Northport vertical file, 1862-1988.

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Northport vertical file, 1862-1988.

Brochures, clippings, booklets, photographs, souvenir anniversary booklets, articles, catalogs, newsletters, correspondence, postcards, and other items pertaining to the history and events of the village of Northport arranged by subject. Subjects include East Northport Railroad Station, local history, military records of Civil War veterans, Northport personalities such as Adele Breaux, Patti LuPone, Rube Goldberg, Jack Kerouac, Edward Thompson Company employees, Booker T. Washington, and others, business and industry, Eatons Neck, Northport harbor, houses, incorporation of village, Main Street, schools, trolley, Veterans Hospital, and views.

1.5 cubic ft.

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Northport Public Library (Northport, N.Y.)

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The Northport Public Library was established in 1914 from the Northport Literary and Library Union. From the description of Records, 1893-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155545933 Collecting area: Activities and personalities relating to Northport, Long Island. Will selectively accept other materials on Northport and on Nassau and Suffolk counties. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 1555469...

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969

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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens. Kerouac spent much of his youth engaged in sports and other physical activities. His athletic prowess earned him a...

Breaux, Adele.

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Author. From the description of Manuscript, 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155545673 ...

Lupone, Patti

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Edward Thompson Company

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Veteran's Hospital (Northport, N.Y.)

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Goldberg, Rube, 1883-1970

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Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) was a cartoonist and inventor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Rube Goldberg interview, 1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 767864573 Cartoonist, inventor. From the description of Rube Goldberg interview, 1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557436 ...