Research Catalog

Title

Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, born a slave in St. Domingo / by the author of "Three experiments in living," "Sketches of the lives of the old painters," "Familiar sketches of sculpture and sculptors," etc.

Author

Lee, Hannah Farnham Sawyer, 1780-1865.

Publication

Boston : Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 111 Washington Street, 1854.

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Additional Authors

• Crosby, Nichols, and Company, publisher.
• Metcalf and Company, printer.
• J.H. Bufford & Co., lithographer.

Description

[2], 124 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Slaves > New York (State) > New York > Biography
• Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804
• African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Biography
• Slaves > Haiti > Biography
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Haitians > New York (State) > New York > Biography
• Toussaint, Pierre, 1766-1853 > Portraits

Genre/Form

Ink stamps (Provenance)

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by Crosby, Nichols, and Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts."
• "Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, Stereotypers and Printers."
• Frontispiece portrait signed: Bufford's Lith.

Provenance (note)

• with the ink stamp "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare B-Toussaint (Lee, H. F. S. Memoir of Pierre Toussaint)

LCCN

14019553

OCLC

• 2514987
• NYPGR2514987-B

Author

Lee, Hannah Farnham Sawyer, 1780-1865.

Title

Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, born a slave in St. Domingo / by the author of "Three experiments in living," "Sketches of the lives of the old painters," "Familiar sketches of sculpture and sculptors," etc.

Imprint

Boston : Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 111 Washington Street, 1854.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare B-Toussaint (accession no. B571425) with the ink stamp "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R 6160.

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Added Author

Crosby, Nichols, and Company, publisher.

Metcalf and Company, printer.

J.H. Bufford & Co., lithographer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare B-Toussaint (Lee, H. F. S. Memoir of Pierre Toussaint)