Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life by Lyman Abbott
44 episodes
Publishers' Preface
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Jan 2, 202613 min
Introduction by Lyman Abbott
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Jan 1, 202644 min
Ch 1 - Sunday in Water Street — Homes of Revelry and Vice — Scenes in the Mission Room — Strange Experiences
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Dec 31, 202543 min
Ch 2 - Christian Work in Water Street —The Story of Jeffrey McAuley's Life Told by Himself — A Career of Wickedness and Crime —The Mission Now
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Dec 30, 202544 min
Ch 3 - Up Slaughter Alley, or Life in a Tenement-House — A Tour Through Homes of Misery, Want, and Woe — Drink's Doings
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Dec 29, 202535 min
Ch 4 - New York Newsboys — Who They Are, Where They Come From, and How They Live — The Waifs and Strays of a Great City
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Dec 28, 202541 min
Ch 5 - The One Hundred Thousand Little Laborers of New York — Child Workers — Their Homes and Daily Life
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Dec 27, 202516 min
Ch 6 - Child-Life in the Slums — Homeless Street Boys, Gutter-Snipes and Dock Rats — The Autobiography of a Daybreak Boy
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Dec 26, 202535 min
Ch 7 - The Open Doors of Mercy — The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children — Brutes in Human Form — The Demon of Drink — Rescue Work
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Dec 25, 202534 min
Ch 8 - Mission Work in Tough Places — Seeking to Save — A Leaf from the Experience of an All-Night Missionary — Rescue Work in the Slums
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Dec 24, 202549 min
Ch 9 - The Slums by Night — The Underworld of New York — Life and Scenes in the Dens of Infamy and Crime — Night Refuges for Women — Fast Life — Christian Work Among Outcasts
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Dec 23, 202534 min
Ch 10 - Night Mission Work — New York Streets After Dark — Rescue Work Among the Fallen and Depraved — Searching for the Lost — An All-Night Missionary's Experience
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Dec 22, 202542 min
Ch 11 - Gospel Work in the Slums — An All-Night Missionary's Life — A Midnight Curbstone Meeting — Up Shinbone Alley
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Dec 21, 202514 min
Ch 12 - Shop-Girls and Working Women —The Great Army of New York Poor — Life Under the Great Bridge — The Bitter Cry of New York
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Dec 20, 202550 min
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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Dec 19, 202544 min
Ch 14 - Flower Missions and the Fresh Air Fund — The Distribution of Flowers Among the Sick and Poor — Anecdotes and Incidents
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Dec 18, 202526 min
Ch 15 - A Day in a Free Dispensary — Relieving the Suffering Poor — Missionsary Nurses and Their Work — A Touching Story
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Dec 17, 202526 min
Ch 16 - Life Behind the Bars — A Visit to the Tombs — Scenes Within Prison Walls — Rays of Light on a Dark Picture
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Dec 16, 202532 min
Ch 17 - Lurking Places of Sin — Face to Face with Crime — Cellar Haunts and Underground Resorts of Criminals — The Story of Jim, an Ex-Convict
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Dec 15, 202526 min
Ch 18 - Life on Blackwell's Island — The Dregs of a Great City — Where Criminals, Paupers, and Lunatics are Cared For — A Convict's Daily Life — "Drink's Our Curse"
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Dec 14, 202544 min
Ch 19 - Heavenly Charities — Sister Irene's Mysterious Basket — Homes for Foundlings and Little Waifs
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Dec 13, 202529 min
Ch 20 - Italian Life in New York — Scenes in the Great Bend in Mulberry Street — Homes of Filth and Squalor
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Dec 12, 202519 min
Ch 21 - Shantytown and Its Dwellers — Life Among New York Squatters — Characteristic Scenes and Incidents
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Dec 11, 202517 min
Ch 22 - Underground Life in New York — Cellar and Shed Lodgings — Dens of the Viscious and Depraved — Startling Scenes
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Dec 10, 202519 min
Ch 23 - Jack Ashore — An Easy Prey for Land-Sharks and Sharpers — Life on the "St. Mary's" and at the Sailors' Snug Harbor
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Dec 9, 202534 min
Ch 24 - Street Life — The Bowery by Day and by Night — Life in Baxter and Chatham Streets
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Dec 8, 202532 min
Ch 25 - Training-Schools of Crime — Drink, the Root of Evil — Great Responsibility of the Liquor Traffic for Crime — Plain Facts and Startling Statements
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Dec 7, 202533 min
Ch 26 - The Police Department of New York — The Detective Force and Its Work — Shadows and Shadowing — Sleuth-Hounds of the Law
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Dec 6, 202543 min
Ch 27 - Fire! Fire! — The Life of a New York Fireman — The School of Instruction and the Live-Saving Corps
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Dec 5, 202537 min
Ch 28 - The Chinese Quarter of New York — Behind the Scenes in Chinatown — "John" and His Curious Ways — A Night Visit to an Opium Joint
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Dec 4, 202549 min
Ch 29 - The Spider and the Fly — Mock Auctions, Bogus Horse Sales and Other Traps for the Unwary — Personal Experiences
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Dec 3, 202524 min
Ch 30 - The Beggars of New York — Tramps, Cheats, Humbugs, and Frauds — Interesting Personal Experiences — Victims from the Country
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Dec 2, 202535 min
Ch 31 - "Up the Spout"— Pawn-Brokers and Their Ways — A Visit to the Shop of "My Uncle" — Personal Experiences
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Dec 1, 202525 min
Ch 32 - Street Venders and Sidewalk Merchants — How Skin Games and Petty Swindles are Played — "Beatin' the Angels for Lyin'''
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Nov 30, 202525 min
Ch 33 - Gamblers and Gambling — A Midnight Visit to Gambling-Houses of High and Low Degree — A Glimpse Behind the Scenes
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Nov 29, 202532 min
Ch 34 - Low Lodging-Houses of New York — Places that Foster Crime and Harbor Criminals — Dens of Thieves
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Nov 28, 202519 min
Ch 35 - Scientific Burglers and Expert Cracksmen — How Bank Vaults and Safes are Opened and Robbed — The Tools, Plans, Operations, and Leaders of Highly-Bred Criminals
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Nov 27, 202531 min
Ch 36 - Bank Sneak-Thieves and Their Characteristics — Plots and Schemes for Robbing Moneyed Institutions — A Daring Lot of Rogues
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Nov 26, 202517 min
Ch 37 - Common Housebreakers — Thieves Who Laugh at Locks and Bolts — Receivers of Stolen Goods — How a "Fence" Is Conducted
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Nov 25, 202519 min
Ch 38 - The Rogues' Gallery — Why Thieves Are Photographed — Tell-Tale Signs — Peculiarities of Criminals
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Nov 24, 202514 min
Ch 39 - Cunning Shoplifters and Skillful Pickpockets — Female Operators and How They Work — Yielding to Sudden Temptations
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Nov 23, 202528 min
Ch 40 - Forgers and Their Methods — Wily Devices and Brainy Schemes of a Dangerous Class — Tricks on Banks — How Business Men Are Defrauded
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Nov 22, 202520 min
Ch 41 - Frauds Exposed — Accomplished Adventurers and Fashionable Adventuresses — People Who Live by Their Wits — Getting a Living by Hook or by Crook
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Nov 21, 202516 min
Ch 42 - Sharpers, Confidence-Men and Bunco-Steerers — Wide Open Traps —Tricks of "Sawdust" and "Green-Goods" Dealers
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Nov 20, 202525 min