Description: 1893 NEW YORK CITY GUIDE CRIME POLICE FIRE PRISONS SALOONS SLUMS VICE VICTORIAN. New York City Manhattan Gotham History Antique Illustrations Engravings Illustrated Victorian Pictorial Record Gaslight Era Gilded Age New Amsterdam Harlem Morrisania Long Island Central Park Wall St. Street Broadway Fifth Avenue East Side Bowery Chinatown Brooklyn Tombs Prison Brooklyn Bridge Heights Washington Heights Borough of Manhattan Missions Missionary Saloons Alcohol Drunkenness Five Points Mulberry Street Slums Prizefighter Drunkard Crime Prison Slaughter Alley Tenement Houses Rats Misery Disease Death Newsboys Newsies Orphans Waifs Urchins Child Labor Street Life Dock Rats Criminals Tramps New York Underworld Dime Museums Vice Disappearances Homeless Girls Women Lodging Houses Bellevue The Morgue Suffering Nurses Nursing Jail The Tombs Police Courts River Thieves Blackwell's Island Paupers Lunatic Asylum Convicts Insanity Italian Irish German Immigrants Shanty Town Cellar Shed Lodging Depravity Sailors Snug Harbor Bowery Baxter Street Fifth Avenue Wealthy Beer Gardens Pickpockets Crooks Beer Dives Liquor Traffic Social ReformersTemperance New York Police Department Detectives Rogues' Gallery Fires New York Fire Department NYFD Museum of Crime Fire Ladders Alarms Fire Horses Signal Boxes Chinese Quarter Opium Joints Pawnbrokers Street Vendors Sidewalk Merchants Gamblers Gambling Harbor Criminals Ghouls Burglars Shoplifting Forgery Sharpers Con Men Bunco Swindlers Caleb Carr The Alienist.DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT, Or Lights and Shadows of New York Life. 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 Byrnes, Chief Of N. Y. Police And Detectives. With Highly Interesting Descriptions Of Little Known Phases Of New York Life; And An Account Of Detective Byrnes's Thirty Years' Experiences And Reminiscences Written By Himself From His Private Diary. With An Introduction By Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., Pastor of Plymouth Church. Published in 1893 by A.D. Worthington Publishing Co., Hartford, Conn. 9" x 6" embossed cloth hardcover decorated with gilt. Superbly Illustrated with 250 Engravings from Photographs Taken from Life Expressly for This Work, Mostly by Flash-Light, and Reproduced in Exact Facsimile by Eminent Artists. 740 pages. Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Handsome exterior as shown in photo, slight wear at head of spine. Firm binding. Text is clean and complete. No torn, loose or missing pages. Great example of this very collectible Victorian New York City item.Description:Here is an unvarnished, firsthand pictorial portrait of New York City life in the late 1890s, as exposed by three individuals deeply connected to the underbelly of the great metropolis: "slum angel" Mrs. Helen Campbell, a lifelong laborer in the city's missions; Colonel Thomas W. Knox, a trained journalist with many years experience in New York; and Chief Inspector Thomas Byrnes, a 30-year veteran of the New York Detective Bureau. Together they shine the bright light of truth on the dark side of New York City: the slums and shanty towns, the saloons and dives, the wharves, the jails and prisons, the hospitals and insane asylums, and more.In these pages you will meet the working poor of the great city; the homeless newsboys and other lost souls; the street vendors, rag pickers and scrub women of Mulberry Street; the thieves, burglars, con men and other criminals of the Five Points who prey on the innocent. Guaranteed old and original. Pictures show size and condition. Displays well. Always happy to combine shipping whenever possible. We pack well and ship quickly!
Price: 199.95 USD
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Publisher: A.D. Worthington & Co.
Topic: Gambling
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
