Expect to hear more on these datasets, and their implications for the Library's NYC Space/Time Directory soon. Where, for instance, were theaters on Broadway located overtime? Where did people live and work? Can we see in datasets derived from the information in the directories a history of commuting? Where were cemeteries located in New York? What types of business were most prevalent? What were the different types of family names listed in New York City? How many people were listed in the directories? Where did our ancestors live in the city during the years covered? The potential for new knowledge creation is limitless. For instance, and I'm speaking theoretically here, researchers might be able to track addresses across directories. The directories will eventually be text searchable, enabling researchers to create new datasets. Initially the city directories will be browseable, through NYPL Digital Collections, but the Library wants to make the directories work harder, to integrate them with other digital collections: maps, deeds, census records, family histories, prints, photographs, and so on.
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Now anyone and everyone will be able to access the directories free of charge, online. The Library has, where possible, scanned the directories, presenting them as hi-res, color surrogates of the original print copies. In many instances, the directories were reproduced from microfilm only. One or two could be found on the Internet, but coverage there was patchy. what we now might call Manhattan) were available only in the Library, either on microfilm, or via subscription databases, the original print directories now being too delicate to be regularly served to patrons. Previously the directories for New York City (i.e. Directories record the city's built and commercial history. In addition to textual information, city directories feature many images, including maps, illustrations of buildings, and advertisements, occasionally printed on colored or decorative paper. Not for nothing were the early directories often referred to as almanacs. They record the price of travel and postage, the kinds of occupations undertaken in the city, the layout of streets, and at what time the sun was predicted to rise and set. Weill Cornell Medicine is also affiliated with Houston Methodist.City directories contain much more than lists of names and addresses. Weill Cornell Medicine faculty provide exemplary patient care at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Weill Cornell Medicine's powerful network of collaborators extends to its parent university Cornell University to Qatar, where Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar offers a Cornell University medical degree and to programs in Tanzania, Haiti, Brazil, Austria and Turkey. Since 1898, our doctors and scientists have been engaged in world-class clinical care and cutting-edge research that connect patients to the latest treatment innovations and prevention strategies. Weill Cornell Medicine is committed to excellence in patient care, scientific discovery and the education of future physicians in New York City and around the world. International Affairs and Affiliations Leadership.
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