Selected Bibliography:
The History of New York City


Black, Mary. Old New York In Early Photographs, 1853-1901: 196 Prints from the Collection of the New-York Historical Society. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.

Blom, Benjamin, comp. New York: Photographs, 1850-1950. New York: E.P.Dutton, Inc., 1982.

Bradley, David L. Bradley's Reminiscences of New York Harbor and Complete Waterfront Directory of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City. New York: David L. Bradley, 1896.

Johnson, Harry, and Frederick S. Lightfoot. Maritime New York in Nineteenth-Century Photographs. New York: Dover Publications, 1980.

King, Moses. King's Views; New York, 1908, Four Hundred Illustrations. New York: C. Francis Press, 1908.

King, Moses, ed. King's Photographic Views of New York. Boston: Moses King, 1895.

King, Moses, comp. King's Views of New York, 1896-1915 & Brooklyn, 1905. New York: Arno Press, 1977.

Kouwenhoven, John A. The Columbia Historical Portrait of New York: An Essay In Graphic History. New York: Harper & Row, 1953. (Reprinted 1972).

Lightfoot, Frederick S. Nineteenth-Century New York in Rare Photographic Views. New York: Dover Publications, 1981.

Morris, Jan. The Great Port. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Mayer, Grace M. Once Upon A City. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1958. (Reprinted New York: Octagon Books, 1980).

Nevins, Allan and John A. Krout, eds. The Greater City: New York, 1898-1948. 1948. (Reprinted Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981).

Reynolds, Donald M. The Architecture of New York City. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984.

Schoener, Allon, ed. Portal To America: The Lower East Side, 1870-1925. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.

Still, Bayrd. Mirror For Gotham: New York As Seen By Contemporaries From Dutch Days To The Present. New York: University Press, 1956.

Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. 1916. (Reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1967).

Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps and Daniel C. Haskell. American Historical Prints, Early Views of American Cities. 1933. (Reprinted Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1972).

Willensky, Elliot, and Norval White. AIA Guide to New York City. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1988.

Works Progress Administration. New York Panorama: A Companion to the WPA Guide to New York City. 1938. (Reprinted New York: Pantheon Books, 1984).

Works Progress Administration. The WPA Guide to New York City: The Federal Writer's Project Guide to 1930's New York. 1939. (Reprinted New York: Pantheon Books, 1982).


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