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NYC tenement museum would oust residents
Source: Boston Globe
City: New York, State: NY
- The museum that preserves the Lower East Side's immigrant history is seeking to expand ... by evicting current residents. (4/22/02)
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Chicago ghost stories
Source: ChicagoHistory.info
Author: Ursula Bielski
City: Chicago, State: IL
- Local stories about the phantoms of Fort Sheridan, the ghosts of Montrose Park, and other Chicago spooks and spirits.
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- 5 visitors recommend:
Forgotten Chicago: Chicago's Built Environment
Source: forgottenchicago.com
City: Chicago, State: IL
E-mail: forgottenchicago@gmail.com
- Dedicated to documenting little known elements of Chicago’s infrastructure, architecture, neighborhoods and
general cityscape, whether existing or historical.
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The 1940's Blog
Source: http://www.1940blog.com/
Author: Various
- Historical events, people and organisations from 1940 to 1949, the wartime era.
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- 1 visitors recommend:
Richard J. Daley: A Separate World
Source: ChicagoHistory.info
City: Chicago, State: IL
- This excerpt from the book "American Pharaoh" tells the story of the first Mayor Daley and the Chicago of his youth, including his hardscrabble South Side neighborhood, the melee of Chicago Irish Politics, racial tension between Irish-Americans and African-Americans, and more.
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- 5 visitors recommend:
Currier and Ives New York City prints
Source: CurrierandIves.info
City: New York, State: NY
- A gallery of scans of Currier & Ives prints of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Images are free for use as clip art, and some are for sale as art prints.
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- 5 visitors recommend:
Heritages and Horizons
Source: Boston Theological Institute
Author: Rodney L. Petersen, Donna LaRue
City: Boston, State: MA
E-mail: mroz@bostontheological.org
- A virtual tour of American history as it has evolved in the Greater Boston Area through the lens of the nine historic schools of theology, seminaries and university divinity schools, known as the Boston Theological Institute, as well as through related institutions.
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Currier and Ives Chicago prints
Source: CurrierandIves.info
City: Chicago, State: IL
- A gallery of scans of Currier & Ives prints of Chicago. Images are free for use as clip art, and some are for sale as art prints.
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- 3 visitors recommend:
Irish American News: Voice of Chicagoland's Irish-American Community
Source: Irish American News
City: Chicago, State: IL
- A monthly selection of articles, events, and resources.
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History of Lenawee County, Michigan
Source: Western Historical Society
City: Ann Arbor, State: MI
E-mail: terry@domsys.com
- The complete text of the book "History of Lenawee County" by The Western Historical Association, printed in 1909.
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- 1 visitors recommend:
BostonIrish.com
Source: Boston Irish Reporter
City: Boston, State: MA
- "Your one-stop World Wide Web site for news from and about the Irish in Boston & New England. Boston is the most Irish of American cities -- we like to say we're the next parish over, just west of Galway Bay! This page is developed & maintained by the staff of the Boston Irish Reporter, Boston's own hometown Irish American newspaper."
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Chicago's Gangs
Source: GangResearch.net
Author: John Hagedorn
City: Chicago, State: IL
E-mail: kbc@uic.edu
- Research on gangs around the United States and around the world, including Chicago.
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- 5 visitors recommend:
Historic Pelham, New York
Source: Blake A. Bell
City: Pelham, State: NY
E-mail: b_bell@stblaw.com
- This site covers the rich history of Pelham, New York in lower Westchester County -- a suburb of New York City -- from the 1600s to the present.
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Chicago History In Postcards
Source: chicagopc
City: Chicago, State: IL
- Large online collection of Chicago postcards. Mainly features publuc buildings, retail, factories, churches, etc.
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- 9 visitors recommend:
Lake Claremont Press
Source: Lake Claremont Press
City: Chicago, State: IL
- A book publisher dedicated to "Chicago's history, culture, geography, spirit, and lore."
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- 4 visitors recommend:
Edward Hopper's Chop Suey
Source: EdwardHopper.info
City: New York, State: NY
- Information on Edward Hopper's painting Chop Suey. You can also send a free e-card or purchase prints.
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- 3 visitors recommend:
New York Image Gallery
Source: HistoryImages.com
City: New York, State: NY
- New York clip art, plus thumbnails and links to posters of vintage and modern New York.
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- 4 visitors recommend:
Sixth Avenue El at Third St. vintage art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Chicago, State: IL
- A 26 in. x 20 in. art print of the 1928 painting by John Sloan. Beautiful!
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- 4 visitors recommend:
Times Square, 1942 art print
Source: AllPosters
City: New York, State: NY
- 36 in. x 24 in. print of the action at Broadway and 42nd Street, 1942.
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Manhattan, 1931 art print
Source: AllPosters
City: New York, State: NY
- A dramatic 51 in. x 38 in. black-and-white skyline photo.
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Boston Public Gardens modern art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Boston, State: MA
- A 27 in. x 27 in. fine art print of a work by Thomas McKnight.
