Bowery Boys (gang)
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The Bowery Boys were a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish criminal gang based in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City in the early-mid-19th century. In contrast with the Irish im
Bowery Boy of New York City in 1857
Moses Humphrey, a Bowery grocer, was the inspiration for Mose the Fireboy, the quintessential Bowery B'hoy folk hero
Bowery Theatre, the Bowery, Manhattan, New York City
The interior of the Bowery Theatre
Dead Rabbits riot
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The Dead Rabbits riot was a two-day civil disturbance in New York City evolving from what was originally a small-scale brawl between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide gan
Bowery Boys (gang)
…in the Bowery. Member of Dead Rabbits street gang, the Bowery Boys' arch rivals. A fight between the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys during the 1857 Dead Rabbits Riot. Bowery gangs clashing with police and Union Army troops in the 1863 New York City draft riots. Notable Bowery Boys Mike Walsh, gang leader William…
A view of the ferocious fight between two gangs, the "Dead Rabbits" and the "Bowery Boys", in the Bowery, New York City
George Henry Hall, A Dead Rabbit, 1858. Also entitled Study of the Nude, or Study of an Irishman, it depicts a man meant to represent one of the Dead Rabbits gang members from the Dead Rabbits Riot of July 4, 1857 in New York City's Lower East Side slums.
Police Officer Shangles, an 1857 New York City Policeman during the Dead Rabbits Riot.