Helen Campbell (2)

I will have to confess that I bought this one for the cover - it is a beautiful addition to my bookshelf. But I actually read some of it, after reading Blanche Wiesen Cooke's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. As a young woman, Roosevelt also did volunteer work in the tenements of New York.

title page:
Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life. 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. Supt. Thomas Byrnes, 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's 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. Superbly Illustrated with Two Hundred and Fifty Engravings from Photographs Taken from Life Expressly for This Work, Mostly by Flash-Light, and Reproduced in Exact Facsimile by Eminent Artists.… (més)