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- Creator
- Sturtevant, John J
- Call number
- MssCol 2915
- Physical description
- .06 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
- John J. Sturtevant memoir, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Recollections of a resident of New York City from 1835-1905, describing stage lines, oil lamps and lamplighters, markets, theatres, museums, eating places, hotels, parks, yachting, steamships, fire companies, church-going, shops, residences of prominent persons, draft riots, riot of 1871, cost of tropical fruits, chimney sweeps, etc. Brief comment upon suburbs, Long Island, Westchester county, and New Jersey
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Subjects
Places
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- New York (State) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
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Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328