SIBL Parsons Collection

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The American transportation problem; a study of American transportation conditions with a view to ascertaining what policy Americans should adopt in order to effectively meet existing conditions and b.... (1909)
The costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being fac-similes of original drawings. With descriptions in English and French. (1814)
Della trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano et delle fabriche di nostro signore papa Sisto V fatte dal cavallier Domenico Fontana, architetto di Sva Santita, libro primo. (1590)
An explanation of the works of the tunnel under the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping. (1836)
Illustrated description of the Broadway underground railway, with explanatory details and engravings of the atmospheric machinery, pneumatic passenger-car, pneumatic postal dispatch, underground tunne.... (1872)
Interborough rapid transit; the New York subway, its construction and equipment. (1904)
Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters : containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power ; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton...history of .... (1856)
[A miscellaneous collection of pamphlets, broadsides, etc., relating to the projects of the New York District Railway Company.] ([1886-91])
New and rare inventions of water-works; shewing the easiest ways to raise water higher than the spring. By which invention, the perpetual motion is proposed, many hard labours performed, and varieties.... (1701)
Playing cards: Engineering.
Playing cards: Mechanics. (ca. 1702)
Puits et Fontaines. Magnifico Melchiori Lorichio (pictori) Flensburgensi, Philippus Gallæus. (1573)
Report of a special commission designated by the Senate to ascertain the best means for the transportation of passengers in the city of New York. Albany, January 31, 1867. ([1867])
Shipping illustrated, (v. 60, no. 774, Sept. 1917). (1917)
A sketch of the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents. (1848)
Theatrum machinarum novum : exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias; pedibus, ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et diversas molas, variis frumentis commolendis, chartæ, & nitrato pulveri app.... (1662)

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Africana & Black History
Customs and Costume: Surveys and Examples of National Studies, to 1900
Illustrated Classics of Engineering from the William Barclay Parsons Collection and Others
Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs

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Five of hearts: Cone.
Digital ID: 1126318

Five of hearts: Cone.

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Playing cards: Mechanics.

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