Tales of Gaslight New York,9780890098721

Tales of Gaslight New York

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ISBN13: 9780890098721
ISBN10: 0890098727
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-05-15
Publisher(s): Castle Books
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Summary

This collection of illustrated turn-of-the-century articles from Harper's Magazine form the text of this exciting look back at early New York City.

Table of Contents

The New York Cab Driver and his Cab (1906)
3(12)
Guarding the Gateway of New York (1905)
15(10)
The Renaissance of Coney (1906)
25(12)
The Story of the Slocum Disaster (1904)
37(24)
A Unique New York Club (1905)
61(8)
American Cities in Pencil -- New York (1904)
69(10)
The Black Hand (1908)
79(14)
East Side Considerations (1898)
93(14)
Park Driving (1905)
107(10)
Campers by the Sea (1905)
117(12)
Games of the City Street (1904)
129(12)
Building New York's Subway/Difficult Engineering in the Subway (1902)
141(20)
Masters of Their Craft (1903)
161(14)
New York: Good Government in Danger (1903)
175(12)
The Kindergarten of the Streets (1903)
187(14)
New York from the Flatiron (1905)
201(12)
The New York Athletic Club (1898)
213(16)
Slumming in New York's Chinatown (1909)
229(16)
Romances of New Americans (1903)
245(16)
The Walk Up-town (1900)
261(18)
Fighting the Hudson: The Unrecorded Adventure in the Construction of the Hudson River Tunnel (1903)
279(10)
The Delusion of the Race-track (1905)
289(14)
Human Need of Coney Island (1905)
303(10)
The Tenements of Trinity Church (1908)
313(14)
The New York Plan for Zoological Parks (1909)
327(20)
In Up-town New York (1906)
347(12)
The Hugeness of New York (1907)
359(14)
The Most Valuable Ten-acre Lot in the World (1906)
373(12)
The Doorways of New York (1902)
385(12)
The Evolution of Manhattan (1902)
397(10)
The Colossal City (1905)
407(10)
A New Era for the Metropolitan (1905)
417(10)
The Basis of New York Society (1899)
427(22)
The New New York (1902)
449

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