Research and editorial team

The research and editorial process is ongoing.  We have developed a working bibliography included below.  In addition,  we are available to help members of the team focus on their individual work in the broader context of the project.

For instance, we met with one of our participants to discuss and consult on sources in depth about Riverside Park.  The issues that we identified were:

  1. the development of city parks in general: who they were for, how they were laid out, how they fit into the city landscape, etc.;
  2. we located sources on the history of Riverside Park, specifically, including histories,  documents related to Park, contemporary discussions of it, pictures of it, etc.;
  3. the focus has been to put the selected items in the context of city planning, public services, and clientele.

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Suggested Sources for Morningside Heights

Reference Sources

Civic bibliography for Greater New York, ed. by James Bronson Reynolds for the New York research council. New York, Charities Publication Committee, 1911. Also at the Reference Desk R016.352 N48

French, John Homer. Gazetteer of the state of New York: embracing a comprehensive view of the geography, geology, and general history of the state, and a complete history and description of every county, city, town, village and locality : with full tables of statistics. Syracuse, R.P. Smith, 1860. Also in Butler Reference R978 F88 Has a section on New York County (p. 418-448) with a lot of statistics and information about services.

Report on the social statistics of cities. New York, N.Y. Norman Ross Pub., Year: 1991, 1886.  Issued as part of the 10th census.  New York is in part 1, p. 531-597. Butler Stacks  HA201 1880 v. 18-19.

Directories

New York City, New York Online Historical Directories - Online Historical Directories List of New York city directories by decade.  Lists freely available sources as well as commercial ones (mainly ancestry.com)

“Check List of World Relating to the Social History of the City of New York—its clubs, charities, hospitals, etc., etc.,—in the New York Public Library”  Bulletin of the New York Public Library, vol. V, no. 6, June 1901. Reference Desk  R016.978N48 N4 The Bulletin is online in Hathi and Google Books

The New York charities directory. New York, Charity Organization Society in the City of New York, 1888-1920. Most editions are in the stacks at HV99.N59 N5

This was also known for some years as the Directory of social and health agencies of New York City  Community Council of Greater New York. Welfare Council of New York City.  Hathi has both titles, but the years don’t always overlap. Hathi has most volumes from 1890-1921.

Richmond, John Francis. New York and its institutions, 1609-1873: the bright side of New York. New York, E.B. Treat, 1872.  From the description: ‘A library of information pertaining to the great metropolis, past and present, with historic sketches of its churches, schools, public buildings, parks and cemeteries, of its police, fire, health and quarantine departments, of its prisons, hospitals, homes, asylums, dispensaries and morgue and all municipal and private charitable institutions.’

The charities of New York, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. By Henry J. Cammann and Hugh N. Camp. New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1868.

Other Online Sources; I found some material searching under “Morningside Heights” as well as more specific topics.  I didn’t list the standard full text sources like Historical newspapers and APS.</p> <p style='text-align: left;'>GoogleBooks, limiting the search to specific years.

HarpWeekHarper’s Weekly from 1857-1912.  It has a lot of illustrations.

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