The following bibliography lists many of the sources used by Isaac Reed, et al, to provide content for the “Thirty Years in Gotham” columns:
“At the Old Bull’s Head.” Scribner’s Monthly, v.17, Nov. 1878-Apr 1879. https://www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/MISC/Scribners/SC1879A/SC1879A-BullsHead.pdf
Dawson, Henry B., William J. Davis, Geo Hayward, and McSpedon & Baker. 1855. Reminiscences of the City of New York and Its Vicinity. New York: publisher not identified. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reminiscences_of_the_City_of_New_York_an/btEpAQAAMAAJ?hl=en
Dayton, Abram C. 1882. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York. G. W. Harlan. https://archive.org/details/lastdaysofknicke00dayto/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater
De Voe, Thomas F William Denyse and Hall Clayton & Medole. 1862. The Market Book : Containing a Historical Account of the Public Markets of the Cities of New York Boston Philadelphia and Brooklyn with a Brief Description of Every Article of Human Food Sold Therein the Introduction of Cattle in America and Notices of Many Remarkable Specimens. New York: Printed for the author. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924013878784
Farley, Phil. 1876. Criminals of America; or Tales of the Lives of Thieves. Enabling Every One to Be His Own Detective. with Portraits Making a Complete Rogues’ Gallery Author’s ed. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Criminals_of_America/YNBScZWSTscC?hl=en
Francis, John Wakefield. Old New York: Or Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years ; with a Memoir of the Author. Widdleton 1866. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Old_New_York/vkUyAQAAMAAJ?hl=en
Haswell Chas H. 1897-1896. Reminiscences of an Octogenarian of the City of New York (1816 to 1860). New York: Harper. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reminiscences_of_an_Octogenarian_of_the/-VEOAAAAIAAJ?hl=en
Lossing, Benson J. “The Blue-Bell Tavern.” Appleton’s Journal, v. X, n. 247, Dec. 13, 1873. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Appletons_Journal/tslZAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22The+Blue+Bell+Tavern,%22+Appleton%27s+Journal,+Dec+13+1873&pg=PA737&printsec=frontcover
McCabe James D. 1882. New York by Sunlight and Gaslight : A Work Descriptive of the Great American Metropolis ; Its High and Low Life ; Its Splendors and Miseries ; Its Virtues and Vices ; Its Gorgeous Palaces and Dark Homes of Poverty and Crime ; Its Public Men Politicians Adventurers ; Its Charities Frauds Mysteries Etc. Etc. New York: Union Publishing House. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/84061602.html
McWatters, George S. 2014. Knots Untied; or Ways and By-Ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives. Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46306/46306-h/46306-h.htm
Pinkerton, Allan. 2010. The Somnambulist and the Detective: The Murderer and the Fortune Teller. Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30636
Scoville, Joseph Alfred. 1864. The Old Merchants of New York City. https://books.google.com/books?id=TtoDAAAAYAAJ
Smith, Matthew Hale. 1871. Twenty Years among the Bulls and Bears of Wall Street. New York: American Book Company. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Twenty_Years_Among_the_Bulls_and_Bears_o/RUAKAQAAMAAJ?hl=en
Stringer & Townsend. 1854. The Old Brewery and the New Mission House at the Five Points. New York: Stringer & Townsend 222 Broadway (under the museum). https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Old_Brewery_and_the_New_Mission_Hous/fAMYAAAAYAAJ?hl=en
