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• Culture of New York City

• My New York (New York: Macmillan, 1930), by Mabel Osgood Wright, illust. by Ivin Sickels (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York (second edition; New York: Henry Collins Brown, 1920), by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Recollections Grave and Gay, by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York, by Junius Henri Browne (page images at MOA)
• Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City (c1872), by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Darkness and Daylight: or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life (Hartford: A.D. Worthington, 1893), by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, and Thomas Byrnes, contrib. by Lyman Abbott (page images at Harvard)
• My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Fashion: or, Life in New York: A Comedy in Five Acts (London: W. Newbery, 1850), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (multiple formats at Google)

• New Year's Day (The 'Seventies) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• False Dawn (The 'Forties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Dark Metropolis (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1936), by John Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Duke and His Double (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1903), by Edward S. Van Zile, illust. by Florence Scovel Shinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opus 21: Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age; A Concerto for a One-Man Band; Six Arias for Soap Operas; Fugues, Anthems and Barrelhouse (a novel; New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Co., c1949), by Philip Wylie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Good Sports (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1919), by Olive Higgins Prouty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Woman Gives: A Story of Regeneration (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1916), by Owen Johnson, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Day in Bohemia, or Life Among the Artists, by John Reed (HTML at swbell.net)

• The Party (originally published as "Babes and Sucklings"; New York: Popular Library, 1929), by Philip Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cousin Paul (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1868), by Jessie Glenn (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (10-story Macmillan edition), by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Empire City: or, New York by Night and Day, Its Aristocracy and Its Dollars (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Bros., c1864), by George Lippard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Greater Inclination, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• High Life in New York (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1873), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hungry Hearts (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by Anzia Yezierska (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)
• New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sixty-First Second (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1913), by Owen Johnson, illust. by A. B. Wenzell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Buccaneers (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1938), by Edith Wharton (page images at Michigan)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• New York, by James Fenimore Cooper
  • HTML with commentary at James Fenimore Cooper Society
  • Gutenberg text

• The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909: Compiled From Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-Intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps, Plans, Views, and Documents in Public and Private Collections (6 volumes; New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928), by I. N. Phelps Stokes, contrib. by F. C. Wieder and Victor Hugo Paltsits
  • Volume I: page images at Columbia
  • Volume II: page images at Columbia
  • Volume III: page images at Columbia
  • Volume IV: page images at Columbia
  • Volume V: page images at Columbia
  • Volume VI: page images at Columbia

• The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York (12th edition, 1855), by Moses Yale Beach (searchable page images at Google)
• "New World A-Coming": Inside Black America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943), by Roi Ottley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out of the Shadow (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Rose Cohen, illust. by Walter Jack Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New York Obelisk: or, How Cleopatra's Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here (adapted from an article in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin; New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1993), by Martina D'Alton (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Celebrating the Immigrant: An Administrative History of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, 1952-1982, by Barbara Blumberg (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Revising the New York City Charter: Introductory Report (ca. 1973), by State Charter Revision Commission for New York City (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Journals of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York (reprint edition of the first 34 conventions, 1785-1819; New York: H. M. Onderdonk, 1844), by Episcopal Church Diocese of New York (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Color of a Great City (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Theodore Dreiser, illust. by C. B. Falls (multiple formats at archive.org)
• De Paris au Niagara: Journal de Voyage d'une Délégation (in French; Paris: A. Dupret, 1887), by Charles Bigot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City (c1872), by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Loiterer in New York: Discoveries Made by a Rambler Through Obvious Yet Unsought Highways and Byways (New York: G. H. Doran Company, c1917), by Helen W. Henderson, contrib. by Paul Wayland Bartlett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• New York (London: A. and C. Black, 1911), by Hildegarde Hawthorne, illust. by Martin Lewis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• New York in Slices (New York: W. F. Burgess, 1849), by George G. Foster (page images at MOA)
• The Picture of New-York: or, The Traveller's Guide Through the Commercial Metropolis of the United States (New York: I. Riley and Co., 1807), by Samuel L. Mitchill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City, by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text)
• Sunshine and Shadow in New York (1869), by Matthew Hale Smith (page images at MOA)
• Coney Island (1999), by Professor Solomon (PDF with commentary at professorsolomon.com)
• Municipal Government of the City of New York (revised edition; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1916), by Abby Gunn Baker and Abby Huntington Ware (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• New York City Directories (various editions and publishers, 1786-1923) (page images at nypl.org)

• A Proposal Under Difficulties: A Farce (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1905), by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• The Hairy Ape, by Eugene O'Neill (Gutenberg text)

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