List of Sources and References

Chapter One Chapter Six
Chapter Two Chapter Seven
Chapter Three Chapter Eight
Chapter Four Chapter Nine
Chapter Five Chapter Ten


The following chapter-by-chapter list includes A: books and articles quoted or mentioned in the text, arranged alphabetically by author, if the author's name appears in the text, or otherwise by subject; and B: a selection of books and articles which, though not specifically quoted or referred to, were directly useful to the writer and which may be of interest to the reader. [A few titles have been added, covering the revisions in this Anchor Book edition; but no attempt has been made to bring the bibliography up to date.]



1. ART IN AMERICA   [Top]


A. SOURCES QUOTED OR MENTIONED


Beard, Charles, "Is Western Civilization in Peril?" Harper's Magazine, August 1928.

Burke, Kenneth, Counter-Statement, New York, 1931.

Fiske, John, The Beginning of New England, Boston, 1889.

Hall, James: see John T. Flanagan, James Hall, Minneapolis [1941].

Hubbell, Jay B., "The Frontier," The Reinterpretation of American Literature, edited by Norman Foerster, New York [1928].

James, Henry, The American Scene, New York, 1907.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Kavanagh; A Tale, Boston, 1849.

Lowell, James Russell, The Bigelow Papers, 2d Series, Boston, 1867.

---, A Fable for Critics, Boston, 1848.

---, "Leaves from My Journal in Italy," Graham's Magazine, April, May, and June 1854.

Mackay, Alexander, The Western World, 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1849.

Marryat, Captain Frederick, Diary in America, 3 vols., London, 1839.

Martineau, Harriet, Retrospect of Western Travel, 2 vols., New York, 1838.

---, Society in America, 3 vols., London, 1837.

Richards, I. A., Science and Poetry, New York, 1926.

Sherman, Stuart P., The Genius of America, New York, 1923.

Trollope, Frances, Domestic Manners of the Americans, 2 vols., London, 1832.


B. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES


Brooks, J. G., As Others See Us, New York, 1908.

Burlingame, Roger, The March of the Iron Men, New York, 1938.

Kouwenhoven, John A., "Arts in America," Atlantic Monthly, August 1941 (the first statement of the general theory which this book explores).

Mumford, Lewis, The Culture of Cities, New York, 1938.

---, The Golden Day: A Study in American Experience and Culture, New York, 1926.

Nevins, Allan, American Social History as Recorded by British Travellers, New York, 1923.

Polanyi, Karl, The Great Transformation, New York, 1944.

Rourke, Constance, The Roots of American Culture and Other Essays, edited by Van Wyck Brooks, New York [1942].



2. WHAT IS VERNACULAR?   [Top]


A. SOURCES QUOTED OR MENTIONED


American watches-comparative tests: Edward Knight, "Clocks and Watches," Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878, Washington, 1880, Vol. IV.

Anderson, William, "Railway Apparatus," Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878, Washington, 1880, Vol. IV.

Arnold, H. L., and Faurote, F. L., Ford Methods and Ford Shops, New York, 1915.

Atlantic Monthly, September 1876.

Barnard, Charles, "English and American Locomotives," Harper's Monthly Magazine, March 1879.

Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste: see Robert Stowe Holding, George H. Corliss of Rhode Island, The Neweommen Society of England, American Branch, New York, 1945.

Burlingame, Roger, The March of the Iron Men, New York, 1938.

Centennial, member of German delegation to: see Siegfried Giedion, "American Development in Design," New Directions 1939.

Centennial, typical account: Souvenir of the Centennial Exhibition, Hartford, 1877.

Collins plow: see Horace Greeley and Others, The Great Industries of the United States, Hartford, 1873, P. 139.

Colt, Samuel: Charles T. Haven and Frank A. Belden, The History of the Colt Revolver, New York, 1940; Bernard De Voto, The Year of Decision, Boston, 1943, pp. 215-16; and Jack Rohan, Yankee Arms Maker, New York [1948].

Cooper, James Fenimore, Notions of the Americans: Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor (first published 1828), New York, 1850.

Crystal Palace: see Great Exhibition, 1851. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, 3 vols., London, 1851.

Durfee, W. F., report on Pratt and Whitney machines in United States Centennial Commission, Reports and Awards, Group XXI, Philadelphia, 1877.

Evans, Oliver, The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide, 5th ed., Philadelphia, 1826, pp. 201-10, 275-77. See also: Greville and Dorothy Bathe, Oliver Evans, Philadelphia, 1935.

Flint, Charles L., "Agriculture in the United States," Eighty Years Progress of the United States, New York and Chicago [1861].

Ford, Henry (in collaboration with Samuel Crowther), My Life and Work, New York, 1923.

Fritz, John: see F. B. Copley, Frederick W. Taylor, Father of Scientific Management, 2 vols., New York, 1923, Vol. 1, p. 110.

Giedion, Siegfried, Mechanization Takes Command, New York, 1948.

