Long Island information files, 1885-1988.

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Long Island information files, 1885-1988.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155546085

Clippings, brochures, guidebooks, booklets, articles, newsletters, reports, photographs, copies of postcards, and pamphlets. Contains information on agriculture, ecology, town and village histories, parks and historic sites, architecture, industry and business, biographies, the arts, geology, education, elections, marine life, Long Island Lighting Company, Long Island Railroad, Indians, lighthouses, shipwrecks, Suffolk County government, transportation, water supply, Indian photographs from the collection of Chief Red Thunder Cloud, weather, and refuse disposal.

32 cubic ft.

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6882479

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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Red Thunder Cloud, 1919-1996

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