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At Home In Staten Island
Read the poem about life on Staten Island by noted economist and poet Charles Mackay first published in All the Year Round, 1869. The editor was Charles Dickens.

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

Read Online Books, Periodicals, Manuscripts, Letters, etc. About Staten Island

American Memory at the Library of Congress
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.

Annals of Staten Island from Its Discovery to the Present Time
J.J. Clute's 1887 history of Staten Island.

Annual Report of the Department of Docks and Ferries 1902
An account of citywide dock and ferry activities.

Cornell University Library New York State Historical Literature Page
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.

Days Afield on Staten Island
An account of the rambles of William T. Davis (1862-1945) through the fields and forests of Staten Island at the end of the nineteenth century. c1892

Digitized Historical Works from the Making of America at Cornell University
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.

Digitized Historical Works from the Making of America at the University of Michigan
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 University of Michigan database spans the years 1800-1925. Items of interest include: History of the State of New York (1853-71), History of New Netherland (1855), A Record of the Commissioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, privates, of the Regiments Which Were Organized in the State of New York (Civil War) 1864-68 and Contributions to the Early History of Perth Amboy and Adjoining Country (1856).

Facts against rumor:... the late difficulties between the vestry and the people of St. Andrew's and Trinity parishes, Staten Island
An account of a dispute over the succession of a pastor in 1857.

Facts and Documents Bearing Upon the Legal and Moral Questions: Connected with the Recent Destruction of the Quarantine Buildings on Staten Island
Report on the destruction of the Quarantine station at St. George by the "Executive Committee" in 1858.

History of Richmond County (Staten Island), New York from its discovery to the present time (1887)
An extensive history of Staten Island up through 1887 by Richard Bayles.

Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island Vol. 1
An extensive history of Staten Island publiched in 1898. Over 300 pages of text with numerous illustrations. This volume covers Native American settlement through the American Revolution.

Proceedings - Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences JUNE I905-MAY 1907
Notes on Island plants, animals, geology, history...

Proceedings - Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences VOLUME VI November 14th, 1896, to October 8th, 1898.
Notes on Island plants, animals, geology, history...

Proceedings of the bi-centennial celebration of Richmond county, Staten Island, New York. November 1st, 1883
Plans for the festivities and historical information

Prominent Men of Staten Island
Short biographies of government officials, businessmen and religious leaders of the day with many photos. Published in 1893, the book includes a supplement of additional entries for 1894.

Sailor's Snug Harbor Finding Aid
Guide to Historical documents from Sailor's Snug Harbor available at SUNY Maritime.

Staten Island : a report by the President of the Borough of Richmond to the Mayor
A report by Calvin Van Name from 1921.

Staten Island and Staten Islanders
A brief text on Staten Island history prepared by Richmond Borough Association of Women teachers in 1909.

The philanthropic work of Josephine Shaw Lowell
The life and works of Josephine Shaw Lowell and her Staten Island family (including Civil War Officer Col. Robert Gould Shaw).

Bibliographies

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

Books about Staten Island at the Research Libraries of The New York Public Library
A bibliography of items selected from the Research Libraries of The New York Public Library, located in Manhattan.

Periodicals about Staten Island at The New York Public Library
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.

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

Books and Periodicals about Staten Island at the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
Local history books, environmental books and historical newspapers in the SIIAS History Archives & Library.

Books about Staten Island at the Library of Congress
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.

Books about Staten Island at the College of Staten Island
Books about Staten Island available at the College of Staten Island Library.

Dissertations concerning Staten Island
A list of Doctoral and other degree dissertations about Staten Island in the College of Staten Island Library

Films

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

Staten Island Film Festival
Official Site for the Staten Island Film Festival which features an array of independent films. Information available on upcoming 2007 festival.