Table of Contents

• Frontispiece
• Title Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Valentine's Manual of Old New York
• "Fifth Avenue, Around 58th Street and etc.
• Splendors of the Battery in 1835
• "Friendship Grove," and Its Memories
• Immortality
• Record of Skating Days in Central Park, etc.
• Diary of a Little Girl in Old New York 1851
• Curious Old Letter to Mr. Zenger
• Edgar Allan Poe in New York City
• The New Liberty Pole
• The America's Cup
• Population of New York, 1615-1920
• Early Days of the Department Stores
• Fulton Ferry in 1836
• A Great Merchant's Recollections of etc.
• Early Days of the Telephone
• John Bigelow, Gentleman
• City Hall Park, 1849
• Old Merchants of New York, 1830
• Lydia F. Wadleigh
• Reminiscences of the Old Eleventh Ward
• The Bell of St. John's Chapel
• Hunter College 1870-1920
• The Schools of 1850
• The Free Academy - College of the City etc.
• The Queerest House in This Country
• Old Mansions of the Bronx
• Some Associations of Old Ann Street
• The Case of William Hamlin Childs
• Old Time Marriage and Death Notices
• Quaint and Curious Advertisements in etc.
• The Vernacular of the Day
• Index
• Index to Prints and Illustrations