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Clark, Gary W.

Summary: This book was born out of the need to easily find information that would help establish a date for old pictures during genealogical research.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PhotoTree.com 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1072 CLA

Clark, Gary W.

Summary: This book was born out of the need to easily find information that would help establish a date for old pictures during genealogical research.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PhotoTree.com 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1072 CLA

Cahan, Richard

Summary: The world was in ruin at the end of World War II: from the Blitz in London to the aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A small group of Army soldiers witnessed it all. They photographed Germany's last push, the Battle of the Bulge, and they rode into Germany to witness unimagined destruction. They documented the Burma Road, which opened Mainland China to supplies, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CityFiles Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 CAH

Clark, Gary W.

Summary: The Cased Images and Tintypes KwikGuide is a detailed and clear source of identification tips and photo dating information for daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes. This is an indispensable reference tool for genealogists, family historians, and photo collectors who are conducting research on vintage 19th century photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PhotoTree.com 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1072 CLA

Platt, Christine A.

Summary: Ana & Andrew think they have seen every fun place in their hometown of Washington, DC. They are surprised when Papa takes the family to a spot they haven't visited There, they honor an ancestor who fought for freedom. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLA

Harmel, Kristin

3 holds on 7 copies

Summary: "Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Summary: A look at the history and legends of ancient Ireland. Begins in 2000 B.C., when Stone Age farmers built some of the largest and most spectacular Neolithic monuments in Europe, and continues through 1167 A.D, when the Norman invasion placed Ireland under English control.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Video 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV IN

Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into the country under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEP

Gordon, Linda.

Summary: Dorothea Lange's photographs define how the American Depression is remembered; this evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANGE, DOROTHEA GOR

Withers, Ernest C.

Summary: "Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CityFiles Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.1196 WIT

Summary: It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FOR

Baldwin, James

Summary: First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.8 BAL

Burns, Ken

Summary: "From one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America-a stunning and moving collection of Ken Burns's favorite photographs"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 BUR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 BUR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 973 BUR

Inouye Huey, Emily

Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INO

Hodgkins, Lisa

Summary: "In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic changes of the time, they made clothing choices based upon their personal aspirations and their practical everyday needs. Providing an overview of fashion influences for each decade from the 1860s to the end of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.2 HOD

Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: "Madrid, 1957. Under the oppressive dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth. Photography introduces him to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEP

Summary: Story of a doctor touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MAN

Hobey, Jack

Summary: Logging, shipping, early homes and roads and more – it’s all here in the new book from Leelanau Press, Edward Beebe’s Historic Leelanau Photographs: Leland, Suttons Bay, and North Manitou, 1909 – 1915, with text is by Jack Hobey. The story begins with “North Manitou Arrival” and ends with “North Manitou Departure.” My beloved little Lake Leelanau, then Provemont, is part of the story, as is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Leelanau Press 0000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4635 HOB
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 977.4635 HOB
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4635 Hobey

Pearl, Norton

Summary: The backcountry ranger's daughter compiled all of her father's notes about his time as a ranger in Glacier National Park in the 1910s. Unbelievable stories of beauty and hardship (he never complains about the difficulties but relishes the adventure).

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: L. Lee 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 917.8652 PEA
Call number: OVS 921 PEARL, NORTON PEA

Mackrell, Judith

Summary: "A gripping group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II "I am going to Spain with the boys," Martha Gellhorn wrote. "I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them." On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women intertwined: Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model and photographer who lived in Paris as Man Ray's lover before becoming a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 MAC

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MAC

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