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HIST 351: The Gangs of New York: Online primary resources related to New York City

A guide to selected resources for HIST 351.

Online primary resources related to New York City

Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens' Association of New York upon the sanitary condition of the City
Citizens' Association of New York; Council of Hygiene and Public Health
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1865.
Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens' Association of New York upon the sanitary condition of the City
Citizens' Association of New York; Council of Hygiene and Public Health
New York: D. Appleton & Co., Second edition, 1866.
The Nether Side of New York; or, the Vice, Crime and Poverty of the Great Metropolis
Edward Crapsey
New York: Sheldon & Co., 1872.
The Dangerous classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work among Them
Charles Loring Brace
New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1872.
The Slums of Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. Prepared in compliance with a joint resolution of the Congress of the United States, approved July 20, 1892.
By Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor.
United States. Bureau of Labor.
Washington: Govt. print. off., 1894.
Directory to the Charities of New York
Annual report of the New York City Mission and Tract Society, 1872 - 1877
By New York City Mission and Tract Society
The old brewery and the new mission house at the Five Points
New York : Stringer & Townsend, 1854.
Sketch of the resources of the city of New-York : With a view of its municipal government, population &c. &c. ; from the foundation of the city to the date of the latest statistical accounts.
John A. Dix
New-York: G. & C. Carvill, 1827.
Machine Politics and Money in Elections in New York City
William M. Ivins
New York: Harper & Brothers, c1887.
Our Fight with Tammany
Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895.
A Model Mayor. Early Life, Congressional Career, and Triumphant Municipal Administration of Hon. Fernando Wood, Mayor of the City of New York: presenting his public speeches and messages, and the principles on which his government is founded.
"A Citizen of New York"
New York, American Family Publication Establishment, 1855.
Historical aspects of the immigration problem: select documents.
Edith Abbott
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1926.
The Liquor Problem; a Summary of Investigations Conducted by the Committee on Fifty, 1893-1903
Committee of Fifty for the Investigation of the Liquor Problem; Billings, John Shaw, 1838-1913; Peabody, Francis Greenwood, 1847-1936
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1905