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Series V. Print matter, 1894–2009, inclusive

Scope and Contents

Books, pamphlets, and periodicals pertaining to Gramercy Park proper, the surrounding neighborhood, its notable residents, and architectural features.

Subseries V.A. Books and pamphlets, 1894–2002, inclusive

Arrangement

Filed alphabetically by author or title.

Academy of Music [program], [1907], inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Books)

Scope and Contents

Week beginning Monday evening, March 4, 1907. Klaw & Erlanger's production of Gen. Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur" under the direction of Joseph Brooks.

[Academy of Music]. Souvenir Book with the Program of the ceremonies attending the closing of the Academy of Music on the Seventeenth of May Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-six, 1926, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Books)

[Bank for Savings]. History of the Bank for Savings in the City of New York, 1819–1929 by Charles E. Knowles, 1936, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Books)

[Bank for Savings]. Some Historical Notes of the Early Days of the Bank for Savings in the City of New York, 1944, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Books)

Before the Red Cross, 1918, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Books)

Brooks, Gladys. Gramercy Park: Memories of a New York Girlhood, 1958, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Books)

Carmer, Carl. The Years of Grace, 1808–1958 [Grace Church], 1958, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Books)

Cohen, Paul E. and Robert T. Augustyn. Manhattan in Maps, 1527–1995, 1997, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Books)

Cohen, Paula. Gramercy Park: A Novel, 2002, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Books)

Garmey, Stephen. Gramercy Park: An Illustrated History of a New York Neighborhood, 1984, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Books)

Related Materials

See Box 3, Folder 11, for promotional material for Garmey's book.

Gilder, Rosamond, ed. Letters of Richard Watson Gilder, 1916, inclusive

Box: 9, Volume: 1 (Material Type: Books)

Scope and Contents

Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) was an American poet and editor of "The Century Magazine" and a resident of No. 24 Gramercy Park.

Gramercy Park's Illustrated Bulletin. This issue is dedicated to the New York World's Fair, 1939, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Books)

Guide to Gramercy Park and Environs [2 versions], 1955, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Books)

Historic Hudson Valley. Visions of Washington Irving: Selected Works from the Collections of Historic Hudson Valley, 1991, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Books)

Klein, Carole. Gramercy Park: An American Bloomsbury, 1987, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Books)

Klein, Carole. Glories of the Gramercy Park Area: A Walking Tour [3 copies], 1991 May, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Books)

Kress, S. H. and Company. Old New York, 1935, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Books)

Kring, Walter Donald. Henry Whitney Bellows, 1979, inclusive

Box: 9, Volume: 2 (Material Type: Books)

Scope and Contents

Henry Whitney Bellows (1814–1882) was an American clergyman, and the planner and president of the United States Sanitary Commission, the leading soldiers' aid society, during the American Civil War.

MacCraken, Henry Noble. The Family on Gramercy Park, 1949, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Books)

Maurice, Arthur B. "Literary Landmarks of New York," The Mentor, vol. 8, no. 15 (serial no. 211), 1920 September 15, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Books)

Mendelsohn, Joyce. Touring the Flatiron. Walks in Four Historic Neighborhoods: Madison Square, Gramercy Park, Ladies' Mile, Chelsea, 1998, 1999, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Books)

Merwin, Samuel. My Favorite Club [The Players], 1933, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Books)

Morgan, Charles H. George Bellows, Painter of America, 1965, inclusive

Box: 9, Volume: 3 (Material Type: Books)

Scope and Contents

Artist George W. Bellows (1882–1925) lived at 146 East 19th Street.

Municipal Art Society. Adopt-a-Mural. A program concerned with the fate of New York City's Public Murals . . ., [1990–1993], inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Books)

Scope and Contents

Contains an article on the Barry Faulkner murals installed at Washington Irving High School in 1921.

Museum of the City of New York. Gotham Comes of Age: New York Through the Lens of the Byron Company, 1892–1942, 1999, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Books)

Old Buildings of New York City, With Some Notes Regarding Their Origin and Occupants, 1907, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Books)

Pine, John B. The Story of Gramercy Park, 1831–1921, 1921, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Books)

Related Materials

See Box 2, Folder 16, for an advertisement and promotional material for Pine's book.