Hall, James: see John T. Flanagan, James Hall, Minneapolis [1941].

Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. and P.1.: Samantha at the Centennial [by Marietta Holley], Hartford, 1877.

Lewis, H. L. B.: advertisement reproduced in Edward Hungerford, From Covered Wagon to Streamliner, New York [1941].

London Times, August 22, 1878.

Mackinnon, Captain, "English and American Ocean Steamers," Harper's Monthly Magazine, July 1853.

Manufacturer and Builder, Vol. VIII, No. 6, June 1876.

Martineau, Harriet, Retrospect of Western Travel, 2 vols., New York, 1838. (Vol. 2, p. 45.)

Mauritius Commercial Gazeteer: see Carl C. Cutler, Greyhounds of the Sea, New York [1930].

McHardy, David: United States Centennial Commission, Reports and Awards, Group XV, Philadelphia, 1877.

McKay, Donald: see Carl C. Cutler, Greyhounds of the Sea, New York [1930].

Monroe, Harriet, A Poet's Life; Seventy Years in a Changing World, New York, 1938.

Pendred, Vaughan, The Railway Locomotive, New York, 1908.

Porter, William T., "Machines and Machine Tools," Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878, Washington, 1880, Vol. IV.

Randall, G. P.: advertisement in Vermont Watchman and State Journal, Montpelier, January 15, 1846.

Richards, John, Treatise on the Construction and Operation of Woodworking Machinery, London, 1872.

Roe, Joseph W., "Early American Mechanics-Philadelphia," American Machinist, December 17, 1914.

Royal Small Arms factory at Enfield: see Hubbard (below under B).

Scientific American Supplement, No. 19, May 6, 1876.

Sellers, William: see F. B. Copley, Frederick W. Taylor, Father of Scientific Management, 2 vols., New York, 1923, Vol. 1, p. 110.

"Shreve, Henry Miller," Democratic Review, Vol. XXII, No. CXVI, February 1848. For a recent scholarly evaluation of Shreve's work, see Louis C. Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers, Cambridge, 1949 PP. 15-17, 75-76, and 127.

Steel spade used by member of the American Institute: see Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New York for the Year 1854, Albany, 1855, PP- 231-32.

Steers, George: see Carl C. Cutler, Greyhounds of the Sea, New York [1930].

Stevenson, David, Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America, London, 1838.

True Guide: The British Mechanic's and Labourer's Handbook, and True Guide to the United States, London, 1840.

Whitney, Eli: see Jeanette Mirsky and Allan Nevins, The World of Eli Whitney, New York, 1952; and also Robert S. Woodbury, "The Legend of Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts," Technology and Culture, Summer, 1960.

Willis, Robert, The Principles of Mechanism, London, 1841.

Wilson, Joseph M., "The Mechanics and Science of the Centennial Exhibition," The Masterpieces of the Centennial Exhibition, 3 vols., Philadelphia [18-77].


B. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES


Alexander, E. P., Iron Horses. American Locomotives 1829-1900, New York [1941].

Art and Industry as Represented in the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, New York-1853-54, revised and edited by Horace Greeley, New York, 1853.

Bishop, J. L., A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860, 3 vols., Philadelphia, 1866.

Burlingame, Roger, Machines That Built America, New York 1953.

Butterworth, Benjamin, The Growth of Industrial Art, Washington, 1892.

Clark, Arthur H., The Clipper Ship Era, New York, 1910.

Clark, Victor S., History of Manufactures in the United States, 3 vols., New York, 1929 (especially Vol. 1, Chapters XVI and XIX).

Dorsey, Edward B., English and American Railroads Compared, New York, 1887.

Eighty Years Progress of the United States (by various authors), New York and Chicago, 1861.

Galton, Douglas, report to British commission on American railroads, United States Centennial Commission, Reports and Awards, Group XVIII, Philadelphia, 1877.

Howe, Henry, Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics, New York, 1844.

Hubbard, Guy, "Development of Machine Tools in New England," American Machinist, August 30, 1923, and January 24, 1924.

Hubbel, William Wheeler, "First Eight-Wheel Locomotive," appendix to Charles B. Stuart, Lives and Works of Civil and Military Engineers of America, New York, 1871.

Knight, Edward H., Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, New York, 1875.

---, Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary, Boston, 1884.

---, "Mechanical Progress," The First Century of the Republic, New York, 1876.

Mumford, Lewis, Technics and Civilization, New York, 1934.

Riddle, Edward, "Report on the World's Exposition," Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1851. Part I. Arts and Manufactures, Washington, 1852, PP. 347-485.

Roe, Joseph W., English and American Tool Builders, New York, 1926.

White, George S., Memoir of Samuel Slater, Philadelphia, 1836.



3. TWO TRADITIONS IN CONFLICT   [Top]


A. SOURCES QUOTED OR MENTIONED


Allen, Lewis F., Rural Architecture. Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings, etc., New York, 1852.

Appleton's Journal, April 10, 1869 (on iron architecture, p. 58).

