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Publication Date

1878 - 1898
(years)

Genre

  • Humorous stories (23) + -
  • Bildungsromans (7) + -
  • Detective and mystery stories (4) + -
  • Christmas stories (2) + -
  • School and sports stories (2) + -
  • Sea stories (2) + -
  • Stage and theatre stories (2) + -
  • Historical fiction (1) + -
  • Legal stories (1) + -
  • War stories (1) + -

Author

  • Pad, Peter (11) + -
  • Teaser, Tom (7) + -
  • Williams, Gus, 1847-1915 (3) + -
  • Ed (2) + -
  • Shackleford, H. K. (Harvey King), 1841-1906 (2) + -
  • Ah-look, Commodore (1) + -
  • Emmet, R. T. (1) + -
  • Harrigan & Hart (1) + -
  • Johnston, J. L., General (1) + -
  • Lennox, Robert (1) + -
  • Smiley, Sam (1) + -
  • U. S. detective, A (1) + -
  • Wood, N. S. (1) + -
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Publisher

  • Tousey, Frank (36) + -

Topic

  • Practical jokes (9) + -
  • Irish Americans (7) + -
  • Actors (3) + -
  • African Americans (3) + -
  • Young businesspeople (3) + -
  • Dwarfs (2) + -
  • English (2) + -
  • Holidays (2) + -
  • Hotelkeepers (2) + -
  • Paperboys (2) + -
  • Sailors (2) + -
  • Shoe shiners (2) + -
  • Apartments (1) + -
  • Attempted murder (1) + -
  • Blacks (1) + -
  • Booksellers and bookselling (1) + -
  • Chinese (1) + -
  • Clerks (1) + -
  • Colportage, subscription trade, etc (1) + -
  • Conspiracy (1) + -
  • Diaries (1) + -
  • Dutch Americans (1) + -
  • Elections (1) + -
  • Entertainers (1) + -
  • False imprisonment (1) + -
  • Female offenders (1) + -
  • Forgery (1) + -
  • History (1) + -
  • Household employees (1) + -
  • Immigrants (1) + -
  • Inheritance and succession (1) + -
  • Inventors (1) + -
  • Investigation (1) + -
  • Landlords (1) + -
  • Messengers (1) + -
  • Monkeys (1) + -
  • Murder (1) + -
  • Newspaper vendors (1) + -
  • Opera (1) + -
  • Picnics (1) + -
  • Rewards programs (Criminal investigation) (1) + -
  • Sales personnel (1) + -
  • Schoolboys (1) + -
  • Scouts (Reconnaissance) (1) + -
  • Scrap metal industry (1) + -
  • Singers (1) + -
  • Stocks (1) + -
  • Street children (1) + -
  • Stutterers (1) + -
  • Stuttering (1) + -
  • Swindlers and swindling (1) + -
  • Traveling sales personnel (1) + -
  • Treasure troves (1) + -
  • Twins (1) + -
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Character

  • Muldoon, Terence (Fictitious character) (4) + -
  • Shortys (Fictitious characters) (2) + -
  • Bounce, Tommy (Fictitious character) (1) + -

Place

  • United States (2) + -
  • Atlantic Coast (U.S.) (1) + -
  • London (England) (1) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (34) + -
  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (2) + -

Query

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  • (-) ≠ Colorado
  • (-) ≠ Steampunk fiction
  • (-) ≠ Harkaway, Jack (Fictitious character)
  • (-) = Five cent wide awake library
  • (-) = New York (N.Y.)
  • (-) = Nickel weeklies
  • (-) ≠ Secret societies

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Mulcahey twins
One of the boys of New York, or, The adventures of Tommy Bounce
Dot boy Fritz
Mulligan's boy
English boy in America
Bob Short, or, One of our boys
Ebenezer Crow
Stuttering Sam
Bob Rollick, or, What was he born for?
Bob Rollick, the Yankee notion drummer
Shortys' Christmas and New Year at home
Billy, the bootblack, or, The trump card last
Extree Nick, the New York newsboy
Hildebrandt Fitzgum, or, My quiet little cousin
Jack Hawser's tavern
The book agent's luck
Sam Spry, the New York drummer, or, Business before pleasure
The little joker, or, Always ready for fun
The waifs of New York
Shortys' Christmas snaps
Behind the scenes, or, Out with a New York combination
A bad boy's note-book
Bulger Boom, the inventor
Senator Muldoon
Our landlord, or, Life in French Flats
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