ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN: CHICAGO
Appelbaum, Stanley. The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. New York: Dover, 1980.
Baumann, Frederick. Improvement in the Construction of Tall Buildings, Chicago, 1884.
Berger, Miles L. They Built Chicago: Entreprenuers Who Shaped a Great City’s Architecture. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1992.
Bluestone, Daniel. Constructing Chicago. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
Bolotin, Norman and Christine Laing. The World’s Columbian Exposition. Champaign: University of Illinois, 2002.
Bruegmann, Robert. The Architects and the City: Holabird and Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Burchard, John and Albert Bush-Brown, The Architecture of America: A Social and Cultural History, Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1961.
Burg, David F. Chicago’s White City of 1893. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1976.
Burnham, Daniel H. The Final Report of the Director of Works of the World’s Columbian Exposition. New York: Garland Publishers, 1989.
Burnham, Daniel H. World’s Columbian Exposition: The book of the Builders…. Chicago: Columbian Memorial Publication Society, 1894.
Coles, William A. Architecture and Society: Selected Essays of Henry Van Brunt. Cambridge: Harvard, 1969.
Condit, Carl W. Chicago: 1910-1929, Building, Planning, and Urban Technology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Condit, Carl W. The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
Connely, Willard. Louis Sullivan As He Lived. New York: Horizon, 1960.
Cropsey, Eugene H. Crosby’s Opera House: Symbol of Chicago’s Cultural Awakening. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1999.
Cutler, H.G. The World’s Fair: Its Meaning and Scope. Chicago: Star Publishing, 1891.
de Wit, Wim, ed. Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986.
Elia, Mario Manieri. Louis Henry Sullivan. New York, Princeton University Press, 1996.
Ericsson, Henry L. Sixty Years a Builder: The Autobiography of Henry Ericsson. Chicago: A. Kroch, 1942.
Friedman, Donald. Historical Building Construction. New York: Norton, 1995.
Fuller, George A., Company. Fireproof Building Construction: Prominent Buildings Erected by the George A. Fuller Company. New York: George A. Fuller Company, 1910.
Garczynski, Edward R. The Auditorium. New York: Exhibit, 1890.
Glass, Ira, Tim Samuelson, and Chris Ware, Lost Buildings, Chicago:WBEZ, 2004.
Gregersen, Charles E. Dankmar Adler: His Theaters and Auditoriums. Athens, Ohio University, 1990.
Hasbrouck, Wilbert R. The Chicago Architectural Club. New York: Monacelli Press, 2005.
Higinbotham, Harlow N. World’s Columbian Exposition: Report of the President to the Board of Directors of the World’s Columbian exposition. Chicago, 1892-1893, Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1898.
Hines, Thomas S. Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Hoffmann, Donald. The Architecture of John Wellborn Root. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
Hoffmann, Donald. The Meanings of Architecture: Buildings and Writings by John Wellborn Root. New York: Horizon, 1967.
Industrial Chicago-vol. 1: The Building Interests. Chicago: Goodspeed, 1891.
Johnson, Rossiter. A History of the World’s Columbian Exposition … By authority of the Board of Directors. Fully illustrated. 1897.
Joint Committee on Ceremonies. Dedicatory and opening ceremonies of the world’s Columbian exposition: memorial volume : historical and descriptive as authorized by Board of Control. Chicago: Stone, Kastler & Painter, 1893.
Klare, Michael T. Life and Architecture of P. B. Wight. Unpublished thesis: Columbia University, 1968.
Landau, Sarah Bradford. P.B.Wight: Architect, Contractor, and Critic: 1835-1925. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.
Larson, Gerald, “Chicago’s Loop, 1803-1893: A Tale of Two Grids”Chicago Architectural Fragments, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.
Larson, Gerald, “The Elevator, the Iron Skeleton Frame, and the Early Skyscrapers: Parts 1 and 2,” International Journal of High-Rise Buildings, March 2020, pp. 1-41.
Larson, Gerald, “The Iron Skeleton Frame: Interactions Between Europe and the U.S.,” Zukowski, John (ed.), Chicago Architecture, 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1987.
Larson, Gerald, “Toward a Better Understanding of the Evolution of the Iron Skeleton Frame in Chicago,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1987, pp. 39-48.
Leslie, Thomas. Chicago Skyscrapers: 1871-1934. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2012.