Balloon frame denounced: S. B. Reed, House-Plans for Everybody, New York, 1879, pp. 73-74.

Bancroft, Hubert H., The Book of the Fair, 2 vols., Chicago, 1893.

Beecher, Catherine E., and Stowe, Harriet Beecher, The American Woman's Home, New York, 1869.

Bode, Wilhelm: see Siegfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture, Cambridge, Mass., 1941, pp. 285-90.

Bogardus, James: see Carl Condit, American Building Art, New York, 1960, pp. 33-38. See also J. A. Kouwenhoven, The Columbia Historical Portrait of New York, 1953, PP. 244 and 493.

Bridges, Lyman: see James H. Bowen, "Report upon Buildings, Building Materials, and Methods of Building," Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867, Washington, 1869.

Browne, D. J., "Construction of Farm Cottages," Sixth Annual Report of the American Institute, Albany, 1848.

Clarke, Thomas C., "American Iron Bridges," Scientific American Supplement, No. 32, August 5, 1876. Ducker Portable House Co., Illustrated Catalogue. Ducker Portable Houses, New York [1888].

Dwyer, C. P., The Immigrant Builder; or, Practical Hints to Handy-men, Philadelphia, 1872.

Eads bridge: see Steinman and Watson, Bridges and Their Builders, New York [1941].

Emerson's farmer-neighbor on wooden houses: see R. W. Emerson, "Agriculture in Massachusetts," in Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers, Boston, 1893, pp. 221-22.

Etzler, John Adolphus, The Paradise Within the Reach of All Men, Without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery, Pittsburgh, 1833, pp. 65-67.

Etzler (of England): T. De Witt Talmage, The Abominations of Modern Society, New York, 1872.

Ferguson, James, quoted in Scientific American Supplement, No. 11, March 11, 1876.

Field, Walker, "A Re-examination into the Invention of the Balloon Frame," Journal of the American Society of Architectural Historians, VOL 2, No. 4, October 1942.

Fowler, Orson S., A Home for All, or, The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building (original ed. 1849), New York, 1854.

Gems of the Centennial Exhibition, New York, 1877.

Giedion, Siegfried, Space, Time and Architecture, Cambridge, Mass., 1941.

Great Industries of the United States, The (by Horace Greeley and Others), Hartford, 1873.

Hamlin, Talbot, Architecture Through the Ages, New York [1940].

Hunt, Richard Morris, "Architecture," United States Centennial Commission, Reports and Awards, Group XXVI, Philadelphia, 1877.

Industrial Chicago, 6 vols., Chicago, 1891-96, Vols. 1 and 2.

Iron fronts: see George W. Howard, The Monumental City, its past history and present resources, Baltimore, 1873; Fifth Annual Review of the Commerce, Manufactures, and the Public and Private Improvements of Chicago, for the Year 1856, Chicago, The Democratic Press, 1857, pp. 7-8; and The St. Louis Riverfront. An Exhibition of Architectural Studies, St. Louis Public Library, 1938.

Kettell, Thomas P., "Buildings and Building Material," Eighty Years Progress of the United States, New York and Chicago, 1861.

Klondike. The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers, Boston, 1897.

Lafever, Minard, The Architectural Instructor, New York, 1856.

New and Complete American Encyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, The, New York, 1805-11, Vol. 1, p. 504.

Parton, James, Triumphs of Enterprise, Ingenuity, and Public Spirit, New York, 18-72, P. 55.

Pope, Thomas: see David B. Steinman and Sara Ruth Watson, Bridges and Their Builders, New York 1941, PP. 116-17.

Putnam's Magazine, March 1854 ("New York Daguerreotyped").

Reed, S. B., House-Plans for Everybody, New York, 1879.

Robinson, Solon, "How to Build a Balloon House," Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New York for the Year 1854, Albany, 1855.

Roebling, John A.: quoted in Steinman and Watson, Bridges and Their Builders, New York [1941]. See also Hamilton Schuyler, The Roeblings: A Century of Engineers, Bridge-Builders and Industrialists, Princeton, 1931.

Ruskin, John, The Seven Lamps of Architecture (originally published 1849), New York, 1871.

Skillings, D. N., and Flint, D. B., Illustrated Catalogue of Portable Sectional Buildings, Boston and New York [1862].

Stevenson, David, Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America, London, 1838, pp. 192-95.

Sullivan, Louis, Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings, New York, 1947.

Sullivan, Louis, to Claude Bragdon: see Claude Bragdon, More Lives than One, New York, 1938.

[Thoreau, Henry], "A Mechanical Utopia," Democratic Review, November 1843.

Vaux, Calvert, Villas and Cottages, New York, 1857.

Wahl, William H., Building and Engineering [no place, no date], Arts and Sciences Publishing Co. (Internal evidence indicates a date circa 1889.)

Washington, George, The Writings of George Washington, edited by Jared Sparks, Boston, 1838, Vol. IX, p. 115.

