The Museum of Extraordinary Things

FURTHER READING

Further reading for those who wish to know more about the history explored in The Museum of Extraordinary Things.

Denson, Charles. Coney Island Lost and Found. Ten Speed Press, 2002.

Hartzman, Marc. American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History’s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers. Tarcher Penguin, 2006.

Kasson, John E. Amusing the Millions. Hill and Wang, 1978.

McCullough, Edo. Good Old Coney Island. Fordham University Press, 2000.

Argersinger, Jo Ann. The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009.

Ballon, Hillary, ed. The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811–2011. Museum of the City of New York, 2012.

Benin, Leigh, Rob Linne, Adrienne Sosin, Joel Sosinsky with the Workers United (ILGWU) and HBO Documentary Films. Images of America: The New York City Triangle Factory Fire. Arcadia Publishing, 2011.

Ellis, Edward Robb. The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History. Basic Books, 1996, 2005.

Gray, Christopher, ed. Fifth Avenue: 1911 from Start to Finish in Historic Block-by-Block Photographs. Dover Publications, 1994.

Homberger, Eric. The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City’s History. Henry Holt, 1994; Holt Paperbacks, 2005.

Israelowitz, Oscar, and Brian Merlis. Manhattan’s Lower East Side in Vintage Photographs. Israelowitz Publishing, 2011.

Jackson, Kenneth T., and David S. Dunbar. Empire City: New York Through the Centuries. Columbia University Press, 2002.

Sanders, Ronald. The Lower East Side: A Guide to Its Jewish Past in 99 Photographs. Dover Books, 1980.

von Drehle, David. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. Grove Press, 2003.

Ziegelman, Jane. 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement. HarperCollins, 2010.

Bann, Stephen, ed. Art and the Early Photographic Album. Yale University Press, 2011.

Burns, Ric, James Sanders, and Lisa Ades. New York: An Illustrated History. Knopf, 2011.

Gilman Paper Company Collection. The Waking Dream: Photography’s First Century. Henry Abrams, 1993.

Lavedrine, Bertrand, et al. Photographs of the Past: Process and Preservation. Getty Conservation Institute, 2009.

Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present. Museum of Modern Art, 2009.

Newhouse, Alana, ed. A Living Lens: Photographs of the Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward. W. W. Norton, 2007.

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