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Click "Search" and enter "Staten Island." (if you wish you can limit your search to just documents, manuscripts, printed texts, etc.) Hundreds of documents mentioning Staten Island are available.

An account of citywide dock and ferry activities.

A bibliography of items selected from the Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library, located in Staten Island, Manhattan and the Bronx.

A selection of books with publication dates from 1821-2004 concerning Staten Island. Also: a link to the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress which includes thousands of online photos and documents related to Staten Island.

Local history books in the collection of the Staten Island Historical Society at Historic Richmond Town.

Search the full text of hundreds of documents relating to New York State. Local documents include: Proceedings of the bi-centennial celebration of Richmond county, Staten Island, New York. November 1st, 1883 (includes hundreds of names of participants and descriptions of the festiviites) and Facts against rumor: being a brief statement, without note or comment, of the most important facts which transpired in the late difficulties between the vestry and the people of St. Andrew's and Trinity parishes, Staten Island, N.Y., prior to the 5th of February, 1857. By order of committee.

The Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history . Items are currently located in two separate databases at the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Search each of these databases for "Staten Island" to find the full text of hundreds of books and articles that mention Staten Island. The Cornell database spans the years 1815-1926. Items of interest include: The Huguenots of Staten Island (1862), History of the City of New York (1860), A Spring Jaunt in Staten Island (1878), The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence (1892), The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Series 3 - Volume 1 (1899) and more.

The Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history . Items are currently located in two separate databases at the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Search each of these databases for "Staten Island" to find the full text of hundreds of books and articles that mention Staten Island. The Cornell database spans the years 1815-1926. Items of interest include: The Huguenots of Staten Island (1862), History of the City of New York (1860), A Spring Jaunt in Staten Island (1878), The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence (1892), The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Series 3 - Volume 1 (1899) and more.

Films reported to have scenes filmed or set on Staten Island from 1913 to the present and a list of Staten Island movie studios.

Search the site for pictures and text from Island history including "The Huguenots of Staten Island" from Continental Monthly (1862), "A Spring Jaunt on Staten Island" from Harper's Weekly (1878), a 1776 plan for attacking Staten Island from George Washington's papers, the Tysen Jacob House, the Ichabod Crane House, the Perine House in Dongan Hills, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (photographs of their Erastina /Mariners Harbor- camp and an online film of their parade down 5th Avenue), a Castleton Civil War recruiting poster, Staten Island Free Trade Zone posters (1937), and more.

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

Newspapers and magazines from 1833 to the present. Includes NYPL holdings of the Staten Island: Advance, Gazette, Light, Magazine, News and Independent, Parrot, Sentinel, Register, Transcript, and World Richmond County: Herald, Mirror, and Sentinel the Staten Islander, the Sepoy and more. Listings include both the Branch and Research Libraries.

Notes on Island plants, animals, geology, history...

Find over 300 online documents and photos from the Sailor's Snug Harbor Archive. Search www.newyorkheritage.org for "Snug Harbor".

A report by Calvin Van Name from 1921.

A rich collection of 19th century books and journals from the University of Michigan. Topics range from American social history from the antebellum period, through reconstruction.