[COMPLETE] Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life - tg

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Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life, by Helen Campbell (1839-1918), Thomas Wallace Knox (1835 - 1896), Thomas Byrnes (1842-1910) & Lyman Abbott (1835 - 1922).

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/darkness-and-daylight-or-lights-and-shadows-of-new-york-life/
Published in 1897.
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 NY 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 an introduction by Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., Pastor of Plymouth Church.

This volume aims to give scrupulously exact descriptions of life and scenes in the great metropolis under three different aspects: 1st, "As Seen by a Woman;" 2d, "As Seen by a Journalist;" 3d, "As Seen and Known by a Chief of the New York Detective Bureau." (Summary by Book title and preface)
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/darknessdaylight00campuoft

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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Social Science (Culture & Anthropology); *Non-fiction/True Crime; *Non-fiction/Religion/Christianity - Other

Keywords that describe the book: Crime, society, sociology, immigrants, city, mission, tenements, slums, social life

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"Chapter # of Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life. Chapter [number] by [Author]. [First set of words that act as chapter title]"
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Ch. 26, please. (In Part 2.)
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Please wait to claim until I've finished filling in the MW. :)

(I'll add your claim when I'm done filling it in, which will be tomorrow.)
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OK, ready for claims!
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Post by Piotrek81 »

Can I have sections 18 and 41, please?
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Piotrek81 wrote: April 28th, 2021, 9:17 am Can I have sections 18 and 41, please?
Yes, thanks!
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May I have section 7, chapter 5, Child Workers?
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JoannaHoyt wrote: April 28th, 2021, 10:18 am May I have section 7, chapter 5, Child Workers?
Claim added. Thanks!
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May I claim section 26, please.

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MManolakes wrote: April 28th, 2021, 11:29 am May I claim section 26, please.

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Post by DecemberInk »

Can I please claim Section 15 which corresponds to Ch 13 (Hospital Life in New York — A Tour Through the Wards of Old Bellevue — Affecting Scenes — The Morgue and Its Silent Occupants).
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DecemberInk wrote: April 28th, 2021, 8:22 pm Can I please claim Section 15 which corresponds to Ch 13 (Hospital Life in New York — A Tour Through the Wards of Old Bellevue — Affecting Scenes — The Morgue and Its Silent Occupants).
You're in!
It'll be around 45 minutes finished recording. :)
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Thanks! PL to come tomorrow. :)
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Section 24 PL OK!
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