COLLECTIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS
New York City Municipal Archives and Records Center
Court of General Sessions, Minute Books.
Court of Special Sessions, First Division, Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division.
New York City Police Office.
New York Public Library
Committee of Fourteen, Records, 1905–1932. Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division.
Shubert Archive
Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, Records.
PRINTED MATERIALS
Abbott, Karen. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul. New York: Random House, 2007.
Alexiou, Alice Sparberg. Devil’s Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018.
Allen, Robert C. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
An Old Traveler [Henry Llewellyn Williams]. Gay Life in New York! or, Fast Men and Grass Widows. New York: Robert De Witt, 1866.
Aronovici, Carol. The Social Survey. Philadelphia: Harper Press, 1916.
Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.
Asmodeus [Thaddeus W. Meighan]. The Jenny Lind Mania in Boston, or A Sequel to Barnum’s Parnassus. Boston: n.p., 1850.
Asmodeus. Sharps and Flats; or the Perils of City Life; Being the Adventures of One Who Lived by His Wits. Boston: W. Berry, 1850.
Baker, Benjamin Archibald. A Glance at New York; A Local Drama, in Two Acts. New York: Samuel French, 1848.
Beckett, Samuel. The Unnamable. London: John Calder, 1959.
Beer, Thomas. The Mauve Decade; American Life at the End of the 19th Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.
Bergman, Hans. God in the Street: New York Writing from the Penny Press to Melville. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
Berlin, Edward A. King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
———. “Ragtime,” Grove Music Online at www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
———. Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Bocage, Peter. Oral History Interview, January 29, 1959. Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University.
Boyer, Paul. Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1829–1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.
Brace, Charles Loring. The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years’ Work Among Them. 3rd ed. New York: Synkoop & Hallenbeck, 1880.
Brooks, Virginia. Little Lost Sister. New York: Macaulay Books, 1914.
Broun, Heywood, and Margaret Leech. Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord. New York: Literary Guild of America, 1927.
Browne, Junius Henri. The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869.
Brownlow, Kevin. Behind the Mask of Innocence. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Buchanan, Harrison Gray. Asmodeus or, Legends of New York: Being a Complete Exposé of the Mysteries, Vices and Doings, as Exhibited by the Fashionable Circles of New York. New York: John D. Munson & Co., 1848.
Bullough, Vern, and Bonnie Bullough. Prostitution: An Illustrated Social History. New York: Crown Publishers, 1978.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Asmodeus at Large. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833.
Buntline, Ned [Edward Zane Carroll Judson]. The Mysteries and Miseries of New York: A Story of Real Life. Dublin: McGlashan, 1849.
Burgess, William. The World’s Social Evil: A Historical Review and Study of the Problems Relating to the Subject. Chicago: Saul Brothers, 1914.
Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Butsch, Richard. The Making of American Audiences from Stage to Television, 1750–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Calkins, Raymond. Substitutes for the Saloon: An Investigation Originally Made for the Committee of Fifty. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919.
Campbell, Mrs. Helen, Col. Thomas W. Knox, and Supt. Thomas Byrnes. Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis. Hartford, CT: Hartford Publishing Company, 1895.
Canby, Henry Seidel. The Age of Confidence: Life in the Nineties. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.
Charges Preferred Against the New-York Female Benevolent Society, and the Auditing Committee, in 1835 and 1836, by J.R. McDowall, in the Sun and Transcript, Answered and Refuted by Himself!! In His Own Journal!!! In the Year 1833. New York: Osborn & Buckingham, 1836.
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
Clement, Elizabeth Alice. Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Cockrell, Dale. Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
———, ed. Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers, 1842–1846. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1989.
Cohen, Patricia Cline, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz. The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Connelly, Mark Thomas. The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Cook, James W. “Dancing Across the Color Line.” Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 4/1 (October 2003): accessed at http://www.common-place-archives.org/vol-04/no-01/cook/index.shtml.
Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York). Thomas A. Gullason, ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1893/1979.
Crapsey, Edward. The Nether Side of New York; Or, The Vice, Crime and Poverty of the Great Metropolis. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1872.
Cray, Ed. The Erotic Muse: American Bawdy Songs. 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Crockett, David. The Autobiography of David Crockett. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.
Czitrom, Daniel. New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1871.
D’Emilio, John, and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Dickens, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. New York: Harper & Bros., 1842.
Ditmore, Melissa Hope, ed. Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Döpp, Hans-Jürgen. Music & Eros. Niels Clegg, trans. New York: Parkstone International, 2012.
