Summary: In a unique collaboration with photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, eighteen immigrant teenagers create an alphabet defining their experiences in pictures and words. Wendy helped the teenagers pose for and design the photographs, interviewing them along the way about their own journeys and perspectives. America Border Culture Dreamer presents Wendy and the students' poignant and powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.23 EWAMuir, Robin
Summary: Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages.... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history. Its first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.082 MUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 MUIH. Belden & Co
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Cumming Publishers 1980
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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 912.713 ILLSummary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BROStanton, Brandon
Summary: "Brandon Stanton's new book, Humans ... shows us the world. Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world. Traveling to more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779 STACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779 STABush, George W. (George Walker)
Summary: A collection of military oil paintings and profiles presents the stories of post-9/11 veterans, their experiences on the battlefield, road to recovery, and continuing contributions as civilians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 757 BUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 759.13 BUSLaney, Lewis
Summary: A fun and fascinating compendium of LGBTQ+ icons, one for every day of the year, and a celebration of queer history - or as RuPaul would say; Herstory! Discover your queer hero and learn something new every day with 365 Gays of the Year, an accessible and fun introduction to LGBTQ+ history through the people that made it. Carefully curated and thoughtfully researched, author Lewis Laney assigns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Lion Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 LANGeo. A. Ogle & Co
Summary: Atlas includes a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county, map of the state, United States and world, patrons directory, reference business directory and departments devoted to general information, analysis of the system of U.S. land surveys, digest of the system of civil government, etc. etc. /
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Publisher / Publication Date: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. 1908
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: OVS GEN 912.774 STACopies Available at Peninsula
2 available in Circulation Desk, Call number: OVS LHC 912.774, Drawer 1Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Nelson Room Oversize, Call number: OVS R NEL 912.774 StandardKunz, Anita
Summary: "A stunning collection of 150 portraits of groundbreaking women throughout history--many of whom are unsung or forgotten--by one of the best illustrators working today. In early March 2020, Covid19-locked down in her Toronto home-studio and longing for inspiration, artist Anita Kunz began researching women on the Internet. She wasn't sure what she was looking for, but soon found an array of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 920 KUNWilbur, Matika
Summary: "In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set out on a Kickstarter-funded pursuit to visit, engage, and photograph people from what were then the 562 federally recognized Native American Tribal Nations. Over the next decade, she traveled six hundred thousand miles across fifty states--from Seminole country (now known as the Everglades) to Inuit territory (now known as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 970.004 WIL2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 970.004 WIL
Brodell, Ria
Summary: Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death by drowning in 1477; Charles aka Mary Hamilton, publicly whipped for impersonating a man in eighteenth-century England; Clara, aka "Big Ben," over whom two jealous women fought in 1926 New York: these are just three of the lives that the artist Ria Brodell has reclaimed for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 BRONewspaper Cartoonists' Association of Michigan
Summary: This is a collection of cartoons and caricatures of Michigan's business leaders, professionals, politicians, and other notables drawn by cartoonists from such newspapers as the Detroit News and the Free Press. The subjects are treated as a pantheon of "Michiganders," "who perform their share of the world's work in such a manner as to bring them into public notice." Each illustration combines a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Press of Wm. Graham Printing Co.] 1905
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1 available in Nelson Room Oversize, Call number: R NEL 977.4 GALPierpont, Julia
Summary: "This inspiring ... collection honors one hundred exceptional women throughout history and around the world"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PIEWillis, Deborah
Summary: Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed--marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively documented through photographs. In The Black Civil War Soldier, Deb Willis explores the crucial role of photography in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2021