Scheffel-Halle [Scheffel Hall, 190 Third Avenue] (photocopy), circa 1904, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Books)

Shaw, Charles G. New York—Oddly Enough, 1938, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Books)

Shepp, James W. and Daniel B. Shepp. Shepp's New York City Illustrated, 1894, inclusive

Box: 9, Volume: 4 (Material Type: Books)

Thompson, Victoria. Murder on Gramercy Park: A Gaslight Mystery, 2001, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Books)

Underhill, Lydia, and Elisabeth Holden Webb. In Gramercy Park, 1928, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Books)

Zeisloft, E. Idell. The New Metropolis: Memorable Events of Three Centuries, 1600–1900, 1899, inclusive

Box: 9, Volume: 5 (Material Type: Books)

Subseries V.B. Periodicals, 1954–2009, inclusive

Arrangement

Titles beginning with "Gramercy" are filed chronologically, followed by the New York Chronicle.

Gramercy Graphic [14 folders], 1954–1967, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 1–14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

• 1954: Summer [2 copies], October-December
• 1955: January-December
• 1956: January-December
• 1957: January-December
• 1958: February, March [2 copies], May [2 copies], June [2 copies], Midsummer [2 copies], September [2 copies], November, December [2 copies]
• 1959: January [2 copies], February, March, April, May [2 copies], June-July, October, November, December
• 1960: January, February, March [2 copies], April, May, June, September, October [4 copies], November, December
• 1961: January, February, March, April, May-June [2 copies], Summer, September, October, November [2 copies], December
• 1962: January, February [2 copies], March-April, May, June, Summer, September, October, November, December [2 copies]
• 1963: January [2 copies], February [2 copies], March, April, May-June [2 copies], Summer, September, October, November [2 copies], December [2 copies]
• 1964: January, February, March, April [2 copies], May, Summer, September, October, November, December
• 1965: January-December
• 1966: January-December
• 1967: January-March

Gramercy Herald (newspaper), 1970–1985, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

• 1970: October 1
• 1971: March 5
• 1973: April 27, May 4
• 1976: April 30, July 2 (Bicentennial supplement)
• 1985: January 18 (title = "The Community Herald")

Gramercy Neighborhood News, 1988–1990, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

• 1988: Autumn
• 1989: Fall–1990: Spring
• 1990: Autumn

Gramercy: The Newsletter for the Gramercy Neighborhood [3 folders], 1991–1993, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 17–19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

• 1991: Spring, Fall
• 1992: Spring [3 copies], Fall [2 copies]
• 1993: Spring [2 copies]

Gramercy Neighborhood Associates, 1997 May, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

• 1997: May [3 copies]

Gramercy Gazette [13 folders], 1997–2009, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 21–33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

• 1997: July [3 copies], October [3 copies], November [4 copies]
• 1998: March [2 copies], September [2 copies], November [3 copies]
• 1999: October, November [3 copies]
• 2000: March [2 copies], Holiday [2 copies]
• 2001: Spring [2 copies]
• 2002: Spring [4 copies], Fall [4 copies], December
• 2003: Spring, Fall
• 2004: Winter [2 copies], Spring [2 copies], Fall [2 copies]
• 2005: Winter [2 copies], Spring, Fall, December [called "GNA Membership 2006"]
• 2006: Winter, Spring, Fall
• 2007: Winter, Spring
• 2008: Winter, Spring
• 2009: Winter, Spring

New York Chronicle [10 folders], 1987–1999, inclusive

Box: 10, Folder: 34–43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Many issues carry contributions by longtime Gramercy Neighborhood Associates archivist Stephen Garmey.
• Vol. 2: no. 1 (Summer 1987), no. 4 (1988)
• Vol. 3: no. 1 (1988), no. 3 (Spring/Summer 1989)
• Vol. 4: no. 1 (Winter 1990), no. 2 (Spring/Summer 1990), no. 3 (Fall 1990) [2 copies], no. 4 (Winter/Spring 1991)
• Vol. 5: no. 3 (Spring/Summer 1992), no. 4 (Fall/Winter 1992)
• Vol. 6: no. 1 (Spring 1993), no. 2 (Summer 1993), no. 3 (Fall/Winter 1993), no. 4 (Spring 1994)
• Vol. 7: no. 1 (Summer 1994), no. 2 (Fall 1994), no. 3 (Winter 1995), no. 4 (Spring 1995)
• Vol. 8: no. 1 (Summer 1995), no. 2 (Fall/Winter 1995), no. 3 (Winter 1996), no. 4 (Spring 1996)
• Vol. 9: no. 1 (Summer 1996), no. 2 (Fall 1996), no. 3 (Winter 1997), no. 4 (Spring/Summer 1997)
• Vol. 10: no. 1 (Fall/Winter 1997), no. 2 (Spring 1998), no. 3 (Summer 1998), no. 4 (Fall 1998)
• Vol. 11: no. 1 (Winter 1999), no. 2 (Spring 1999) [4 copies]

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