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McCutcheon, Marc, Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s, Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, c1993    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582970637/qid=1077082114/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, New York : McGraw Hill, 1984.

Melosi, Martin V. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Creating the North American Landscape), Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801861527/qid=1076998390/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Mendelsohn, Joyce, Touring the Flatiron: Walks in Four Historic Neighborhoods, New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1998 http://www.e-guana.net/organizations.php3?orgid=79&typeID=650&action=printContentItem&itemID=5119&templateID=923&sortField=alpha&... 

Michelin Tourist Guide: New England, New Hyde Park, NY: Michelin Guides and Maps, c. 1982

Morris, Lloyd, Incredible New York: High Life and Low Life of the Last Hundred Years, New York: Arno Press, 1975. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0815603347/qid=1077080410//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 

Morrison, William, Broadway Theatres: History & Architecture, Dover Publications, Inc. 1999.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486402444/qid=1076911076/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Mulholland, Catherine, William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles, Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 2000.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520234669/qid=1076911111/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Neville, Amelia Ransome, The Fantastic City: Memoirs of the Social and Romantic Life of Old San Francisco, Edited and revised by Virginia Brastow, Cambridge MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press, 1932  http://www.zpub.com/sf50/sf/hbtfcidx.htm

New York Clipper, New York: 1853-1924 (absorbed by Variety).  The Harvard Theatre Collection has microfilm.  The Library of Congress catalog lists paper copies but these seem to be unavailable.

New York Dramatic Mirror (title varies) 1879-1922.

New York Times Index, New York: New York Times, semi-annual, 1851- present.

New York Times Theater Reviews, New York: New York Times, 1975. Vol. 1. 1870-1885, Vol. 2 1886-1895

Niederman, Sharon, A Quilt of Words: Women's Diaries, Letters & Original Accounts of Life in the Southest 1860-1960, Boulder CO, Johnson Books, 1988 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1555660479/qid=1106175483/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-9749641-9380817?v=glance&s=books 

North American Review, 1815- http://www.webdelsol.com/NorthAmReview/NAR/HTMLpages/NARToday.htm 

Odell, George Clinton Densmore,  Annals of the New York Stage, New York : Columbia University Press, 1927.

Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. http://dictionary.oed.com/ 

Quinn, Arthur Hobson,  A History of the American Drama: From the Civil War to the Present Day, New York : Appleton- Century Crofts, 1927.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0891972188/qid=1076911286/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Painter, Nell Irvin, Standing at Armageddon, the United States 1877-1919, New York: W.W. Norton, c.1987. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393305880/qid=1076911314/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Protopappas, John J. and Alvin R. McNeal, editors, Washington on Foot, Washington DC,  National Capital Area Chapter, American Planning Association and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560981768/qid=1076911483/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Plunz, Richard, A History of Housing in New York City, New York, Columbia University Press, 1990. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0231062966/qid=1076911512/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Poggi, Jack,  Theater  in American: The Impact of Economic Forces 1870-1967, Ithaca: Cornell University  Press, 1968.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801403405/qid=1076911537/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Rigdon, Walter,  Biographical Encyclopedia and Who's Who of the American Theatre, New York : Heinemann, 1966

Riis, Jacob A., The Making of an American, New York: MacMillan Co, 1901. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140436790/qid=1076911618/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-7351289-1775216 

Rosen, Laura, Manhattan Shores: An expedition around the island's edge, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/050054221X/qid=1076911658/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Rothman, John, Origin and Development of Dramatic Criticism in the New York Times 1851-1990,  New York:  Arno Press, 1970.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0405025602/qid=1076911790/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, On a Gilded Stage, Petaluma: Pomegranate Calendars and Books, 1993.

Schlereth, Thomas J., Victorian America: Transformation in Everyday Life 176-1915, city: Harper Collins, 1991. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060921609/qid=1076980411/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books   1876 Centennial and 1893 Columbian Exposition

Shannon, Fred A. and Robert Huhn Jones, The Centennial Years: A Political and Economic History of America from the late 1870s to the early 1890s, Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. 

Shortt, Mary "The Royal Lyceum: part I 1848-1859", John Nickinson chapter, Master's Thesis on Toronto theatre 1809-1874 c. 1979.

Silver, Nathan, Lost New York,  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618054758/qid=1076911873/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Simon, Kate, Fifth Avenue: A Very Social History, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c. 1978.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/015630712X/qid=1076912043/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Sinfield, Alan, The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Movement, Columbia University Press, 1994  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0231101678/qid=1076912072/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Otis Skinner, Footlights and Spotlights: Recollections of my Life on the Stage, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1923, 1972.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005VY2A/qid=1076912105/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Skinner, Otis, The Last Tragedian: Booth Tells His Own Story, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939.

Sperdakos, Paula, Canada's Daughters, America's Sweethearts, The Careers of Canadian 'Footlight Favorites' in the United States, Theatre Research in Canada 20 (2): Fall/Automne 1999 http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/TRIC/bin/get.cgi?directory=Vol20_2/&filename=Sperdakos.html

Stansell, Christine, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York 1789-1860: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0252014812/qid=1077080769/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Starr, Paul, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, New York: Basic Books, 1982.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465079350/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books&st=* 

Stern, Robert, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman, New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age, New York: Monacelli Press, 1999

Stern Robert AM, Gregory Gilmartin and John Massengale, New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanisms 1890-1915, New York: Rizzoli, 1983.

