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A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 890

A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana

The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.

Cuba
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 640

Cuba

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1905
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 642

Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1905
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900

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Journal of the ... Annual Session ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 856
Proceedings ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1444

Proceedings ...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1861
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-01-09
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Fugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next 200 years. As the number of fugitives rose, the Southern states pressed for harsher legislation to prevent escapes. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 criminalized any assistance, active or passive, to a runaway slave--yet it only encouraged the behavior it sought to prevent. Friends of the fugitive, whose previous assistance to runaways had been somewhat haphazard, increased their efforts at organization. By the onset of the Civil War in 1861, the Underground Railroad included members, defined stops, set escape routes and a code language. From the abolitionist movement to the Zionville Baptist Missionary Church, this encyclopedia focuses on the people, ideas, events and places associated with the interrelated histories of fugitive slaves, the African American struggle for equality and the American antislavery movement. Information is drawn from primary sources such as public records, document collections, slave autobiographies and antebellum newspapers.

American Geographics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

American Geographics

This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa.

The Atlantic Telegraph
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

The Atlantic Telegraph

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