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Glimpses of Gotham, and, City characters / by Samuel A. Mackeever, the American Charles Dickens.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection HV6795.N5 M3 1880
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackeever, Samuel A. (Samuel Anderson), 1848-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Social conditions.
- New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel.
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- United States -- New York -- 19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- City characters
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published at the National Police Gazette Office, New York, [1880]
- Contents:
- Samuel Anderson MacKeever. His life and what he did in it
- Glimpses of Gotham
- Ladies who want money
- Fifth Avenue on Sunday
- Theatrical "dead-heads."
- Hotel horrors
- Private gaming establishments
- Divorces without publicity
- Society's "swell-mob"
- Book-making and pool selling
- Restaurants good and bad
- A Christmas drama
- New York's Christmas dinner
- New Year's calls
- People who live by their wits
- Men and women who deal in fancy costumes
- Children of crime
- A key to mysterious disappearances
- City characters
- The man about town
- The college student
- The coachman
- The barber
- The coroner
- The lunch fiend
- The Broadway stage driver
- The bank clerk
- The bold militiaman
- The theatrical press agent
- The pawnbroker
- The reformed young man
- Harry Hill's
- A promenade on Sixth Avenue
- On the blazing Bowery
- Trying to snare a soild dove
- Pulling a disorderly house
- Adventures in Water Street
- A thieves' tavern
- Five cent lodging houses
- Life along the wharves
- Station-house scenes and incidents
- What a hackman sees.
- Notes:
- Text printed in two columns.
- On cover: Published by Richard K. Fox.
- Edition statement from cover.
- Title vignette (port.).
- Reprinted from the National police gazette.
- "Samuel Anderson Mackeever : his life and what he did in it": p. [5]-9.
- Advertisements: [4] p. at end.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.
- OCLC:
- 30487314
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