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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)
• Lebende bilder aus Amerika (W. Nitzschke, 1858), by Theodor Griesinger and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York. (C. S. Francis and company;, 1844), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• My New York (The Macmillan Company, 1930), by Mabel Osgood Wright and Ivin Sickels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some social notes addressed to Samuel Blachley Webb, 1776-1791 (Boston, 1911), by Worthington Chauncey Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• These many years : recollections of a New Yorker (C. Scribner's sons, 1917), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York. (C. S. Francis & co.; Boston, J. H. Francis, 1845), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York (Francis, 1843), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York : Second series (Francis, 1845), by Lydia Maria Child, Joseph H. Francis, and C.S. Francis & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Around the world in New York (Century Co., 1924), by Konrad Bercovici and Norman Borchardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; : New York City life in all its various phases, (P.F. Collier, 1897), by Frank Moss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The goede vrouw of Mana-ha-ta at home and in society, 1609-1760 (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898., 1898), by John King Van Rensselaer, Printing and Bookbinding Company Trow Directory, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851 (Dodd, Mead and company, 1927), by Philip Hone and Allan Nevins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The real New York (The Smart Set Publishing Company, 1904), by Rupert Hughes, Henry Mayer, and Smart Set Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vagabond in New York (John Lane Co., 1913), by Oliver Madox Hueffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peacock alley : the romance of the Waldorf-Astoria (Harper, 1931), by James Remington McCarthy and John Rutherford (page images at HathiTrust)
• As I remember; recollections of American society during the nineteenth century (D. Appleton and company, 1911), by Marian Gouverneur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The social ladder (H. Holt and company, 1924), by John King Van Rensselaer and Frederic F. Van de Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York during the last half century : a discourse in commemoration of the fifty-third anniversary of the New York historical society, and of the dedication of their new edifice,(November 17, 1857). (J. F. Trow, printer, 1857), by John W. Francis and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York: confidential! (Crown Publishers, 1951), by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• "King Lehr" and the gilded age (J. B. Lippincott company, 1935), by Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York (R. Bentley, 1843), by Lydia Maria Francis Child and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York : second series (C.S. Francis ;, 1849), by Lydia Maria Francis Child and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Darkness and daylight, or, Lights and shadows of New York life : a pictorial record of personal experiences by day and night in the great metropolis (Hartford, 1895), by Helen Campbell, Thomas Byrnes, Thomas Wallace Knox, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York society on parade (Harper & brothers, 1910), by Ralph Pulitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The meccas of the world; the play of modern life in New York, Paris, Vienna, Madrid and London (John Lane company, 1913), by Ruth Cranston (page images at HathiTrust)
• High life in New York : a series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut (T. B. Peterson, 1873), by Ann S. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dollars and democracy (D. Appleton and company, 1904), by Philip Burne-Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annals and occurrences of New York city and state, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents concerning the city, country, and inhabitants, from the days of the founders ... (H.F. Anners, 1846), by John F. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York nights, (George H. Doran company [c1927], 1927), by Stephen Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great metropolis, a mirror of New York : a complete history of metropolitan life and society, with sketches of prominent places, persons, and things in the city, as they actually exist (American Pub. Co., 1869), by Junius Henri Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851 (Dodd, Mead, 1936), by Philip Hone and Allan Nevins (page images at HathiTrust)
• My New York (The Macmillan Company, 1926), by Mabel Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• High life in New York (J. How, 1844), by Ann S. Stephens and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impressions of Dante and of the New world (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1893), by J. W. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Her opportunity (James H. Earle, 1889), by Henry C. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Welcome to our city (John Lane Co., 1913), by Julian Street (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belshazzar court; or, Village life in New York city (H. Holt, 1914), by Simeon Strunsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• High life in New York : a series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut (T. B. Peterson, 1854), by Ann S. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of the almighty dollar (F. Warne & co. [pref., 1892), by H. Panmure Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voice from the newsboys. ([New York?], 1860), by John Morrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• My cosmopolitan year (Mills & Boon, Limited, 1913), by Ruth Cranston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• En la metropoli del dollar (The Spanish-American Publishing Co., 1919), by Javier Lara (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of New York, or, Social life in the great city (New York Book Co., 1870), by George Ellington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York. (C. S. Francis;, 1843), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old New York (W. J. Widdleton, 1866), by John W. Francis and Henry T. Tuckerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wagnerian cult. (J. W. Bouton, 1904), by Rush C. Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and shadows of New York life ; or, The sights and sensations of the great city. A work descriptive of the city of New York in all its various phases (National publishing company, 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York (C. S. Francis & co ;, 1850), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old New York, or, Reminiscences of the past sixty years being an enlarged and revised edition of the anniversary discourse delivered before the New York Historical Society, November 17, 1857 (C. Roe, 1858), by John W. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diary of a little girl in old New York (H. C. Brown, 1920), by Catherine Elizabeth Havens and Rogers Memorial Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four New York boys : New York in aboriginal and colonial days (Educational Publishing Co., 1903), by John Walter Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• American metropolis from Knickerbocker days to the present time (P.F. Collier, 1897), by Frank Moss and C. H. Parkhurst (page images at HathiTrust)
