At TWOB, we do our best to quench your thirst for everything “old Staten Island,” so today’s discovery of a book published by Reau Campbell for the Staten Island Transit Railroad in 1889 is a veritable goldmine. Rides and Rambles on Staten Island highlights things to do around the island, and outlining adventures that people could have on our island, basically making ‘Rambles’ a pre-internet version of This Way on Bay. Included in the print, which can be found on Archive.org, is an old map of Staten Island and it’s rail system.
Archive.org is is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more. Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive has an historical web collection (the Wayback Machine) of over 150 billion web pages, about 240,000 movies, over 500,000 audio items (including over 70,000 live concerts), over 1,800,000 texts, 1600 education items, and over 30,000 software items. And we’re growing bigger every day! Learn more about them, here.
Flip through the old text of ‘Rides and Rambles’ on Archive.org, here.
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