ARTICLES & BOOKS ABOUT THE LIBRARY

• Book Selections of Founding Fathers
  William J. Dean (2007)

• My Manhattan: Where the Third 'R' Stands for Repose
  David Halberstam (1997)

• The New York Society Library: A Comparison
  Arnold Whitridge (1976)

• Address Delivered Before The New York Society Library on the One Hundredth Anniversary of its Incorporation
  Thomas Ward (1872)

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1. Allen, Oliver E. "Tribeca's Literary Bastion." The Tribeca Tribune, Old Tribeca, 11 June 2006.

2. America's Membership Libraries / edited by Richard Wendorf ; preface by Nicolas Barker. New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2007.

3. Augenbraum, Harold. "New York's Oldest Public Libraries." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage, Vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 2000), 145-159.

4. Beldin, E. Porter, New York, Past, Present and Future, (1849), 112.

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

6. Byard, Margaret Mather. Books in the Wilderness: The Winthrop Collection at The New York Society Library, 1999.

7. Cooper, Henry S.F. Jr., and Jenny Lawrence. The New York Society Library: 250 Years. Privately published by The New York Society Library, 2004.

8. Dean, William J. Book Selections of Founding Fathers, New York Law Journal. Thursday, February 8, 2007.

9. Glynn, Tom. The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York, Libraries & Culture - Volume 40, Number 4, pp. 493-52, Fall 2005.

10. Gray, Christopher. The John Rogers House: A Brief Literature Search. Privately published by the Library, 2001.

11. Gray, Christopher. Researching the History of a NYC Building, The New York Times. 1995.

12. Halberstam, David. "My Manhattan: Where the Third 'R' Stands for Repose. The New York Times, December 19, 1997.

13. Keep, Austin Baxter. The History of the New York Society Library: With an Introductory Chapter on Libraries in Colonial New York, 1698-1776. New York: Printed for the Trustees by the Devinne Press, 1908; reprinted by Gregg Press, 1972.

14. King, Marion. Books and People: Five Decades of New York's Oldest Library. New York: MacMillan, 1954.

15. MacMullen, John. A lecture on the past, the present, and the future of the New-York Society Library: delivered before the shareholders, February 15th, 1856. New York: J.F. Trow, printer ..., 1856.

16. Old Buildings of New York City with Some Notes Regarding Their Origin and Occupants. New York: Brentanos, pp 68-71, 1907.

17. Report of the Long-Range Planning Committee. Privately published by the Library, 2002.

18. Shapiro, Harriet. Special Collections from The New York Society Library: Selections from the Green, Hammond, and Winthrop Collections. Privately published by the Library, 2002.

19. Shapiro, Harriet. Special Collections of The New York Society Library: John Winthrop, John Sharpe, James Hammond, John Cleve Green, Sharaff/Sze. Privately published by the Library, 2003.

20. Simmonds, Harvey. Samuel Jones and the New York Society Library: Reflections in the National Bicentennial Year. New York: Stinehour Press, 1976.

21. Ward, Thomas. Address Delivered Before The New York Society Library on the One Hundredth Anniversary of its Incorporation, November 9th, 1872. Poole & MacLauchlan, 1872.

22. Whitridge, Arnold. The New York Society Library: A Comparison from Redwood Papers: A Bicentennial Collection. The Redwood Library and Athenaeum, pp. 111-118, 1976.

23. Zboray, Ronald J. A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

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