Rare Jazz Age photoplay based on this 1927 Paramount Studios film, written by Barbara Chambers and Becky Gardiner. Gardiner scripted the 1926 film The Great..... Read More about New York. A Story of the Titan City, Adventure, Heart-Throbs and Romance. [Jazz Age Romance...
One of the most significant and mysterious revolts in American history, “Nat Turner’s Revolt” is understood through a voluminous collection of documentary material; accounts, transcripts..... Read More about The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831. A Compilation of Source Material
Study of the publication and distribution through the mails of abolitionist and anti-slavery literature and newspapers. Examines the publications of such abolitionist journalists as Elihu..... Read More about The Controversy over the Distribution of Abolition Literature 1830-1860
![A Survey History of Cape Lookout National Seashore. [North Carolina]. F. Ross Holland Jr](/pictures/thumb/3730224_1.jpg?v=1616289006)
A National Park Service survey of the history of the southern portion of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Park known as Cape Lookout..... Read More about A Survey History of Cape Lookout National Seashore. [North Carolina
Monograph on the history of agriculture in Susquehanna County in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The pamphlet is presented in the manner of a textbook and was prepared..... Read More about The History of Agriculture in Susquehanna County from 1787
![York Inter-State Fair, Oct, 3-4-5-6-7, 1939 [caption title of broadsheet]. York Inter-State Fair](/pictures/thumb/3730217_1.jpg?v=1620752761)
Large broadsheet for the 1939 York Inter-State Fair held in York, Pennsylvania near the Pennsylvania–Maryland border. The advertising piece opens and displays —in colors of..... Read More about York Inter-State Fair, Oct, 3-4-5-6-7, 1939 [caption title of broadsheet
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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
![The Journal of Negro History, Volume IX, 1924 [complete]. Carter G. Woodson, 1875–1950](/pictures/thumb/3730273_1.jpg?v=1617818797)
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
![The Journal of Negro History, Volume VIII, 1923 [complete]. Carter G. Woodson, 1875–1950](/pictures/thumb/3730272_1.jpg?v=1617818797)
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
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...
![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 this “glittering military comic opera” set in the South during the American Civil War. The three-act..... 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...
![1950 Alfred A. Knopf Typed Letter Signed within:] Alfred A. Knopf. Quarter Century. Elmer Adler](/pictures/thumb/3730299_1.jpg?v=1619039031)
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
![Africa and the Afro-American Experience. Eight Essays. [inscribed and signed]. John Hope...](/pictures/thumb/3730297_1.jpg?v=1618427052)
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 theme..... Read More about Africa and the Afro-American Experience. Eight Essays. [inscribed and signed
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
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...
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
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Popular history of colonial Pennsylvania and its citizens’ activities leading up to the American Revolution. Compiled as part of the Works Progress Administration’s American Guide..... Read More about WPA “American Guide Series”:] A Bid For Liberty: Being an Account of the Resolutions and...
Author’s Copy. Thirty-six page scholarly paper on Quakers and slavery by Haverford College history professor and later librarian, Allen Clapp Thomas (1846–1920), read in abstract..... Read More about The Attitude of the Society of Friends Toward Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The conference was held at Belleville, Illinois, close to St. Louis..... Read More about Minutes of the Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held at Belleville,...