Dorr, Reita Childe. “The Prodigal Daughter.” Hampton’s Magazine 24/4 (April 1910): 526–38.
———. What Eight Million Women Want. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1910.
Dreiser, Theodore. Dawn: A History of Myself. New York: Horace Liveright, 1931.
———. “Whence the Song.” Harper’s Weekly 44/2294 (December 8, 1900): 1165–66a.
Dresser, Paul. The Songs of Paul Dresser. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Duis, Perry R. The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston 1880–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.
Durante, Jimmy, and Jack Kofoed. Night Clubs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Dyer, Oliver. “The Magdalens of New York City: Shall They Have a Chance for Salvation?” Packard’s Monthly 1/5 (September 1868): 65–69.
———. “The Wickedest Man in New York.” Packard’s Monthly 1/3 (July 1868): 37–39.
———. “The Wickedest Man Summed Up.” Packard’s Monthly 1/4 (August 1868): 49–53.
Earle, Marcelle, with Arthur Homme Jr. Midnight Frolic: A Ziegfeld Girl’s True Story. Basking Ridge, NJ: Twin Oaks Publishing Co., 1999.
Edwards, Richard Henry. Popular Amusements. New York: Associate Press, 1915.
Ellington, George. The Women of New York; or, The Under-World of the Great City, Illustrating the Life of Women of Fashion, Women of Pleasure, Actresses and Ballet Girls, Saloon Girls, Pickpockets and Shoplifters, Artists’ Female Models, Women-of-the-Town, Etc., Etc., Etc. New York: New York Book Co., 1869.
Erenberg, Lewis A. Steppin’ Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890–1930. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Faulkner, Thomas A. From the Ball-Room to Hell. Chicago: The Henry Publishing Co., 1892.
———. The Lure of the Dance. Los Angeles: T.A. Faulkner, 1916.
Fields, Jill. “Erotic Modesty: (Ad)dressing Female Sexuality and Propriety in Open and Closed Drawers, USA, 1800–1930.” Gender & History 14/3 (February 2003): 492–515.
Fink, Bernard, Nadine Hugill, and Benjamin P. Lange. “Women’s Body Movements Are a Potential Cue to Ovulation.” Personality and Individual Differences 53/6 (October 2012): 759–63.
Fishbein, Leslie. “Harlot or Heroine?: Changing Views of Prostitution, 1870–1920.” The Historian 43/1 (November 1980): 23–35.
Foster, George G. New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches. Stuart M. Blumin, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1856/1990.
———. New York by Gaslight: With Here and There a Streak of Sunshine. New York: Dewitt & Davenport, 1850.
———. New York in Slices: By an Experienced Carver. Revised, enlarged, and corrected. New York: W.F. Burgess, 1849.
———. New York Naked. New York: De Witt & Davenport, 1850.
Fronc, Jennifer. New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Gardner, Charles W. The Doctor and the Devil, or, Midnight Adventures of Dr. Parkhurst. New York: Gardner & Co., 1894.
The Gentleman’s Companion. N.p.: n.p., 1870.
Gilbert, David. The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.
———. A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
Giordano, Ralph G. Satan in the Dance Hall: Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
Graham, C. H., and O. F. Lane. Excise Law of the State of New York . . . Albany, NY: W.C. Little & Co., 1883.
Greenhorn [George Thompson]. New-York Life; or, The Mysteries of Upper-Tendom Revealed, by the Author of “Asmodeus,” “Lady’s Garter,” &c. New York: Charles S. Attwood, ca. 1849.
Gushee, Lawrence. “The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Jazz.” Black Music Research Journal 14/1 (Spring 1994): 1–24.
———. Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Haas, Paul H. “Sin in Wisconsin: The Teasdale Vice Committee of 1913.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 49/2 (Winter 1965–1966): 138–51.
Ham, Mordecai Fowler. The Modern Dance: A Historical and Analytical Treatment of the Subject; Religious, Social, Hygienic, Industrial Aspects as Viewed by the Pulpit, the Press, Medical Authorities, Municipal Authorities, Social Workers, Etc. San Antonio, TX: San Antonio Printing Co., 1916.
Hamm, Charles. Irving Berlin, Songs from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907–1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Hapgood, Hutchins. Types from City Streets. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1910.
Harney, Ben. Ben Harney’s Rag Time Instructor. Chicago: Sol Bloom, 1897.
