NEW Elmira and Chemung County Books from New York History Review!

ChemungHistory.com's BIG BOOK of Pictures

Wonderful postcard and photographic views of Elmira, New York in beautiful Chemung County. Vintage images date from the 1850s to the 1940s. Travel back in time with ChemungHistory.com's series of postcard and photographic books. More than 140 black and white images including views of Elmira - streets, buildings, post office, factories, Steele Memorial Library, Elmira City Hall, Chemung County Courthouse, the Armory, Arnot-Odgen Hospital, Star-Gazette, Rathbun Hotel, clock tower, Chemung River, Wisner Park, American LaFrance, Arnot Art Museum, St. Joseph's hospital, Elmira College, Eldridge Park, Rorick's Glen, Arnot Mill on Newtown Creek, Quarry Farm, Lake Street bridge, Main Street bridge, Arnot Gas Works, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western depot, Lehigh Valley depot, Mozart Theater, Gleason's Water Cure, Brand Park, Grove Park, Philo Poultry Institute, Elmira Heights, the State Line Hotel, and Elmira Heights.
Price: $19.95 Paperback book 160 pages

Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs about Elmira, New York 1854-1919

Fifth in the series of historic American sheet music books by New York History Review. The songs in this book are specific to the city of Elmira, New York. Songs in the book include "Elmira Schottisch" by A. J. Abbey, "Little Barefoot Waltzes" by W. O. Wilkenson, "Dove Schottish" by J. Eliason, "Margery" by Lucia B. Hazen, "St. Omer's Commandery March" by Frank A. Remick, "The Growler" by Charles X. O'Brien, "If You Were a Big Red Rose" by Charles X. O'Brien, and "May I Love You" by William Cramer.

In Their Honor: Soldiers of the Confederacy - The Elmira Prison Camp

Michel Fortlouis, a young Confederate soldier, weary of war, was captured by Union troops at Clinton, Louisiana, thirty miles from his home of New Roads. It was August 1864, in the last year of the War Between the States. Corporal Fortlouis was shipped north to the Union Prison Camp at Elmira, New York, where he died of pneumonia within ten days of his arrival. More than 12,000 young Southern men suffered the harsh winter at the camp. Nearly 3,000 died.

In their Honor: Soldiers of the Confederacy – The Elmira Prison Camp respectfully remembers these men and boys, and tells their stories. Research by the author has brought awareness of the soldiers’ relationships - brothers, fathers and sons, cousins and friends. Descendants of the soldiers have contributed harrowing stories of survival or despair. They were captured together. Some made it home.

In their Honor includes narratives from prisoners’ families, and a complete revised list of the Confederate dead at Woodlawn National Cemetery. this book.

Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Central New York

First in a series of historic hometown sheet music books. The 23 songs are specific to the towns, cities, and rivers of central New York. Either written in - or about Elmira, Binghamton, Canisteo, Ithaca, Chenango, Tioga, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica. This collection of Victorian parlor music is spiral bound for easy use at your own piano. Hear "Elmira Schottisch" from Victorian Pride. Songs include "Elmira Schottisch," "Cayuga Mazurka," "Little Barefoot Waltzes," "Life on the Susquehanna," "Vale of the Canisteo," "Oak Leaf Schottish," "Rochester Free Academy March," "Binghamton March," "Susquehanna Waltz," "Syracuse City March," "Tioga Schottish," Utica French Academy March," "Canisteo Polka," "Effie Carrol," "Margery," "Rochester New City March," "Chenango Polka," and more! 120 pages.
Price: $18.95 - Spiral bound Paperback book

Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Central New York music CD

Also available is a music CD of the same book with 17 full length songs beautifully mastered by the George Bailey Orchestra including the songs listed above in book. HEAR ELMIRA SCHOTTISCHE NOW
Price: $18.95 - music CD

Janowski Gardens Cookbook

The Janowski Family has been living and working in Chemung County, New York since coming to America from East Germany (Prussia) in 1872. This cookbook honors their emigration, assimilation into the United States, and their farm products. The family-operated business celebrates its 134th growing season with this historic cookbook. 112 pages.

Price: $18.95 Paperback book

The Great Inter-State Fair Elmira, New York 1890

With the 21st century tools of digital wizardry, NYHR Press has created a facsimile of the original program from the exciting Great Inter-State Fair. The program contains pictorial views and detailed descriptions of Elmira, as it stood in 1890.
Views include Downtown Elmira and its churches, Eldridge, Brand, and Grove Parks, The Arnot Ogden Hospital, The Elmira Water Cure, Palace Bath Rooms, Residences and businesses - interior and exterior views, ...and the full listing of fair entries - horses, cattle, swine, poultry, sheep, domestics, machinery, etc.

This program serves as a contemporary anthropological document of life at the end of the 19th Century in Chemung County, New York. 116 pages.
Price: $18.95 - Paperback book

Victorian Pride - Forgotten Songs of Upstate New York

Songs include "Belles of Buffalo Polka," "Buffalo City Cadet Guard March," "Catskill Katamiaul," "Moonlight on the Catskills," "Chautaqua Lake Waltz," "Memories of Chautauqua," "Duchess of Albany Gavotte," "The Vale of Our Own Genesee," "Herkimer Quadrilles," "Jamestown - The Old Brick House," "Newburgh Centennial March," "Niagara - Clifton House," "Niagara Schottisch," "Oneida Polka," "Onondaga Polka," "Poughkeepsie Polka," "The Belle of Saratoga," "Seneca Schottishe," "Tonawanda Quickstep," and "Yonkers - Twilight."
Price $18.95 - Spiral bound Paperback book 116 pages