Up for auction is a wonderful book on early life in New York City entitled Darkness and Daylight; or Lights and Shadows of New York Life by Helen Campbell. A.D. Worthington & Co Publishers Hartford 1896, copyright 1891. 740 pages + hard bound cover with 250+ illustrations and photographs. Includes a part III with 8 chapters from a NYPD detective's experiences in the city. Also includes a chapter on Italian life in the city.

A woman's story of gospel, temperance, mission, and rescue work "en his name" with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, personal experience, sketches of life and character, humorous stories, touching home scenes, and tales of tender pathos, drawn from the bright and shady signs of city life in New York City during the late 1800s. Supplemented by a journalist's description of little known phases of NY life and a famous detective¿s thirty years experiences and observations. Illustrated with 252 engravings from photographs taken from life expressly for this work, mostly by flashlight and reproduced in exact fac-simile by eminent artists.

Book is in very good overall condition for age. Cover is cloth over boards with some wear on edges and corners, some staining top edge. Floral end leaves. Nice tight binding,. We did not check page by page, we saw a couple light page edge tears and creased pages, some creased corners, some light foxing. Book measures 6 3/8" x 9 3/8" x 2 1/8".

Table of Contents:

Part I Helen Campbell

I. Sunday in Water Street, homes of revelry and vice

II Christian Work in water Street, the story of Jerry McAuley's life of wickedness and crime

III. Up Slaughter Alley, or life ina tenement

IV. NYC newsboys

V. the child workers

VI. child life in the slums

VII. the open doors of mercy, society for the prevention of cruelty to children

VIII. mission work in tough places

IX. the slums by night, underworld of NY, scenes in dens of infamy and crime

X. NY streets after dark

XI. Gospel work in the slums, a midnight curbstone meeting

XII. Shop-girls and working women, life under the great bridge

XIII. hospital life in NY, a tour of the wards of Bellevue

XIV. flower missions and the fresh air funds

XV. a day in a free dispensary

XVI. life behind bars, a visit to the tombs, scenes within prison walls

XVII. lurking places of sin

XVIII. Life on blackwells island

XIX. Heavenly charities

XX. Italian life in NY (Mulberry Street)

XXI. Shantytown and its dwellers

XXII. underground life

XXIII. jack ashore, an easy pray for land sharks, life on St Mary's and at the sailors snug harbour

Part II Colonel Thomas Knox (journalist)

XXIV. Street Life-the bowery by day and by night (Baxter and Chatham streets)

XXV. Training schools of crime

XXVI. The NYPD, the detective force

XXVII. Life of NYC firemen

XXVIII. The Chinese quarter

XXIX. The spider and the fly, mock auctions, bogus horse sales and other traps of the unwary

XXX. the beggars of NY, tramps, cheats, humbugs and frauds with interesting personal experiences from victims

XXXI. Up the Spout, pawn brokers

XXXII. Street Vendors and sidewalk merchants. skin games and petty swindles

XXXIII. Gamblers and Gambling

Part III Thomas Byrnes NYC Detective

XXXIV. Low Lodging-houses of NY, places that foster crime and harbor criminals, dens of thieves

XXXV. Scientific Burglars and expert cracksman, how bank vaults and safes are opened and robbed, the tools plans, operations, and leaders of highly bred criminals

XXXVI. Bank Sneak-Thieves and their Characteristics-Plots and Schemes for Robbing moneyed Institutions-A Daring lot of rogues

XXXVII. Common Housebreakers-thieves who laugh at locks and bolts-receivers of stolen goods-how a fence is conducted

XXXVIII. The Rogues gallery-why thieves are photographed-tell tale signs-peculiarities of criminals

XXXIX. Cunning shoplifters and skillful pickpockets - female operators and how they work-yielding to sudden temptations

XL. Forgers and their methods-wily devices and brainy schemes of a dangerous class-tricks on banks-how business men are defrauded

XLI Frauds exposed- Accomplished adventures and fashionable adventuresses-People who live by their wits-getting a living by hook or by crook

XLII. Sharpers Confidence Men and Bunco Steerers-Wide open traps-Tricks of Sawdust and Green Goods Dealers.

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