1899 ANTIQUE DARKNESS DAYLIGHT BOOK NYPD NY NEW YORK CITY POLICE CIVIL WAR

1899 ANTIQUE DARKNESS DAYLIGHT BOOK NYPD NY NEW YORK CITY POLICE CIVIL WAR

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1899 ANTIQUE DARKNESS DAYLIGHT BOOK NYPD NY NEW YORK CITY POLICE CIVIL WAR:
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a. Up for sale is a wonderful book on early life in New York City entitled:

DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT; OR, LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OFNEW YORK LIFE. A WOMAN\'S STORY OF GOSPEL, TEMPERANCE, MISSION, AND RESCUE WORK.WITH HUNDREDS OF THRILLING ANECTODES AND INCIDENTS, PERSONAL EXPERIENCES,SKETCHES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER, HUMOROUS STORIES, TOUCHING HOME SCENES, ANDTALES OF TENDER PATHOS, DRAWN FROM THE BRIGHT AND SHADY SIDES OF CITY LIFE BYMRS. HELEN CAMPBELL. SUPPLEMENTED BY A JOURNALIST\'S DESCRIPTION OF LITTLE-KNOWNPHASES OF NEW YORK LIFE; AND A FAMOUS DETECTIVE\'S THIRTY YEARS\' EXPERIENCES ANDOBSERVATIONS. ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO ENGRAVINGS FROMPHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN FROM LIFE EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK, MOSTLY BY FLASH-LIGHT, ANDREPRODUCED IN EXACT FAC-SIMILE BY EMINENT ARTISTS. A.D. WORTHINGTON & CO.,PUBLISHERS, HARTFORD, CONN. 1895. 740 pages + hard bound cover, illustrated throughout.

Good conditionfor age. Some cover soiling and wear, including edges and corners, spine a bit frayed at head and tail, edges and corners banged. Small tear in spine. Good binding, writing ibc. Some text soiling and wear, ffep soiled.It measures 6 1/4\"w x 9 1/4\" x 2 1/8\". A nice find.



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A study of the low life ofthe city of New York as seen through the eyes of a female City Missionary andPhilanthropist; Thomas W. Knox - an Author and Journalist and Thomas Byrnes -the late Chief of the New York City Detective Bureau. The development inphotography at the time of publication made it possible to record some uniquepictures of all aspects of city life. The detailed chapters contain stories ofthe horrific conditions faced by the poor, tramps, beggars, street girls etc.,with many tales of the criminal elements of the Bowery - liquor traffic, opiumjoints in Chinatown, bogus horse sales, gamblers, fraudsters, bank robbers,fences, bunco-steerers and much more, providing an amazing social historycontaining 250 engravings taken from photographs. A massive account of everyimaginable underworld character.


The book is divided intothree parts; one for each contributor:


PART I ~ HELEN CAMPBELL


  • Sunday in WaterStreet ~ Homes of Revelry and Vice ~ Scenes in the Mission Room ~ StrangeExperiences

  • Christian work inWater Street ~ The Story of Jerry McAuley\'s Life Told by Himself ~ A Career ofWickedness and Crime ~ The Mission Now

  • Up SlaughterAlley, or Life in a Tenament House ~ A Tour Through Homes of Misery, Want, andWoe ~ Drink\'s Doings

  • New YorkNewsboys-Who They Are, Where They Come From, and How They Live ~ The Waifs andStrays of a Great City

  • The One HundredThousand Little Laborers of New York ~ Child Workers ~ Their Homes and DailyLives

  • Child-Life in theSlums ~ Homeless Street Boys, Gutter-Snipes and Dock Rats ~ The Autobiographyof a Day-Break Boy

  • The Open Doors ofMercy ~ The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ~ Brutes in HumanForm ~ The Demon of Drink ~ Rescue Work

  • Mission Work inTough Places ~ Seeking to Save ~ A Leaf from the Experience of an All-NightMissionary ~ Rescue Work in the Slums

  • The Slums byNight ~ The Under-World of New York ~ Life and Scenes in Dens of Infamy andCrime ~ Night Refuges for Women ~ Fast Life ~ Christian Work among Outcasts

  • Night MissionWork ~ New York Streets After Dark ~ Rescue Work Among the Fallen and Depraved~ Searching for the Lost ~ An All-Night Missionary\'s Experience

  • Shop-Girls andWorking Women ~ The Great Army of New York Poor ~ Life Under the Great Bridge ~The Bitter Cry of New York

  • Hospital Life inNew York ~ A Tour Through the Wards of Old Bellevue ~ Affecting Scenes ~ TheMorgue and its Silent Occupants

