Edmund Vincent Gillon Ordre des livres

A collection of evocative photographs chronicles the evolution of an immigrant neighborhood from the 1870s to 1920 as wave after wave of Jewish immigrants arrived from Eastern Europe. 99 black-and-white photographs. Introduction. Bibliography.

Authoritative street-by-street architectural guide to over 600 houses, buildings in city's first Historic District. 88 illus.

Watch New York change before your 83 early Manhattan sites are set against 83 modern photos taken from same Times Square, Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, many more. Early photographs from 1875 to 1925 contrasted with 1976.

More than 50 woodcuts from German incunabular sources include a knight swallowed by a monster, scenes from the bible, battles and combats, Jerusalem, agricultural activities, animals, much more.