186 Antique SUNSHINE AND SHADOW IN NEW YORK Matthew Hale Smith 1st Edition

1868 Antique SUNSHINE AND SHADOW IN NEW YORK Matthew Hale Smith 1st Edition Illustrated With Many New York Street Scenes Wall Street, Street walkers, Quakers in NYC, Harry hills dance house,Mr Beecher and Plymouth church, The Battery, Harper brothers John Jacob Astor, Mack mailing,Prison, The Jews in New York City, Gambling General Grant, Fire department, Horace Greeley Rising immigration and increasing social stratification affected the development of American cities during the mid-nineteenth century. City guides, delineating the mysteries of the metropolis, as well as newspapers, magazines, and novels presented the East’s industrializing cities—New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore—as fractured societies. According to these publications, each was really two cities: one orderly, prosperous, and bathed in “sunlight,” the other menacing, poor and steeped in “darkness” (or “gaslight”). In this frontispiece from the 1868 Sunshine and Shadow in New York, the symbolic extremes of day and night were represented by a Fifth Avenue mansion and the Old Brewery, an infamous “thieves’ den” located in the Five Points slum district. Boards faded worn Spine faded worn with a single split. Staining. See photos for more detail Age toning paper some mild scattered Foxing