Resources used in putting this site together.
Where are you getting this information? (Asked by Fang and
Inky)
What I wanted to do was use sources that were not only about this time period but were also from this time period. I always document (and often cross-check) my sources, so if you are wondering where a specific piece of information came from, ask and I'll find it for you.
In brief, the main sources
are...
Bromley, George W. and Walter S.
Atlas of the city of New York
1898-1899
Burns, Ric (with James Sanders, Lisa Ades)
New York : An Illustrated History
1999
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Numerous articles
Campbell, Helen
Darkness and Daylight
1891
The Fort Wayne Sentinel
July 30, 1910 article
The Galveston Daily News
May 6, 1904 article
Harvard University Library
Open Collections Program
Heritage Quest Online
1900 census
The Library of Congress
Digital Collections
Lincoln Evening News
July 7, 1910 article
The Los Angeles Times
A variety of articles
Mathew, Kathleen
"New York Newsboys"
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Apr. 1895
The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto
The New Era
Dec. 6, 1895 article
The New York Daily Tribune
A couple of articles
The New York Public Library
NYPL Digital
The New York Times
A huge array of articles
O'Connor, Stephen
Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
2001
The Orphan Train site
Peter J. Eckel Newsboy Collection
Rare Book Division
Department of Rare Books and Special Collection
Princeton University Library
Riis, Jacob
"The Children of the Poor," Scribners Magazine
Vol. XI. May, 1892. No. 5.
Riis, Jacob
How the Other Half Lives
1890
Riis, Jacob
"Merry Christmas in the Tenements," The Century
Volume 55, Issue 2, Dec. 1, 1897
Riis, Jacob
Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen
1904
White, Norval
AIA guide to New York City
2000
Zeisloft, E. Idell
The New Metropolis
1899