Urban Neighbors Resources:
Checklist

Historical Neighbors
Street and Backyard Neighbors
Park and Green Places Neighbors
Shore and Wetlands Neighbors
Salt and Freshwater Neighbors
Tiny Neighbors
Unwelcome Neighbors
Occasional and Unexpected Neighbors

Below is a list of items on display in the exhibition Urban Neighbors: Images of New York City Wildlife (October 11, 2002 - Febuary 1, 2003). The separate pages of the checklist correspond to the different sections into which the exhibition was organized.

Unwelcome Neighbors

Animals for whom almost no one has a good word.

House Mouse (Mus musculus)
Wood-engraving
In: Ernest Ingersoll, Friends Worth Knowing: Glimpses of American Natural History (New York, 1880)
NYPL, General Research Division

House Mouse (generic)
Cover for The New Yorker, April 24, 1989; illustration by James Stevenson
Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New Yorker Covers Collection, Gift of E. J. Kahn, Jr.

House Mouse (Mus musculus)
Page of handwritten letter in ink, from Edna St. Vincent Millay to her sister Kathleen, February 25, 1918
NYPL, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

House Mouse (Mus musculus)
Reproduction of color illustration by Leonard Baskin
In: Leonard Baskin, Miniature Natural History. First series. Vol. 3 (Domestic Animals) of 4 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1983)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus)
Hand-colored lithograph after John James Audubon
In: J. J. Audubon and John Bachman, The Quadrupeds of North America. Vol. 2 of 3 (New York, 1849–54)
NYPL, George Arents Collection of Books in Parts

Rat (generic)
Reproduction of color photograph by Christopher Beirne
From: "Attack of the Giant Rat" by Lynn Snowden, George, July 1998
NYPL, The Branch Libraries, Picture Collection

Rat and Cockroach (generic)
Reproduction of drawing by George Herriman
In: Don Marquis, The Best of Don Marquis (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1946)
NYPL, General Research Division

Cockroach (generic)
Reproduction of illustration by Leonard Baskin
In: Esther Baskin, Creatures of Darkness (Boston: Little, Brown, 1962)
NYPL, General Research Division

Human Head Louse (Pediculus humanus capitis)
Reproduction of illustration by R.J.C. Terzi
In: John Smart, A Handbook for the Identification of Insects of Medical Importance…. 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1943, 1944)
NYPL, General Research Division

American Dog Tick (Dermacentor variabilis), Flea (unidentified sp.), Bedbug (Cimex lectularius), and Body Louse (Pediculus h. humanus)
Reproductions of photographs by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine; and J. G. Pratt
In: Anthony Standen, Insect Invaders (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943)
NYPL, General Research Division

House Fly (Musca domestica)
Reproduction of drawing in text by Carl Burger
In: Will Barker, Familiar Insects of America (New York: Harper, 1960)
NYPL, General Research Division

Mosquito (Culex pipiens)
Unsigned wood-engraving
In: Louis Figuier, The Insect World: being a popular account of the orders of insects…. Trans. of Les insects. New ed., rev. and corr. by P. Martin Duncan (London, New York, [1872])
NYPL, General Research Division

Mosquito (Culex pipiens)
"Mosquito-proof NYC …/The bite stops here"
West Nile virus poster, New York City Department of Health, 2000
Gift of New York City Department of Health

Mosquito (Culex pipiens) and Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
"The Bite of Spring"
Cover for The New Yorker, April 17, 2000; illustration by Peter de Sève
Private Collection

Locust Borer (Megacyllene robiniae)
Locust Borer on Seaside Goldenrod, at Goose Creek Marsh, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, Sept. 25, 1997
Color photograph by David S. Künstler
Courtesy of David S. Künstler, City of New York/Parks & Recreation

Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar)
Color reproduction of unsigned illustration
In: Ephraim P. Felt, The Gipsy and Brown Tail Moth. New York State Museum and Science Service Bulletin no. 10. Entomology no. 25 (Albany: New York State Education Department, 1906)
NYPL, General Research Division

1. Brown House Moth (Hofmannophila pseudospretella), 2. White-shouldered House Moth (Endrosis sarcitrella), 3. Common Clothes Moth (Tineola bisselliella), 4. & 5. Casebearing Clothes Moth (Tinea pellionella)
Reproduction of unsigned illustration
In: Norman E. Hickin, Household Insect Pests: An Outline of the Identification, Biology, and Control of the Common Insect Pests Found in the Home (London: Hutchinson, 1964)
NYPL, General Research Division

Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)
Pest Alert: Asian Longhorned Beetle
USDA Forest Service and USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Poster (Radnor, Pa.: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Northeastern Area, [Jan. 1999])
Gift of City of New York/Parks & Recreation

Common Shipworm (Teredo navalis) and other marine invertebrates
Hand-colored lithograph after "Mr. Sowerby" (probably George Brettingham Sowerby)
In: John George Wood, The Common Objects of the Seashore: including hints for an aquarium (London, 1866)
NYPL, General Research Division