Loring, Sanford E. and William Le Baron Jenney. Principles and Practice of Architecture. Chicago, 1869.
Lowe, David. Chicago Interiors: Views of a Splendid World. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1979.
Lowe, David. Lost Chicago. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.
MacGrath, Hyland. Encyclopaedia of Biography of Illinois. Chicago, Century, 1892.
Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna. Chicago 1890. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2009.
Monroe, Harriet. John Wellborn Root; A Study of His Life and Work. Park Forest: Prairie School Press, 1966.
Moore, Charles. Daniel H. Burnham. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1921.
Morrison, Hugh, Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture. 1935. Reprint, New York: W.W. Norton, 1962.
Moudry, Roberta (ed.). The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Peisch, Mark L. The Chicago School of Architecture. New York: Random House, 1964.
Pond, Irving. The Autobiography of Irving K. Pond, Chicago: Hyoogen Press, 2009.
Randall, Frank A. History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago (2nd ed.). Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Randall, John D. A Guide to Significant Chicago Architecture of 1872-1922. Glencoe, Ill., 1958.
Rosenberg, Chaim M. America at the Fair: Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Charleston: Arcadia, 2008.
Schaffer, Kristin. Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect and Planner, New York,: Rizzoli, 2003.
Schultz, Earle. Offices in the Sky. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merill, 1959.
Siry, Joseph M. Carson, Pirie, Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Siry, Joseph M. The Chicago Auditorium Building. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Sloan, Tom L. B. The Architecture of W.W. Boyington. Evanston: Northwestern University, M.Arts, 1962.
Sullivan, Louis H. The Autobiography of an Idea. Mineola: Dover Books, 1956.
Sullivan, Louis H. Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings. New York: Wittenborn, 1968.
Tallmadge, Theodore E. The Origin of the Skyscraper-The Report of the Field Committee. Chicago, 1934.
Tallmadge, Thomas Eddy. Architecture in Old Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941.
Tishler, William H. Midwestern Landscape Architecture. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2000.
Turak, Theodore. William Le Baron Jenney. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986.
Twombly, Robert. Louis Sullivan: His Life & Work, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Twombly, Robert and Narciso Menocal. Louis Sullivan: The Poetry of Architecture. New York: Norton, 2000.
Twombly, Robert. Louis Sullivan: The Public Papers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Vernon, Christopher. Graceland Cemetery: A Design History. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2011.
Waldheim, Charles, and Katerina Rüedi Ray (ed.). Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives. Chicago:UChicago, 2005.
Wallin, Chad. The Builder’s Story. Chicago, 1966.
Weese, Harry and Associates. Four Landmark Buildings in Chicago’s Loop. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1978.
Wing, J.M. One Year From the Fire: Chicago Illustrated. Chicago: Wing, 1872.
Wight, Peter B. The Development of the Fine Arts in America. Chicago: Inland Architect, 1884.
Wolner, Edward W. Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Wright, Frank Lloyd. An Autobiography. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1943.
Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Kahn Lectures, Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, vol. 2, 1930-32. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.
Zukowski, John. Chicago Architecture 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis, Munich: Prestel, 1987.
___________ Chicago and New York: Architectural Interactions. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.
ARCHITECTURE/URBAN DESIGN: OTHER
Badger, Daniel D. Illustrations of Cast Iron Architecture. New York, 1856.
Baker, Paul R. Richard Morris Hunt. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980.
Bélier, Corinne, Barry Bergdoll, and Marc Le Cœur. Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light. New York:MOMA, 2012.
Bergdoll, Barry, European Architecture: 1750-1890, Oxford: Oxford Press, 2000.
Bergdoll, Barry. Léon Vaudoyer, Historicism in the Age of Industry. Architectural History Foundation: New York, 1994.
Birkmire, William. Skeleton Construction in Buildings. New York: Arno, 1972.
Bogardus, James. Cast Iron Buildings: Their Construction and Advantages. New York, 1856.
Bolloch, Joëlle. The Eiffel Tower. Paris: Musée d’Orsay, 2005.
Braham, Alan. The Architecture of the French Enlightenment. London: Thames & Hudson, 1980,.
Carmona, Michel. Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris. Chicago:Dee, 2002.
Cleveland, C.M., Half Hours at Rouen Cathedral. 1897.