Woodward, G. E. and F. W., Woodward's Country Homes, New York, 1866.

Woollett, William M., Old Homes Made New, New York, 1878.

Wright's Suntop Homes: Henry-Russell Hitchcock, In the Nature of Materials. The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1942.


B. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES


Coolidge, John, Mill and Mansion, A Study of Architecture and Society in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1820-1865, New York, 1942.

Hamlin, Talbot, Greek Revival Architecture in America, New York, 1944 (especially Appendix A, "The American Development of Greek-Inspired Forms," PP- 339-55).

Jarves, James Jackson, The Art Idea: Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture in America, New York, 1864.

Mumford, Lewis, The Brown Decades, New York [1931].

Schuyler, Montgomery, American Architecture, New York, 1892.

---, "Glimpses of Western Architecture," Harper's Monthly Magazine, August 1891.

Tallmadge, Thomas E., The Story of Architecture in America, rev. ed., New York [1936].



4. THE PRACTICAL AND THE AESTHETIC  [Top]


A. SOURCES QUOTED OR MENTIONED


Abbey, E. A.: see E. V. Lucas, Edwin Austin Abbey, New York, 1921.

Benjamin, S. G. W., "Fifty Years of American Art," Harper's Monthly Magazine, October 1879.

---, "Present Tendencies of American Art," Harper's Monthly Magazine, March 1879.

Benson, Eugene, "Museums of Art as a Means of Instruction," Appleton's Journal, January 15, 1870.

Blake, J. L., The Family Encyclopedia, New York, 1834 (article on "Taste").

[Curtis, George W.], "The Editor's Easy Chair," Harper's Monthly Magazine, April 1876.

Ellsworth, William H., A Golden Age of Authors, Boston, 1919.

Greenough, Horatio, "American Architecture," Democratic Review, August 1843 (not identical with chapter on same subject in The Travels, Observations, etc., see below).

---, and Emerson: see The Letters of Ralph Waldo.

Emerson, ed. by Ralph L. Rusk, New York, 1939, Vol. IV, p. 312.

---, Letters of Horatio Greenough to His Brother Henry Greenough, edited by Frances B. Greenough, Boston, 1887.

---, "Remarks on American Art," Democratic Review, July 1843 (not identical with the material included in The Travels, Observations, etc., see below).

---, The Travels, Observations, and Experience of a Yankee Stonecutter, by Horace Bender, New York, 1852.

Harper's Bazaar, July 1, 1876.

Hone, Philip, The Diary of Philip Hone, edited by Allan Nevins, New York, 1936.

Howells, William Dean, Criticism and Fiction, New York, 1891.

Jarves, James Jackson, The Art Idea: Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture in America, New York, 1864.

Jig saw: see "Fret-Sawing and Woodcarving," Harper's Monthly Magazine, March 1878.

Johnson, Robert Underwood, Remembered Yesterdays, Boston, 1923.

Lathrop, George Parsons, "The Study of Art in Boston," Harper's Monthly Magazine, May 1879.

Lourdelet, M., "Industries and Commercial Machinery of the United States," translated from the French and printed in the report of U. S. Consul Frank H. Mason, Marseilles, May 10, 1884, Reports from the Consuls of the United States, No. 42, June 1884, Washington, D.C.

Pomological Annex at Centennial: see Thompson Wescott, Centennial Portfolio, Philadelphia, 1876, p. 12.

Simonin, L., A French View of the Grand International Exposition of 1876, translated from the Revue des Deux Mondes by Samuel H. Needles, Philadelphia, 1877.

Smith, Walter, "Industrial Art," The Masterpieces of the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia [1877], Vol. II.

Tryon, Dwight W.: see Henry C. White, The Life and Art of Dwight William Tryon, New York, 1930.

Tuckerman, Henry T., American Artist Life, New York, 1870.


B. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES


Benjamin, S. G. W., "American Art Since the Centennial," New Princeton Review, Vol. IV, 1887.

Clarke, I. E., "Art and Industrial Education," Education in the United States, edited by Nicholas Murray Butler, Albany, 1900, Vol. II.

Jarves, James Jackson, Art Hints, New York, 1869.

LaFollette, Suzanne, Art in America, New York, 1929.

Oppe, A. P., "Art," Early Victorian England, 1830-1865, edited by G. M. Young, 2 vols., London, 1934.



5. THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET  [Top]


A. SOURCES QUOTED OR MENTIONED


Downing, Alexander J., The Architecture of Country Houses . . . with Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, etc., New York, 1850.

"Editor's Table," Harper's Monthly Magazine, August 1859.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, "Art," Essays, First Series, Boston, 1841.

---, The Conduct of Life, Boston, 1860.

Great Industries of the United States, The (by Horace Greeley and Others), Hartford, 1873.

[Holley, Marietta], Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. and P.I.: Samantha at the Centennial, Hartford, 1877.

Humphreys, Mary Gay, "The Progress of American Decorative Art" (from the London Art Journal).

