The Color of a Great City

Transcriber’s Note
Cover created by Transcriber, using an illustration from the original book, and placed in the Public Domain.
SISTER CARRIE JENNIE GERHARDT THE FINANCIER THE TITAN THE GENIUS A TRAVELER AT FORTY A HOOSIER HOLIDAY PLAYS OF THE NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL THE HAND OF THE POTTER FREE AND OTHER STORIES TWELVE MEN HEY RUB-A-DUB-DUB A BOOK ABOUT MYSELF THE COLOR OF A GREAT CITY
The City of My Dreams
THE COLOR OF A GREAT CITY
THEODORE DREISER
Illustrations by C. B. FALLS
BONI AND LIVERIGHT Publishers :: :: New York
Copyright, 1923, by Boni and Liveright, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
First Printing, December, 1923 Second Printing, May, 1924
My only excuse for offering these very brief pictures of the City of New York as it was between 1900 and 1914 or ’15, or thereabout, is that they are of the very substance of the city I knew in my early adventurings in it. Also, and more particularly, they represent in part, at least, certain phases which at that time most arrested and appealed to me, and which now are fast vanishing or are no more. I refer more particularly to such studies as The Bread-line , The Push-cart Man , The Toilers of the Tenements , Christmas in the Tenements , Whence the Song , and The Love Affairs of Little Italy .