Staten Island : Volume II; A Closer Look

by Lundrigan, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780738502038
• ISBN10: 0738502030
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Arcadia Pub

Summary

Here is Staten Island at its liveliest. Through an outstanding selection of images coupled with an insightful narrative, this New York City borough emerges, with friends and families at play, at work, and in between. Staten Island once hosted noteworthy visitors from the Wild West, such as Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley. It served as an arena for politics and prominent political figures, including Kennedy, Rockefeller, Nixon, and Eisenhower. It was also an arena for sports of many sorts'”baseball, football, tennis, bowling, racing, and hunting. Within this remarkable collection, these everyday scenes and many others come to life before our eyes, inviting us to experience moments that have been captured in time.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	6	(1)
Introduction	7	(2)
The Wild West	9	(8)
The Sporting Life	17	(28)
Personalities and Famous Visitors	45	(8)
Public Works	53	(16)
Business	69	(14)
Island Life	83	(45)
Bibliography	128