PLANES
Takeoff! How Long Island Inspired America to Fly. Newsday, 2000.
[LI 629.1309 Takeoff]
The Thunder Factory: An Illustrated History of the Republic Aviation Corporation,
by Joshua Stoff. Motorbooks Int'l, 1990. [LI 338.7 Stoff]
Grumman: Sixty Years of Excellence, by Bill Gunston. Orion, 1988.
[LI 338.76291 Gunston]
Grumman Aircraft Since 1929, by Rene J. Francillon. NIP, 1989.
[LI 623.746 Francillon]
Flight of Memory: Long Island Aviation History and Folklore, by the
Port Washington Public Library. PWPL Oral History Department. 1999. [LI 629.13 Flight]
Roosevelt Field: World's Premiere Airport, by Joshua Stoff &
William Camp. Sunshine House, 1992. [LI 387.736 Stoff]
TRAINS
The Pennsy Era on Long Island, by Ron Ziel.
Sunrise Special Ltd., 1984. [LI 385.0974 Ziel]
Steel Rails to the Sunrise, by Ron Ziel & George Foster.
Hawthorn, 1975. [LI 385.7 Ziel]
Electric Heritage of the Long Island Rail Road, 1905-1975, by Ron
Ziel, with John Krause. Carstens, 1986. [LI 385.09747 Ziel]
Victorian Railroad Stations of Long Island, by Ron Ziel and
Richard Wettereau. Sunrise Special, 1988. [LI 385.09747 Ziel]
Long Island Rail Road Steam Locomotive Pictorial: A Collection of
Photographs, compiled by David D. Morrison. Cannon Ball, 1987.
[LI 625.26 Morrison]
SHIPS
An Islands Trade: 19th Century Shipbuilding on Long Island, by Richard F. Welch. Mystic
Seaport Museum, 1993. [LI 338.4762382 Welch]
Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork, by Peter Matthiessen. Random
House, 1986. [LI 338.372 South Fork]
The Era of the Joy Line: A Saga of Steamboating on Long Island Sound, by Edwin L.
Dunbaugh. Greenwood, 1982. [LI 387.509 Long]
From Canoes to Cruisers: The Maritime Heritage of Long Island, by Joshua Stoff.
Empire State Books, 1994. [LI 387.10974721 Stoff]
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Picture History of Aviation on Long Island 1908-1938, by
George C.Dade & Frank Strnad. Dover, 1989. [LI 629.13 Dade]
An archive of hundreds of photographs recording the history of aviation on Long Island.
Stories and photographs of the men & women who took us from the farm fields to the moon.
Out of the Thunder Factory came some of the most adventurous and successful warplane designs
in the history of flight.
A world leader in naval aviation, Grumman played a major role in the development of space with
the Lunar Module and the Space Station.
The development and service histories of all Grumman aircraft from the earliest FF and SF
biplanes to the F-14 Tomcat.
A CD-ROM focusing on the aeronautical heritage of Long Island.
The definitive account Long Island's most famous by-gone airfield.
The Long Island Railroad in Early Photographs, by Ron Ziel.
Dover, 1990. [LI 385.09747 Ziel]
225 photographs taken between 1865 and 1955 depicting the history of the 95 mile trip from
Brooklyn to Greenport.
Story of the L.I. Railroad (1900-1966) owned by a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Pictorial history of one of Americas most unusual railroads.
Another illuminating pictorial.
Details the fascinating array of depot buildings that have served LIRR passengers over the past
150 years.
A paean to the steam locomotives that once graced the Sunrise Trail.
Splendor Sailed the Sound, by George H. Foster & Peter C. Weiglin. Potentials Group, 1989.
[LI 380 Foster]
Steamboating on the 120 mile waterway from New York to New England.
Tells the story of the North Shore shipyards and how Port Jefferson emerged as a leading
shipbuilding center.
Portrays the 300 year old culture of the commercial fisherman on the eastern end of Long Island
Around the turn of the century, more than a dozen steamships carried passengers and freight up
and down LI Sound. Nearly all of the lines were under the monopolistic control of J. P.
Morgan-all except the Joy Line.
An overview of Long Island's maritime history from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Orient Point.
--Compiled by Linda Bova
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