Old Time Tours - 19th Century NYC Guidebooks: 1800-1840

As Manhattan grew from a colonial municipality into an unofficial U.S. capital, the city taxonomized its identity in a handful of guidebooks:  

• 1807 An Alphabetical Table of the situation and extent of the different streets…
• 1807 The Picture of New York / Samuel L. Mitchill. 
• 1813 New York City in 1813  / Intro to the papers of Daniel D. Tompkins.
• 1817 Stranger’s Guide to the City of New-York / Blunt.
• 1818 Picture of New York & Stranger's Guide… / Blunt.
• 1825 The Picture of New York, or the Stranger’s Guide to the City of New-York... 
• 1828 The Picture of New-York and Stranger’s Guide to the Commercial Metropolis of the United States.
• 1827 The Description of the City of New-York.
• 1830 Publications of the New York Magdalen Society.
• 1833-37 New York As It Is.
• 1837 A Glance at New York / Asa Greene.