Research Catalog

Title

Poems / by Frances E.W. Harper.

Author

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911.

Publication

Philadelphia : [Frances E.W. Harper] 1006 Bainbridge Street, 1900.

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Details

Additional Authors

George S. Ferguson Co., printer.

Description

vi, 90 p. : port. ; 27 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• American poetry > African American authors
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911 > Portraits
• Black author
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• African Americans > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Copyright, 1895, by Frances E.W. Harper."--verso of title page.
• "George S. Ferguson Co., printers and electrotypers."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• The address listed in the imprint was Frances E.W. Harper's address in Philadelphia.
• Includes a photographic portrait of author with a facsimile of the author's signature.

Provenance (note)

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

Contents

My mother's kiss -- A grain of sand -- The crocuses -- The present age -- Dedication poem -- A double standard -- Our hero -- The dying bondman -- A little child shall lead them -- The sparrow's fall -- God bless our native land -- Dandelions -- The building -- Home, sweet home -- The pure in heart shall see God -- He had not where to lay his head -- Go work in my vineyard -- Renewal of strength -- Jamie's puzzle -- Truth -- Death of the old sea king -- Save the boys -- Nothing and something -- Vashti -- Thank God for little children -- The martyr of Alabama -- The night of death -- Mother's treasures -- The refiner's gold -- A story of the Rebellion -- Burial of Sarah -- Going east -- The hermit's sacrifice -- Songs for the people -- Let the light enter -- An appeal to my country women.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-H (Harper, F. Poems. 1900)

OCLC

8574202

Author

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911.

Title

Poems / by Frances E.W. Harper.

Imprint

Philadelphia : [Frances E.W. Harper] 1006 Bainbridge Street, 1900.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-H (accession no. B527173) inscribed: in ink on title page "E.A. Pennypacker West Chest Penna." ; 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

George S. Ferguson Co., printer.

Pennypacker, E. A., former owner, inscriber.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-H (Harper, F. Poems. 1900)