Research Catalog

Title

Sketches of southern life / by Frances E. Watkins Harper.

Author

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911.

Publication

Philadelphia : Ferguson Bros. & Co., printers, no. 15 North Seventh Street, 1896.

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Additional Authors

Ferguson Bros. & Co., printer.

Description

48 p.; 15 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• African Americans > Poetry
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Black author
• Slavery > United States > Poetry
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Genre/Form

• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Poems.
• In printed paper wrappers.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; With the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Aunt Chloe -- "I thirst" -- The dying queen -- The Jewish grandfather's story -- Shalmanezer, prince of Cosman -- Out in the cold.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-H (Harper, F. Sketches of southern life. 1896)

OCLC

• 5695336
• NYPGR5695336-B

Author

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911.

Title

Sketches of southern life / by Frances E. Watkins Harper.

Imprint

Philadelphia : Ferguson Bros. & Co., printers, no. 15 North Seventh Street, 1896.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-H (accession no. B594120/B885338) inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; With the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Ferguson Bros. & Co., printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-H (Harper, F. Sketches of southern life. 1896)