Condit, Carl W. American Building Art: Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Cremin, Dennis H. Grant Park, The Evolution of Chicago’s Front Yard. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 2013.
Currey, Josiah Seymour. Chicago: its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth.
Curtis, William J. R. Modern Architecture since 1900 (Third Ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996.
D’ydewalle, Charles. Au Bon Marché: de la boutique au grand magasin. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1965.
Dickason, David Howard. The Daring Young Men: The Story of the American Pre-Raphaelites. Bloomington, Indiana University: 1953.
Dilts, James D. and Catharine F. Black, (ed). Baltimore’s Cast-Iron Buildings and Architectural Ironwork. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1991.
Douglas, George H. Skyscrapers: A Social History in America. Jefferson: McFarland, 1996.
Drexler, Arthur (ed.). The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts. Cambridge: MITPress, 1977.
Evans David. Building the Steam Navy. London: English Heritage, 2004.
Flores, Carol A. Hrvol. Owen Jones. New York: Rizzoli, 2006.
Frankl, Paul. Gothic Architecture. New Haven: Yale, 2000.
Freitag, Joseph K. Architectural Engineering: With Especial Reference to High Building Construction, Including Many Examples of Prominent Office Buildings (2nd ed.). New York, Wiley and Sons, 1904.
Gilchrist, Agnes Addison. William Strickland: Architect and Engineer, 1788-1854, New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.
Gayle, Margot and Carol Gayle. Cast-Iron Architecture in America: The Significance of James Bogardus. New York: Norton, 1998.
Gray, Lee E. From Ascending Rooms to Express Elevators: A History of the Passenger Elevator in the 19th Century. Mobile, AL: Elevator World, 2002.
Harvè, Lucien. The Eiffel Tower-Photographs by Lucien Harvè. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
Harvie, David I. Eiffel: The Genius Who Reinvented Himself. Stroud: Sutton, 2004.
Hendrickson, Robert. The Grand Emporiums: The Illustrated History of America’s Great Department Stores. New York: Scarborough, 1980.
Hess, Jeffrey A. and Paul Clifford Larson. St. Paul’s Architecture: A History. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Harmondsworth: Penquin, 1977.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. The Architecture of H.H. Richardson and His Times. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1961.
Homberger, Eric. The Historical Atlas of New York City. New York: Henry Holt, 1994.
House, Nancy. James W. McLaughlin. M. A. Thesis (unpublished), University of Cincinnati, 1984.
Industrial Chicago. 6 vols. Vols 1 and 2, The Building Interests. Chicago: Godspeed, 1891-1896.
(m)Jenkins, Frank I. “Harbingers of Eiffel’s Tower,” JSAH, Vol. 16, no. 4, (Dec. 1957), p. 22-3.
Jonnes, Jill. Eiffel’s Tower. New York: Viking, 2009.
Jones, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972.
Jordy, William H. American Buildings and Their Architects, Vol. 3. Garden City, NY/Anchor Press, 1976.
Jordy, William H. and Ralph Coe, eds. American Architecture and Other Writings of Montgomery Schuyler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961.
Kaufman, Edgar (ed.). The Rise of an American Architecture. New York: Praeger, 1970.
Keels, Thomas H. Forgotten Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.
Korom, Jr., Joseph J. The American Skyscraper. Boston: Branden Books, 2008.
Landau, Sarah B. George B. Post, Architect. New York: Monacelli Press, 1998.
Landau, Sarah B., and Carl Condit. The Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Larson, Paul Clifford (ed.). The Spirit of H. H. Richardson on the Midland Prairies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Lemoine, Bertrand. Architecture in France, 1800-1900. New York: Abrams, 1993.
Lessoff, Alan and Christof Mauch (ed). Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America. Washington, DC: The Historical Society of Washington, DC, 2005.
Lewis, Michael J. Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind. New York: Norton, 2001.
Lewis, Oscar and Carroll D. Hall. Bonanza Inn: America’s First Luxury Hotel. New York: Knopf, 1945.
Longstreth, Richard W. On the Edge of the World-San Francisco. Cambridge: MIT, 1983.
Loyrette, Henri. Gustave Eiffel. New York: Rizzoli, 1985.
Mainstone, Rowland J. Developments in Structural Form. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1975.
Mallgrave, Harry Francis. Gottfried Semper. New Haven: Yale. 1996.
