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
Book
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."
2015.7.150
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1890s
9 in
6 in
Helen CampbellThomas Wallace KnoxThomas Byrnes
Hartford
Connecticut
United States
North America
1900
1900
Publisher's Binding- Subscription
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.
First published in 1897.
New York
New York
United States
North America