Research Tools - Social City
Below you will find tools
available to help explore the character of
New York City's people and institutions.
The City
The Lost Museum Archive
Documents and information about the Civil War, immigration, P. T.
Barnum, and more, from the American Social History
Project at the CUNY Graduate Center's City Center for Media and
Learning and the Center for History and
New Media at George Mason University.
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York View the full text and photos of Jacob Riis' milestone 1890 work.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire From the Kheel Center at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations find documents, photos, transcripts, and oral histories regarding the 1911 tragedy.
There Are Still Guns On Our Streets: Guns and Violence in NYC Transcript of a panel discussion at the Center for New York City Affairs at the Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy.
In the South Bronx of America Duke University Libraries offers a look into the landscape of the South Bronx in the 1970s, while the NYC Street Photography catalog looks at New York in the 1980s.
Stonewall and Beyond Columbia University exhibits clippings from the local press and first hand accounts from the 1969 riot.
The Living City Explore health and life in New York City between the Civil War and the end of World War I.
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York View the full text and photos of Jacob Riis' milestone 1890 work.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire From the Kheel Center at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations find documents, photos, transcripts, and oral histories regarding the 1911 tragedy.
There Are Still Guns On Our Streets: Guns and Violence in NYC Transcript of a panel discussion at the Center for New York City Affairs at the Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy.
In the South Bronx of America Duke University Libraries offers a look into the landscape of the South Bronx in the 1970s, while the NYC Street Photography catalog looks at New York in the 1980s.
Stonewall and Beyond Columbia University exhibits clippings from the local press and first hand accounts from the 1969 riot.
The Living City Explore health and life in New York City between the Civil War and the end of World War I.
Immigration & Genealogy
Port of New York Passenger Records
A searchable database of the manifests of ships entering the Port of
New York and Ellis Island from 1892 to 1924.
Puerto Rican Diaspora: Identification and Documentation Program: Search through the names and view applications of those who applied for ID and documents for proving American citizenship from 1930 through 1959.
The Newest New Yorkers, 2000 The NYC Department of City Planning Population Division offers data on New York's new immigrant population.
Census 2000 Data For New York City Demographic and socioeconomic data for the New York City area.
The House on Henry Street The full text of the 1915 work by health and social work pioneer Lillian Wald.
A Nation of Immigrants An examination of the immigrant experience from the City University of New York.
Puerto Rican Diaspora: Identification and Documentation Program: Search through the names and view applications of those who applied for ID and documents for proving American citizenship from 1930 through 1959.
The Newest New Yorkers, 2000 The NYC Department of City Planning Population Division offers data on New York's new immigrant population.
Census 2000 Data For New York City Demographic and socioeconomic data for the New York City area.
The House on Henry Street The full text of the 1915 work by health and social work pioneer Lillian Wald.
A Nation of Immigrants An examination of the immigrant experience from the City University of New York.
Arts & Entertainment
WPA
Art In New York Catalog of artworks commissioned by the Works
Progress Administration (1935-1943) in New York City.
Early New York City Motion Pictures Forty-five viewable films of New York City made from 1898 to 1906 from the U.S. Library of Congress.
Coney Island History Project Collection of photographs, films, audio, and books documenting the history of the amusement area in Brooklyn.
Archives of the Steinway & Sons Piano Company Search the archive of family, business, and workers' records from 1853 to 1973.
Theater Images Historic and current photos and newspaper advertisements for a wide range of stage and movie theaters in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Nassau County, and Suffolk County.
Brooklyn Theater Playbills and Programs Collection A collection of Brooklyn theater playbills from the Brooklyn Public Library.
Urban Folk Publication featuring the Astoria Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden by John Roleke from the Queens Council on the Arts.
Florenz Ziegfeld The Ziegfeld Follies 1907-1931 Learn about the famous series of Broadway productions.
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Early New York City Motion Pictures Forty-five viewable films of New York City made from 1898 to 1906 from the U.S. Library of Congress.
Coney Island History Project Collection of photographs, films, audio, and books documenting the history of the amusement area in Brooklyn.
Archives of the Steinway & Sons Piano Company Search the archive of family, business, and workers' records from 1853 to 1973.
Theater Images Historic and current photos and newspaper advertisements for a wide range of stage and movie theaters in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Nassau County, and Suffolk County.
Brooklyn Theater Playbills and Programs Collection A collection of Brooklyn theater playbills from the Brooklyn Public Library.
Urban Folk Publication featuring the Astoria Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden by John Roleke from the Queens Council on the Arts.
Florenz Ziegfeld The Ziegfeld Follies 1907-1931 Learn about the famous series of Broadway productions.
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