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The international dictionary of 20th century biography / Edward Vernoff and Rima Shore.
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : New American Library, 1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 03-335 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Longman Dictionary of 20th century biography / consultant editor, Asa Briggs ; editors, Alan Isaacs, Elizabeth Martin.
- Text
- Essex, England : Longman, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CT120 .L59 1985 Off-site Longman Dictionary of 20th century biography / consultant editor, Asa Briggs ; editors, Alan Isaacs, Elizabeth Martin.
- Text
- Harlow, Essex, England : Longman, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR CT120 .L59 1985 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Chambers British biographies : the 20th century / editor, Min Lee ; assistant editor, Melanie Hanbury.
- Text
- Edinburgh : Chambers, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 94-18244 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
An auto biography : depicting the 20th century marvels of the wheel / S. Sundaresan.
- Text
- New Delhi : Sterling ; New York, N.Y. : APT Books, Inc., c1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HD9710.U26S96 Off-site Encyclopedia of world biography : 20th century supplement / [editor in chief, David Eggenberger].
- Text
- Palatine, Ill. : J. Heraty, <c1987-1989>.
- 1987-1989
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CT103 .M27 Suppl. suppl. vol. 4 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CT103 .M27 Suppl. suppl. vol. 3 Off-site Encyclopedia of world biography : 20th century supplement / [editor in chief, David Eggenberger].
- Text
- Palatine, Ill. : J. Heraty, <c1987-1989>.
- 1987-1989
- 4 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CT103 .M27 Suppl. suppl. vol. 4 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CT103 .M27 Suppl. suppl. vol. 3 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CT103 .M27 Suppl. suppl. vol. 2 Off-site An auto biography : depicting the 20th century marvels of the wheel / S. Sundaresan.
- Text
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HD9710.U26S96 Off-site Willie Pep : a biography of the 20th century's greatest featherweight / Mark Allen Baker.
- Text
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022]
- 2022
- 1 Resource
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- Text
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022]
- 2022
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://i.ezproxy.nypl.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3375679Outstanding people of the 20th century ; including, 2000 outstanding writers of the 20th century / editor in chief Jon Gifford.
- Text
- Cambridge : International Biographical Centre, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 03-13913 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Black heroes of the 20th century / Jessie Carney Smith, editor ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni.
- Text
- Detroit, MI : Visible Ink Press, 1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 98-343 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
20th century characters / Duncan Fallowell.
- Text
- London : Vintage, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CT120 .F33 1994g Off-site Prominent women of the 20th century / edited by Peggy Saari.
- Text
- New York : U.X.L, c1996.
- 1996
- 4 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 03-8095 v. 4 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 03-8095 v. 3 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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20th century scrapbook: worldwide.
- Text
- Bronx, N.Y., F.C. Wuttge [19--]
- 19
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-20 5159 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Twenty 20th century Jews, by S. J. Goldsmith. Drawings by Juliet Pannett.
- Text
- Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1969, c1962]
- 1969-
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *PWR (Goldsmith, S. J. Twenty 20th century Jews) Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The 20th century off the record / Gilbert Mant.
- Text
- Kenthurst, N.S.W., Australia : Kangaroo Press, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 96-1444 --- Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Outstanding Ewes of the 20th century / D.E.K. Amenumey.
- Text
- Accra : Woeli Pub. Services, 2002-
- 2002-present
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DT510.43.E94 A48 2002 v.2 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DT510.43.E94 A48 2002 v.1 Off-site Russian mathematicians in the 20th century / editor, Yakov Sinai.
- Text
- Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JBF 18-296 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
20th century scrapbook: presidents.
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- Bronx, N.Y., F.C. Wuttge, 19--
- 19
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-20 5158 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Outstanding Ewes of the 20th century / D.E.K. Amenumey.
- Text
- Accra : Woeli Pub. Services, 2002-
- 2002-present
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 10-241 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Fame in the 20th century / Clive James.
- Text
- New York : Random House, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 93-2402 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Blues singers : biographies of 50 legendary artists of the early 20th century / by David Dicaire.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [1999], ©1999.
- 1999-1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML400 .D53 1999 Off-site Japanese women novelists in the 20th century : 104 biographies, 1900-1993 / Sachiko Schierbeck.
- Text
- [Copenhagen] : Museum Tusculanum Press : University of Copenhagen ; New York : Distribution in USA, Paul, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OSQ 00-2079 Offsite Power and persuasion; biographies of twenty great men of the 19th and 20th centuries [by] R. D. Walshe, J. J. Cosgrove [and] E. B. McKillop.
