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Authors: Edward Robb Ellis
W
ALKER
, S
TANLEY
,
The Night Club Era.
New York, Stokes, 1933.
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Mrs. Astor's Horse.
New York, Stokes, 1935.
W
ALTON
, F
RANK
L.,
Tomahawks to Textiles: The Fabulous Story of Worth Street.
New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953.
W
ARD
, C
HRISTOPHER
,
The War of the Revolution,
John Richard Alden, ed. New York, Macmillan, 1952. 2 vols.
W
ARSHOW
, R
OBERT
I
RVING
,
The Story of Wall Street.
New York, Green-berg, 1929.
W
EITENKAMPF
, F
RANK
,
Manhattan Kaleidoscope.
New York, Scribner's, 1947.
W
ELD
, R
ALPH
F
OSTER
,
Brooklyn Is America.
New York, Columbia University Press, 1950.
W
ERNER
, M. R.,
Barnum.
New York, Garden City Publishing, 1927.
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Tammany Hall.
New York, Garden City Publishing, 1928.
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It Happened in New York.
New York, Coward-McCann, 1957.
W
ERSTEIN
, I
RVING
,
The Blizzard of '88.
New York, Crowell, 1960.
W
ERTENBAKER
, T
HOMAS
J
EFFERSON
,
Father Knickerbocker Rebels.
New York, Scribner's, 1948.
W
HALEN
, G
ROVER
,
Mr. New York, Autobiography.
New York, Putnam's, 1955.
Whitaker's Almanac.
London, Whitaker & Sons, Ltd., various years.
W
HITE
, W
ILLIAM
A
LLEN
,
A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge.
New York, Macmillan, 1938.
Who Was Who in America, 1897â1942.
Chicago, Marquis, 1943.
Who's Who in America.
Chicago, Marquis, various years.
W
ILEY
, B
ELL
I
RVIN
,
The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy.
New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1943.
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The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union.
New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.
W
ILLIAMS
, S
HERMAN
,
New York's Part in History.
New York, Appleton, 1915.
W
ILLIAMS
, S
TANLEY
T.,
The Life of Washington Irving.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1935. 2 vols.
W
ILSON
, E
DMUND
,
The American Earthquake, A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties.
New York, Doubleday, 1958.
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The Shores of Light, A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties.
New York, Random House, 1952.
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Classics and Commercials, A Literary Chronicle of the Forties.
New York, Farrar, Straus, 1950.
W
ILSON
, F
ORREST
,
Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
New York, Lippincott, 1941.
W
ILSON
, J
AMES
G
RANT
, ed.,
Memorial History of the City of New York.
New York, New-York History Co., 1892. 4 vols.
W
ILSON
, J
AMES
H
ARRISON
,
The Life of Charles A. Dana.
New York, Harper, 1907.
W
ILSON
, R
UFUS
R
OCKWELL
,
New York: Old & New.
Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1902. 2 vols.
W
ILSON
, R
UFUS
R
OCKWELL
, with W
ILSON
, O
TILIE
E
RICKSON
,
New York in Literature.
Elmira, N.Y., Primavera, 1947.
W
INKLER
, C
ECELIA
, ed.,
Statistical Guide for New York City.
New York, Department of Commerce and Industrial Development, New York City, various years.
W
INKLER
, J
OHN
K.,
Incredible Carnegie
. New York, Vanguard, 1931.
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Morgan the Magnificent.
New York, Doubleday Doran, 1932.
W
OODWARD
, W. E.,
George Washington, The Image and the Man.
New York, Liveright, 1926.
W
ORDEN
, H
ELEN
,
Here Is New York.
New York, Doubleday Doran, 1939.
World Almanac.
New York, New York World-Telegram and Sun, various years.
Z
INK
, H
AROLD
,
City Bosses in the United States: A Study of Twenty Municipal Bosses.
North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1930.
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Abbey, Henry E.,
379
Abolitionism and abolitionists,
235â38
,
266â69
,
287
Academy of Music,
377â78
,
379
,
380
Actors' Equity Association,
514
Actors' Fidelity League,
514
Acuna, Chile Mapocha,
544
Adams, Hattie,
427
Adams, John,
166
,
180
,
186
,
187
,
195
,
196
Adams, John Quincy,
560
Adirondack Mountains,
20
Adventure Galley
(frigate),
108
Aertson, Jan,
190
Air Defense Command,
558
Alarm, The
(leaflet),
155
Albany, Duke of,
75
Albany, New York,
16
,
18
,
24
,
75
,
177
,
205
Alberti, Peter Caesar,
418
Alexander, James,
120
,
123
,
124
,
125
,
134
Alexander III, Czar,
417
Alexander VI, Pope,
14
Allen, Frederick Lewis,
530
Altman & Company, B.,
397
Amen, John H.,
567
American Antislavery Society,
266
,
287
American Bank Note Company,
397
American Brotherhood,
256
American Colonization Society,
234
American Committee of the Statue of Liberty,
387
American Institute Fair,
339
American Museum of Natural History,
360
,
451
American Red Cross,
274
American Republic,
256
American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society,
451
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
306
Ancient Order of Hibernians,
248
Andrea, Marie,
428
Andrews, Major Avery D.,
434â35
Andros, Major Edmund,
84â85
,
87â89
,
90
,
92
,
93
,
94
Anne, Queen, of England,
111
Appo, George,
433
Arcer, Jan,
80
Archer, John,
81
Arc lights,
363
Arnold Constable & Company,
317
Arthur, Chester A.,
374
,
375
,
388
Articles of Confederation,
178
Asquith, Margot,
597
Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor of New York City,
256
Association of the Bar of the City of New York,
541
Astor, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn (Mrs. William),
413â14
Astor, George,
177
Astor, Henry,
177
Astor, John Jacob,
176â77
,
183
,
190
,
195
,
208â09
,
210
,
211
,
214
,
216
,
218
,
232
,
244
,
247
,
248
,
257â58
,
260
,
444
,
494
,
560
Astor, John Jacob, Jr.,
258
Astor, John Jacob, II,
298
Astor, John Jacob, III,
411
,
414
Astor, John Jacob, IV,
414â15
Astor, Mary Dahlgren Paul,
414
Astor, William,
413
Astor, William Backhouse,
258
,
318
Astor, William Waldorf,
414â15
Astor House,
288
,
321
,
398
,
399
,
400
,
503
Astoria
(Irving),
244
Astor Place,
194
Astor Place Opera House,
260â65
,
274
Astor Place riot,
260â65
Atlantic cable,
283
Atomic bomb,
563â64
Atomic energy,
561â62
Atomic furnace, or pile,
562â63
Atom splitting,
561
Attlee, Clement,
581
Auctioneers,
217
Aurelio, Thomas A.,
569
Automobile Club of America,
462
Bacon, Frank,
514
Baker, George,
see
Divine, Father
Baker, Joe,
576
Baker, Newton D.,
507
Baker, Ray Stannard,
461â62
Baldwin, James,
588
Baline, Moses and Leah,
418
Bancroft, George,
288
Bandmann, Daniel E.,
402
Bankhead, Tallulah,
514
Bank of New York,
179