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The Fifth Avenue from Start to Finish photographs (2014-2018), taken by Long Island-based freelance photographer Dominick Kosciuk, consist exclusively of black and white and color digital images that document New York's Fifth Avenue and expand the visual record of the evolution of Manhattan's built environment. Inspired by the 1911 book, Fifth Avenue, New York: From Start to Finish featuring images taken by Burton F. Welles, Kosciuk created contemporary views of each block in a similar style and composition as Welles' photographs taken a century earlier. less

Genealogist, historian, inventor, and radio broadcasting pioneer, Lloyd Espenschied (1889-1986) lived in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York and was co-inventor of the coaxial cable. Genealogical notes, charts, maps, and transcripts of land, financial and church records, and of ship lists from Espenschied's research into the history of the Espenschied family and the related Crecelius, Dorscheimer, Fraenger, Von Gerichten, Overstolz, Spies, Wagner, Walhizer, and Young families. Also, photographs and papers resulting from Espenschied's studies in the early wagon making and hat industries, and notes from his research on German immigration, particularly to Pennsylvania, Wayne County, New York, St. Clair, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri; and personal correspondence and journals containing narratives about Espenschied's travels, and his attendance at international communications conferences. less

After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, reference librarians in the Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History, and Genealogy started a collection of clippings and ephemeral materials related to the attacks. less