Our 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 Victorian era 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.

New 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.

Victorian 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 many more. Third in a series of historic American hometown sheet music books.

Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Central New York

Spiral bound 120 pages: $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!

Victorian 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 "Lehigh Polka," "Easton March," "Pocono Galop," "Lancaster Mazurka," "Ephrata Schottisch Polka," "Williamsport Market Day Polka," and more!

Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Upstate New York

Spiral bound 116 pages $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!

Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Central New York Music CD

Disc: $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 form 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 Gardens Cookbook

Spiral bound 112 pages: $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 134th growing season with this historic cookbook.

Carl Albert Janowski Goes to War and Back

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.

The Great Inter-State Fair Elmira, NY 1890

Paperback 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, domestics, machinery, etc.

Coming Soon - IN THEIR HONOR: Soldiers of the Conferacy, The Elmira Prison Camp

Hardcover XXX pages $XX.XX Finally, a book that honors the soldiers who gave their lives to the Confederacy while imprisoned in the Elmira Prison Camp. Complete list of the Confederate dead at Woodlawn National Cemetery, photographs of the cemetery, and stories and folklore from the families of the soldiers as told in the 21st century.

Coming Soon - MY CENTENNIAL DIARY - A Year in the Life of a Country Boy

Paperback XXX pages $XX.XX 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 hurts!

Coming Soon - MY STORY - A Year in the Life of a Country Girl

Paperback XXX pages $XX.XX 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.