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Publication Date

1878 - 1929
(years)

Genre

  • Bildungsromans (131) + -
  • Success stories (21) + -
  • Adventure stories (1) + -
  • Detective and mystery stories (1) + -
  • Legal stories (1) + -
  • Sea stories (1) + -
  • Stage and theatre stories (1) + -
  • Western stories (1) + -

Series

  • Fame and fortune weekly (128) + -
  • Five cent wide awake library (5) + -

Author

  • Self-made man, 1853-1915 (128) + -
  • Garne, Gaston (112) + -
  • King, Ed (17) + -
  • Clyde, Kit (12) + -
  • Fenton, Ralph, Colonel (12) + -
  • Sherman, John (12) + -
  • Armstrong, Alexander (11) + -
  • Stevens, D. W., 1849-1901 (10) + -
  • Braddon, Paul (9) + -
  • Appleton, Horace (7) + -
  • Ah-look, Commodore (2) + -
  • Shackleford, H. K. (Harvey King), 1841-1906 (1) + -
  • Williams, Gus, 1847-1915 (1) + -
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Publisher

  • Wolff, Harry E. (80) + -
  • Tousey, Frank (39) + -
  • Westbury Publishing Co., Inc. (10) + -

Topic

  • Stockbrokers (84) + -
  • Business (12) + -
  • Fortune (7) + -
  • Sales personnel (5) + -
  • Stockholders (4) + -
  • Treasure troves (4) + -
  • Boys (3) + -
  • Conduct of life (3) + -
  • Contractors (3) + -
  • Farmers (2) + -
  • Lumbermen (2) + -
  • Merchants (2) + -
  • Motion pictures (2) + -
  • Orphans (2) + -
  • Abduction (1) + -
  • Actors (1) + -
  • Auctioneers (1) + -
  • Bankers (1) + -
  • Businesswomen (1) + -
  • Canals (1) + -
  • Chinese (1) + -
  • Circus (1) + -
  • Clerks (1) + -
  • Coal mines and mining (1) + -
  • Copper mines and mining (1) + -
  • Counterfeits and counterfeiting (1) + -
  • Diamond mines and mining (1) + -
  • Dramatists (1) + -
  • Dutch Americans (1) + -
  • Entertainers (1) + -
  • Express service (1) + -
  • Ferries (1) + -
  • Foundries (1) + -
  • Gold mines and mining (1) + -
  • Government securities (1) + -
  • Granite industry and trade (1) + -
  • Inheritance and succession (1) + -
  • Inventors (1) + -
  • Investment bankers (1) + -
  • Irish Americans (1) + -
  • Labor unions (1) + -
  • Mechanics (1) + -
  • Messengers (1) + -
  • Mica mines and mining (1) + -
  • Mines and mineral resources (1) + -
  • Monkeys (1) + -
  • Newspaper vendors (1) + -
  • Paperboys (1) + -
  • Printing plants (1) + -
  • Scrap metal industry (1) + -
  • Shipping (1) + -
  • Shoe shiners (1) + -
  • Soda industry (1) + -
  • Speculation (1) + -
  • Steamboats (1) + -
  • Teamsters (1) + -
  • Theater (1) + -
  • Theaters (1) + -
  • Voyages and travels (1) + -
  • Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) (1) + -
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Place

  • Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) (88) + -
  • New York (N.Y.) (6) + -
  • New York (State) (3) + -
  • Chicago (Ill.) (2) + -
  • Maine (2) + -
  • Ohio (2) + -
  • Boston (Mass.) (1) + -
  • California (1) + -
  • Chester (N.Y.) (1) + -
  • Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) (1) + -
  • Illinois River (Ill.) (1) + -
  • Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.) (1) + -
  • Massachusetts (1) + -
  • Nevada (1) + -
  • Northwest, Pacific (1) + -
  • Pennsylvania (1) + -
  • Plainfield (Ill.) (1) + -
  • Portland (Me.) (1) + -
  • Silverton (Colo.) (1) + -
  • South Africa (1) + -
  • Throgs Neck (New York, N.Y.) (1) + -
  • West (U.S.) (1) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (133) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (127) + -

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  • (-) = Young businesspeople

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Southern boy in New York, or, Bound to make his money
A boy of business, or, Hustling for the dollars
$50,000 from a nickel, or, The boy who was lucky in stocks
Back-Number Bixby, or, The boy who was up to the minute
A "live" boy, or, Quick to get the dollars
Benson's new boy, or, Whooping up the Wall Street market
A mad broker's scheme, or, The corner that couldn't be worked
A boy from the South, or, Cleaning out a Wall Street crowd
A boy of the curb, or, The secret of a treasury note
A young lumber king, or, The boy who worked his way up
Banker Barry's boy, or, Gathering the dollars in Wall Street
A young mechanic, or, Rising to fame and fortune
A boy with grit, or, The young salesman who made his mark
A game boy, or, From the slums to Wall Street
Among the tusk hunters, or, The boy who found a diamond mine
Coining money, or, The boy plunger of Wall Street
The young coal baron, or, Five years with the miners
Little Jay Perkins, the broker, or, Shearing the Wall Street "lambs"
Bulling the market, or, The messenger who worked a corner
Striking it rich, or, From office boy to merchant prince
Tips off the tape, or, The boy who startled Wall Street
Playing for money, or, The boy trader of Wall Street
Just his luck, or, Climbing the ladder of fame and fortune
A tip worth a million, or, How a boy worked it in Wall Street
A boy stock broker, or, From errand boy to millionaire
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