Mead, Christopher Curtis. Making Modern Paris. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 2012.
Middleton, Robin (ed.). The Beaux-Arts and Nineteenth-Century French Architecture. Cambridge: MITPress, 1982.
Miller, Michael B. The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Miller, Zane L., and George F. Roth. Cincinnati’s Music Hall. Virginia Beach, Va.: Jordan, 1978.
Millett, Larry. AIA Guide to Twin Cities. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2007.
Millett, Larry. Lost Twin Cities. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992.
Mujica, Francisco. History of the Skyscraper. New York: Archaeology & Architecture Press, 1930.
Mumford, Lewis. The Brown Decades. New York: Dover, 1971.
The Museum of Modern Art. The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts. New York: MOMA, 1975.
Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl. H.H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982.
O’Gorman, James F. H.H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
O’Gorman, James F. The Architecture of Frank Furness. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973.
Peterson, Charles E. (ed.). Building Early America, Radnor:Chilton, 1976.
Pevsner, Nikolas. A History of Building Types. Princeton: Princeton University, 1976.
Porter, Bernard. The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of the New Foreign Office, 1855-61. New York: Continuum, 2011.
Reed, Henry Hope. The Golden City. New York: Norton, 1970.
Reps, John W. The Making of Urban America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965.
Rykwert, Joseph. The First Moderns. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980.
Ruskin, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. New York: Dutton, 1956.
Sandoval-Strausz, A.K. Hotel: An American History. New Haven, Yale, 2007.
Searing, Helen ed. In Search of Modern Architecture: A Tribute to Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982.
Silver, Nathan. Lost New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
Steiner, Frances H. French Iron Architecture. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1984.
Stern, Robert A.M. New York: 1880. New York: Monacelli Press, 1999.
Stoddard, Francis Hovey. The Life and Letters of Charles Butler. New York: Scribner: 1903.
Sturgis, Walter Knight. The Origins of Cast Iron Architecture in America. New York: Da Capo, 1970.
Summerson, John. Architecture in Britain 1530-1830. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.
Sunderland, Cara A. The Statue of Liberty. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2003.
Tatum. George. B. Penn’s Great Town: 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961.
Trachtenburg, Marvin. The Statue of Liberty. New York: Penguin, 1977.
Van Brunt, Henry. “Greek Lines,” The Atlantic Monthly, vol. VII, no. 45 (June 1861), pp. 654-67 and vol. VIII (July 1861), pp. 76-88.
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler. Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1888.
Van Zanten, David. Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987.
Villari, Sergio. J.N.L. Durand (1760-1843). New York: Rizzoli, 1990.
Watkin, David. The Rise of Architectural History. London: Architectural Press, 1990.
Weisman, Winston. “New York and the Problem of the First Skyscraper.” JSAH, Vol. 12 No. 1, March 1953.
Weisman, Winston, “Commercial Palaces of New York 1845-75,” Art Bulletin, 34, 4, December 1954, pp. 285-302.
Weisman, Winston, “The Commercial Architecture of George B. Post.” JSAH, Vol. 31 No. 3, Oct, 1972.
Wermiel, Sara E. The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Wermiel, Sara E., “Léonard & Arthur Beckwith: deux Centraliens dans l’Amérique du XIX siècle,” Centraliens no. 627 (Juillet 2013), pp. 53-60. (www.centraliens.net)
CHICAGO HISTORY
Adams, Rosemary K. (ed.) A Wild Kind of Boldness: The Chicago History Reader, Grand Rapids:Eerdmans Publishing, 1998.
Andreas, Alfred T. History of Chicago, 3 vols. Chicago, 1884-1886. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Andrews, Wayne. Battle for Chicago. New York: Harcourt, 1946.
Arnold, Isaac N. “William B. Ogden: and Early Days in Chicago,” Fergus Historical Series, No, 17. Chicago: Fergus, 1882.
Bernstein, Arnie. The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago’s Civil War Connections. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2003.
______________. Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men of Chicago. Chicago: Wilson & St. Clair, 1868.
Boehm, Lisa Krissoff, Popular Culture and The Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968, New York: Routledge, 2004.
Burg, David F. Chicago’s White City of 1893. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1976.
Chamberlin, Everett. Chicago and Its Suburbs. New York: Arno Press, 1974.
