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Webb photographed the city day and night

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serving as a companion book to the highly-praised Museum of the City of New York exhibition of the same name

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New York Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers Art & Design Webb photographed the city dayThe 1890s was the tail end of the Gilded Age. It was not a Golden Age, it was a veneer, and although the decade is specifically called The Gay Nineties, the gaiety was generally reserved for the top ten percenters. If you were a common working stiffor worse, a common working stiffettelife was not so gay. Most New Yorkers played by the rules of the game, although some fudged a bit. Others, along with the managements of some businesses and some