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Working with the hands : being a sequel to "Up from slavery," covering the author's experiences in industrial training at Tuskegee

Title
  1. Working with the hands : being a sequel to "Up from slavery," covering the author's experiences in industrial training at Tuskegee / by Booker T. Washington ; illustrated from photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Published by
  1. New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904.
  2. ©1904
Author
  1. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Additional authors
  1. Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
  2. Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.
  3. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
Description
  1. xi, 246 pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait; 21 cm
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
  2. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  1. Educators
  2. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
  3. Portraits
  4. African Americans > Education
  5. Bookplates (Provenance)
  6. Biographies
  7. Personal narratives
  8. Autobiographies
  9. United States
  10. Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
  11. African Americans > Biography
  12. Black author
  13. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 > Portraits
  14. Educators > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Autobiographies.
  2. Biographies.
  3. Personal narratives.
  4. Bookplates (Provenance)
  5. Portraits.
Contents
  1. Moral values of hand work -- Training for conditions -- A battle against prejudice -- Making education pay its way -- Building up a system -- Welding theory and practice -- Head and hands together -- Lessons in home-making -- Outdoor work for women -- Helping the mothers -- The tillers of the ground -- Pleasure and profit of work in the soil -- On the experimental farm -- The eagerness for learning -- The value of small things -- Religious influences at Tuskegee -- Some tangible results -- Spreading the Tuskegee spirit -- Negro education not a failure.
Call number
  1. Sc Rare D 24-2
Note
  1. "Published, May, 1904."
  2. With a half-title; advertisements on verso of half-title page.
Indexed in (note)
  1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.
Author
  1. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, author.
Title
  1. Working with the hands : being a sequel to "Up from slavery," covering the author's experiences in industrial training at Tuskegee / by Booker T. Washington ; illustrated from photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Publisher
  1. New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904.
Copyright date
  1. ©1904
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Physical medium
  1. 8vo. rdabf
Creator/contributor characteristics
  1. African Americans
  2. Americans
Indexed in:
  1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 9, page 8149, column 3, row 4
Local note
  1. The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of this book. Copy 1 in Sc B-Washington, B. (copy 1) (accession no. B524150) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926; probably added to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," the NYPL perforated stamp, and early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection. Library-bound in hunter green cloth over boards, and gilt spine title.
  2. Copy 2 in Sc Rare D 24-2, is a recent addition to the Schomburg collection; it containts original cloth bound cover, and dust jacket in mylar wrapper.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
  2. Full text available via HathiTrust
Local subject
  1. Black author.
Place of publication
  1. United States New York (State) New York.
Added author
  1. Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
  2. Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.
  3. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
  4. Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948 curator.
  5. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Working with the hands. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904 (OCoLC)562099136
  2. Online version: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Working with the hands. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904 (OCoLC)609008502
LCCN
  1. 04012107
ISBN
  1. 0837113148
  2. 9780837113142
Research call number
  1. Sc Rare D 24-2
  2. Sc B-Washington, B. (Washington, B. Working with the hands)
  3. SSR (Washington, B. T. Working with the hands)
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