Table of Contents

• Frontispiece
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• The Second Number
• Lafayette Place
• "Joy to America"
• New York in the Great World War etc.
• An Old Hostelry - The Eagle Hotel
• Sketch of "Old No.3," a Famous Old etc.
• Newspaper Distribution in 1801
• A Girl's Life in New York etc
• Original Huguenot Families
• The Passing of the Clocks
• A Celebrated Corner
• In The "Seventies"
• Which is the Busiest Street Coner in etc.
• History Told in Tablets
• To Commemorate Washington
• In Commemoration of Historical Events
• Of Local Interest
• The City's Office Building
• The Best-known Picture in the World etc.
• A Pompeiian Portico in New York
• The Swamp
• The Beginnings of Our Great Postal System
• Instructions for Ye Post Master
• The Oath Given to the Post Master
• By the King, A Proclamation
• Our City Hall
• Old Castle Garden
• Historical Explorations in the City etc.
• The Alley Festa
• Early Population Figures
• New York's Most American Borough
• An Advertisement by Hugh Gain etc.
• Camp Life of the Soldiers of New York etc.
• Near View of Washington's Inauguration
• When Washington was in New York
• The Value of Cashmere
• Jones's Wood
• Jan Cornelis Van Den Heuvel etc.
• The Columbia War Hospital
• Irish Pioneers of New York City
• First Presbyterian Church
• Scotch Presbyterian Church
• Old John Street Church
• All Saints' Church and Slave Gallery
• Saint Paul's Chapel, 1766-1916
• Playbill from First theatre in New York
• The One Hundred and Fiftieth etc.
• Where Theodore Roosevelt Was Born
• Early Days in the 1800's
• The Sunday Quiet of New York
• The Shakespeare Garden
• Bond Street
• The American Geographical Society
• Bedloe's Island in 1753
• Old Time Marriage Notices
• Earliest Known Specimen of Printing etc.
• The History of the Beginnings of etc.
• British Military Buttons of the War of etc.
• The Last Horse Car Makes Its Last Journey
• The Red Cross
• Marconi's Welcome
• James Gordon Bennett's Description etc.
• A Visit to the Bigelow Homestead
• New York's Welcome to the War etc.
• History Making in Its Practical Side
• An Old New York School
• The Merchants' Association of New York
• The Hispanic Society of America
• Ambitious Projects for the Next etc.
• Index-Volume Two
• Index-Volume One