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by Captain Willard Glazier  COPYRIGHT: 1883 with 1884 on title page PUBLISHER: Hubbard Brothers PAGES: 570 pages measuring 5" x 7.5" CONDITION: Front board has gold embellishing with edgewear and corner bumping. The spine has been recovered with black binding and the original spine cloth has been laid on top. Board corners have been tinted and compressed for presentation. Inside front and rear hinges have been reinforced with white cloth binding and the headbands have been replaced. Page edges have been cleaned. No signs of previous ownership. Pages are not brittle and the book has no odors. Front cloth has very minor mottling (color loss due to age); rear board has slightly more mottling. Two illustrations are completely loose from the book but included - one of these illustrations (Burning of Chicago) has a long horizontal tear 90% across and has been repaired on the reverse side with tape that has yellowed. The old tape has been removed and the tear has been repaired with opaque archival tape that won't yellow. The front side of the illustrations shows no yellowing - no pieces are missing. All other pages and covers are tight to the spine. No pages missing (verified). This is now a solid, clean book that any history reading or history researching person will be proud to own.
CHAPTERS: I:
ALBANY, New York
From Boston to Albany • Worcester and
Pittsfield • Empire State and its Capital • Old Associations • State
Street • Sketch of Early History • Killian Van Rensselaer • Dutch
Emigration • Old Fort Orange • City Heights • Lumber District • Van
Rensselaer homestead • New Capitol • Military Bureau • War Relics •
Letter of General Dix • Ellsworth and Lincoln Memorials • Geological
Rooms • The Cathedral • Dudley Observatory • Street Marketing • Troy
and Cohoes • Stove Works • Paper Boats • Grand Army Rooms • Down the
Hudson
II: BOSTON, Massachusetts Geographical Location of Boston •
Ancient Names • Etymology of the Word Massachusetts • Changes in
Peninsula • Noted Points of Interest • Boston Common • Old Elm • Duel
Under its Branches • Soldiers' Monument • Fragmentary History •
Courtship on the Common • Faneuil Hall and Market • Old State House •
King's Chapel • Brattle Square Church • New State House • New Post
Office • Old South Church • Birthplace of Franklin • "News Letter" •
City Hall • Custom House • Providence Railroad Station • Places of
General Interest
III: BUFFALO, New York Niagara Frontier • Unfortunate Fate of
the Eries •Battle of Doom • Times of 1812 • Burning of Buffalo • Early
Names • Origin of Present Name • Growth and Population • Railway Lines
• Queen of Great Lakes • Fort Porter and Fort Erie • International
Bridge • Iron Manufacture • Danger of Niagara • Forest Lawn
Cemetery • Decoration Day • Spaulding Monument • Parks and Boulevard •
Delaware Avenue • On the Terrace • Elevator District • Church and
Schools • Grosvenor Library • Historical Rooms • Journalism • Public
Buildings • City Hall • Dog-carts and their Attendants
IV: BROOKLYN, New York Brooklyn a Suburb of New York • City of
Homes • Public Buildings • Churches • Henry Ward Beecher • Thomas De
Witt Talmage • Theodore L. Cuyler, D D • Justin D Fulton • R S Storrs •
Navy Yard • Atlantic Dock • Washington Park • Prospect Park • Greenwood
Cemetery • Evergreen and Cyprus Hills Cemeteries • Coney Island •
Rockaway • Staten Island • Glen Island • Future of Brooklyn
V: BALTIMORE, Maryland Position of Baltimore • Streets •
Cathedral and Churches • Public Buildings • Educational Institutions •
Art Collections • Charitable Institutions • Monuments • Railway Tunnels
• Parks and Cemeteries • Druid Hill Park • Commerce and Manufactures •
Foundation of City • Early History • Bonaparte-Patterson Marriage •
Storming of Baltimore in 1814 • Maryland at the Breaking-out of
Rebellion • Assault on Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, in April, 1861 •
Subsequent Events during War • Baltimore Proves Herself Loyal •
Reunion of Grand Army of Republic in Baltimore, September, 1882 •
Old Differences Forgotten and Fraternal Relations Established
VI: CHARLESTON, South Carolina First Visit to Charleston • Jail Yard •
Bombardment of City • Roper Hospital • Charleston During War •
Secession of South Carolina • Attack and Surrender of Fort Sumter •
Blockade of Harbor • Great Fire of 1861 • Capitulation in 1865 •
First Settlement of City • Battles of the Revolution •