Household Art, edited by Candace Wheeler, New York, 1893.

Illustrated London News, June 17, 1876.

Nordhoff, Charles, The Communistic Societies of the United States, New York, 1875.

Poe, Edgar Allan, "The Philosophy of Furniture," Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, May 1840.

Shaker laundry at Canterbury: see J. W. Meader, The Merrimack River: Its Sources and Tributaries, Boston, 1869.

[Stephens, Ann S.], High Life in New York, Philadelphia, 1854.

Twain, Mark, Life on the Mississippi, New York, 1883.

Whitman, Walt, The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, edited by Emory Holloway, Garden City, 1921, Vol. II, pp. 311-12.

Wyatt, Sir Matthew Digby, Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century, London, 1853.


B. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES


Gilman, Roger, "The Romantic Interior," Romanticism in America, edited by George Boas, Baltimore, 1940.

Morse, Florence, "About Furnishings," Household Art, edited by Candace Wheeler, New York, 1893.

Robsjohn-Gibbings, T. H., Good-bye, Mr. Chippendale, New York, 1944.

Wharton, Edith, and Codman, Ogden, The Decoration of Houses, New York, 1897.



6. TO MAKE ALL THINGS NEW  [Top]


A. SOURCES QUOTED OR MENTIONED


Appleton's Journal ("Table Talk"), April 3, 1869.

---, ("Table Talk"), July 10, 1869.

Barnum, P. T., Struggles and Triumphs, Buffalo, 1872.

Brown, Herbert Ross, The Sentimental Novel in America, 1789-1860, Durham, N.C., 1940.

Brownson, Orestes, "Origin and Ground of Government," Democratic Review, August 1843.

Burlesque writer: see Walter Blair, "Burlesques in Nineteenth-Century American Humor," American Literature, November 1930.

Byles, Mather, "Bombastic and Grubstreet Style," American Magazine and Historical Chronicle, January 1745.

Carlyle, Thomas: see The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2 vols., Boston, 1888.

Charming, William Ellery, "Honor Due to All Men," The Works of William E. Channing, new and complete ed., Boston, 1875.

---, "The Present Age" (1841) , Ibid.

---, "Remarks on National Literature," Ibid.

Chase, Dr. A. W., Dr. Chase's Recipes; or, Information for Everybody ("Seventy-third edition"), Ann Arbor, Mich., 1876.

Crockett, Davy: see Constance Rourke, Davy Crockett, New York, 1934.

Crowe, Pat, Pat Crowe. His Story, Confession and Reformation, New York, G. W. Dillingham Co. [1906].

Drake, Daniel, A Systematic treatise, historical, etiological, and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America, etc., 2 vols., Cincinnati, 1850.

Drake, Daniel: see Charles D. Drake's introduction to Daniel Drake, Pioneer Life in Kentucky, Cincinnati, 1870; Ralph L. Rusk, The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier, New York, 1926, Vol. I, pp. 206-07; and Geddes Smith, Plague on Us, New York, The Commonwealth Fund, 1943.

Eggleston, Edward, The Circuit Rider, New York, 1874.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, "Art," Essays, Boston, 1841.

---, The journals, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes, 12 vols., Boston, 1909-12.

---, Representative Men, Boston, 1850.

Fuller, Margaret: see Ossoli, below.

Garland, Hamlin, A Son of the Middle Border, New York, 1917.

Goodrich, S. G., "The Peddler. A Chapter from an Unpublished Romance," Cyclopaedia of Wit and Humor, edited by W. E. Burton, 2 vols., New York, 1857.

Great Industries of the United States, The (by Horace Greeley and Others), Hartford, 1873.

Hill, Thomas E., Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms (Thirty-ninth edition), Chicago, 1883.

Howells, William Dean, Criticism and Fiction, New York, 1891.

Jemison, Mary: James E. Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, 1824 (and many subsequent editions; see The Colophon, Part Seven, 1931).

Kerr, Orpheus C.: see Rourke, Constance, American Humor, below.

Lippard, George, New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million, Cincinnati, 1854.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: see Lawrance Thompson, Young Longfellow, New York, 1938.

Lowell, James Russell, "Emerson the Lecturer," The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell, 16 vols., Boston, 1904.

Lutes, Della T., "We Had a Book," Saturday Review of Literature, November 27, 1937.

[J. Milton Mackie], "Forty Days in a Western Hotel," Putnam's Magazine, December, 1854. This was later revised and included in his book From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics, New York, 1864.

Melville, Herman, "Hawthorne and His Mosses," Literary World, August 3.7, August 24, 1850.

---, Israel Potter, New York, 1855.

---, letter to Abraham Lansing, January 2, 1877, in Family Correspondence of Herman Melville, edited by V. H. Paltsits, New York Public Library, 1929.

Mencken, H. L., The American Language, 4th ed., New York, 1945; and The American Language. Supplement 1, New York, 1945.