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View of Whitehall 1884 art print
Source: AllPosters
- 30 in. x 21 in. art print by Filippo Baratti.
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Print of The Shannon
Source: Border Art
Country: United Kingdom
- A hand coloured print of the Shannon from the tower of Limerick Cathedral looking Westward to the Atlantic.
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'View to the Chicago River' 1930 art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Chicago, State: IL
- A 24 in. x 32 in. black and white photo poster.
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Boston Public Gardens impressionist art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Boston, State: MA
- A 32 in. x 26 in. fine art print of a work by John C. Terelak.
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Doors of Boston poster
Source: AllPosters
City: Boston, State: MA
- A 22 in. x 30 in. art poster.
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Rainy Day, Boston, art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Boston, State: MA
- A 36 in. x 24 in. art print by Childe Hassam.
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- 2 visitors recommend:
South Boston Pier art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Boston, State: MA
- An attractive 23 in. x 27 in. impressionist art print by Maurice B. Prendergast featuring South Boston Pier, circa 1896.
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Brighton Market, Boston, art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Boston, State: MA
- A 28 in. x 22 in. print of an old engraving.
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Faneuiel Hall, Boston, art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Boston, State: MA
- A 28 in. x 22 in. print of an old engraving.
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Franklin Street, Boston, art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Boston, State: MA
- A 28 in. x 22 in. print of an old engraving.
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- 2 visitors recommend:
State Street, Boston, art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Boston, State: MA
- A 28 in. x 22 in. print of an old engraving.
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- 1 visitors recommend:
Beacon Street, Boston, art print
Source: AllPosters
City: Boston, State: MA
- A 28 in. x 22 in. print of an old engraving.
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- 1 visitors recommend:
Boston Posters
Source: HistoryImages.com
City: Boston, State: MA
- Thumbnails and links to posters of vintage and modern Boston.
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- 1 visitors recommend:
Chicago Posters
Source: HistoryImages.com
City: Chicago, State: IL
- Thumbnails and links to posters of vintage and modern Chicago.
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- 2 visitors recommend:
Historic Photos of Chicago Crime
Source: Turner Publishing
Author: John Russick
City: Chicago, State: IL
E-mail: submissions@turnerpublishing.com
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Around Dublin
Source: The Frith Book Company
Author: Livingston
Country: United Kingdom
- A selection of archive photos from the famous Francis Frith Collection. Includes a voucher for a free mounted print of any photo in the book. (01/99)
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- 1 visitors recommend:
Boston Then and Now
Source: Amazon
Author: Elizabeth McNulty
City: Boston, State: MA
- From an Amazon reader: "Boston history lovers will enjoy this. Specific parts of Boston shown on one page in a historic photo and on the next in current day. Mostly buildings, intersections, and famous sites. Large pictures, nice descriptions that aren't too lengthy. Photo labels at the top corner of each new picture. A really nice book." (1999)
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- 2 visitors recommend:
London: The Biography
Source: Amazon
Author: Peter Ackroyd
City: London, Country: United Kingdom
- From an Amazon reader: "To a Londoner in Tokyo this book's celebration of the persistence of London seemed all the more affecting (Tokyo being essentially a temporary and soulesss city). Readable, full of knowledge, facts and quirks, it's a book that can make you realise why you can love London -- even when it is being most unlikeable. Here is dirt, earth, fire, humanity (and plague, pestilence, smoke, stone)." (2001)
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Boston: A Topographical History
Source: Amazon.com
Author: Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence W. Kennedy
City: Boston, State: MA
- From an Amazon reader: "This book is ideal for anyone looking for a general account of Boston history. It acquants one with many of the important stages in the development of the city; covering the period from the colonial to approximately 1970. The information regarding the colonial period is excellent, as is the book itself. It is not specific, but provides an introduction to many great way points for further study." (2000)
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- 1 visitors recommend:
Great Chicago Stories: Portraits and Stories
Source: Amazon
Author: Tom Maday and Sam Landers (editors)
City: Chicago, State: IL
- From an Amazon reader: "This book captures the personality of our amazing city, in all its honesty, in all its glory!" (1994)
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- 7 visitors recommend:
New York -- seven episode PBS set
Source: Amazon.com
City: New York, State: NY
- Another documentary masterpiece from the Burns family. From an Amazon reviewer: "I have just finished viewing the 6th Disc of the incredible journey of the greatest city in the world, and just had to share my excitement and disbelief at what I have been watching. Ric Burns does an extraordinary job of showing the history of New York from it's discovery by Henry Hudson to modern times. Each episode is addictive and compelling." (1998)
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- 15 visitors recommend:
A Raisin in the Sun
Source: Amazon
Author: Daniel Petrie, director
City: Chicago, State: IL
- This award-winning 1961 film starring Sidney Portier tells the story of an African-American South Side Chicago family struggling with racism in the earliest days of the civil rights movement. "A revolutionary film far ahead of its time." --Arnie Bernstein, author of "Hollywood on Lake Michigan"
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