  • Flower Missionsand the Fresh Air Fund ~ The Distribution of Flowers Among the Sick and Poor ~Anecdotes and Incidents

  • A Day in FreeDispensary ~ Relieving the Suffering Poor ~ Missionary Nurses and Their Work ~A Touching Story

  • Life Behind theBars ~ A Visit to the Tombs ~ Scenes Within Prison Walls ~ Rays of Light on aDark Picture

  • Lurking Places ofSin ~ Face to Face with Crime-Cellar Haunts and Underground Resorts ofCriminals ~ The Story of Jim, an Ex-Convict

  • Life onBlackwell\'s Island ~ The Dregs of a Great City ~ Where Criminals, Paupers, andLunatics are Cared For ~ A Convict\'s Daily Life ~ \"Drink\'s Our Curse\"

  • HeavenlyCharities ~ Sister Irene\'s Mysterious Basket ~ Homes for Foundlings and LittleWaifs

  • Italian Life inNew York ~ Scenes in the Great Bend in Mulberry Street ~ Homes of Filth andSqualor

  • Shantytown andits Dwellers ~ Life Among New York Squatters ~ Characteristic Scenes andIncidents

  • Underground Lifein New York ~ Celler and Shed Lodgings ~ Dens of the Vicious and Depraved ~Startling Scenes

  • Jack Ashore ~ AnEasy Prey for Land-Sharks and Sharpers ~ Life on the \"St. Mary\" andat the Sailors\' Snug Harbor

    PART II - THOMAS W. KNOX (JOURNALIST)

  • Street Life ~ TheBowery by Day and by Night ~ Life in Baxter and Chatham Streets

  • Training-Schoolsof Crime ~ Drink, the Root of Evil ~ Great Responsibility of the Liquor Trafficfor Crime ~ Plain Facts and Startling Statements

  • The PoliceDepartment of New York ~ The Detective Force and its Work ~ Shadows andShadowling ~ Sleuth-Hounds of the Law

  • Fire! Fire! ~ TheLife of a New York Fireman ~ The School of Instruction and the Life-SavingCorps

  • The Spider andthe Fly ! Mock sales, Bogus Horse Sales and Other Traps for the Unwary ~Personal Experiences

  • The Beggars ofNew York ~ Tramps, Cheats, Humbugs, and Frauds ~ Interesting PersonalExperiences ~ Victims from the Country

  • \"Up TheSpout\" ~ Pawn-Brokers and Their Ways ~ A Visit to the Shop of \"MyUncle\" ~ Personal Experiences

  • Street Vendersand Sidewalk Merchants ~ How Skin Games and Petty Swindles are Played ~\"Beatin\' the Angels for Lyin\'\"

  • Gamblers andGambling ~ A Midnight Visit to Gambling-Houses of High and Low Degree ~ AGlimpse Behind the Scenes

    PART III - THOMAS BYRNES(CHIEF OF THE NEW YORK DETECTIVE BUREAU)

  • LowLodging-Houses of New York ~ Places That Foster Crime and Harbor Criminals ~Dens of Thieves

  • ScientificBurglars and Expert Cracksmen ~ How Bank Vaults and Safes and Opened and Robbed~ The Tools, Plans, Operations, and Leaders of Highly-Bred Criminals

  • BankSneak-Thieves and Their Characteristics ~ Plots and Schemes for Robbing MoneyedInstitutions ~ A Daring Lot of Rogues

  • CommonHousebreakers ~ Thieves Who Laugh at Locks and Bolts ~ Receivers of StolenGoods ~ How a \"Fence\" is Conducted

  • The Rogues\'Gallery ~ Why Thieves are Photographed ~ Tell-Tale Signs ~ Peculiarities ofCriminals

  • CunningShoplifters and Skillful Pickpockets ~ Female Operators and How They Work ~Yielding to Sudden Temptations

  • Forgers and TheirMethods ~ Willy Devices and Brainy Schemes of a Dangerous Class ~ Tricks onBanks ~ How Business Men are Defrauded

  • Frauds Exposed ~Accomplished Adventures and Fashionable Adventuresses ~ People Who Live ByTheir Wits ~ Getting a Living by Hook or Crook

  • Sharpers,Confidence-Men and Bunco-Steerers ~ Wide Open Traps ~ Tricks of\"Sawdust\" and \"Green Goods\" Dealers




1899 ANTIQUE DARKNESS DAYLIGHT BOOK NYPD NY NEW YORK CITY POLICE CIVIL WAR:
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