Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Meyer & Brother, publisher

Description

1. xvi, 506 pages, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 21 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915
2. Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915 -- Portraits
3. Evangelistic work
4. Women missionaries -- Biography
5. African American missionaries -- Biography
6. Voyages and travels

Genre/Form

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Call number

1. Sc Rare B-Smith, A. (Smith, A. Amanda Smith's own story)

Note

1. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1893, by Amanda Smith in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."--copyright statement, verso of title page.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Additional formats (note)

1. Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Source (note)

1. from Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in ink on page [iii] "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915, author.

Title

1. An autobiography : the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist : containing an account of her life work of faith, and her travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an independent missionary / with an introduction by Bishop Thoburn.

Publisher

1. Chicago : Meyer & Brother, publishers, 108 Washington Street, 1893.

Copyright date

1. ©1893.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 9478

Additional formats

1. Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare B-Smith, A. (copy 2) (accession no. B571108) inscribed: in ink on page [iii] "A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Source

1. Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare B-Smith, A. (Smith, A. Amanda Smith's own story) (copy 2), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Access to Special Collections Material
3. Full text available via HathiTrust (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill copy)
4. Plain text PDF available via the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Project

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Meyer & Brother, publisher.
2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

LCCN

1. 14013153

Research call number

1. Sc Rare B-Smith, A. (Smith, A. Amanda Smith's own story)
2. *WIY 97-264