Olson, Charles, Call Me Ishmael, New York [1947].

Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers, Boston, 1855 (review of Ellen: or, Forgive and Forget, pp. 269-75).

Poe, Edgar Allan, letter to Charles Anthon: see Arthur Hobson Quinn, Edgar Allan Poe, New York, 1941.

---, review of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse, in Godey's Lady's Book, November 3.847.

Rourke, Constance, American Humor, New York, 1931.

---, "The Shakers," The Roots of American Culture and Other Essays, edited by Van Wyck Brooks, New York [1942].

Rusk, Ralph L., The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier, 2 vols., New York, 1926.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., The Age of Jackson, Boston, 1945.

Scott, Walter, The Messiahship, or Great Demonstration, Written for the Union of Christians, etc., Cincinnati, 1860.

Scott, Walter: see A. S. Hayden, Early History of the Disciples in the Western Reserve, Cincinnati, 1876.

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, "Our Village Post Office," The Token, Boston, 1838.

---, The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man, New York, 1836.

Simms, William Gilmore, "Dedication" (dated September 1856) of The Wigwam and the Cabin, 1857.

Sinclair, Upton, "Letters to Editor," Atlantic Monthly, October 1946, p. 29.

Turner, Frederick Jackson, The Frontier in American History, New York, 1920.

Twain, Mark, Mark Twain's Letters, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, 2 vols., New York, 1917.

Whitman, Walt, "Democratic Vistas," Complete Prose Works, Philadelphia, 1892.

---, "Elias Hicks," Ibid.

---, "Specimen Days," Ibid.

Winslow, Ola Elizabeth, "Books for the Lady Reader," Romanticism in America, edited by George Boas, Baltimore, 1940.

Yankee Smith's American Broad Grins, No. 1, London, R. MacDonald [no date].


B. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES


Blair, Walter, Native American Humor, New York [1937].

Blegen, Theodore E., Grass Roots History, Minneapolis [1947].

Case, Victoria and Robert Ormond, We Called It Culture. The Story of Chautauqua, New York, 1948.

De Voto, Bernard, Mark Twain's America, Boston, 1932.

Holbrook, Stewart, Lost Men of American. History, New York, 1946.

Horner, Charles F., The Life of James Redpath and the Development of the Modern Lyceum, New York, 1926.

Kittredge, George L., The Old Farmer and His Almanack, Boston, 1904.

Matthiessen, F. O., American Renaissance, New York [1941].

McLean, J. P., A Bibliography of Shaker Literature, Columbus, O., 1905.

Pond, F. E., Life and Adventures of "Ned Buntline," 1919.



7. SEEING IS BELIEVING  [Top]


A. SOURCES QUOTED OR MENTIONED


Alcott, Louisa M., Little Women, Boston, 1868.

Art Journal, 1876 ("Paintings at the Centennial Exhibition," pp. 283-85, signed by "S.N.C.").

Benjamin, S. G. W., "Fifty Years of American Art," Harper's Monthly Magazine, October 1879.

Burroughs, Alan, Limners and Likenesses, New York, 1936.

Eakins, Thomas, "The Differential Action of Certain Muscles Passing More than One Joint," Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1894.

Feininger, Lyonel: see Lyonel Feininger . . . Marsden Hartley, Museum of Modern Art [1944].

Goodrich, Lloyd, Thomas Eakins, His Life and Work, New York, 1933.

Greenough, Horatio, "American Architecture," Democratic Review, August 1843.

Grosz, George: see George Heard Hamilton, "A European Artist's Reaction to the American Scene," New York Times Book Review, April 29, 1945.

Hart, Joel Tanner: see Dictionary of American Biography.

Homer, Winslow: see William H. Downes, The Life and Works of Winslow Homer, Boston, 1911.

Howells, William Dean, "A Sennight at the Centennial," Atlantic Monthly, July 1876.

James, William: see Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of William James, Boston, 1935, Vol. I.

Jarves, James Jackson, The Art Idea, New York, 1864.

Lipman, Jean, American Primitive Painting, New York, 1942.

Mount, William S.: see B. Cowdrey and H. W. Williams, Jr., William Sidney Mount, New York, 1944.

Powers, Hiram: see Henry W. Bellows, "Seven Sittings with Powers, the Sculptor," Appleton's Journal, June 12, June 19, June 26, July 10, August 7, August 28, and September 11, 1869.

Richardson, Edgar P., The Way of Western Art, 1776-1914, Cambridge, Mass., 1939.

Rockwell, Norman: see Arthur L. Guptill, Norman Rockwell, Illustrator, New York, 1946.

Rourke, Constance, Charles Sheeler, Artist in the American Tradition, New York [1938].

Sheeler, Charles: see Rourke, Constance, above.

Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm, "Photographs at the Centennial Exhibition," Scientific American Supplement, No. 10, September 30, 1876.

Whitman, Walt, "Good-bye, My Fancy," Complete Prose Works, Philadelphia, 1892.


B. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES


History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, Philadelphia, 1878.

Isham, Samuel, The History of American Painting, new ed., New York, 1927.

LaFollette, Suzanne, Art in America, New York, 1929.

Saint-Gaudens, Homer, The American Artist and His Times, New York, 1941.

Taft, Lorado, The History of American Sculpture, New York, 1903.

Tuckerman, Henry T., American Artist Life, New York, 1870.



8. THE ARTIST'S DILEMMA  [Top]


A. SOURCES QUOTED OR MENTIONED


Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The American Notebooks, edited by Randall Stewart, New Haven, 1932.

---, "The Ancestral Footstep," The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe, and Septimius Felton, Boston, 1883.

---, "The Artist of the Beautiful," Democratic Review, June 1844 (included in Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846).

---, The Blithedale Romance, Boston, 1852.

---, Dr. Grimshawe's Secret, Boston, 1883.

---, The English Notebooks, edited by Randall Stewart, New York, 1941.

---, The House of the Seven Gables, Boston, 1851.

---, The Marble Faun, Boston, 1860.

---, Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, London, 1871.

---, The Scarlet Letter, Boston, 1850.

---, "A Select Party," Democratic Review, July 1844 (included in Mosses from an Old Manse).

James, Henry, Hawthorne, Boston, 1879.

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, Letters from Abroad, 2 vols., New York, 1841.

Whitman, Walt, "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads," Leaves of Grass, Philadelphia, 1891-92.

---, "Democratic Vistas," Complete Prose Works, Philadelphia, 1892.

---, "Preface, 1855," Ibid.

---, "Preface, 1876," Ibid.


B. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES


Kouwenhoven, John A., "Hawthorne's Notebooks and Dr. Grimshawe's Secret," American Literature, January 1934.



9. SPACE AND CHANCE  [Top]


A. SOURCES QUOTED OR MENTIONED


American Research and Development Corporation (a brochure), Boston, January 1, 1947.

Beard, Charles A., "The American Invasion of Europe," Harper's Magazine, March 1929.

Bennett, Arnold, Your United States, New York, 1913.

Clark, Wallace, "European Manufacturing Plants Slowly Emulating American Methods," Iron Age, December 18, 1930.

Cohn, David L., Combustion on Wheels, Boston, 1944.

Copley, F. B., Frederick W. Taylor, Father of Scientific Management, 2 vols., New York, 1923.

Evans, Bergen, "Auto-intoxication," Harper's Magazine, May 1947.

Ford, Henry, My Life and Work, New York, 1923.

Grattan, C. Hartley, The Three Jameses, A Family of Minds, New York, 1932.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The English Notebooks, edited by Randall Stewart, New York, 1941.

---, Our Old Home, Boston, 1863.

Hirschfeld, C. F.: see Toward Civilization: A Symposium, edited by Charles Beard, New York, 1930.

James, Henry, The American Scene, New York, 1907. Hawthorne, Boston, 1879.

---, The Letters of Henry James, edited by Percy Lubbock, 2 vols., New York, 1920.

Kallaher, Mike, "How to Change Layouts Often," Factory, March 1943.

Krutch, Joseph Wood, "Still Innocent and Still Abroad," Harper's Magazine, April 1931.

Land, Edwin H., "Research by the Business Itself," The Future of Industrial Research, Standard Oil Development Co., 1945.

Leaver, Eric W., and Brown, John J., "Machines Without Men," Fortune, November 1946.

Mayo, Elton, The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization, Boston, 1945.

Mill and Factory, May 1947 (special issue).

Morse, Richard S.: see National Research Corporation.

Motor World ("Before New York Show Issue"), December 27, 1916.

National Research Corporation: see John A. Kouwenhoven, "An Experiment in Enterprise," Harper's Magazine, October 1944.

Neal, Julia, By Their Fruits. The Story of Shakerism in South Union, Kentucky, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1947.

Paul, Howard, Dashes of American Humor, New York, 1853.

Redlin, A. W., "Handling Materials in an Automatic Frame Plant," Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, 1930, Vol. 52, Part II.

Roethlisberger, F. J., and Dickson, W. J., Management and the Worker, Cambridge, Mass., 1934.

Siegfried, Andre, America Comes of Age, New York, 1927.

Stow flexible shaft: see Charles E. Emery, "Motors, Hydraulic and Pneumatic Apparatus, etc.," Reports and Awards, Group XX, United States Centennial Commission, Philadelphia, 1878. For London Times comment see: Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878, Washington, 1880, Vol. I, p. 449.

Taylor, Frederick Winslow, The Principles of Scientific Management, New York [1911].

Wells, H. G., The Future in America, New York, 1906.

White, Lee Strout (pen name of E. B. White and Richard Lee Strout), "Farewell, My Lovely," New Yorker, May 16, 1936.

Wilde, Oscar, Impressions of America, edited by Stuart Mason, Sunderland, 1906.


B. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES


Bourdet, Claude, "The Battle for Post-war France," Harper's Magazine, April 1948.

Bush, Vannevar, Endless Horizons, Washington, D.C. [1946].

Economic Development in Selected Countries. Plans, Programmes and Agencies, United Nations, Department of Economic Affairs, Lake Success, October 1947.

Hayes, Samuel P., Jr., "France," Towards World Prosperity, edited by Mordecai Ezekiel, New York [1947].

Lloyd, E. M. H., "Modernization of Industry in Britain," Towards World Prosperity, edited by Mordecai Ezekiel, New York [1947].

Product Engineering (special issue on "Designs for Material Conservation"), April 1942.

Recent Social Trends in the United States. Report of the President's Research Committee on Social Trends, 2 vols., New York, 1933.

Science and Life in the World (The George Westinghouse Centennial Forum), 3 vols., New York [1946].

Wartime Technological Developments. A Study Made for the Subcommittee on War Mobilization o f the Committee on Military Affairs, 79th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Subcommittee Monograph No. 2, May 1945.



10. STONE, STEEL, AND JAZZ   [Top]


A. SOURCES QUOTED OR MENTIONED


Adams, James Truslow, "Our American Upper Class," Harper's Magazine, January 1932.

Amman, H. O.: see American Society of Civil Engineers, George Washington Bridge Across the Hudson River at New York, Port of New York Authority, 1933 p. 51.

Anderson, Sherwood, Perhaps Women, New York, 1931.

[Anonymous], "The Future of America," Harper's Magazine, June 1928.

Armstrong, Louis, Swing That Music, New York, 1936.

Babbitt, Irving, "The Critic and American Life," Literary Opinion in America, edited by Morton Dauwen Zabel, New York, 1937.

Bataille, Georges, "On Hiroshima" (translated by R. Raziel from an article in Critique), politics, July-August 1947.

Croly, David Goodman, Glimpses of the Future, New York, 1888.

Future editor of Reader's Digest: Ferguson, Charles W., "High Class," Harper's Magazine, March 1932.

Goodman, Benny (and Irving Kolodin), The Kingdom of Swing, New York, 1939.

Gropius, Walter: see Siegfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture, pp. 265-66.

Hamlin, Talbot, "Architecture in America Today," New Republic, August 4, 1941.

---, "Farm Security Architecture," Pencil Points, November 1941.

Hood, Raymond M.: see "Raymond M. Hood," Architectural Forum, February 1935.

Howells, William Dean, Criticism and Fiction, New York, 1891.

Kahn, Albert, "Architects of Defense," Atlantic Monthly, March 1942.

Knowlton, Don, "The Anatomy of Jazz," Harper's Magazine, April 1926.

Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White, translated by F. E. Hyslop, Jr., New York, 1947.

Lewisohn, Ludwig, "Literature and Life," A Modern Book of Criticism, edited by Ludwig Lewisohn, Modern Library, New York [n.d.].

Merz, Charles, The Great American Bandwagon, New York, 1928.

Morison, George S., The New Epoch as Developed by the Manufacture of Power, Boston, 1903. See also: George Abbot Morison, George Shattuck Morison, 1842-1903, A Memoir, Peterborough [N.H.] Historical Society, 1940.

Mumford, Lewis, Sticks and Stones, New York, 1924.

Port of New York Authority, First Progress Report on Hudson River Bridge at New York, January 1, 1928.

Santayana, George, Reason in Society, New York, 1905.

Sargeant, Winthrop, Jazz: Hot and Hybrid, new and revised edition, New York, 1946.

Steinman, David B., and Watson, Sara Ruth, Bridges and Their Builders, New York [1941].

Sullivan, Louis, "What Is Architecture?" Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings, New York, 1947.

Tallmadge, Thomas E., The Story of American Architecture, New York, 1927.

Taylor, Frederick Winslow, The Principles of Scientific Management, New York, 1911.

Whitman, Walt, "Poetry Today in America--Shakespeare--The Future" (1881), Complete Prose Works, Philadelphia, 1892.


B. ADDITIONAL REFERENCES


Architectural Forum (special issue, "Design Decade"), October 1940.

Borneman, Ernest, "The Jazz Cult" (Parts I and II), Harper's Magazine, February and March 1947.

Gaines, M. C., "Narrative Illustration, The Story of the Comics," Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, Vol. III, No. 2, Summer, 1942.

Harap, Louis, "The Case for Hot Jazz," Musical Quarterly, January 1941.

Hobson, Wilder, American Jazz Music, New York, 1939.

Jacobs, Lewis, The Rise of the American Film, New York [1939], Chapters III and IV.

Johnson, Philip, Machine Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1934.

MacDonald, Dwight, "A Theory of Popular Culture," politics, February 1944.

Seldes, Gilbert, The Seven Lively Arts, New York, 1924.

Smith, Charles Edward, and Others, The Jazz Record Book, New York, 1942, pp. 1-125.

Waugh, Colton, The Comics, New York, 1947.
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