North Brother Island

A photographic survey of North Brother Island, an uninhabited island of ruins in New York City that was once home to a variety of institutional uses, including a quarantine hospital and juvenile drug treatment center.

List of contents

Foreword Robert Sullivan Wildness, Disease, and the Changing Civic Landscape: The History of North Brother Island Randall Mason The Photographs Christopher Payne Afterword Christopher Payne Acknowledgments

About the author

Randall Mason, Robert Sullivan

Summary

A photographic survey of North Brother Island, an uninhabited island of ruins in New York City that was once home to a variety of institutional uses, including a quarantine hospital and juvenile drug treatment center.

Product details

• Authors: Randall Mason, Christopher Payne, Christopher (PHT)/ Mason Payne, Christopher Mason Payne, Robert Sullivan, Robert Mason Sullivan
• Assisted by: Christopher Payne (Photographs)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9780823257713
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-5771-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 293 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Empire State Editions; Empire State Editions
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture