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Urban Neighbors Resources:
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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.

Occasional and Unexpected Neighbors

Gray or Tree Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
Reproduction of color photograph by Leonard Lee Rae III
In: Rebecca L. Grambo, The World of the Fox (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995)
NYPL, General Research Division


Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
Etching by Thomas Landseer from his drawing
In: John Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the northern parts of British America…. Vol. 1 of 4 (London, 1829–37)
NYPL, General Research Division

Eastern Coyote (Canis latrans)
Reproductions of drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton
In: E. T. Seton, Lives of Game Animals: An Account of Those Land Animals in America, North of the Mexican Border…. Vol. 1 of 4 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1925) NYPL, General Research Division

California (Black-tailed) Jack Rabbit (Lepus californicus)
California Jack Rabbit at JFK International Airport
Color photograph by Don Riepe, May 1983
Courtesy of Don Riepe, American Littoral Society


White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Hand-colored lithograph by Joseph Smit from his painting
In: Richard Lydekker, The Deer of All Lands: A History of the Family Cervidae Living and Extinct (London, 1898)
NYPL, General Research Division


Periodical Cicada (Magicicada sp.)
Periodical Cicada on Leaf
, Wolfe’s Pond Park, Staten Island, NYC, June 1992
Color photograph by Michael J. Feller
Courtesy of Michael J. Feller

Florida or West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus)
Reproduction of color illustration by Dugald Stermer
From: "Vanishing Creatures," C. A. – the Journal of Commercial Art and Design, vol. 22, March/April 1980
NYPL, The Branch Libraries, Picture Collection


Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Stranded Humpback Whale on Rockaway Beach, June 1991

Color photograph by Don Riepe
Courtesy of Don Riepe, American Littoral Society

Cobia (Rachycentron canadum)
Hand-colored etching after C. J. Werner
In: Georges Cuvier, Histoire naturelle des poissons…. Vol. 8 (7/8) of 22 vols. in 11 (Paris, 1828–49)
NYPL, General Research Division

1. Remora (Echeneis naucrates), 2. Cobia (Rachycentron canadum)
Hand-colored lithograph after A. J. Ibbotson or A[ntoine] Sorel
In: John Edward Holbrook, Ichthyology of South Carolina. Vol. 1 (all published) (Charleston, S.C., 1860)
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library

Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)
Color reproduction of illustration by William T. Cooper
In: Joseph M. Forshaw, Parrots of the World. 3rd ed. (Willoughby, New South Wales: Lansdowne Editions, 1989)
NYPL, General Research Division

Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)
Monk Parakeets and Nest, outside Kings Plaza Diner, Brooklyn, NYC, 1992
Color photograph by Michael J. Feller
Courtesy of Michael J. Feller


Eastern Chinese Ring-necked Pheasant and subspecies (Phasianus colchicus) sspp.
Chromolithograph after H. Jones
In: William Beebe, A Monograph of the Pheasants. Vol. 3 of 4 (London: Witherby & Co., for the New York Zoological Society, 1918–22)
NYPL, General Research Division

American Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Reproduction of color photograph by Jack A. Barrie
In: J. A. Barrie, Sovereign Wings: The North American Bald Eagle (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomasson-Grant, 1990)
NYPL, General Research Division

"It doesn’t take much to attract a crowd in New York."
Pen-and-ink drawing with watercolor wash by Charles Addams
Published in The New Yorker, June 28, 1941
NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Charles Addams Collection

 


 


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