![Shape Book:] Easter Hymns. Alice Price, F. Corbyn Price](/images/noimage-req.png)
Excellent example of this Victorian-era shape book printed with embossed covers and chromolithographic illustrations. The Prices wrote and illustrated a number of similar-themed titles. The..... Read More about Shape Book:] Easter Hymns
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958) was an African-American female poet and reclusive celibate lesbian who was born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
Ninth Volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume IX, 1924 [complete
Eighth Volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume VIII, 1923 [complete
Fifth Volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume V, 1920 [complete
Fourth volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume IV, 1919 [complete; from the library of Black historian...
Second volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume II, 1917 [complete; from the library of Black historian...
First Volume, complete, of the Journal of Negro History, published by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The Journal was..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Volume I, 1916 [complete
A superior copy. Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel of Southern plantation slave life, first published in 1852. This..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....
![When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title]. Julian...](/pictures/thumb/3730089_1.jpg?v=1614648605)
From cover to cover, a chromolithographically illustrated program for When Johnny Comes Marching Home, a “glittering military comic opera” set in the South during the..... Read More about When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title
Captioned the “Historian and Antislavery Lecturer of the Crisis”, this reprinted portrait commemorates Black abolitionist William Wells Brown (c.1814–1884), author of the 1847 best-seller, Narrative..... Read More about Portrait Print of Black Abolitionist and Writer, William Wells Brown, issued by Associated...
![1898 Autograph Letter Signed by a Convict; Life as a Runner in Prison in Philadelphia]. No. 1203...](/pictures/thumb/3726277_1.jpg?v=1614648605)
From inside Philadelphia’s Holmesburg, Prison, Arthur, prisoner No. 1203, writes a full 4-page letter to his friend. Laike all prisoners, Arthur must write his letter..... Read More about 1898 Autograph Letter Signed by a Convict; Life as a Runner in Prison in Philadelphia
![Production Archive for The Telephone News, a Cooperative Telephone Company Magazine]. Bell...](/pictures/thumb/3725722_1.jpg?v=1614648603)
The Telephone News was published in Philadelphia as a cooperative magazine to further the interests of four telcos: The Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania, The..... Read More about Production Archive for The Telephone News, a Cooperative Telephone Company Magazine
With a 1950 TLS on Knopf’s lettehead writing to Earl E. Fisk writing of The Bedside Barsetshire, Trollope, booksellers and of “type [that is] difficult..... Read More about 1950 Alfred A. Knopf Typed Letter Signed within:] Alfred A. Knopf. Quarter Century
Inscribed and signed by two co-authors within, both towering historians of African American history, John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles. The essays focus on the..... Read More about Africa and the Afro-American Experience. Eight Essays. [inscribed and signed
A “definitive study of the intense development of the anti-slavery movement” and being a work of excellent scholarship. Dumond describes all scenarios of the movement;..... Read More about Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America
Associated Publishers, Inc. of Washington, D.C., were a Black publishing concern founded by the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson. Beginning by at least..... Read More about 22 Portraits Prominent African Americans to Display at Home or School, possibly from the “One...
Three 1876 Centennial speeches given by Philadelphia attorney Benjamin H. Brewster; in front of Independence Hall, in Independence Square, and one at the Judges’ Hall..... Read More about Three Centennial Addresses delivered by Benjamin Harris Brewster, Philadelphia, 1876 [cover title
Presentation inscription on title page: “With respects of Gov. French”, i.e., Illinois Governor Augustus C. French (1808–1864) who “struggled to obtain an education, finally leaving..... Read More about An Appeal in Behalf of Common Schools in Illinois [Presentation copy from Illinois Governor...
An examination of the keeping of the Christian sabbath on Sundays by William Stephens Potts (1802–1852), noted preacher and pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church..... Read More about The Sabbath: Its Original Institution; Change to the First Day of the Week; Advantages, and Mode...
Minutes of the third annual meeting of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association, including excerpts from its constitution and regulations, lists of its board of..... Read More about Third Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Association of Saint...
![An Appeal to the Methodists of Missouri by a Missouri Methodist. [Slavery in Missouri]. “By...](/pictures/thumb/3730249_1.jpg?v=1614219488)
An 1850 call for unity in the Methodist church in Missouri over the issue of slavery in the wake of the 1844 separation of the..... Read More about An Appeal to the Methodists of Missouri by a Missouri Methodist. [Slavery in Missouri
Unrecorded 1849 trade catalog of chemicals and chemical laboratory wares issued by Bullock & Crenshaw, Philadelphia druggists and chemists. Though defective (it lacks at least..... Read More about Chemicals and Chemical Wares, Imported, Manufactured, and for Sale by Bullock & Crenshaw,...
A history of the French and Indian War around Fort Loudon, built in 1756 on the frontier of colonial Pennsylvania in what is today Franklin..... Read More about Fort Loudon on the Frontier, 1756-1766
![Mt. Gretna. [Lebanon County, Pennsylvania]. Jack Bitner](/pictures/thumb/3730219_1.jpg?v=1614219488)
History of the Borough of Mt. Gretna in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, founded in the late nineteenth century by the Pennsylvania Chautauqua Society. Well-illustrated from historical..... Read More about Mt. Gretna. [Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
