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• The City Wilderness: A Settlement Study, by Residents and Associates of the South End House (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), ed. by Robert Archey Woods (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres From the Beginnings to the Restoration (Boston et al: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by Joseph Quincy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Elizabethan Stage (4 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923), by E. K. Chambers
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume IV: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages and a Congested District of Chicago, Together With Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions, contrib. by Jane Addams
  • HTML at Pfeiffer
  • PDF files at Northwestern

• Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes (copyright 1910; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912), by Jane Addams (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• From Cahokia to Larson to Moundville: Death, World Renewal, and the Sacred in the Mississippian Social World of the Late Prehistoric Eastern Woodlands (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2013), by A. Martin Byers (PDF at Tennessee)

• The Leaven in a Great City (New York: Dodd, Mead and company, 1902), by Lillian Williams Betts (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by Kate Davy (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Settlement Houses and the Great Depression (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975), by Judith Ann Trolander (page images at Cornell)

• Living Homes for Cultural Expression: North American Native Perspectives on Creating Community Museums (c2006), ed. by Karen Coody Cooper and Nicolasa I. Sandoval (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)

• The Little Democracy: A Text-Book on Community Organization (New York: D. Appleton, 1918), by Ida Clyde Clarke, contrib. by P. P. Claxton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Awakening Community (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Mary Mims and Georgia Williams Moritz, contrib. by Charles W. Pipkin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Memorial Union Terrace: A Landscape History (2008), by Susan K. Olsen (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Four-H Trail (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1926), by W. H. Kendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baden-Powell's Canadian Boy Scout Organization (ca. 1910), by Boy Scouts Association of Canada
  • page images at canadiana.ca
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Scout Movement: What It Is, What It Is Not (Montreal: Quebec Provincial Headquarters, ca. 1912) (page images at Canadiana)

• The Four-H Trail (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1926), by W. H. Kendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Five H's (c1950), by Roy E. Hranicky and Lois Belle White (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Five H's (c1950), by Roy E. Hranicky and Lois Belle White (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Public Dance Halls of Chicago, by Louise de Koven Bowen (HTML and page images at LOC)

• A Treatise on Theatres (London: Printed for the author, 1790), by George Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith, by Philip Barrett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Staging of the "Miracles de Nostre Dame Par Personnages" of MS. Cangé (New York: Institute of French Studies, Columbia University, c1933), by Dorothy Penn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Theatre (Corinth series v2; Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1952), by Richard Stillwell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Adrian Frazier (HTML at UC Press)

• Il Teatro Greco di Siracusa (in Italian; Milan and Rome: Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1923), by G. E. Rizzo
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Il Teatro Greco di Siracusa (in Italian; Milan and Rome: Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1923), by G. E. Rizzo
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques and Plays at Court: A Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings for Scenery and Costumes Mainly in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K. G. (Oxford: Printed for the Walpole and Malone Societies at the University Press, 1924), by Inigo Jones, ed. by Percy Simpson and C. F. Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Miracle in the Evening: An Autobiography (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1960), by Norman Bel Geddes, ed. by William Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Motion Picture Directory: A Cyclopedic Directory of the Motion Picture Industry, 1914-15 (Chicago: American Motion Picture Directory Co., c1915) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 (c2013), by R. M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945-65 (London: University of London Press, c2020), by Sam Manning (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Motion Picture Chums' New Idea: or, The First Educational Photo Playhouse (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park: or, The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1913), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 (c2013), by R. M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Good Companions, by J. B. Priestley (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)

• Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture (Oxford and New York: Berg, c2007), by Catherine M. Roach (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• Show Boat (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Dance Halls: Ordinances Governing the Conduct of Public Dances and Dance Halls, City of Buffalo, by Buffalo (New York) (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Public Dance Halls: Their Regulation and Place in the Recreation of Adolescents, by Ella Gardner (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Practicing the Ways of Democracy Through the Girls' League (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1943), by Sarah Martha Sturtevant and Ethel Rosenberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Four-H Trail (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1926), by W. H. Kendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of Books for Girls and Women and Their Clubs: With Descriptive and Critical Notes and a List of Periodicals and Hints for Girls' and Women's Clubs (Boston: Published for the American Library Association Publishing Section by the Library Bureau, 1895), ed. by George Iles and Augusta H. Leypoldt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach: or, In Quest of the Runaways (1911), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text)
• The Motor Girls on the Coast: or, The Waif From the Sea (Cleveland: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1913), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text)
• The Motor Girls Through New England: or, Held by the Gypsies (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1911), by Margaret Penrose (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Motor Girls Through New England: or, Held by the Gypsies (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1911), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text)
• The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay: or, The Secret of the Red Oar (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1914), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text and page images)

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