Nullification Act • John C Calhoun • Population of City • Commerce
and Manufactures • Charleston Harbor • “American Venice" • Battery •
Streets, Public Buildings and Churches • Scenery about Charleston •
Railways and Steamship Lines • Ancient Church • Magnolia Cemetery •
Drives near City • Charleston Purified by Fire
VII: CINCINNATI, Ohio Founding of Cincinnati • Rapid Increase
of Population • Character of its Early Settlers • Pro-slavery
Sympathies • During Rebellion • Description of City • Smoke and
Soot • Suburbs • “Fifth Avenue" of Cincinnati • Streets, Public
buildings, Private Art Galleries, Hotels, Churches and Educational
Institutions • "Over the Rhine“ • Hebrew Population • Liberal Religious
Sentiment • Commerce and Manufacturing Interests • Stock Yards and
Pork-packing Establishments • Wine Making • Covington and Newport
Suspension Bridge • High Water • Spring Grove Cemetery
VIII: CLEVELAND, Ohio “Western Reserve" • Character of Early
Settlers • Fairport • Richmond • Early History of Cleveland • Indians •
Opening of Ohio and Portsmouth Canal • Commerce in 1845 • Cleveland in
1850 • First Railroad • Manufacturing Interests • Cuyahoga “Flats" at
Night • “Forest City" • Streets and Avenues • Monumental Park • Public
Buildings and Churches • Union Depot • Water Rents • Educational
Institutions • Rocky River • Approach to City • Freshet of 1883 •
Funeral of President Garfield • Lake Side Cemetery • Site of Garfield Monument
IX: CHICAGO, Illinois Topographical Situation of Chicago •
Meaning of Name • Early History • Massacre at Fort Dearborn • Last
of Red Men • Great Land Bubble • Rapid Increase in Population and
Business • The Canal • First Railroad • Status of City in 1871 • Great
Fire • Its Origin, Progress and Extent • Heartrending Scenes
• Estimated Total Loss • Help from all Quarters • Work of
Reconstruction • Second Fire • Its Public Buildings, Educational and
Charitable Institutions, Streets and Parks • Waterworks • Stock Yards •
Suburbs • Future of City
X: CHEYENNE, Wyoming Location of Cheyenne • Founding of City • Lawlessness • Vigilance Committee • Woman Suffrage • Rapid
Increase of Population and Business • A Reaction • Stock Raising •
Irrigation • Mineral Resources • Present Prospects
XI: DETROIT, Michigan Detroit and Her Avenues of Approach •
Competing Lines • London in Canada • The Strait and the Ferry • Music
on Waters • Home of Algonquins • Teusha-grondie •
Wa-we-aw-to-nong • Fort Ponchartrain and Early French Settlers •
Red Cross of St. George • Conspiracy of Pontiac • Battle of Bloody Run
• Long Siege • Detroit's First American Flag • Old Landmarks • Pontiac
Tree • Devastation by Fire • Site of Modern City • New City Hall •
Public Library • Mexican Antiquities
XII: ERIE, Pennsylvania Decoration Day in Pennsylvania • Lake
Erie • Natural Advantages of Erie • Harbor, Commerce and Manufactures •
Streets and Public Buildings • Soldiers' Monument • Erie Cemetery •
East and West Parks • Perry's Victory
XIII: HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania Historic Tree • John Harris' Wild
Adventure with Indians • Harris Park • History of Harrisburg •
Situation and Surroundings • State House • State Library • Historic
Flag • View from State House Dome • Capitol Park • Monument to Soldiers
of Mexican War • Monument to Soldiers of Late War • Public Buildings •
Front Street • Bridges over Susquehanna • Mt. Kalmia Cemetery •
Present Advantages and Future Prospects of Harrisburg
XIV: HARTFORD, Connecticut City of Publishers • Geographical
Location • New State House • Mark Twain and 'None Such' • "Heathen
Chinee" • Wadsworth Atheneum • Charter Oak • George H Clark's Poem •
Putnam's Hotel • Asylum for Deaf Mutes • Sign Language • Fragment of
Witchcraft ism • Hartford Courant • Connecticut River
XV: LANCASTER, Pennsylvania First Visit to Lancaster • Eastern
Pennsylvania • Conestoga River • Early History of Lancaster • Early
Dutch Settlers • Manufactures • Public Buildings • Whit-Monday • Home
of three Noted Persons • James Buchanan, his Life and Death • Thaddeus
Stevens and his Burial Place • General Reynolds and his Death •
"Cemetery City"
XVI: MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin Rapid Development of Northwest •
“West" Forty Years Ago • Milwaukee and its Commerce and
Manufactures • Grain Elevators • Harbor • Divisions of City •
Public Buildings • Northwestern National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers •
