Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
2. American Anti-Slavery Society

Description

1. 3 linear feet (6 boxes, 4 v.)

Summary

1. Collection consists of writings, correspondence, notes, account books, and reports.

Uniform title

1. National anti-slavery standard.

Subject

1. Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
2. Slavery -- United States -- Periodicals
3. Slavery -- United States -- Societies, etc
4. Antislavery movements -- United States
5. United States -- History

Call number

1. MssCol 1130

Language

1. English

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Biography (note)

1. Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) was an American journalist, author and abolitionist.

Author

1. Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888.

Title

1. Sydney Howard Gay papers, ca. 1837-1886.

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

1. Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) was an American journalist, author and abolitionist. He was an editor at the Anti-Slavery Standard, the New York Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Evening Post. His other activities included lecturing for the American Anti-Slavery Society and writing biographies and the multi-volume History of the United States (with William Cullen Bryant).

Finding aids

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Abolitionists.
2. Historians.

Added author

1. Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.
2. American Anti-Slavery Society.

Added title

1. National anti-slavery standard.

LCCN

1. ms 69000867

Research call number

1. MssCol 1130