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                             SOURCES OF HISTORICAL INFORMATION
                                              Assembled by Pam Tice 

 
William Cronon, environmental historian on history research sources and methods http://www.williamcronon.net/researching/index.htm

RESEARCHING YOUR BUILDING https://www.upperwestsidehistory.org/bnhg-building-research-guide.html
 
BOOKS about New York City
Blackmar, Elizabeth Manhattan for Rent 1785-1850. Ithaca New York, Cornell University Press, 1989

Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace Gotham: A History of New York to 1898. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999

Caro, Robert The Power Broker. New York, Vintage Books, 1974

Holloway, Margaret The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor. New York, Norton, 2013

Jackson, Kenneth T. (editor), Lisa Keller (editor), Nancy Flood (editor) The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven, CT., Yale University Press, 2010 (second edition)

Sanderson, Eric W. Manahatta: A Natural History of New York City. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2009

Shorto, Russell The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America. New York, Doubleday, 2004

Spann, E. K. The New Metropolis: New York City 1840-1857. New York, Columbia University Press, 1981

Wallace, Mike Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919. New York, Oxford University Press, 2017

Books about Bloomingdale and Morningside Neighborhoods
Azzarone, Stephanie Heaven on the Hudson: Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park. New York, Fordham University Press, 2022.

Dolkart, Andrew Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture & Development. New York, Columbia University Press, 1998

Mackin, Jim Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side New York, Fordham University Press, 2021

Salwen, Peter Upper West Side Story: A History and Guide New York, Abbeville Press, 1989

OLD BOOKS that focus on our neighborhoods
Mott, Hopper Striker The New York of Yesterday: Bloomingdale. New York, G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1908

Peters, John Punnett Annals of St. Michael’s: being the History of St. Michael’s Episcopal Protestant
Church for One Hundred Years 1807-1907. New York G.P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1907

Riker, James Revised History of Harlem (City of New York), Its Origin and Early Annals. New York, New Harlem Publishing Company, 1904

Stokes, I. N. Phelps The Iconography of Manhattan (six volumes). New York, Robert Dodd, 1918 Stokes available online at: https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/stokes
 
WEBSITES Archives
https://archive.org 

https://www.proquest.com/

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/

https://www.hathitrust.org/about
 
https://www.worldcat.org/topics/welcome
 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
New York History
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/

http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/

https://forgotten-ny.com/

https://untappedcities.com/category/new-york/

​https://www.gothamcenter.org/

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/

http://lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/2009/02/lost-citys-guide-to-upper-west-side.html

https://www.nytimes.com/column/streetscapes

https://www.oldnyc.org/

PODCASTS
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bowery-boys-new-york-city-history/id258530615?mt=2

https://benfranklinsworld.com/episode-346-music-and-politics-in-the-early-united-states/

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY – explore options online
https://libguides.nypl.org/neighborhoodresearch

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

https://www.nypl.org/research/collections/articles-databases
 
 
MAPS
David Rumsey https://www.davidrumsey.com/

NYPL
https://www.nypl.org/collections/nypl-recommendations/guides/fire-topo-property-maps

http://spacetime.nypl.org/maps-by-decade/#/

Randel Farm Maps http://thegreatestgrid.mcny.org/greatest-grid/randel-map-gallery

PHOTOGRAPHS
New York Public Library https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/divisions/the-miriam-and-ira-d-wallach-division-of-art-prints- and-photographs-picture

Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/pictures/

New-York Historical Society http://dcmny.org/islandora/object/photosnycbeyond%3Acollection

Museum of the City of New York https://www.mcny.org/collections/prints-photograph

City of New York Tax photos https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/NYCMA~5~5

NEWSPAPERS
www.newspapers.com Subscribe or gain access at home for free through NYPL, a temporary measure for cardholders during Covid

www.nytimes.com Subscribe or gain access from 1980 at home through NYPL, a temporary measure for cardholders during Covid

https://genealogybank.com/ Subscribe

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/ Chronicling America/Library of Congress. free
 
JOURNALS
Access JSTOR (academic journals) at home through NYPL, a temporary measure for cardholders during Covid

New York History Cornell University Press and The New York State Museum

GOVERNMENT RESEARCH
Goodwin, Aaron New York City Municipal Archives: An Authorized Guide for Family Historians. New York, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2016
 
 
HISTORY PROGRAMS PRESENTED ON ZOOM
Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group, Landmark West, the Skyscraper Museum, Gotham Center at CUNY, New York Public Library, Friends of the Upper East Side, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
 
 
HISTORY THROUGH WALKING TOURS
Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group – Jim Mackin,  Tenement Museum, Untapped New York, Central Park Conservancy

 

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