- Text
- Sydney, Reed Education [1974]
- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 77-9556 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Writers' biographies and family histories in 20th- and 21st-century literature / edited by Aude Haffen and Lucie Guiheneuf.
- Text
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
- 2018
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 18-4542 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Icons of architecture : the 20th century / edited by Sabine Thiel-Siling ; with contributions by Wolfgang Bachmann ... [et al.].
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- Munich ; New York : Prestel, 1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NA680 .I26 1998q Oversize Off-site Icons of architecture : the 20th century / edited by Sabine Thiel-Siling ; with contributions by Wolfgang Bachmann ... [et al.].
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- Munich ; New York : Prestel, 1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NA680.I26 1998q Off-site Icons of architecture : the 20th century / edited by Sabine Thiel-Siling ; with contributions by Wolfgang Bachmann ... [et al.].
- Text
- Munich ; New York : Prestel, 1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-MQK+ 00-13265 Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
More blues singers : biographies of 50 artists from the later 20th century / by David Dicaire.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2002], ©2002.
- 2002-2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML394 .D53 2001 Off-site Dge-ʼdun-chos-ʼphel : a biography of the 20th century Tibetan scholar / Irmgard Mengele.
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- Dharamsala, H.P. : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OZ 00-10134 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
More blues singers : biographies of 50 artists from the later 20th century / by David Dicaire.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2002.
- 2002
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 02-255 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 08-372 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Champion batsmen of the 20th century / by John Thom.
- Text
- Los Angeles, CA : Bat & Ball Press, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 84-5926 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
A guide to 20th-century composers / Mark Morris.
- Text
- London : Methuen, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 97-436 Offsite Japanese women novelists in the 20th century : 104 biographies 1990-1993 / Sachiko Schierbeck.
- Text
- Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen ; N[ew] Y[ork], NY : Distributed in USA and Canada [by] Paul & Co., 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PL723 .S354 1994g Off-site Icelandic poetry in the 20th century / translations and biographies by Hallberg Hallmundsson.
- Text
- Reykjavik : BRÚ, 2012.
- 2012
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Off-site Blues singers : biographies of 50 legendary artists of the early 20th century / by David Dicaire.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1999.
- 1999
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 99-648 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 02-2306 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Women composers of classical music : 369 biographies from 1550 into the 20th century / Mary F. McVicker.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.
- 2011
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 11-630 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Modern Irish lives : dictionary of 20th-century Irish biography / general editor, Louis McRedmond.
- Text
- Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR CT862 .M63 1996b Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Romanian diplomacy in the 20th century : biographies, institutional pathways, international challenges / Adrian Viţalaru, Ionuţ Nistor, Adrian-Bogdan Ceobanu (eds.).
- Text
- Berlin ; New York : Peter Lang, [2021]
- 2021
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text DR226 .R66 2021 Off-site 20th century Americans.
- Text
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text S 20.2:T 91 Off-site Icons of art : the 20th century / edited by Jürgen Tesch and Eckhard Hollmann.
- Text
- Munich ; New York : Prestel, c2003.
- 2003-1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JQF 04-263 Schwarzman Building M1 - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1 to submit a request in person.
Icons of photography : the 20th century / edited by Peter Stepan.
- Text
- Munich ; New York : Prestel, 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MFW+ 99-10037 Schwarzman Building M2 - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Armenian palette of the 20th Century / Henrik Igitian.
- Text
- Erevan : Tigran Mets, 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text N7292.6 .I33 2004g Off-site Icons of design! : the 20th century / editorial committee: Volker Albus, Reyer Kras, Jonathan M. Woodham ; with contributions from: Volker Albus ... [et al.] ; with a foreword by Reyer Kras.
- Text
- Munich ; New York : Prestel, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JQE 04-747 Offsite Outstanding Ewes of the 20th century / D.E.K. Amenumey.
- Text
- Accra : Woeli Pub. Services, 2002-
- 2002-present
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 23-4949 Offsite The Century of invention : piano music of the 20th century / selected and introduced by Maurice Hinson.
- Notated music
- Valley Forge, Pa. : European American Music Corp., [1996], ©1996.
- 1996-1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music 10 C333 Off-site The Century of invention : piano music of the 20th century / selected and introduced by Maurice Hinson.
- Notated music
- Valley Forge, Pa. : European American Music, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JMG 96-304 Offsite Greatest athletes of the 20th century / by Tim Crothers and John Garrity.
- Text
- Des Moines, IA : Sports Illustrated Books, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 03-1009 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
20th century Americans.
- Text
- Washington, DC (330 Independence Avenue SW, Washington 20237) : Voice of America, [2000?]
- 2000
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433017673611Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 01-4276 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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