Old Time Tours - 19th Century NYC Guidebooks: Public Domain

In general, a bulk of NYC guidebooks published before 1923 are available in digitized format at one of the following public domain databases:

• HathiTrust Digital Library is freely available online;
• Likewise, Internet Archive;
• Sabin Americana is a subscription database available at home with a library card.

For example:

• New York: Past, Present, and Future / Belden.
• The Description of the City of New York / Hardie.
• Nelson’s Guide to the City of New York and its Neighborhood.