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Print: $12.95 In 1880, Ida Burnett of Logan, New York called her diary "my story." Fifteen-year-old Ida churned butter, milked cows, sewed her own underwear, canned fruit, but also had time for boys and parties. She lived in the country in Upstate New York and in the whole year did not venture any farther than 20 miles.From New York History Review's "Learning from History" series of printed primary source materials.
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Print: $14.95 What happened on a normal day to a normal teenager in 1868? Step inside the world of 13-year-old Lucy Potter as she lives her everyday life in Cortland County, New York. A Darned Good Time invites us into Lucy's world. She writes of classes, teachers, friends, boys, a new stepmother, an invalid aunt, and complains about upstate New York weather. Lucy's words transport us through time to experience teenager life in the 19th century. Perspectives may change, but 13-year-old girls' interests in writing about their lives remain a constant over the generations. This diary is from New York History Review's "Learning from History" series of printed primary source materials.
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Print: $12.95 What happened on a normal day to a normal teenager in 1876? Step inside the world of 18-year-old Earll K. Gurnee, a teenager in Skaneateles, New York, as he lives his everyday life. My Centennial Diary invites us into Earll's world. He writes of school, family life, social life, farm life, girlfriends, and hard work.
His teacher gets arrested for being too brutal to children, he juggles two girlfriends, he plows, cuts hay, cleans out the horse barn....then wonders why his back hurts!
From New York History Review's "Learning from History" series of printed primary source materials.
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Print: $29.95 Homespun Cuisine, Health, Romance, Etiquette, Raising Children and Farm Animals
This wonderful book is a reprint of "Our Own Book" first published in 1888.
Over 600 old food recipes including Boiled Bullock's Head, Economical Veal Soup, Beef Balls, Frizzled Beef, Knuckle of Veal, Brooklyn Cake, Good Girl's Cake, Railroad Cake, Isinglass Jelly, Gruel, Calf's Foot Jelly, Invalid Apple Pie, Hasty Pudding, Flannel Cakes, Queen Pudding, and Fried Mush.
Make your own barn paint, indelible ink, ginger beer, shaving soap, waterproof glue, cologne, violin varnish, and more.
How and when to take a bath. What to feed sheep.
Answers for all of life's challenges as a Victorian person.
Paperback book 332 pages.
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Print: $18.95 Second in a series of historic American hometown sheet music books. Includes 22 songs written in or about Buffalo, Albany, Jamestown, Niagara Falls, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh,Yonkers, Tonawanda, Saratoga Springs, Herkimer, the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, the lakes of Oneida, Onondaga, Chautauqua, and Seneca, and the Genesee and Hudson Rivers. The songs here date form 1850 to 1884.
Songs include "Adirondack March," "Duchess of Albany Gavotte," "Belles of Buffalo Polka," "Chautauqua Lake Waltz," " Herkimer Quadrilles," "Bells Across the Hudson," "Newburgh Centennial March," " Niagara Schottisch," "Oneida Polka," "Poughkeepsie Polka," "The Belle of Saratoga," " Tonawanda Quickstep," "Yonkers Twilight Reverie," and more!
Paperback 116 pages.
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Print: $18.95 First in a series of historic hometown sheet music books. Victorian Pride - Central New York heralds the songs written in or about the towns Elmira, Binghamton, Canisteo, Ithaca, Chenango, Tioga, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica. The songs here date form 1841 to 1885.
Songs include "Elmira Schottisch," "Cayuga Mazurka," "Little Barefoot Waltzes," "Life on the Susquehanna," "Vale of the Canisteo," "Oak Leaf Schottish," "Rochester Free Academy March," "Binghamton March," "Susquehanna Waltz," "Syracuse City March," "Tioga Schottish," Utica French Academy March," "Canisteo Polka," "Effie Carrol," "Margery," "Rochester New City March," "Chenango Polka," and more!
Paperback 120 pages.
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Print: $18.95 Fourth in our series of historic American sheet music books. The songs in this book are specific to the towns and cities of Pennsylvania including Allentown, Altoona, Carlisle, Easton, Ephrata, Erie, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Sunbury, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport, and the Pocono Mountains.
Songs include "Lehigh Polka," "Easton March," "Pocono Galop," "Lancaster Mazurka," "Ephrata Schottisch Polka," "Williamsport Market Day Polka," and more! 108 pages.
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Print: $18.95 Janowski Gardens is proud to present this cookbook filled with healthy farm-fresh recipes from our farm in Elmira, New York. Every recipe includes at least one ingredient that is grown in our garden. Our vegetables, fruits, and herbs can help you eat sensibly and stay healthy - and they taste GREAT, too. Enjoy our innovative, yet simple and easy to prepare recipes. The Janowski Family has been living and working in Chemung County, New York since coming to America from East Germany (Prussia) in 1873. This cookbook honors their emigration, assimilation into the United States, hardiness, and their produce. The family-operated business celebrates their 135th growing season with this historic cookbook.
