The Notes - 2015 Edition

     Some of the materials cited in the 2015 Edition duplicate those of 2014, but full notation will be given in both.

     Some of my "research" was done "the old fashioned way," that is to say with printed works, and some via the Internet.  (Update 2018: since it's been a few years, reader beware that the links following may no longer be viable.  So it goes with the world wide web: things change.)

     I suppose you could refer to these following as a "bibliography after a fashion," as they are the most often cited, or contributed to the general background.

     Earl Swift: The Big Roads

     Boston-New York: Mariner Books, 2012 (trade copy)

     ISBN 978-0-547-90724-6

     Background information on the condition of roads generally, and the construction of better roads including the trans-continental linking Interstate System.

     University of Pennsylvania - Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Dreiser Web Source.

Much of the ephemera that Dreiser, and others, amassed during his lifetime was transferred to Penn following his death, and a nice collection has been made available digitally.

     Noted as (DWS).

     wikipedia - true it may be lambasted by purists, but many of its entries are sufficient to this work, and also include references useful for such like this project. 

     Shorpy.com - an on-line collection of images reproduced from negatives and glass plates in the Library of Congress, with digital restoration for the modern viewer.  Time.com has a nice story about Shorpy, and the work that goes into that archive. Shorpy images are also available as prints.  Noted in caption as (Shorpy) .

      The Library of Congress itself also has many of their uncountable pieces of ephemera available via the Web at their

Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.  Noted in caption as (LOC).

     The Indiana Historical Society has a vasty collection of ephemera, including tens of thousands of photographs depicting the Hoosier State.  Some of these are available on line.  The images used here are part of the Bass Photo Company Collection, a trove comprised of "...over 180,000 negatives and 12,000 prints..." made by the Bass Company in and around Indianapolis between 1903 and 1971 which were delivered to the Society by the Company as a way to ensure their continued existence and usefulness.  They are attributed thusly: W.H. Bass Photo Company Collection, Indiana Historical Society;  in the caption as (WHBP).

     Industrial Heritage Committee, Inc., Buffalo New York.  Dedicated to preserving the industrial history of the Buffalo area, especially along the Buffalo River/Ship Canal.  Among other things, they have placed point-of-interest placards near Fuhrmann Blvd, on the Heritage Trail, including historic photos with accompanying notes about the elevators.  Those notes were the source of information about the old elevators in my current photographs; the old photos reproduced here for historic images of the Buffalo "scene."  Noted in caption as (IHCI).

     Their site is worth a look-see; I was amazed at the information they have on the old industrial buildings of Buffalo, and their interest is also international: one of the stories concerns a grain silo in Marseille, France, that was converted to an opera house! They also do boat tours down the Ship Canal -- which means I'm going to have to shuffle back to Buffalo sometime.

     Richard Lingeman: Theodore Dreiser: At The Gates of the City 1871-1907

                                        New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986

                                        ISBN: 0-399-13147-7

                                             referred to as "Vol 1"

                                        and

                                       Theodore Dreiser: An American Journey 1908-1945

                                        New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990

                                        ISBN: 0-399-13520-0

                                             referred to as "Vol 2"            

     And of course, there's "the book," as I'll refer to it occasionally in my text:

     Theodore Dreiser: A Hoosier Holiday

          Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998 (reprint).

          Introduction by Douglas Brinkley, 1997.

          ISBN: 0-253-21121-2

               Originally published New York, NY: John Lane Co, 1916.

     Hereafter referred to in the notes as "AHH."