Old New York

Old New York, with 342 books, includes history, travel guide books, travel experience books, books about the building of the New York Subway and railway tunnels, the periodicals Knickerbocker and Punchinello, and the works of authors who lived in New York, such as Horatio Alger, James Fenimore Cooper, O. Henry, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, and Walt Whitman.

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Table of Contents

History

• Bank of the Manhattan Company
• The Campaign of 1776 Around new York and Brooklyn by Henry Johnston
• Civil Government for Common Schools (New York State) by Henry Northam
• Consumer's Cooperative Societies in New York State, 1922, by the Consumer's League of New York
• A Discourse on the Life, Character, and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck by William Cullen Bryant, 1870
• Great Riots of New York 1712 to 1873 by J. T. Headley
• Henry Hudson: a brief statement of his aims and his achievements by Thomas Janvier, 1909
• The Hudson and Its Hills (= volume 1 of Myths and Legends of Our Own Land) by Charles Skinner
• The Hudson: three centuries of history, romance, and invention by Wallace Bruce, 1907
• Knickerbocker's History of New York by Washington Irving
• Making Both Ends Meet: the income and outlay of New York working girls by Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt, 1911
• Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 edited by J. Franklin Jameson
• New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis 1904, report of the New York State Commission, 1907
• A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippman
• The Secrets of the Great City, a work descriptive of the virtues, vices, mysteries, miseries, and crimes of New York City by Edward Winslow Martin
• A Sketch of the History of Oneonta [New York] by Dudley Campbell, 1883
• The Story of Cooperstown by Ralph Birdsall
• The Story of Manhattan by Charles Hemstreet, 1901

Travel Guide Books

• Fifth Avenue by Arthur Bartlett Maurice, 1918
• Greenwich Village by Anna Alice Chapin, 1917
• The Hudson by Wallace Bruce, 1907
• Lights and Shadows of New York Life by James McCabe, Jr., 1872

Travel Experience

• Better Homes in America by Mrs. W.B. Meloney
• Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope [mother of Anthony] (1832)
• Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson
• North America by Anthony Trollope
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile by Arthur Jerome Eddy
• A Visit to the US in 1841 by Joseph Sturge, 1842
• Your United States: Impressions of a First Visit by Arnold Bennett, 1912

Technology in New York

History of Steam on the Erie Canal

The New York Subway and Its Construction, 1904

• New York Tunnel Extension
• Paper 1150
• Paper 1151 North River Division
• Paper 1152 East River
• Paper 1153
• Paper 1154 The Bergen Hill Tunnels
• Paper 1156 Terminal Station West
• Paper 1157 Site of the Terminal Station
• Paper 1158
• Paper 1159 East River Tunnels

New York Periodicals

The Knickerbocker

• Jan. 1844
• Feb. 1844
• March 1844
• April 1844

Punchinello

• April 2, 1870
• April 9, 1870
• April 16, 1870
• April 23, 1870
• April 30, 1870
• May 7, 1870
• May 14, 1870
• May 21, 1870
• May 28, 1870
• June 4, 1870
• June 11, 1870
• June 18, 1870
• June 25, 1870
• July 2, 1870
• July 9, 1870
• July 16, 1870
• July 23, 1870
• July 30, 1870
• August 6, 1870
• August 13, 1870
• August 20, 1870
• August 27, 1870
• September 3, 1870
• September 10, 1870
• September 17, 1870
• September 24, 1870
• October 1, 1870
• October 8, 1870
• October 15, 1870
• October 22, 1870
• October 29, 1870
• November 8, 1870
• November 12, 1870
• November 19, 1870
• November 26, 1870
• December 3, 1870
• December 10, 1870
• December 17, 1870
• December 24, 1870

New York Religion

• Lutherans of New York by George Werner, 1918

Authors who lived in New York

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1834-1899), bio at Wikipedia

• Adrift in New York
• Andy Grant's Pluck
• Ballads
• Bound to Rise
• Brave and Bold
• The Cash Boy
• Cast Upon the Breakers
• Do and Dare
• Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience
• The Errand Boy, or How Phil Brent Won Success
• Facing the World
• Fame and Fortune
• Frank and Fearless
• Frank's Campaign, or the Farm and the Camp
• From Canal Boy to President or the Boyhood and manhood of James Garfield, 1881
• Hector's Inheritance
• Helping Himself
• Herbert Carter's Son
• Jack's Ward
• Joe the Hotel Boy, or Winning by Pluck
• Joe's Luck
• Making His Way
• Nothing to Eat
• Only an Irish Boy
• Paul Prescott's Charge
• Paul the Peddlar, or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant
• Phil the Fiddler
• Ragged Dick
• The Story Boy
• Timothy Crump's Ward
• The Young Explorer
• The Young Musician