Heap, Chad. Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885–1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Henderson, Clayton W. On the Banks of the Wabash: The Life and Music of Paul Dresser. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2003.
Hill, Marilynn Wood. Their Sisters’ Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830–1870. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Howe, William F. Danger!: A True History of a Great City’s Wiles and Temptations; The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and Its Causes, and Criminals and Their Haunts: Facts and Disclosure. Buffalo: Courier Co., 1886.
Ingersoll, Ernst. A Week in New York. New York: Rand, McNally, and Co., 1891.
Inglis, William. “Is Modern Dancing Indecent?” Harper’s Weekly 57 (May 17, 1913): 11–12.
Irving, Washington. Tales of the Alhambra. London: Richard Bentley, 1835.
Israels, Belle Lindner. “Regulation of Public Amusements.” Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science 2/4 (1912): 123–26.
———. “The Way of the Girl.” The Survey 22 (July 3, 1909): 486–97.
——— [Mrs. Charles Henry Israels]. “The Dance Problem.” The Playground 4/7 (October 1910): 241–50.
——— [Mrs. Charles Henry Israels]. “Percentage of Working Girls Going to Dance Halls.” The Playground 4/2 (May 1910): 35.
Jennings, John J. Theatrical and Circus Life; Secrets of the Stage, Green-Room and Sawdust Arena. St. Louis: Sun Publishing Co., 1882.
Johnson, Claudia D. “That Guilty Third Tier: Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century American Theaters.” American Quarterly 27/5 (1975): 575–84.
Keire, Mara L. “The Committee of Fourteen and Saloon Reform in New York City, 1905–1920.” Business and Economic History 26/2 (Winter 1997): 573–83.
———. For Business & Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Kenney, William Howland. Jazz on the River. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Kernan, J. Frank. Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies and Volunteer Fire Departments of New York and Brooklyn . . . New York: M. Crane, 1885.
Kibler, M. Alison. Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
King, Moses. King’s Handbook of New York City: An Outline History and Description of the American Metropolis . . . Boston: Moses King, 1892.
Kneeland, George J., Commercialized Prostitution in New York City. Revised ed. New York: Century Co., 1917.
———. The Social Evil in New York City: A Study of Law Enforcement by the Research Committee of the Committee of Fourteen. New York: A.H. Kellogg Co., 1910.
Krist, Gary. Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans. New York: Crown, 2014.
Langum, David J. Crossing over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Lawrence, Vera Brodsky. Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong. Vol. 2: Reverberations, 1850–1856. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
[Lening, Gustav]. The Dark Side of New York Life and Its Criminal Classes from Fifth Avenue Down to the Five Points: A Complete Narrative of the Mysteries of New York. New York: Fred’k Gerhard, 1873.
Le Sage, Alain René. Asmodeus; or, The Devil on Two Sticks. London: Joseph Thomas, 1841.
Levitin, Daniel J. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. New York: Plume, 2006.
Lewis, Alfred Henry. The Apaches of New York. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., 1912.
Lhamon, W. T., Jr. Jim Crow, American: Selected Songs and Plays (The John Harvard Library). Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2009.
———. Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
The Life and Death of Fanny White, Being a Complete and Interesting History of the Career of that Notorious Lady. New York: n.p., 1860.
Lippard, George. The Empire City; or, New York by Night and Day; Its Aristocracy and Its Dollars. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1864.
———. New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million. Cincinnati: E. Mendenhall, 1854.
Lippmann, Walter. A Preface to Politics. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913.
[Longchamp, Ferdinand]. Asmodeus in New-York. New York: Longchamp & Co., 1868.
Lovatt, Peter. “Dance and Sexuality.” Psychology Today: online blog posted March 12, 2010.
MacKeever, Samuel Anderson. Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters. New York: Richard K. Fox, 1880.
Mackey, Thomas C. Pursuing Johns: Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City’s Committee of Fourteen, 1920–1930. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 2005.
———. Red Lights Out: A Legal History of Prostitution, Disorderly Houses, and Vice Districts, 1870–1917. New York: Garland, 1987.
Magdalen Report: First Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the N.Y. Magdalen Society, Instituted January 1, 1830. New York: Printed and Sold for the Publisher, 1831.
Marchant, James. The Master Problem. New York: Moffat, Yard, and Company, 1917.
[Marguerittes, Julie de]. The Match-Girl: or, Life Scenes as They Are. Philadelphia: W.W. Smith, 1855.
