Payne, Christopher, 1968- photographer.
North Brother Island : the last unknown place in New York City / photographs by Christopher Payne, with a history by Randall Mason, and an essay by Robert Sullivan.
First edition.
New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2014.
©2014
138 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 x 29 cm
Few people today have ever heard of North Brother Island, though a hundred years ago it was place known to--and often feared by--nearly everyone in New York City. The island, a small dot in the East River, twenty acres slotted between today's gritty industrial shores of the Bronx and Queens, was a minor piece of the New York archipelago until the late 19th century, when calls for social and sanitary reform--and the massive expansion of the city's population--combined to remake NBI as a hospital island, a place to contain infectious disease and, later, other societal ills.
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Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938 History.
Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938
General Slocum (Steamboat) History.
General Slocum (Steamboat)
Smallpox Hospitals New York (State) East River.
Black-crowned night heron New York (State) East River.
Wildlife refuges New York (State) East River.
Bihoreau gris New York (État) East River.
Refuges fauniques New York (État) East River.
Black-crowned night heron
Smallpox Hospitals
Wildlife refuges
North Brother Island (N.Y.) Pictorial works.
Bronx County (N.Y.) History.
Queens County (N.Y.) History.
East River (N.Y.) History.
North Brother, Île (N.Y.) Ouvrages illustrés.
East River (N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (State) Bronx County
New York (State) East River
New York (State) North Brother Island
New York (State) Queens County
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.
Mason, Randall.
Sullivan, Robert.
Location: Library main m 286379
Call No.: BIB 226665
Status: Available
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