German Population Influence and Results of German Immigration • Bank
Riot in 1862 • Ancient Tumuli • Mound Builders • Mounds Near Milwaukee
• Significance of Same • Early Traders • Foundation of City in 1835
• Excelling Chicago in 1870 • Population and Commerce in 1880
XVII: MONTREAL, Canada Thousand Islands • Long Sault Rapids •
Lachine Rapids • Victoria Bridge • Mont Rèal • Early History of
Montreal • Shipping Interests • Quays • Manufactures • Population •
Roman Catholic Supremacy • Churches • Nunneries • Hospitals, Colleges •
Streets • Public Buildings • Victoria Skating Rink • Sleighing • Early
Disasters • Points of Interest • “Canucks"
XVIII: NEWARK, New Jersey From New York to Newark • Two Hundred
Years Ago • Pioneers • Public Parks • City of Churches • Canal •
Sailing Up-Hill • Old Graveyard • New Amsterdam and New Netherlands •
Dutch and English • Adventurers from New England • Indians • Rate of
Population • Manufactures • Rank as a City
XIX: NEW HAVEN, Connecticut City of Elms • First Impressions • New
England Sunday • Sail on Harbor • Oyster Beds • East Rock • Lonely
Denizen of Bluff • Romance of John Turner • West Rock • Judges'
Cave • Historical Association • Escape of Judges • Monument on City
Green • Yale College • Stormy Infancy • Battle on Weathersfield Road •
Harvard, Fruit of Struggle
XX: NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana Locality of New Orleans • The
Mississippi • Old and New • Ceded to Spain • Creole Part in
American Revolution • Retransferred to France • Purchased by US • Creole Discontent • Battle of New Orleans • Increase of
Population • Levee • Shipping • Public Buildings, Churches, Hospitals,
Hotels and Places of Amusement • Streets • Suburbs • Public Squares and
Parks • Places of Historic Interest • Cemeteries • French Market •
Mardigras • Climate and Productions • New Orleans during Rebellion
• Chief Cotton Mart of World • Exports • Imports • Future
Prosperity of City
XXI: NEW YORK, New York Early History of New York • During
Revolution • Evacuation Day • Bowling Green • Wall Street • Stock
Exchange • Jacob Little • Daniel Drew • Jay Cooke • Rufus Hatch •
Vanderbilts • Jay Gould • Trinity Church • John Jacob Astor •
Post-Office • City Hall and Court House • James Gordon Bennett •
Printing House Square • Horace Greeley • Broadway • Union Square •
Washington Square • Fifth Avenue • Madison Square • Cathedral • Murray
Hill • Second Avenue • Booth's Theatre and Grand Opera House • Bowery •
Peter Cooper • Fourth Avenue • Park Avenue • Five Points and
Vicinity • Chinese Quarter • Tombs Central Park • Water Front •
Blackwell's Island • Hell Gate • Suspension Bridge • Opening Day •
Tragedy of Decoration Day • New York of Present and Future
XXII: OMAHA, Nebraska Arrival in Omaha • Missouri River •
Position and Appearance of City • Public Buildings • History • Land
Speculation • Panic of 1857 • Discovery of Gold in Colorado • "Pike's
Peak or Bust" • Sudden Revival of Business • First Railroad • Union
Pacific Railroad • Population • Commercial and Manufacturing Interests
• Bridge over the Missouri • Union Pacific Depot • Prospects for Future
XXIII: OTTAWA, Canada Ottawa the Seat of Canadian Government
• History • Population • Geographical Position • Scenery •
Chaudière Falls • Rideau Falls • Ottawa River • Lumber Business
• Manufactures • Steamboat and Railway Communications • Moore's
Canadian Boat Song • Description of City • Churches, Nunneries, and
Charitable Institutions • Government Buildings • Rideau Hall • Princess
Louise and Marquis of Lorne • Ottawa's Proud Boast
XXIV: PITTSBURG, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh at Night • Pittsburgh Fog •
Smoke • Description of City • Oil Business • Ohio River • Public
Buildings • Educational and Charitable Institutions • Glass Industry • Iron
Foundries • Fort Pitt Works • Casting a Monster Gun • American Iron
Works • Nail Works • City of Workers • True Democracy • Wages •
Character of Workmen Value of Organization • Knights of Labor • Opposed
to Strikes • True Relations of Capital and Labor • Railroad Strike of
1877 • Allegheny City • Population of Pittsburgh • Early History •
Braddock's Defeat • Old Battle Ground • Historic Relics • Past and Present
XXV: PORTLAND, Maine Coast of Maine • Early Settlements in
Portland • Troubles with Indians • Destruction of Town in 1690 •
Destroyed Again in 1703 • Subsequent Settlement and Growth • During