Stoddart, JH,  Recollections of a Player, New York : The Century Co, 1902.

Strang, Lewis C., Famous Actors of the Day in America, Boston: LC Page and Company, 1900.

Strang, Lewis C., Famous Actresses of the Day in America, Boston: LC Page and Company, 1899.

Strang, Lewis C.,  Players and Plays of the Last Quarter Century, Boston : L. C. Page & Co., 1902.

Strasser, Susan, Never Done: A History of American Housework, New York, Pantheon Books, 1982  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805067744/qid=1077082212/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Stratman, Carl J.,  American Theatrical Periodicals 1798-1967: A bibliographical guide, Durham : Duke University Press, 1970.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822302284/qid=1076910195/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Taubman, Howard,  The Making of the American Theatre, New York : Coward McCann Inc, 1965.

United States Department of Agriculture,  Famous Trees, Miscellaneous Publication No. 295,  Washington DC, June 1938.

van Hoogstraten, Nicholas, Lost Broadway Theaters, Princeton Architectural Press, revised edition, 1997.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1878271067/qid=1076910320/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Wallack, Lester, Memories of Fifth Years, New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1889. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078128399X/qid=1076976860//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 

www.Virtual Library, Theatre and Drama http://vl-theatre.com/

Wearing, JP,  American and British Theatrical Biography: A Directory, Metuchen NJ : Scarecrow Press, 1979.

Who was Who in America,  Chicago : Marquis 1963-1973.

Williams, Ellen and Steve Radlauer, Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York, New York: The Little Bookroom, 2002 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1892145154/qid=1078015784/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-6039487-5225513?v=glance&s=books

Wilmeth, Don B. and Tice L. Miller,  Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1993.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521564441/qid=1076910442/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Winter, William, Other Days: Being Chronicles and Memories of the Stage, New York:: Moffat, Yard and Company 1908. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0781277779/qid=1076973062/sr=1-37/ref=sr_1_37/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Winter, William, Shadows of he Stage, New York: MacMillan and Company, 1895. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005XVO3/qid=1076972756/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Winter, William, Vagrant Memories: Being further recollections of other days, New York: George H. Doiran Company, 1913.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078128421X/qid=1076972872/sr=1-17/ref=sr_1_17/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Winter, William, Wallet of Time: Containing personal, biographical and critical reminiscence of the American Theatre, New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1913.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/083691113X/qid=1076972812/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Wollenberg, Charles, Golden Gate Metropolis: Perspectives on Bay Area History, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Institute of Governmental Studies, 1985 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/087772301X/qid=1077081573/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books

Works Progress Administration, WPA Guide to New York City, 1939  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521564441/qid=1076910442/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Wright, Carol Von Pressentin, Blue Guide New York, New York : W. W. Norton, 1983.

Zingman-Leith, Elan, The Secret Life of Victorian Houses, Washington D. C.: Elliott and Clark Pub., c. 1993  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140294619/qid=1076910509/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7351289-1775216?v=glance&s=books 

Unpublished letters, photographs, playbills, and other papers of EJ Phillips and others, from family archives in Boston, Massachusetts, Pensacola, Florida, Sewanee, Tennessee, and Ft.  Lauderdale, Florida. 

The Harvard Theatre Collection has "clippings, playbills, scrapbooks, and so on" from the Madison Square Theatre Company, AM Palmer's correspondence, clippings, and manuscript "History of the Union Square Theatre" with clippings and scrapbooks.

The Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (New York) has Madison Square "scrapbooks, clippings, playbills and so on", Union Square "scrapbooks, clippings, playbills, photographs and so on", [and a clipping folder on the Olympic Theatre, as does the Museum of the City of New York] 

Museum of the City of New York prints and photographs http://www.mcny.org/Collections/photo/prints.htm
Theater Department http://www.mcny.org/Collections/theater/theater.htm

Billy Rose Theater Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/the/the.html 

The Walter Hampden-Edwin Booth Theatre Collection and Library at the Player's Club (New York) has AM Palmer's "inlaid, voluminous Record of the Union Square Theatre, including autobiographies, playbills, clippings, and so on".

The William Seymour Theatre Collection, Princeton NJ has a fragment of the Union Square Daybook and Notebook, and Palmer's Theatre comes up in the William Seymour correspondence.  

William Seymour Collection, Princeton University Library Chronicle, June 1941 http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/pulc/pulc_v_2_n_4.pdf  pp 11-15
William Seymour Family Papers, Princeton Univ. http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/seymour.html 

The Philadelphia Free Library (Logan Square) has a Philadelphia Theatre Collection with a Chestnut Street Theatre File, Chestnut Street Theatre Programs File and Philadelphia Theatre Index, as well as files on many of the Chestnut Street Theatre performers.

Promptbooks, correspondence, programs and scrapbooks on the Wallack Theatre Company are at the Harvard Theatre Collection, New York Public Library, New York Historical Library, Players Club, and the Matthews Museum at  Columbia.

Columbia has the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Collection and papers relating to George Odell http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/00/06/samandbella.html

The Boston Public Library and Snell Library at Northeastern University have been invaluable resources and the Harvard Theater Collection has been a very useful expedition.  The Library of Congress has been quite helpful and I am looking forward to visiting collections in New York, Princeton and Philadelphia.

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