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Dell Upton

Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic

~A book that has been as long in the making as Another City naturally accumulates many debts to friends, colleagues, and particularly archivists who made the work pleasurable as well as possible.

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Dell Upton

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Acknowledgments

A book that has been as long in the making as Another City naturally accumulates many debts to friends, colleagues, and particularly archivists who made the work pleasurable as well as possible.

My first and deepest debts are to friends and former colleagues at Berkeley, where I taught during most of the years that I worked on this project. Paul Groth, Stephen Tobriner, the late Spiro Kostof, and the late Roger Montgomery taught me to love cities and gave me ways to think about them. Zeynep Kezer was both research assistant and valued interlocutor during the most critical years of the project. At various times, the longstanding Berkeley Americanists’ reading group—Paul Groth, Mary Ryan, Margaretta Lovell, the late Larry Levine, Kathleen Moran, Dick Hutson, Chris Rosen, the late Jenny Franchot—gave encouragement and direction.

In Philadelphia, I logged countless hours in the Library Company of Philadelphia, where Jim Green, Phil Lapsansky, Denise Larrabee, Charlene Peacock, Susan Oyama, John Van Horne, Lynne Warren, and particularly Ken Finkel helped me to understand Philadelphia and its documentary and visual sources. Peter Parker, Linda Stanley, and the staff of the Manuscripts Reading Room at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marty Levitt at the American Philosophical Society, and Bruce Laverty at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia also offered welcome assistance. Throughout my work on the Quaker City, Jeff Cohen generously shared his vast knowledge of its history and architecture. In recent years, Aaron Wunsch’s insights and research skills have pushed me to sharpen my arguments a little more and to dig a little deeper in my own research.

In New Orleans, I was fortunate to have the assistance of the staff of the Historic New Orleans Collection, particularly Pamela Arceneaux, John Barbry, John Kukla, John Magill, Stan Ritchey, Jude Solomon, Sally Stassi, and Jessica Travis, as well as that of Wilbur Menary and the staff of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Room of the Tulane University Library, Ann Wakefield of the New Orleans Notarial Archives Research Center, and the staff of New Orleans City Archives at the New Orleans Public Library.

Most of the New York material derives from my work on the Art and the Empire City exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2000. I am grateful to John K. Howat and the staff of the American Wing for their assistance. Most of all I am indebted to the late Catherine H. Voorsanger for the opportunity to work on her show, for her great generosity of intellect and spirit, and for the opportunity to get to know her and Bart during the project.

Annmarie Adams, the late Robert L. Alexander, Nezar AlSayyad, Catherine Bishir, Dale Brown, Barbara Carson, Cary Carson, Tom Carter, Richard Cote, Betsy Cromley, the late James Deetz, Jay Edwards, Henry Glassie, Bernie Herman, Rhys Isaac, Jack Lesch, Bob St. George, Becky Shiffer, David Sloane, Daphne Spain, Abby Van Slyck, David Vanderburgh, Harry L. Watson, Mark R. Wenger, Shane White, and Mike Zuckerman offered welcome assistance, discussion, criticism, and simple encouragement over the years, and I am glad to be able at last to thank them in this way.

Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Tania Martin, and Tim Stokes all worked as research assistants on the project at one time or another, to its, and to my, benefit. Without Jennifer Reut’s indispensable assistance the manuscript would never have been completed.

The lengthy research for this project was supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, as well as by a Getty Senior Research Grant, an NEH Travel to Collections Grant, a University of California Humanities Research Grant, and sabbatical leaves from the University of California and the University of Virginia.

Only Karen knows the whole story, and this book is for her.

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