Darkness and Daylight, Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's Pictorial Record of Gospel, Temperance, Mission, and Rescue Work in His Name ... / Helen Campbell, Thomas W. Knox, Thomas Byrnes

Name/Title

Darkness and Daylight, Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's Pictorial Record of Gospel, Temperance, Mission, and Rescue Work "in His Name" ... / Helen Campbell, Thomas W. Knox, Thomas Byrnes

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.150

Description

740 pages. Tissue guarded frontis. Illustrations, plates, portraits. "Superbly illustrated with 250 engravings from special photographs taken from life expressly for this work, mostly by flash-light." With an introduction by Lyman Abbott, D.D.. By Mrs. Helen Campbell, city missionary and philanthropist. Colonel Thomas W. Knox, author and journalist, and Supt. Thomas Brynes, 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' thirty years' experiences and reminiscences written by himself from his private diary. "With thrilling anecdotes, personal incidents, humorous stories, touching home scenes and tales of tender pathos drawn from the bright and shady streets of Life Among The Lowly."

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1890s

Dimensions

Height

9 in

Width

6 in

Book Details

Author

Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes

Publisher

A.D. Worthington

Place Published

City

Hartford

State/Province

Connecticut

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1900

Date Printed

1900

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Subscription

Binding Notes

Bound in a maroon cloth hardcover binding with gilt decoration to the front cover and elaborate gilt decoration to the spine. An example of books bound for Subscription sales.

Notes

First published in 1897.

Relationships

Related Places

Place

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America