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North Brother Island : the last unknown place in New York City

Author: Christopher Payne; Randall Mason; Robert Sullivan
Publisher: New York : Empire State Editions ; an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2014 ©2014
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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At first encounter, North Brother Island is among the most unexpected of places: an uninhabited island of ruins in New York City that hardly anyone knows, existing today almost in secret. This book  Read more...

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Genre/Form: History
Pictorial works
Named Person: Typhoid Mary; Typhoid Mary
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Payne; Randall Mason; Robert Sullivan
ISBN: 0823257711 9780823257713
OCLC Number: 860944193
Notes: "Empire State Editions."
Description: 138 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents: Foreword Robert Sullivan Wildness, Disease, and the Changing Civic Landscape: The History of North Brother Island Randall Mason The Photographs Christopher Payne Afterword Christopher Payne Acknowledgments
Responsibility: photographs by Christopher Payne, with history by Randall Mason, and an essay by Robert Sullivan.

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