• New-York (Giuseppe Galli, 1884), by Dario Papa and Ferdinando Fontana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Darkness and daylight, or, Lights and shadows of New York life : a woman's pictorial record of gospel, temperance, mission, and rescue work "in His Name" ... (A.D. Worthington, 1900), by Helen Campbell, Thomas Byrnes, and Thomas Wallace Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• High life in New York. (E. Stephens, 1843), by Ann S. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial days in old New York (C. Scribner's sons, 1896), by Alice Morse Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bad habits of good society. (White, Stokes & Allen, 1886), by George A. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The genius of the cosmopolitan city; an address delivered before the New York Historical Society on its ninety-ninth anniversary, Tuesday, November 17, 1903 (The Society, 1904), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flashlights (E. Fleischel & co., 1905), by Georg von Skal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New York during the last half century: a discourse in commemoration of the fifty-third anniversary of the New York historical society, and of the dedication of their new edifice (J. F. Trow, printer, 1857), by John W. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of Philadelphia (E.L. Carey & A. Hart;, 1830), by John Fanning Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four New York boys. (Educational publishing company, 1903), by John W. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The season, an annual record in New York, Brooklyn, and vicinity (White, Stokes, & Allen, 1883), by Charles H. Crandall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newer York; a centennial offering. (O. Jarvis, 1876), by Henry Augustus Abraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belshazzar court; or, Village life in New York city (H. Holt and company, 1922), by Simeon Strunsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The genius of the cosmopolitan city; an address delivered before the New York Historical Society on its ninety-ninth anniversary. (The society, 1904), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Asmodée à New-York: (H. Plon, 1868), by Ferdinand Longchamp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diary of a little girl in old New York (H. C. Brown, 1919), by Catherine Elizabeth Havens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Newyorkitis (The Grafton press, 1901), by John Harvey Girdner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Renting a furnished apartment; a narrative setting forth the experiences of an out-of-town family in the metropolis (J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1916), by G. Smith Stanton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dear old lady of Eighty-sixth street (S. O Sheel, 1912), by Shaemas O Sheel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annals of Philadelphia : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, from the days of the Pilgrim founders...to which is added an appendix, containing olden time researches and reminiscences of New York city (E.L. Carey & A. Hart ;, 1830), by John F. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boz ball (J.C. House, printer, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bad habits of good society. (White Stokes, & Allen, 1876), by George A. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Matrimonial brokerage in the metropolis; being true narratives of strange adventures in New York, and startling facts in city life. (Thatcher & Hutchinson, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time (P. F. Collier, 1897), by Frank Moss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four New York boys : New York in aboriginal and colonial days (Educational publi- shing, 1903), by John W. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broadway. (Nascimento, 1989), by Raúl Simón (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York : second series (C.S. Francis & Co., 1847), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York (C.S. Francis ;, 1848), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Backward glances : reminiscences of an old New-Yorker (Printed by the Unionist Gazette Association, 1914), by Thomas Floyd-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The season : an annual record of society in New York, Brooklyn, and vicinity (White, Stokes, & Allen, 1883), by Charles H. Crandall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old New York : or, Reminiscences of the past sixty years. (W. J. Widdleton, 1865), by John W. Francis and Henry T. Tuckerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women of New York; or, The under-world of the great city. Illustrating the life of women of fashion, women of pleasure, actresses and ballet girls ... etc. (New York Book Company, 1869), by George Ellington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The upper ten thousand: sketches of American society. (Stringer & Townsend, 1852), by Charles Astor Bristed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federzeichnungen aus dem Amerikanischen Stadtleben (E. Steiger & co., 1884), by Johann Rittig and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Americana (page images at HathiTrust)