Revolution • First Newspaper • Portland Harbor • Commercial Facilities
and Progress • During Rebellion • Great Fire of 1866 •
Reconstruction • Position of City • Streets • Munjoy Hill • Maine
General Hospital • Eastern and Western Promenades • Longfellow's House
• Birthplace of the Poet • Market Square and Hall • First Unitarian
Church • Lincoln Park • Eastern Cemetery • Deering's Woods • Commercial
Street • Old-time Mansion • Case's Bay and Islands • Cushing's Island •
Peak's Island • Long Island • Little Chebague Island • Harpswell
XXVI: PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania Early History • William Penn •
Revolution • Declaration of Independence • First Railroad • Riots •
Streets and Houses • Relics of Past • Independence Hall •
Carpenters' Hall • Blue Anchor • Letitia Court • Christ Church • Old
Swedes' Church • Benjamin Franklin • Libraries • Old Quaker Almshouse •
Old Houses in Germantown • Manufactures • Theatres • Churches •
Scientific institutions • Newspapers • Medical Colleges • Schools •
Public Buildings • Penitentiary • River Front • Fairmount Park •
Zoological Gardens • Cemeteries • Centennial Exhibition • Bi-Centennial
• Past, Present and Future of City
XXVII: PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island Origin of City • Roger Williams •
Geographical Location and Importance • Topography of Providence • The
Cove • Railroad Connections • Brown University • Patriotism of Rhode
Island • Soldiers' Monument • Roger Williams Park • Narragansett Bay •
Suburban Villages • Points of Interest • Butter Exchange • Lamplighting
on a New Plan • Jewelry Manufactories
XXVIII: QUEBEC Appearance • Gibraltar of America •
Fortifications and Walls • Walled City • Churches, Nunneries and
Hospitals • Views from the Cliff • Upper Town • Lower Town •
Manufactures • Public Buildings • Plains of Abraham • Falls of
Montmorenci • Sledding on the “Cone" • History of Quebec • Capture of
City by British • Death of Generals Wolfe and Montcalm •
Disaster under General Murray • Ceding of Canada, by France, to England
• Attack by American Forces under Montgomery and Arnold • Death of
Montgomery • Capital of Lower Canada and of Province of Quebec
XXIX: READING, Pennsylvania Geographical Position and History of
Reading • Manufacturing Interests • Population, Streets, Churches and
Public Buildings • Boating on the Schuylkill • White Spot and View
from its Summit • Other Pleasure Resorts • Decoration Day • Wealth
Created by Industry
XXX: RICHMOND, Virginia Arrival in Richmond • Libby Prison •
Situation of City • Historical Associations • Early Settlement •
Attacked by British Forces in Revolution • Monumental Church • St.
John's Church • State Capital • Passage of Ordinance of Secession •
Richmond the Capital of Confederate States • Military Expeditions
against City • Evacuation of Petersburg • Surrender of City •
Visit of President Lincoln • Historical Places • Statues • Rapid
Recuperation After War • Manufacturing and Commercial Interests •
Streets and Public Buildings • Population and Future Prospects
XXXI: ST PAUL, Minnesota Early History of Saint Paul • Founding
of City • Public Buildings • Roman Catholics • Places of Resort •
Falls of Minnehaha • Carver's Cave • Fountain Cave • Commercial
Interests • Present and Future Prospects
XXXII: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Mormons • Pilgrimage Across the
Continent • Site of Salt Lake City • People of Workers • Spread of
Mormons through other Territories • City of Saints • Streets •
Fruit and Shade Trees • Irrigation • Tabernacle • Residences of late
Brigham Young • Museum • Public Buildings • Warm and Hot Springs •
Number and Character of Population • Barter System before Completion of
Railroad • Mormons and Gentiles • Present Advantages and Future
Prospects of Salt Lake City
XXXIII: SAN FRANCISCO, California San Francisco • Golden State • San
Francisco Bay • Golden Gate • Conquest of California by Fremont, 1848 •
Discovery of Gold • Rush to the Mines, 1849 • "Forty-niners" • Great
Rise in Provisions and Wages • Miners Homeward Bound • Dissipation and
Vice in City • Vigilance Committee • Great Influx of Miners in 1850 •
Immense Gold Yield • Climate • Earthquakes • Productions • Irrigation •
Streets and Buildings • Churches • Lone Mountain Cemetery • Cliff House
• Seal Rock • Theatres • Chinese Quarter • Chinese Theatres • Joss
Houses • Emigration Companies • Chinese Question • Cheap Labor •