Cronon, William, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.
Currey, J. Seymour. Chicago: Its History and Its Builders. Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1912.
Darling, Sharon S. Chicago Ceramics and Glass. Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1979.
Dedmon, Emmett. Fabulous Chicago: A Great City’s History and People. Canada: McClelland and Stewart, Ltd, 1981.
Douglas, George H. Rail City: Chicago U.S.A. San Diego: Howell-North Books, 1981.
Douglas, George H. Skyscrapers: A Social History in America. Jefferson: McFarland, 1996.
Duis, Perry R. Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920. Champaign: University of Illinois, 2007.
Ferris, William G. The Grain Traders: The Story of the Chicago Board of Trade. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1988.
Funigiello, Philip J. Florence Lathrop Page. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1994.
Gilbert, Paul T., and Charles L. Bryson. Chicago and Its Makers. Chicago: F. Mendelsohn, 1929.
___________. The Great Conflagration-Chicago: Its Past, Present and Future. Chicago: Union, 1871.
Green, James. Death in the Haymarket. New York: Anchor Books, 2006.
Haeger, John Dennis. The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the Economic Development of the Old Northwest. Albany: SUNY, 1981.
Harpster, Jack. A Biography of William B. Ogden. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 2009.
Holland, Robert A. Chicago in Maps: 1612-2002. New York: Rizzoli, 2005.
Hutchinson, William T. Cyrus Hall McCormick- Harvest: 1856-1884, New York: The Century Co., 1930.
Industrial Chicago. Vol. 1, 1891.
Jentz, John B. and Richard Schneirov. Chicago in the Age of Capital. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.
Jevni and Almini. Chicago Illustrated. Chicago, 1966.
Kalmbach, Sally Sexton. The Jewel of the Gold Coast, Chicago: Ampersand, 2009.
Karamanski, Theodore J. Rally ‘Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War, Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1993.
Kirkland, Joseph, and Caroline Kirkland. The Story of Chicago, 2 vols. Chicago: Dibble, 1892-1894.
Kogan, Herman and Lloyd Wendt. Chicago: A Pictorial History. New York: Bonanza Books, 1958.
Lakeside Classics. Reminiscences of Chicago During the Civil War. Chicago: Lakeside, 1914.
Lewis, Lloyd and Henry Justin Smith. Chicago: The History of its Reputation. New York: Blue Ribbon, 1929.
Leyendecker, Liston Edgington. Palace Car Prince: A Biography of George Mortimer Pullman. Niwot, CO: University of Colorado Press, 1992.
Lutz, Thomas J. Shaping Chicago: James S. Dunham’s Crusade for the River. Michigan: In-Depth Editions, 2012.
Mack, Edwin F. Old Monroe Street: Notes on the Monroe Street of Early Chicago Days. Chicago: Central Trust Company, 1914.
Madsen, Axel. The Marshall Fields. New York: Wiley, 2002.
Masters, Edgar Lee. The Tale of Chicago. New York: Putnam, 1933.
Mayer, Harold M., and Richard C. Wade. Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Milton, George Fort. The Eve of Conflict: Stephen A. Douglas and the Needless War. New York: Octagon, 1969.
Moses, John, and Joseph Kirkland, eds. The History of Chicago, Illinois. 2 vols. Chicago: Munsell, 1895.
____________. Origin, Growth, and Usefulness of the Chicago Board of Trade. New York: Historical Publishing, 1885.
Pacyga, Dominci A. Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World it Made. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2015.
Pierce, Bessie Louis. A History of Chicago– 3 volumes. New York: Knopf. 1940.
Putnam, James William. The Illinois and Michigan Canal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1918.
Ranney, Edward. Prairie Passage: The Illinois and Michigan Canal Corridor. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1998.
Reminiscences of Chicago During the Civil War. Chicago: Lakeside, 1914.
Sawislak, Karen. Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Scammon, J. Young. “William B. Ogden,” Fergus Historical Series, No, 17. Chicago: Fergus, 1882.
Schneirov, Richard. Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Sells, Benjamin. The Tunnel Under the Lake. Evanston: Northwestern University, 2017.
Sheahan, James W. and George P. Upton, The Great Conflagration: Chicago: Its Past, Present and Future. Chicago: Union, 1871.
Smith, Alice E. George Smith’s Money. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1966.
