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and reform, 988-89, 1018-19

and religion, 1172

and republicanism, 414

and Social Gospel, 1171

and socialism, 988-89, 1080-90, 1002, 1097

and Tammany, 826, 827

and Tompkins Square rally, 1025–26, 1027

and toppling of Tweed, 1010

and violence, 1095-98

and wages/salaries, 986-87, 988, 1012-13, 1091, 1095-96

and women, 604, 802, 845, 989, 990-91, 1090

and Wood administration, 850-51

Oriental Hotel, 1135-36

Orphan Asylum Society, 383

Orphan Masters Court, 45

Orphans/orphanages, 45, 56, 130, 383, 503, 775, 780, 784, 806, 855-56, 1161

Osborne Apartments, 971, 1078

Ossining, New York, 448, 506, 508

Oswego, New York, 168

Otsego Lake, 472

Our Lady of Guadalupe, 1126

Our Lady of Mount Carmcl Church, 1125

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 1126

Out Ward, 92, 110, 187, 279

Outdoor relief, 156-57, 213, 350, 364-65, 392, 593, 623, 833, 1028-29, 1030, 1041, 1158, 1159, 1161, 1234

Outmigration, 151, 165

“Outwork,” 443, 664

Oyster Bay, 219, 254, 1200

Oyster gathering, 662

Oyster shops, 798, 816

Ozone Park, 939

P. Lorillard Company, 1046

Pacific Mail Company, 652

Pacific Northwest, 275

Paddy Quinn’s Island No. 10, 1000

Paine’s Birthday, 510

Panama, 652

Panic of 1792, 308-10, 312, 314, 316

Panic of 1819, 444, 479

Panic of 1837, 611-14, 687, 817

Panic of 1857, 842-51, 866

Panic of 1861, 866

Panic of 1893, 1185, 1204

Papists. See Catholics Parades: about Atlantic cable, 676

by blacks, 546-47

on Broadway, 500, 897

and centennial commemorations, 1086

and Civil War, 868-9, 897, 901

and Crash of 1873, 1024

in early nineteenth century, 322, 500, 522

and economy, 901

in 1830s, 604

and elections of 1864, 902

and Erie Canal celebration, 430

on Fifth Avenue, 1215

and Jay Treaty, 322

on July 4th, 828, 839-40

Labor Day, 1090-92

in late nineteenth century, 952, 1086, 1090-92, 1100, 1105, 1108

and Lincoln’s second inaugural, 904

as masculine events, 798

in mid-nineteenth century, 676, 695, 798, 828

Orange, 1003-8, 1013, 1017

by organized labor, 604, 606, 1100, 1105

and overthrow of French monarchy, 522

St. Patrick’s Day, 828, 1005, 1108

and sense of history, 695

and Spanish-American War, 1215

and unemployment, 1024

Paradise Square, 484, 534

Paramilitary companies, 164

Paresis Hall, 1143, 1164, 1169

Paris Commune, 1002-3, 1004, 1022, 1024, 1025, 1177

Paris, France: reconstruction of, 821-22, 832

in Second Empire, 821-22. See also French Revolution

Paris Commune

Paris Treaty (1783), 315

Parisian Varieties Theater, 995

Park Avenue, 6, 178, 392, 400, 944, 960, 1055, 1077, 1078. See also Fourth Avenue

Park Hotel, 436

Park Place, 373, 715, 1091

Park Row: elevated to, 1055

in late nineteenth century, 1051, 1052, 1055, 1116, 1168, 1213

in mid-nineteenth century, 678, 755, 763. See also Chatham Street

Park Slope, 719, 972, 1228

Park Theater, 369, 375, 404, 405, 416, 452, 484, 486, 487, 488, 538, 547, 600, 610, 698, 724, 815

Parker and Company, 275

Parks, 385, 790-95, 1011, 1176, 1194. See also specific park

Parliament: American lobbying of, 196

and Anglo-Dutch relations, 63, 67, 73, 83

and British colonial policy, 195

Catholic plot to blow up, 107

corruption of, 152

and Duke of York as proprietor of New Netherland, 73

and Glorious Revolution, 95-96

and hat manufacturing, 171

influence of West Indies planters in, 119

and Jews, 133

and Kidd, 113

Leisler, 112

merchants’ petitions to, 205

and party politics, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116

petitions to, 202

and poor relief, 145

and printing in New York, 108

and religion, 94, 104

and slavery, 120

Spitalfields weavers storm, 194-95

and Stuart restoration, 71

suppression in Ireland by, 130

and taxes, 139

and Walpole, 152

and War of Jenkins’ Ear, 159

and wealth in colonial New York, 177. See also specific act

Parlor house girls, 484

Parlors, 463-65

Parmelee Automatic Sprinkler, 1052

Parochial schools, 501, 630, 751, 782, 783-84, 1005, 1094-95, 1104

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