April 12, 2024
Vintage 1897 DARKNESS & LIGHT IN NEW YORK City NY Book
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For your consideration: Darkness and Light In New York 1897 hardovered book. 250 b&w engravings including frontispiece portrait of author. Introduction by Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D.; "a pictorial record of personal experiences by day and night in the great metropolis with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, sketches of life and character, humorous stories, touching home scenes, and tales of tender pathos, drawn from the bright and shady sides of the great under world of New York." By Mrs. Helen Campbell, city missionary and philanthropist. Col. Thomas W. Knox, author and journalist, and Supt. Thomas Byrne, Chief of N. Y. Police and Detectives" Contains an account of experiences and reminiscences about NEW YORK CITY. 740 pages of incredible descriptions, tales, and illustrations. 250 engravings from photos taken from life for this work, mostly by fllash ligth and reproduced in exact facsimile by eminent artists. Three sections: 1st As Seen by a Woman, 2 As Seen by a Journalist, 3 As seen and known by the Chief of the New York Detective Bureau. Fascinating read ! Text on mission work on Water Street, crime, Slaughter Alley, newsboys, child laborers, guttersnipes, the homeless, social agencies, the slums by night, slum rescue work, shop girls & working girls, hospitals, flower missions, the Tombs, criminal haunts, Blackwell'
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