Famous New Yorkers

Famous New Yorkers VIII

Listed in alphabetical order, the following individuals are profiled in this year's series: Thomas Elkins, Ray Evans, Frank Gannett, Lou Gehrig, Julia Ward Howe, Beth Levine, Bob Keeshan, Abraham Maslow, Roger Tory Peterson, John D. Rockefeller, Tim Russert, Mitchell Sabattis, and Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

The posted sample and the series teachers' guide below will give you some idea what these materials have to offer. Please contact Mary Miller at NYNPA if any of these series are of interest to you.

Previous Editions of Famous New Yorkers

Famous New Yorkers I: Alice Austen, Lucille Ball, Francis Bellamy, Danny Biasone, George Eastman, Wilson Greatbatch, Grandma Moses, Robert Moses, Kate Mullaney, Hal Roach, Carl Sagan, William Seward and Sojourner Truth.

Famous New Yorkers II: Antoinette Brown Blackwell, John Brown, Willis Carrier, Frederic Church, Julia Etta Crane, Grace Murray Hopper, Robert H. Jackson, Henry Johnson, Eli Parker, Jedidiah Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary B. Talbert and Walt Whitman.

Famous New Yorkers III: Amelia Jenks Bloomer, DeWitt Clinton, Glenn H. Curtiss, Jane Delano, William J. Donovan, Belva Ann Lockwood, Solomon Northup, Tito Puente, George Pullman, Frederic Remington, Philip John Schuyler, Mary Edwards Walker, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

Famous New Yorkers IV: Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Bourke-White, James Cagney, Cab Calloway, Cornplanter, Chauncey Depew, Gertrude Ederle, Washington Irving, Rev. Jermaine Wesley Loguen, Joan Whitney Payson, Margaret Evans Price, Rod Serling and Frank Winfield Woolworth.

Famous New Yorkers V: Louise Blanchard Bethune, Maria Callas, Theodore Case, Shirley Chisholm, Ezra Cornell, William Fargo, Marietta Holley, John W. Jones, Rosalie Jones, Alfred E. Smith, Seneca Ray Stoddard, Nicholas Stoner and Martin Van Buren.

Famous New Yorkers VI: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, Rodney Dangerfield, Ella Fitzgerald, William Floyd, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Walter Hagen, Anna Caroline Maxwell, Jack Shea, Susan McKinney Steward, Edith Wharton, E.B. White, Helen Munson Williams, and John Peter Zenger.

Famous New Yorkers VII: Fanny Brice, Melville Dewey, Frederick Douglass, Elmer Ellsworth, Sarah Loguen Fraser, Katherine Graham, Leroy Grumman, Alex Haley, Alexander Hamilton, Johnny Hart, Robert R. Livingston, Bruce McKinley Shanks, and Philip Van Cortlandt.

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