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• The Chronicles of Gotham, by Richard Grant White (page images at MOA)
• The Spoils of the Park: With a Few Leaves from the Deep-laden Note-Books of "A Wholly Unpractical Man", by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google; US access only)
• Manual of the corporation of the city of New York. (New York., 1842), by New York (N.Y.). Common Council, D. T. Valentine, and Samuel J. Willis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city for the people! Campaign book of the Citizens' Union ... September-October 1897. (New York City, 1897), by Citizens Union of the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearing in relation to "The Greater New York" (Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1896), by New York (State). Legislature. Joint Committee on the Affairs of Cities. Subcommittee on Greater New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Master of Manhattan, the life of Richard Croker (Longmans, Green, 1931), by Lothrop Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York as an Eighteenth Century municipality prior to 1731 (Columbia University, 1917), by Arthur Everett Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Boss" Tweed : the story of a grim generation (Boni and Liveright, 1927), by Denis Tilden Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biter bit ([publisher not identified], 1870), by James B. Mix (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of John Kelly, tribune of the people (American News Co., 1885), by J. Fairfax McLaughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical index to the Manuals of the corporation of the city of New York ("Valentine's manuals") 1841 to 1870, consisting of two thousand three hundred and twenty-five references. (F. P. Harper, 1900), by New York (N.Y.). Common Council, Otto Hufeland, D. T. Valentine, and Samuel J. Willis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Affidavits before the Recorder relative to abuses in the City government. (The Board, 1854), by New York (N.Y.). Board of Aldermen (1675-1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. J.G. Schumaker (Weed, Parsons and Co., printers, 1868), by John G. Schumaker, Edward F. Underhill, and New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1867-1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peculation triumphant : being the record of a four years' campaign against official malversation in the city of New York, A.D. 1871 to 1875. (John Polhemus, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of cases, points and opinions. Also table of assessments arranged under the various line of assessments, and cases brought in the several municipal departments. v. 1-126. (M.B. Brown, 1887), by New York (N.Y.). Law Dept and James M. Valles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of cases, points and opinions. Also table of assessments arranged under the various line of assessments, and cases brought in the several municipal departments. v. 1-176. (M.B. Brown, 1891), by New York (N.Y.). Law Dept and James M. Valles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Club book of Good Government Club A. (New York, 1895), by N.Y.) Good Government Club A (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act to reorganize the local government of the city of New York : passed April 5, 1870 ... (The New York printing co., 1871), by New York (State) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A model mayor. Early life, congressional career, and triumphant municipal administration of Hon. Fernando Wood, mayor of the city of New York: presenting his public speeches and messages, and the principles on which his government is founded. (American Family Publication Establishment, 1855), by E. Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• County of New York November elections, 1871 (The New York Printing Company, 1871), by New York County (N.Y.). County Canvassers Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York as an eighteenth century municipality, prior to 1731 (New York , 1917), by Arthur Everett Peterson and George William Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chronicles of Gotham. (G. W. Carleton & Co.;, 1871), by Richard Grant White (page images at HathiTrust)
• How New York is governed : frauds of the Tammany Democrats (New York Daily Times, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York politics (New York, 1898), by Edward Garstin Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reform in New York City : address to the people of the city of New York by the Citizens' Association of New York, together with resolutions of confidence and thanks tendered to the officers of the Citizen's Association .... (The Association, 1870), by Citizens' Association of New York and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Everything serene. ([New York, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposure of a seven years' conspiracy inflicting greater loss and ruin on the City of New York than all other conspiracies, thefts, frauds and peculations combined. (New York, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York as an eighteenth century municipality prior to 1731. (Columbia university; [etc., etc.], 1917), by Arthur Everett Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New York city "Ring" : its origin, maturity and fall, discussed in a reply to the New York Times ... (J. Polhemus, 1873), by Samuel J. Tilden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minutes of the Common council of the city of New York ... ([M.B. Brown Printing & Binding Co], 1784), by New York (N.Y.). Common Council and Arthur Everett Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spoils of the park : with a few leaves from the deep-laden note-books of "a wholly unpractical man" (s.n.], 1882), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Redemption of New York ([s.n.], 1902), by John DeWitt Warner and Milo T. Bogard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The election frauds of New York City and their prevention. In two volumes. Vol. I. Eleven years of fraud--1860-70. (The author, 1881), by John I. Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Act to re-organize the local government of the city of New-York : proposed charter submitted to the Legislature of the state of New York, by the Citizens' Association, January, 1872. (George F. Nesbitt & Co., printers, 1872), by Citizens' Association of New York and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Government of New-York (The Association, 1871), by Citizens' Association of New York, Seymour B. Durst, and New York (State). Legislature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Committee of One Hundred to the citizens of New York. (s.n., 1886), by General Committee for the City and County of New-York, Seymour B. Durst, and Henry A. Oakley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corruption of the city government : reprint, from the New York journal of commerce, of a series of unanswered and unanswerable editorials showing deep abuses in the New York City government. (Wm. C. Bryant, printers, 1853), by Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Election districts of the several assembly districts (and 23d and 24th wards) of the city and county of New York, and the boundaries thereof : as revised by the Board of Police, June 23d, 1876. (John X. Browne, Agt., Printer, 1876), by New York (N.Y.). Police Department and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auditors' report April to June 1854 (s.n., 1854), by New York (N.Y.). Office of the Comptroller, New York (N.Y.). Common Council, and New York (N.Y.). Board of Councilmen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The frauds of the New York City government exposed : sketches of the members of the ring and their confederates : with a list of checks, copied from the books in the office of the Comptroller, representing millions of dollars, paid out on fraudulent claims. (A.P. Genung, 1871), by Abram P. Genung and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• West-End Riverside improvement (Municipal Improvement Association, 1890), by Seymour B. Durst, Michael Coleman, Peter B. Sweeny, New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and N.Y.) Municipal Improvement Association (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The greater New York, reasons why (H.A. Rost, printer, 1894), by Edward C. Graves, Seymour B. Durst, and New York (N.Y.). Commission of Municipal Consolidation Inquiry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New York and Brooklyn Bridge : report of the special committee appointed to confer with the President of the Edge Moor Iron Company, with reference to their contracts for steel work. (s.n., 1882), by Washington Augustus Roebling, Seymour B. Durst, William Sellers, Seth Low, and Edge Moor Iron Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York City water front : letter from Simon Stevens to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, relative to their powers and duties, and the powers and duties of the Dock and Law Departments, in their several relations to each other in regard to the improvement of the water front of the city of New York. (Martin B. Brown, Printer and Stationer, 1889), by Simon Stevens and New York (N.Y.). Commissioners of the Sinking Fund (page images at HathiTrust)
• The people of the state of New York vs. William M. Tweed, impleaded and others. People of the state of New York, vs. Richard B. Connolly. People of the state of New York, vs. Thomas C. Fields, and the mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of New York : opinions of the court on the demurrers (J. Polhemus, 1872), by New York (State). Supreme Court and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of a meeting in favor of municipal reform : held at Tammany Hall, on Friday evening, March 22d, 1844. (Printed by W.B. & T. Smith, 1844), by Ely Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of a meeting of the Whig Young Men of the City of New-York, held August 5, 1834. : Together with the address of the general committee of Whig young men of New-York City to the young men of the state. : Directed to be prepared at the above meeting. (T. Snowden, printer, 58 Wall-Street., 1834), by Whig Young Men of the City of New York, Thomas Snowden, and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andrew H. Green, candidate for mayor (s.n., 1876), by Independent Citizens' Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Citizens' Association : how our taxes may be reduced, our resources developed, and the local government improved. Our wharves and piers, markets, public property, &c., &c. ... (The Citizens' Association, 1868), by Citizens' Association of New York, Richard M. Henry, and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. William P. Frye, of Maine, in the House of Representatives, April 23, 1879 ([N.p., 1879), by William P. Frye and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Henry L. Clinton, chairman of the Democratic Republican General Committee of the City of New York. ([New York, 1878), by Henry L. Clinton and N.Y.) Democratic party (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Collection of handbills, etc. used for the New York City election of 1897.] ([1897], 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement of the majority of the Grand Council of the Tammany Society or, Columbian order, in reply to a protest of the minority ; also the addresses and resolutions of the Grand Council, adopted February 14, 1857, relative to the political use of Tammany Hall, with an appendix, containing the opinion of counsel, and a statement of J.Y. Savage, Jr., on behalf of the Democratic Republican Committee, of which he is temporary chairman. (Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, book and job printers, 1857), by or Columbian Order Tammany Society and John Y. Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Everything serene. ([New York, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Campaign book of the ... Union. September-October [1897] (The Union, 1897), by N.Y.) Citizens Union (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official documents, addresses, etc., of George Opdyke, mayor of the city of New York during the years 1862 and 1863. (Hurd and Houghton, 1866), by New York (N.Y.). Mayor (1862-1864 : Opdyke) (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York. My friends and fellow citizens, It has frequently given pain to every well-wisher of his country, when it has been observed, that in many of our public assemblies, party-zeal, instead of public-good, has evidently biased the minds of those who have constituted these assemblies. ... ([New York : s.n., 1774]), by American (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A dissertation concerning political equality, and the Corporation of New-York. By James Cheetham. (New-York, : Printed by D. Denniston., 1800), by James Cheetham (HTML at Evans TCP)
• To the respectable public. Have a good end in view, and pursue it. Every friend of American freedom, rejoices to find a true and honest spirit of liberty prevailing in all ranks and degrees in this city. ... ([New York : s.n., 1774]), by Honest American (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A Seasonable advertisement to the freeholders and freemen of the city of New-York, and all the real friends to liberty, and lovers of their country. ([New York : Printed by John Holt, 1769]) (HTML at Evans TCP)

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