What Do We Collect?

The following items represent just a portion of our collected resource and archival materials:

Historic Maps:

Historic maps and atlases constitute an invaluable record of urban growth in the United States.  Historians, genealogists, urban planners, geographers, economists, scholars, and many others consult these maps for the wealth of detailed data which they embrace.

We rely heavily on our map collection to study the development of our streets and towns, and we refer to them almost daily in our work and research.

• 1850 Matthew Dripps Map of Staten Island
• 1853 James Butler Map of Staten Island
• 1859 H.F. Walling Map of Staten Island
• 1874 J.B. Beers and Company, Atlas of Staten Island
• 1887 Beers New Map of Staten Island (sample)
• 1898 E. Robinson & Co. Map of Staten Island  (sample)
• 1907 E. Robinson & Co. Atlas of the Borough of Richmond
• 1917 G.W. Bromley and Co., Borough of Richmond
• 1930 Sanborn Map Company
• 1925 Map of Richmond Shores “A Harmon Development”
• 1909-1913 Borough of Richmond Topographical  Survey Maps
• 1892 Map of Raritan Bay Park, William Ziegler, Esq.
• Hagstrom’s Street Maps of Richmond:  1941, c. 1950, 1960, c. 1967, 1970

Microfilm:

• 1855-1865-1875-1915-1925 New York State Census, Westfield, Staten Island, NY
• Staten Island Gravestone Inscriptions, Vol. II, transcribed and edited by Royden, Woodward and Vosburgh, 1925
• Westfield Staten Island NY Vital Records (1882-1887)
• Bethel M.E. Church Records, Tottenville (1841-1869 incomplete)
• St. Paul’s Methodist Church Records, Tottenville (1876-1890 incomplete)

Library Collection:

Our growing Library Collection includes a large selection of Staten Island reference materials, as well as biographical material, architectural titles, and non-fiction:

• A Study of A Community - Staten Island Architecture and Environment , by George Szekely and Dianna Gabay
• Children’s Shepherd.  The Story of John Christopher Drumgoole, Father of the Homeless , by Katherine Burton
• Did This Really Happen? by Herbert Berger, M.D., F.A.C.P, F.C.C.P.
• History of Richmond County (Staten Island) New York,  from its discovery to the present time / Ed. by Richard M. Bayles
• Made on Staten Island , by Charles L. Sachs
• Morris’s Memorial History of Staten Island , by Ira K. Morris
• New York Historic Homes and Family History, Volumes I-IV , by William S. Pelletreau
• Next Stop, Annadale! by Gertrude M. Egish
• No More Trains to Tottenville , by Hope Campbell
• Our Fathers Have Told Us , a compilation by Ella Wager
• Oystering from New York to Boston, by John M. Kochiss
• Realms of  History:  The Cemeteries of Staten Island , by Patricia M. Salmon
• A Century of Service to Dentistry, 1844-1944 , by The S.S.White Dental  Mfg. Co.
• Staten Island and Its People, Vols. I-V, by Charles W. Leng and William T. Davis
• Staten Island.  A Resource Manual for School and Community , Board of Education of the City of  New York
• Staten Island In Old Post Cards , by Brian Merlis and Bob Stonehill
• Terra-Cotta Skyline , by Susan Tunick
• The Fisheries of Raritan Bay , by Clyde L. MacKenzie, Jr.
• Tottenville In Retrospect ,  Benjamin F. Joline
• William Page - The American Titian , by Joshua C. Taylor      
  
• The Commodore's Story, by Ralph Middleton Munroe and Vincent Gilpin
• A recent gift of more than 10 books on architecture.