Joseph Altsheler (1862-1919), bio at Wikipedia

• The Forest of Swords
• The Forest Runners
• Free Rangers
• Guns of Bull Run
• The Guns of Shiloh
• Hosts of the Air
• Hunters of the Hills, 1916
• The Lords of the Wild, a story of the Old New York Border, 1919
• The Masters of the Peaks, a Story of the Great North Woods, 1918
• The Rock of Chickamauga
• The Rulers of the Lakes
• Scouts of Stonewall
• Scouts of the Valley
• Shades of the Wilderness
• The Shadow of the North, a Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign, 1917
• Star of Gettysburg
• The Sun of Quebec
• The Sword of Antietam
• The Texan Scouts, a story fo the Alamo and goliad, 1913
• The Texan Star, a story of a great fight for liberty, 1912
• The Tree of Appomattox, a Story of the Civil War's Close, 1916
• The Young Trailers

Amelia Barr (1831-1919), bio at Wikipedia

• A Bow of Orange Ribbon, 1886
• A Daugher of Fife
• The Hallam Succession
• A Knight of the Nets
• The Maid of Maiden Lane
• The Man Between: an International Romance
• The Measure of a Man
• Remember the Alamo
• Scottish Sketches, 1883

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), bio at Wikipedia

• A Discourse on the Life, Character, and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1870)
• Letters of a Traveller, 1850

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), bio at Wikipedia

• Afloat and Ashore (1844)
• Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief (1843)
• The Bravo (1831)
• The Crater or Vulcan's Peak, a tale of the Pacific (1863)
• The Deerslayer (1841)
• The Headsman or The Abbaye de Vignerons (1860)
• Homeward Bound: a Tale of the Sea (1838)
• Home as Found (sequel to Homeward Bound) (1838)
• Jack Tier or the Florida Reef (1848)
• The Lake Gun (story)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
• Miles Wallingford, sequel to Afloat and Ashore (1863)
• The Monikins (1835)
• Ned Myers or a Life Before the Mast (1843)
• New York (essay)
• Oak Openings (1848)
• The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea (1840)
• The Pilot (1823)
• The Pioneers (1823)
• The Prairie (1826)
• Precaution, with an introduction by William Cullen Bryant (1819)
• Recollections of Europe
• The Red Rover
• A Residence in France
• Satanstoe (1845)
• The Sea Lions or the Lost Sealers (1849)
• The Spy (1821)
• Tales for Fifteen (Imagination and Heart) (writing under the pseudonym "Jane Morgan")
• The Water-Witch or The Skimmer of the Seas
• The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish (1827)
• Wyandotte (1843)

about Cooper

• James Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain
• James Fenimore Cooper by Mary Phillips, 1912
• James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas Lounsberry

Stephen Crane (1871-1900), bio at Wikipedia

• Active Service
• A Little Regiment
• Maggie: a Girl of the Streets
• Men, Women, and Boats
• The Red Badge of Courage
• The Third Violet
• War is Kind (poem)

Clarence Day, Jr. (1874-1935), bio at Wikipedia

• This Simian World

Jeffery Farnol

• The Definite Object: a romance of New York

Edna Ferber (1885-1968), bio at Wikipedia

• Buttered Side Down
• Cheerful by Request
• Dawn O'Hara
• Emma McChesney and Company
• Fanny Herself
• Half Portions
• One Basket
• Personality Plus
• Roast Beef, Medium

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), bio at Wikipedia

• The Beautiful and Damned
• Flappers and Philosophers
• Tales of the Jazz Age
• This Side of Paradise

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935), bio at Wikipedia

• The Chief Legatee
• The Circular Study
• The Golden Slipper
• The House in the Mist
• The Leavenworth Case
• The Mill Mystery
• The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

Henry Harland (1861-1905), bio at Wikipedia

• The Lady Paramount

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862-1910), bio at Wikipedia

• Cabbages and Kings
• The Four Million
• The Gentle Grafter
• Heart of the West
• Options
• Roads of Destiny
• Rolling Stones
• Sixes and Sevens
• Strictly Business
• The Trimmed Lamp
• The Voice of the City
• Waifs and Strays
• Whirligigs

