MOA)
- Coney Island (1999), by Professor Solomon (PDF with commentary at professorsolomon.com)
- Municipal Government of the City of New York (revised edition; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1916), by Abby Gunn Baker and Abby Huntington Ware (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Niagara Park Illustrated: Original and Selected Descriptions, Poems and Adventures (New York: W. T. Hunter, 1888), ed. by Alice Hyneman Sotheran (page images at HathiTrust)
- De Paris au Niagara: Journal de Voyage d'une Délégation (in French; Paris: A. Dupret, 1887), by Charles Bigot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Description of Views of the Falls of Niagara and the City of Jerusalem: Now Exhibiting in the Large Circle of the Panorama, Leicester Square (London: Printed by W. J. Goldbourn, 1851), by Robert Burford, contrib. by Henry Courtney Selous
- Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice Made By Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels From Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada: To Which Is Annex'd a Curious Account of the Cataracts At Niagara By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish Gentleman Who Travelled There (London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1751), by John Bartram and Pehr Kalm
- Whirlpool Heights: The Dream House on the Niagara (London: G. Allen and Unwin Ltd., c1915), by Julia Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Simcoe Relic Among the Thousand Isles in 1796: Fragment of a MS. Journal of Mrs. Simcoe (1896), by Elizabeth Simcoe, ed. by Henry Scadding (multiple formats at archive.org)
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