"Chinese Must Go" • Present Population and Commerce of San Francisco •
Exports • Manufactures • Cosmopolitan Nature of Inhabitants
XXXIV: SAVANNAH, Georgia First Visit to Savannah • Camp Davidson
• City During War • Escaped Prisoner • Recapture and Final Escape •
“City of Refuge" • Savannah by Night • Position of City • Streets
and Public Squares • Forsyth Park • Monuments • Commerce • View from
Wharves • Railroads • Founding of City • Revolutionary History
• Death of Pulaski • Secession • Approach of Sherman • Investment of
City by Union Troops • Recuperation After the War • Climate •
Colored Population • Bonaventure, Thunderbolt, and Other Suburban
Resorts
XXXV: SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts Valley of the Connecticut • Location of
Springfield • United States Armory • Springfield Library • Origin of
Present Library System • Wayland Celebration • Settlement of
Springfield • Indian Hostilities • Days of Witchcraft • Trial of Hugh
Parsons • Hope Daggett • Springfield “Republican"
XXXVI: ST. LOUIS, Missouri Approach to St. Louis • Bridge Over the
Mississippi • View of City • Material Resources of Missouri • Early
History of St. Louis • Increase of Population • Manufacturing and
Commercial Interests • Locality • Maldiw • Description of St. Louis in
1842 • Resemblance to Philadelphia • Public Buildings • Streets • Parks
• Fair Week • Educational and Charitable Institutions • Hotels •
Mississippi River • St. Louis During Rebellion • Peculiar
Characteristics • Future of the City
XXXVII: SYRACUSE, New York Glimpses on the Rail • Schenectady •
Valley of the Mohawk • “Lover's Leap" • Rome and its Doctor • Oneida
Stone • Lo Race • Oneida Community • City of Salt • Six Nations •
Onondagas • Traditions of Red Americans • Hiawatha • Sacrifice of White
Dogs • Ceremonies • Lost Tribes of Israel • Witches and Wizards • Salt
Wells of Salina • Lake Widlam Description • Lake Onondaga • Indian
Knowledge of Salt Wells • "Over the Hills and Far Away" • A Castle •
Steam Canal Boats • Adieux • Westward Ho!
XXXVIII: TORONTO Situation of Toronto • The Bay •
History • Rebellion of 1837 • Fenian Invasion of 1866 • Population •
General Appearance • Sleighing • Streets • Railways • Commerce •
Manufactures • Schools and Colleges • Queen Park • Churches •
Benevolent Institutions • Halls and Other Public Buildings • Hotels •
Newspapers • General Characteristics and Progress
XXXIX: WASHINGTON DC Situation of the National Capital •
Site Selected by Washington • Statues of General Andrew Jackson, Scott,
McPherson, Rawlins • Lincoln Emancipation Group • Navy Yard Bridge •
Capitol Building • The White House • Department of State, War and Navy
• The Treasury Department • Patent Office • Post Office Department •
Agricultural Building • Army Medical Museum • Government Printing
Office • United States Barracks •• Smithsonian Institute • National
Museum • The Washington Monument • Corcoran Art Gallery • National
Medical College • Deaf and Dumb Asylum • Increase of Population •
Washington's Future Greatness
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State Street and Capitol, Albany, NY Boston, as Viewed from the Bay Soldiers' Monument at Buffalo, NY Custom House, Charleston, South Carolina Public Square and Perry Monument, Cleveland, Ohio Euclid Avenue, Cleveland Ohio Bird's-eye View of Chicago, from the Lake Side Burning of Chicago, the World's Greatest Conflagration Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan Harrisburg and Bridge over the Susquehanna Jackson Square and Old Cathedral, New Orleans Bird's-eye View of New York Pittsburgh and its Rivers Night Scene in Market Square, Portland, Maine Old Independence Hall, Philadelphia Masonic Temple, Philadelphia Girard Avenue Bridge, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia View of Providence, Rhode Island, from Prospect Terrace New Capitol Building, St. Paul, Minnesota Salt Lake and Salt Lake City Levee and Great Bridge at St. Louis University of Toronto, Canada East Front of Capitol at Washington The following images are full-page scans so you can get an honest impression of the book and you can also review some of the text.  View on the Battery, Charleston, South Carolina  Bird's-eye View of Chicago, from the Lake Side  Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan  Bird's-eye View of New York  Masonic Temple, Philadelphia        Thank
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