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confederate soldiersBRAND NEW! - IN THEIR HONOR: Soldiers of the Confederacy, The Elmira Prison Camp
Hard and softcover editions

Hardcover edition $39.95 and softcover edition $21.95. In their Honor - Soldiers of the Confederacy - The Elmira Prison Camp respectfully remembers the men and boys, and tells their stories. Research by the author has brought awareness of the soldiers’ relationships - brothers, fathers and sons, cousins and friends. Descendants of the soldiers have contributed harrowing stories of survival or despair. They were captured together. Some made it home.

In their Honor includes narratives from prisoners’ families, and a complete revised list of the Confederate dead at Woodlawn National Cemetery.

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victorian christmasBRAND NEW! Victorian Pride - Forgotten Christmas Songs 1853-1885
Softcover 80 pages $24.95

This sheet music book is perfect if you enjoy a Victorian themed holiday season brimming with elegance and gentility. Wonderful old holiday songs include "Christmas Bells," "Merry Christmas Polka," "Dear Old Christmas Story," "Santa Claus Galop," and many more written between 1853 and 1885. Sixth in our series of historic American sheet music books. 80 pages. Beautiful Victorian Christmas music that is long forgotten.

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ChemungHistory.com's BIG BOOK of Pictureselmira pictures
Softcover 160 pages: $19.95 by Diane Janowski

Wonderful postcard and photographic views of Elmira, New York in beautiful Chemung County. Vintage images date from the 1850s to the 1940s.
More than 140 black and white images including views of Elmira - streets, buildings, post office, factories, Steele Memorial Library, Elmira City Hall, Chemung County Courthouse, the Armory, Arnot-Odgen Hospital, Star-Gazette, Rathbun Hotel, clock tower, Chemung River, Wisner Park, American LaFrance, Arnot Art Museum, St. Joseph's hospital, Elmira College, Eldridge Park, Rorick's Glen, Arnot Mill on Newtown Creek, Quarry Farm, Lake Street bridge, Main Street bridge, Arnot Gas Works, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western depot, Lehigh Valley depot, Mozart Theater, Gleason's Water Cure, Brand Park, Grove Park, Philo Poultry Institute, Elmira Heights, the State Line Hotel, and Elmira Heights.
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skaneateles, new yorkNEW! MY CENTENNIAL DIARY - A Year in the Life of a Country Boy
Softcover 88 pages $12.95 by Earll K. Gurnee, 1876.

A wonderful diary written by Earl K. Gurnee in Skaneateles, New York in 1876. A teaching example of life in the late 1800's. School, family life, social life, farm life, girlfriends, hard work. Earl's teacher gets arrested for being too brutal to children, Earl juggles two girlfriends, Earl plows, cuts hay, cleans out the horse barn....then wonders why his back new york historyhurts!



ida burnettNEW! MY STORY - A Year in the Life of a Country Girl
Softcover 80 pages $12.95 by Ida Burnett of Logan, New York in 1880.

The second in our series of teaching diaries. 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.
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lucy potterNEW! A DARNED GOOD TIME
Softcover 140 pages $14.95 by Miss Lucy Potter of Taylor, New York, 1868

An upstate New York diary written by Miss Lucy Potter, age 13, in 1868-69. What happened on a normal day to a normal teenager in 1868? Step inside the world of 13-year-old Lucy as she lives her everyday life in Taylor, New York (Cortland County). Classes, teachers, friends, boys, a new stepmother, an elderly aunt, and complaints against upstate New York's weather. Lucy's words transport us through time to experience teenage life in the years after the Civil War. Perspectives may change, but 13-year-old girls' interests remain constant over the generations. The third book in our Learning from History series.
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new york historyOur Own Book - A Victorian Guide to Life
Paperback 332 pages: $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 questions as a Victorian person!new york history


victorian weddingsVictorian Pride - Victorian Wedding Songs
Paperback 163 pages: $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 new york historymany more. Third in our series of historic American hometown sheet music books.



new york historyNew York History Review Issue #1
Paperback 60 pages: $10.00

New York History Review magazine explores all aspects of New York State's rich and diverse local history.

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central new yorkVictorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Central New York
Spiral bound 120 pages: $18.95

First in our 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," new york history"Canisteo Polka," "Effie Carrol," "Margery," "Rochester New City March," "Chenango Polka," and more!


pennsylvaniaVictorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Pennsylvania
Spiral bound 108 pages: $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 new york history"Lehigh Polka," "Easton March," "Pocono Galop," "Lancaster Mazurka," "Ephrata Schottisch Polka," "Williamsport Market Day Polka," and more!

upstate new yorkVictorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Upstate New York
Spiral bound 116 pages $18.95

Second in our 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 new york history
Belle of Saratoga," " Tonawanda Quickstep," "Yonkers Twilight Reverie," and more!

Vnew york cdictorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Upstate New York music CD
Music CD: $18.95

Also available from New York History Review Press is a music CD of the same book with 16 full length songs beautifully mastered by the George Bailey Orchestra including many of the songs listed above in book.
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new york musicVictorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Central New York Music CD
Music CD: $18.95

First in a series of historic hometown sheet music CDs. Victorian Pride - Central New York heralds the songs written in or about Elmira, Binghamton, Ithaca, Canisteo, Chenango, Tioga, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica in central New York. The songs on this CD are a different and unique type of history - when you hear them, you feel an instant connection with the composer. You are instantly transported back in time. The songs here date new york historyform 1841 to 1885. Songs include most of the ones listed in book - beautifully mastered by the George Bailey Orchestra. Over 45 minutes. This CD is a companion to the book of the same name.

janowski gardensJanowski Gardens Cookbook
Softcover 112 pages: $18.95

Janowski Gardens is proud to present this SECOND edition 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 new york historytheir 134th growing season with this historic cookbook.

carl albert janowskiCarl Albert Janowski Goes to War and Back by Diane Janowski
Hardcover 40 pages: $24.95

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 U.S. Army's 78th Division (the Lightning Division), 309th Infantry from May 1918 to February 1919 in France.
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chemung county fairThe Great Inter-State Fair Elmira, NY 1890
Softcover 116 pages $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, new york history
domestics, machinery, etc.

baby shower bookVictorian Pride - My Baby Book
Casewrap hardcover book. $19.95 by Maude Ennick

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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