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.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Mason, Randall.
Sullivan, Robert.
Mason, Randall, 1963-
Sullivan, Robert, 1963-

Localisation: Bibliothèque main m 286379
Cote: BIB 226665
Statut: Disponible