City Sites

New York City

Rediscovering New York History and Culture Website
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/ and select Rediscovering New York.

Urban Studies Program at Barnard-Columbia College; New York City links
http://www.barnard.edu/urban/links/nycrelated.html

The History Box - New York City resources

http://thehistorybox.com/

The Skyscraper Museum
http://www.skyscraper.org

Rediscovering New York History and Culture Website
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/ and select Rediscovering New York.

The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
Library of Congress, American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html

Harlem, 1900-1940: An African-American community
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/wam/search.html

History of Coney Island
http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/

Images from the Shirtwaist Strike, 1909-1910.
This was a major strike in New York City's shirtwaist industry. This site includes many links to documents of the era about the strike, including first-hand accounts by the strikers and "Rules for Pickets."
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/

MOVING UPTOWN: Nineteenth_century Views of Manhattan
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/movingup/opening.htm

Making of America, Cornell University On Line Library
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/index.html

New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/

Berenice Abbott, Changing New York 1935-1938
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/abbott.html

World Expositions. Introductory site sponsored by major computer companies with history and images of expositions and world fairs in Amsterdam (1883, 1887, 1895), Chicago (1893), London (1850 Crystal Palace), New York (1939), Paris (1889), and Philadelphia (1876).
http://park.org/Pavilions/WorldExpositions/

Three Cities: New York; Los Angeles; Chicago
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3cities/

The Gotham Center for New York City History
http://www.gothamcenter.org