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Print: $24.95 Victorian weddings evoke thoughts of romance, elegance, and gentility. It is no wonder that many couples today consider a Victorian theme for their own weddings. If you're planning a Victorian themed wedding and need charming authentic Victorian wedding songs for your musicians to play.
Our collection includes 28 Victorian wedding marches, processionals, polkas, waltzes, Mothers' Songs, Dances, and songs for Wedding Anniversaries and Receptions written between 1872 and 1885. Songs include "Yankee Wedding March," "Dulciana Wedding March," "My Wife and I Waltz," "Wedding Reception Galop," "Silver Wedding Waltz," and "The Wedding Polonaise," and many more. Third in a series of historic American hometown sheet music books. 163 pages.
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Hardcover Print: $27.95 A young soldier's war journal tells a timeless tale of fresh-faced enthusiasm and patriotism tempered over time by hard work, anguish, and the grueling horrors of trench warfare. A description of the 78th Division (the Lightning Division), 309th Infantry from May 1918 to February 1919 in France.
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Hardcover Print: $19.95 Congratulations!
There is nothing quite as wonderful as a parent's loving remembrances of a newborn baby. This lovely Victorian style keepsake album will let you add photographs as the baby grows and develops, record new life experiences as they happen, and share the memories you and your baby want to remember forever.
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Print: $8.95 Wonderful postcards views of Elmira, New York in beautiful Chemung County. Vintage images date from the 1890s to the 1930s. Old downtown buildings, Eldridge Park, the Chemung River, and more! Travel back in time with ChemungHistory.com's series of postcard and photographic booklets.
28 black and white images including
Views of downtown Elmira - streets, buildings, post office, Steele Memorial Lbrary, Elmira City Hall, Chemung County Courthouse, the Armory, Arnot-Odgen Hospital, Star-Gazette, Rathbun Hotel, clock tower and 4 views of Chemung River
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Print: $8.95 ChemungHistory.com and New York History Review are proud to present Chemung County - Through the Lens - Landscapes - the third in a series of photographic booklets.
We are pleased to share landscape images from our collection preserved in the Eleanor Barnes Library. We trust these images will heighten your interest in the rich cultural heritage of the Chemung Valley region. 32 pages
28 black and white images include:
Landcape views of the area including Elmira, the Chemung River, Eldridge Park, Rorick's Glen, Quarry Farm, Newtown Creek, Elmira College, Elmira Heights, Eldridge Park, and Brand Park.
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Print: $8.95 ChemungHistory.com and New York History Review are proud to present Chemung County - Through the Lens - Architecture - the first in a series of photographic booklets.
We are pleased to share some architectural images from our collection preserved in the Eleanor Barnes Library. We trust these photographs and postcards will heighten your interest in the rich cultural heritage of the Chemung Valley region.
28 black and white images include:
Views of downtown Elmira streets and buildings, Rathbun Hotel, Chemung County Courthouse, Arnot Gas Works, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western depot, Lehigh Valley depot, Mozart Theater, Steele Memorial Library, Chemung River, Gleason's Water Cure, Brand Park pool, Eldridge Park, Elmira College, Philo Poultry Institute, Elmira Heights, and the State Line Hotel.
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Print: $8.95 Wonderful postcards views of Elmira, New York in beautiful Chemung County. Vintage images date from the 1890s to the 1930s. Old downtown buildings, Eldridge Park, the Chemung River, and more! Travel back in time with ChemungHistory.com's series of postcard and photographic booklets.
28 black and white images including
Views of downtown Elmira including streets, buildings, Arnot-Odgen hospital, Wisner Park, American LaFrance, Arnot Arnot Art Museum, St. Joseph's hospital, the Chemung River, Elmira College, Eldridge Park, Rorick's Glen, Arnot Mill on Newtown Creek, Quarry Farm, Lake Street bridge, and the Rathbun Hotel.
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Print: $18.95 With the 21st century tools of digital wizardry, NYHR Press has created a facsimile of the original program book from the exciting Great Inter-State Fair. Containing pictorial views and detailed descriptions of Elmira, as it stood in 1890.
This book serves as a contemporary anthropological document of life at the end of the 19th century in Chemung County, New York.
Views include downtown Elmira and its churches, Eldridge Park, Brand Park, and Grove Park, the Arnot Ogden Hospital, the Elmira Water Cure, the Palace Bath Rooms, residences and businesses - interior and exterior views... and the full listing of fair entries categories - horses, cattle, swine, poultry, sheep, domestics, machinery, etc.
Paperback book 116 pages.
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Print: $14.95 Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs about Elmira, New York 1854-1919.
Fifth in the series of historic American sheet music books by New York History Review. The songs in this book are specific to the city of Elmira, New York.
Songs in the book include
Elmira Schottisch by A. J. Abbey
Little Barefoot Waltzes by W. O. Wilkenson
Dove Schottish by J. Eliason
Margery by Lucia B. Hazen
St. Omer's Commandery March by Frank A. Remick
The Growler by Charles X. O'Brien
If You Were a Big Red Rose by Charles X. O'Brien
May I Love You by William Cramer
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