Washington Irving (1783-1859), bio at Wikipedia

• Abbotsford and Newstead Abby
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
• Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
• Bracebridge Hall
• Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
• The Crayon Papers
• Knickerbocker's History of New York, 1809
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (story)
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Volume 2
• The Life of George Washington, Volume 1
• Little Britain (story)
• Old Christmas
• Oliver Goldsmith (biography)
• The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
• The Author's Account of Himself
• The Voyage
• Roscoe
• The Wife
• Rip Van Winkle
• English Writers on America
• Rural Life in England
• The Broken Heart
• The Art of Book-making
• A Royal Poet
• The Country Church
• The Widow and her Son
• A Sunday in London
• The Boar's Head Tavern
• The Mutability of Literature
• Rural Funerals
• The Inn Kitchen
• The Spectre Bridegroom
• Westminster Abbey
• Christmas
• The Stage-Coach
• Christmas Eve
• Christmas Day
• The Christmas Dinner
• London Antiques
• Little Britain
• Statford-on-Avon
• Traits of Indian Character
• Philip of Pokanoket
• Tales of a Traveller
• Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
• about Washington Irving
• Washington Irving by Charles Dudley Warner (book)

Ring Lardner (1885-1933), bio at Wikipedia

• The Real Dope
• Treat 'Em Rough

Herman Melville (1819-1891), bio at Wikipedia

• Bartleby, the Scrivener (story)
• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
• Billy Budd
• Confidence-Man
• I and My Chimney (story)
• Israel Potter
• Mardi: and a Voyage Thither
• volume 1
• volume 2
• John Marr and Other Poems
• Moby Dick
• Omoo
• Piazza Tales
• Redburn
• Typee: a Romance of the South Seas
• The White Jacket

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), bio at Wikipedia

• Aria da Capo (one act play)
• A Few Figs from Thistles (short)
• The Lamp and the Bell
• Renascence
• Second April

Christopher Morley (1890-1957), bio at Wikipedia

• Kathleen
• Mince Pie
• Parnassus on Wheels
• Plum Pudding
• Shandygaff, 1918

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), bio at Wikipedia

• Anna Christie
• The First Man
• The Hairy Ape

Duffield Osborne (1858-1917), bio at Wikipedia

• The Lion's Brood

Jacob Riis (1849-1914), bio at Wikipedia

• Children of the Tenements

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958), bio at Wikipedia

• The After House
• The Amazing Interlude
• Bab: a Sub-Deb
• The Bat
• The Breaking Point
• The Case of Jennie Brice, 1913
• The Circular Staircase
• The Confession
• Dangerous Days
• K
• Kings, Queens, and Pawns, an American woman at the front, 1915
• Long Live the King
• Love Stories
• Man in Lower Ten
• Poor Wise Man
• Sight Unseen
• The Street of the Seven Stars
• Tenting Tonight
• Tish
• The Truce of God
• When a Man Marries
• Where There's a Will

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), bio at Wikipedia

• 100% of the Story of a Patriot, 1920
• Damaged Goods (novelization of the play "Les Avarie" by Eugene Brieux, done with the author's approval)
• Jimmie Higgins
• The Jungle
• King Coal
• King Midas
• Love's Pilgrimage
• The Machine
• The Metropolis
• Moneychangers
• The Naturewoman (play)
• The Pot Boiler
• Prince Hagen (play)
• The Profits of Religion: an Essay in Economic Interpretation
• Samuel the Seeker
• The Second-Story Man (play)
• Sylvia's Marriage
• They Call Me Carpenter, a tale of the second coming

Robert Neilson Stephens

• The Mystery of Murray Davenport: a story of New York at the present day, 1903

Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur Winfield) (1862-1930), bio at Wikipedia

• Dave Porter at Star Ranch
• On the Trail of Pontiac
• The Rover Boys in New York

Arthur Train (1875-1945)

• The Confessions of Artemas Quibble

Eugene Walter (1874-1941)

• The Easiest Way, a story of metropolitan life by Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), bio at Wikipedia

• The Age of Innocence
• Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
• Bunner Sisters
• Crucial Instances
• The Custom of the Country, 1913
• The Descent of Man and Other Stories
• Early Short Fiction (first two of ten parts)
• Part One:
• Kerfol (1916)
• Mrs. Manstey's View (1891)
• The Bolted Door (1909)
• The Dilettante (1903)
• The House of the Dead Hand (1904)
• Part Two
• Afterward (1910)
• The Fulness of Life (1893)
• A Venetian Night's Entertainment (1903)
• Xingu (1911)
• The Verdict (1908)
• The Reckoning (1902)
• Ethan Frome
• Fighting France
• The Fruit of the Tree
• The Glimpses of the Moon
• The Greater Inclination
• The Hermit and the Wild Woman
• The House of Mirth
• In Morocco, 1920
• Madame de Treymes
• The Reef
• Sanctuary
• Summer
• Tales of Men and Ghosts
• The Touchstone
• The Valley of Decision

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), bio at Wikipedia

• Complete Prose Works
• Drum-Taps
• Leaves of Grass
• Poems