New York Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers Art & Design Some deserved monuments

Some deserved monuments

On a hot summer day

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

Webb photographed the city day and night

Why settle for boring accessories when you can rock a snack attack on your ears

New York Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers Art & Design Some deserved monumentsThe 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