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Bronx Research

Includes references to books, archival collections, digital sources and web sites sources helpful in researching the Bronx.

Leonard Lief Library -- Special Collections

Special Collections is open by appointment &  holds the Bronx Institute Archives:

   Oral history interviews     Photographs  

   Minutes    Books    Maps & atlases   

   Documents & organizational archives

 

 

Sample Collections

Notable archival collections include the following:

  • Bronx Regional and Community History Oral Collection
  • Bronx African American History Project
  • Riverdale Neighborhood House Collection
  • Papers of Jill Jonnes (South Bronx)
  • Fordham Manor Reformed Church Collection*
  • Rev. Dr. William A. Tieck Collection (Riverdale, Kingsbridge and Spuyten Duyvil
  • Robert Loeb Collection (parks and forests)
  • Bronx Chamber of Commerce Collection*

Microfilmed*