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Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/darknessdaylight00campuoftPublished 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)
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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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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
Please do NOT read the second set of words that are the chapter summary."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]"
End of recording:
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If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of chapter #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life, by various authors."
Filename: darknessanddaylight_##_various_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. darknessanddaylight_01_various_128kb.mp3)
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