Marks, Edward B., as told to Abbott J. Liebling. They All Sang: From Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallée. New York: Viking Press, 1934.
Mayer, Joseph. “The Passing of the Red Light District—Vice Investigations and Results.” Journal of Social Hygiene 4 (April 1918): 197–209.
———. The Regulation of Commercialized Vice: An Analysis of the Transition from Segregation to Repression in the United States. New York: Klebold Press, 1922.
McBee, Randy D. Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
McCabe, James D. Lights and Shadows of New York Life; or, The Sights and Sensations of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the City of New York in All Its Various Phases . . . Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1872.
———. New York by Sunlight and Gaslight: Its High and Low Life; Its Splendors and Miseries; Its Virtues and Vices; Its Gorgeous Palaces and Dark Homes of Poverty and Crime; Its Public Men, Politicians, Adventures; Its Charities, Frauds, Mysteries, Etc. Etc. Philadelphia: Douglass Brothers, 1882.
———. The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City. Philadelphia: Jones Bros., 1868. Also published as Edward Winslow [pseud]. A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City. Philadelphia: n.p., 1868.
McDowall, John R. Magdalen Facts. New York: Printed for the Author, 1832.
McNamara, Brooks. The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil’s Own Nights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Meinties, Louise. Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Members of the New York Press. The Night Side of New York: A Picture of the Great Metropolis After Nightfall. New York: J.C. Haney, 1866.
Miller, Geoffrey. “Evolution of Human Music through Sexual Selection.” In Nils L. Wallin, Björn Merker, and Steven Brown, eds, The Origins of Music. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
Millett, Kate. The Prostitution Papers. New York: Ballantine, 1976.
Miner, Maude. The Slavery of Prostitution. New York: Macmillan, 1916.
Mitchell, Stephen. Gilgamesh: A New English Version. New York: Free Press, 2004.
Mithen, Steven. The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Moss, Frank. The American Metropolis: From Knickerbocker Days to the Present Time; New York City Life in All Its Various Phases: An Historiograph of New York. New York: P.F. Collier, 1897.
Mumford, Kevin J. Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Music in Gotham. Online database: accessed at https://www.musicingotham.org/.
Nasaw, David. Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusement. New York: Harvard University Press, 1993.
“New Reflections on the Dancing Mania.” Current Opinion 55/4 (October 1913): 262–64.
Ogren, Kathy J. The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America & the Meaning of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Paducah, Kentucky. Report and Recommendations of the Paducah Vice Commission. Paducah, KY: n.p., 1916.
Parkhurst, Rev. Charles H. My Forty Years in New York. New York: Macmillan Company, 1923.
Peiss, Kathy. “‘Charity Girls’ and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working-Class Sexuality, 1880–1920.” In Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, eds. Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983.
———. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
“The People &c. Against Wallace W. Sweeney.” Court of Special Sessions, City of New York, First Division, Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, First Department, Minutes of Proceedings, January 29, 1912.
Pepper, Tom [Charles Frederick Briggs]. Asmodeus; or, The Iniquities of New York being a Complete Exposé of the Crimes, Doings and Vices as Exhibited in the Haunts of Gamblers and Houses of Prostitution, both in High and Low Life! Including a Sketch of the Model Artiste, and the Celebrated Report of Arthur Tappan, Esq. on the Magdalens of New York. New York: C.G. Graham & Co., 1849.
Perry, Elisabeth I. “‘The General Motherhood of the Commonwealth’: Dance Hall Reform in the Progressive Era.” American Quarterly 37/5 (Winter 1985): 719–33.
Peters, John P. The Story of the Committee of Fourteen of New York. New York: American Social Hygiene Association, 1918.
Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Prime, Samuel Irenaeus. Life in New York. New York: Robert Carter, 1847.
Report and Proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate the Police Department of the City of New York. Albany: James B. Lyon, 1895.
Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Public Offices and Departments of the City of New York and of the Counties Therein Included. Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1900.
Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
Riis, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1890.
Robinson, Danielle. Modern Moves: Dancing Race During the Ragtime and Jazz Eras. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Robinson, Solon. Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated; Including the Story of Little Katy, Madalina, the Rag-Picker’s Daughter, Wild Maggie, &c, with Original Designs. New York: De Witt and Davenport, 1854.
Röder, Susanne, Bettina Weege, Claus-Christian Carbon, Todd K. Shackelford, and Bernhard Fink. “Men’s Perception of Women’s Dance Movements Depends on Mating Context, but Not Men’s Sociosexual Orientation.” Personality and Individual Differences 86 (2015): 172–75.