Taylor, Charles H. History of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago– vol. 1. Chicago: Robert O. Law, 1917.
Twyman, Robert W. History of Marshall Field & Co. 1852-1906. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1954.
Wade, Louise Carroll. Chicago’s Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century. Champaign: University of Illinois, 1987.
Wille, Lois. Forever Open, Clear, and Free; The Struggle For Chicago’s Lakefront. Chicago: Regnery, 1972.
Williams, Robert (ed.). The Chicago Diaries of John M. Wing: 1865-1866. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 2002.
Young, David M. The Iron Horse and the Windy City. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005.
AMERICAN/ECONOMIC/RAILROAD HISTORY
Adler, Dorothy R. British Investment in American Railways, 1834-1898. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1970.
Alexander, Edwin P. The Pennsylvania Railroad: A Pictorial History. New York: Norton, 1947.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World. New York: Touchstone, 2000.
Beebe, Lucius and Charles Clegg. Hear the Train Blow: A Pictorial Epic of America in the Railroad Age. New York, 1952.
Bernstein, Peter L. Wedding of the Waters: the Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation” New York: Norton, 2005.
Borneman, Walter R. Iron Horses: America’s Race to Bring the Railroad West. New York: Back Bay, 2010.
Brands, H.W. American Colossus. New York: Doubleday, 2010.
Brown, Margaret L. “Asa Whitney and His Pacific Railraod Publicity Campaing.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 20. No. 2 (Sept. 1933), pp. 209-224.
Brownson, Howard Gray. History of the Illinois Central Railroad to 1870. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1915.
Burgess, George H. and Miles C. Kennedy. Centennial History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1949.
Cary, John W. The Organization and History of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. Chicago: Cramer, 1893.
Casey, Robert J. and W.A.S. Douglass. Pioneer Railroad: The Story of the Chicago and North Western System. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
Dolin, Eric Jay. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York: Norton, 2010.
Equitable Life Assurance Society. Henry Baldwin Hyde: A Biographical Sketch. New York: De Vinne. 1901.
Galloway, John Debo. The First Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Simmons-Broadway, 1950.
Grant, H. Roger. The North Western: A History of the Chicago & North Western Railway System. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996.
Grant, H. Roger. The Louisville, Cincinnati, & Charleston Rail Road. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.
Hayes, William Edward. Iron Road to Empire: The History of the Rock Island Lines. H. Wolff Book Manufacturing, 1953.
Harlow, Alvin F. The Road of the Century. New York: Creative Age Press, 1947.
Harlow, Alvin F. Steelways of New England. New York: Creative Age Press, 1946.
Heidler, David S. and Jeanne T. Heidler. Henry Clay- The Essential American. New York: Random House, 2011.
Hidy, Ralph W. The House of Baring in American Trade and Finance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949.
Hungerford, Edward. Men and Iron: The History of the New York Central. New York: Crowell, 1938.
Hungerford, Edward. Men of Erie. New York: Random House, 1946.
Johnson, Arthur and Barry E. Supple. Boston Capitalists and the Western Railroads. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Kirkland, Edward Chase. Men, Cities, and Transportation: A Study in New England History (1820-1900) – Volume I. Cambridge, 1948.
Lorenzsonn, Axel S. Steam and Cinders: The Advent of Railroads in Wisconsin: 1831-1861. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2009.
McLellan, David and Bill Warrick. The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. Polo: Transportation Trails, 1989.
Meeks, Carroll L. V. The Railroad Station. New York: Dover, 1995.
Metzman, Gustav. Commodore Vanderbilt: Forefather of the New York Central. New York:Newcomen, 1946.
Stevens, George R. The Canadian National Railway. New York, Macmillan, 1973.
Stover, John F. History of the Illinois Central Railroad. New York: Macmillan, 1975.
Stover, John F. Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s. New York: Columbia University, 1978.
Unger, Harlow Giles. Henry Clay: America’s Greatest Stateman. Philadelphia: Da Capo, 2015.
Ward, George Washington. The Early Development of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Project. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1899.
Williams, John Hoyt. A Great and Shining Road-The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
MISCELLANEOUS
Arenson, Adam. The Great Heart of the Republic. Cambridge: Harvard, 2011.
Bellesiles, Michael A. 1877: America’s Year of Living Violently. New York: New Press, 2010.
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