Coins; Medals; Money; Numismatics; Prisoners of war
[Anonymous], 1888. A Christmas Reminder: Being the Names of about Eight
Thousand Persons, A Small Portion of the Number Confined on Board
the British Prison Ships during the War of the Revolution.
Brooklyn, N. Y.: Society of Old Brooklynites. 1888.
Containing the names of the “prisoners confined on board the British
ship Jersey.”
Henry R. Stiles, Letters from the Prisons and Prison-Ships of the
Revolution. (The Wallabout Prison-Ship Series, No. 1). New York:
Privately printed, 1865.
Includes letters written on the Jersey.
Livingston’s Sugar House
I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island: 1498-1909.
Vol. V, New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1926, pp. 1042 (1777); 1234
(1789).
Thomas E. V. Smith, The City of New York in the Year of Washington’s
Inauguration, 1789. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Co., 1889,
pp. 36-37.
Rhinelander Sugar-House
James Grant Wilson, The Memorial History of the City of New York from
Its First Settlement to the Year 1892, Vol. II, New York: New York
History Company, 1892, p. 452 and note 1.
With a good picture of the Rhinelander Sugar House. A picture of
Livingston’s Sugar House is found, ibidem, p. 457.
I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island: 1498-1909,
Vol. IV, New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1922, p. 790 (anno 1769); cf.
Vol. V, 1926, pp. 1234 (1789); 1699 (Febr. 4, 1831).
Henry Collins Brown, Book of Old New York. New York: Privately printed,
1913.
Opposite p. 308, a good photograph of the Rhinelander Sugar House.
Libby Prison and Libby Prison War Museum
Will Parmiter Kent, The Story of Libby Prison: Also Some Perils and
Sufferings of Certain of Its Inmates. Second edition. Chicago,
Ill.: The Libby Prison War Museum Association [1890].
Profusely illustrated. On the cover pictures of Libby Prison “as it
was” and “as it is.”
[Anonymous], Libby Prison War Museum: Catalogue and Program. Chicago:
Libby Prison War Museum Association, [no year given]; reprinted
several times.
[Anonymous], A Trip through the Libby Prison War Museum. Chicago: Libby
Prison National War Museum Association, 189?.
Frank E. Moran, A Thrilling History of the Famous Underground Tunnel of
Libby Prison. New York: Reprinted from the Century Magazine,
1889-1893.
F. F. Cavada, Libby Life: Experiences of a Prisoner of War in Richmond,
Va., 1863-64. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1865.
Most comprehensive description with contemporary illustrations, among
them a reproduction of the best contemporary engraving of Libby Prison
in Richmond, Va.
Louis Palma di Cesnola, Ten Months in Libby Prison. [Pamphlet, no place,
no date]. [New York, 1865].
Description of prison life in Libby prison, 1863-1864.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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