• These many years, recollections of a New Yorker (C. Scribner's sons, 1917), by Brander Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The etiquette of New York to-day (F.A. Stokes, 1906), by Ellin T. Craven Learned (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bad habits of good society (F.B. Patterson, 1876), by George A. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851 (Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1889), by Philip Hone, Bayard Tuckerman, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social etiquette of New York. (Appleton, 1892), by Abby Buchanan Longstreet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad Men's Building, 361 Madison Avenue, New York City (Arlington, 1889), by John E. Robbins Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and shadows of New York life (National Pub., 1872), by James D. McCabe, James Dabney McCabe, John William Orr, Wells, Sears, Hugo Sebald, J. R. Jones, Crosscup & West, Longacre & Co, Richardson & Cox, Van Ingen & Snyder, and Pa.) National Publishing Company (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federzeichnungen aus dem Amerikanischen Stadtleben (E. Steiger, 1885), by Johann Rittig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Licht- und Schattenbilder des New Yorker Lebens; oder Sensations-Scenen der Grossen Stadt. (National Publishing Company, 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flashlights; momentaufnahmen aus dem leben einer amerikanischen grossstadt (E. Fleischel & co., 1905), by George von Skal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quarante jours à New-York; impressions de voyage. (E. Dentu, 1878), by princess Suvorov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social etiquette of New York. (D. Appleton, 1888), by Abby Buchanan Longstreet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben und Treiben der Stadt New-York : mit Hinweis auf die Einwanderung und das deutsche Element : kulturhistorische Bilder (H. Grüning, 1874), by Joseph Pachmayr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gotham and the Gothamites, or, The gay girls of New York (Laird & Lee, 1886), by F. C. Valentine and Laird & Lee (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from New York : second series (C.S. Francis & Co., 1848), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celio, oder, New-York über und unter der Erde (Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1854), by George G. Foster and Linckesche Leihbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial days in old New York (C. Scribner's sons, 1896), by Alice Morse Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix containing olden time researches & reminiscences of New York City (E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), by John F. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowery life (Richard K. Fox, 1904), by Chuck Connors and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Darkness and daylight : or, Lights and shadows of New York life : a woman's story of gospel, temperance, mission, and rescue work, "In His name" ... (A.D. Worthington & Co., 1893), by Helen Campbell, Thomas Byrnes, and Thomas Wallace Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in New York : a work descriptive of the Great American Metropolis ; its high and low life ; its splendors and miseries ; its virtues and vices ; its gorgeous palaces and dark homes of poverty and crime ; its public men, politicians, adventurers ; its charities, frauds, mysteries, etc. (Published for the trade [by Douglass Bros.], 1881), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The fourteen miles round," (Knickerbocker Press, 1897), by Alfred Bishop Mason and Mary Murdoch Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gotham and the Gothamites, or, The gay girls of New York (Laird & Lee, 1886), by F. C. Valentine and Ill.) Laird & Lee (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sunshine and shadow in New York By Matthew Hale Smith. (Burleigh.). (J.B. Burr and Co., 1883), by Matthew Hale Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• My New York life (Kenkyusha Kojimachi, 1924), by Smimasa Idichi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New York: confidential! (Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., 1948), by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Als Vagabund in New York : ein erlebter Roman (Saturn-Verlag, 1926), by Oliver Madox Hueffer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Society circus; from ring to ring with a large cast. (Covici, Friede, 1936), by Helen Worden Erskine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Union Club, 1836-1936 ([The Printing House of W.E. Rudge], 1936), by Reginald T. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York of yesterday (Gracie Mansion, 1924), by Henry Collins Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belshazzar Court; or, Village life in New York City. (H. Holt, 1922), by Simeon Strunsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York in slices (W.F. Burgess, 22 Ann Street, 1848), by George G. Foster, Samuel Wallin, Elias W. Durand, William Roberts, William Howland, George Washington Carleton, Thomas W. Strong, Christian Mayr, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, and Leslie & Travers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and shadows of New York life : or, The sights and sensations of the great city. A work descriptive of the City of New York in all its various phases (Union Book Co., 1877), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The social ladder (Nash & Grayson, 1924), by Mrs. John King 1848-1925 Van Rensselaer and Frederic F. Van de Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• The block. (Random House, 1960), by Ralph Schoenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Appeal to the members of the New York clubs : and to all interested in the preservation of high-toned, manly character (John F. Trow, printer, 1865), by Thomas Brian Gunning (page images at HathiTrust)
• "King Lehr" and the gilded age (Blue Ribbon Books, 1938), by Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Englishman in New York. (S. Swift, 1911), by pseud Juvenal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annals of Philadelphia, : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, & incidents of the city and its inhabitants from the days of the Pilgrim founders. Intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city in its local changes and improvements. : To which is added an appendix, containing olden time researches and reminiscences of New York City. : [Five lines of verse] (E.L. Carey & A. Hart; ;, 1830), by John F. Watson, G. & C. & H. Carvill (Firm), and Carey & Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Meccas of the World: The Play of Modern Life in New York, Paris, Vienna, Madrid and London, by Ruth Cranston (Gutenberg ebook)
• New York: Confidential!, by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bowery Life, by Chuck Connors (Gutenberg ebook)

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