New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950 by William Chapman Sharpe

New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950

William Chapman Sharpe

402 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

art informative reflective medium-paced

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As early as the 1850s, gaslight tempted New Yorkers out into a burgeoning nightlife filled with shopping, dining, and dancing. Electricity later turned the city at night into an even more stunning spectacle of brilliantly lit streets and glitterin...

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