Rodger, Gillian M. Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
———. “Legislating Amusements: Class Politics and Theater Law in New York City.” American Music 20/4 (Winter 2002): 381–98.
Roe, Clifford G. The Great War on White Slavery, or Fighting for the Protection of Our Girls. Philadelphia: International Bible House, 1911.
The Rogues and Rogueries of New-York: A Full and Complete Exposure of all the Swindles and Rascalities Carried On or Originated in the Metropolis. New York: J.C. Haney & Co., 1865.
Rose, Al. Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1974.
Rosen, Ruth. The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900–1918. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Rosenberg, Charles, and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, eds. The Prostitute and the Social Reformer. New York: Arno, 1974.
Rugoff, Milton. Prudery and Passion. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971.
Sanger, William W. The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes and Effects Throughout the World (Being an Official Report to the Board of Alms-House Governors of the City of New York). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858.
Sante, Luc. Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991.
Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Segel, Harold B. Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
“Sex o’Clock in America.” Current Opinion 55/2 (August 1913): 113–14.
Slout, William L., ed. Broadway Below the Sidewalk: Concert Saloons of Old New York. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1994.
Smith, Christopher J. The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Smith, Matthew Hale. Sunshine and Shadow in New York. Hartford, CT: J.B. Burr and Company, 1869.
Smith, Willie the Lion, with George Hoefer. Music on My Mind: The Memoirs of an American Pianist. New York: Da Capo, 1964/R1978.
Snyder, Robert W. The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
The Social Evil: With Special Reference to Conditions Existing in the City of New York; A Report Prepared under the Direction of the Committee of Fifteen. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902.
The Social Evil in Chicago: A Study of Existing Conditions with Recommendations by the Vice Commission of Chicago. Chicago: Gunthorp-Warren Printing Company, 1911.
Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, Annual Reports. Accessed online at various locations.
Stead, William Thomas. Satan’s Invisible World Displayed; or, Despairing Democracy. Toronto: Theo W. Gregory, 1897.
Stearns, Marshall, and Jean Stearns. Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance. New York: Macmillan Company, 1968.
Street, Julian. “‘Oh, You Babylon!’: A Taxi-cabaretta.” Everybody’s Magazine 27/2 (August 1912): 171–83.
———. Welcome to Our City. New York: John Lane Company, 1913.
Swayze, George B. H. “The Social Evil.” The Medical Times: A Monthly Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and the Collateral Sciences 34/7 (July 1906): 193–98.
Symanski, Richard. The Immoral Landscape: Female Prostitution in Western Societies. Toronto: Butterworths, 1981.
Taylor, George Rogers. “Gaslight Foster: A New York ‘Journeyman Journalist’ at Mid-Century.” New York History 58/3 (July 1977): 297–312.
Thompson, George. City Crimes, or, Life in New York and Boston: A Volume for Everybody; Being a Mirror of Fashion, a Picture of Poverty, and a Startling Revelation of the Secret Crimes of Great Cities. Boston: W. Berry, 1849.
———. The Gay Girls of New-York, or, Life on Broadway: Being a Mirror of the Fashion, Follies and Crimes of a Great City. New York: n.p., 1853.
Tick, Judith, ed. Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
The Traffic in Girls: White Slavery as Now Practiced in America, Including Detailed Descriptions of the Customs and Manners of the White Women Slaves and Wives of Asia, Turkey, Egypt, Etc. Chicago: n.p., ca. 1900.
Trumble, Alfred. The Man-Traps of New York: What They Are and How They Are Worked. New York: Richard K. Fox, 1881.
———. The Mysteries of New York; A Sequel to Glimpses of Gotham and New York by Day and Night. New York: Richard K. Fox, 1882.
United States. Census Bureau. Census Reports [various years].
Van der Meulen, Emily. “Moral Panic and the New York Magdalen Society: Nineteenth Century Prostitution and the Moral Reform Movement.” MP: An Online Feminist Journal (July 2008).
Van Every, Edward. Sins of New York: As “Exposed” by the Police Gazette. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1972.
Van Oncelen, Charles. The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal. New York: Walker and Company, 2007.
Vices of a Big City; An Exposé of Existing Menaces to Church and Home in New York City. New York: J.E. Clark, 1890.
Vogel, Shane. The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Wagner, Ann. Adversaries of Dance: From the Puritans to the Present. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
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