Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944
2. Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher
3. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Camera Club, illustrator
4. John Wilson and Son, printer

Description

1. 127 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. Poems in old-fashioned, stereotypical African American dialect.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. 1800-1945
2. African Americans -- Poetry
3. American poetry -- African American authors
4. American poetry -- 19th century
5. African Americans -- Southern States -- Poetry
6. Country life -- Poetry
7. African Americans -- Pictorial works
8. African Americans -- Portraits
9. African American women -- Portraits
10. African Americans -- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
11. Country life -- United States -- Pictorial works
12. Dialect poetry, American
13. American poetry -- African American authors
14. Country life
15. African Americans
16. African Americans -- Portraits
17. African American women
18. African Americans -- Social life and customs
19. Dialect poetry, American
20. Social conditions
21. American poetry
22. Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1945 -- Pictorial works
23. Southern States
24. United States
25. Black author

Genre/Form

1. Illustrated works.
2. Pictorial works.
3. Poetry.
4. Portraits.

Contents

1. Dinah kneading dough -- Dat ol' mare o' mine -- A spring wooing -- The old front gate -- Fishin' -- When dey listed Colored soldiers -- Lullaby -- Song of summer -- At candle-lightin' time.

Call number

1. Sc E 23-1458

Note

1. Poems.
2. With half title.
3. Copyright, edition, and printer statements from verso of title page.
4. Title page printed in red and black. Text and illustrations within floral border printed in green.
5. Cloth binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. Consult Gullans.

Local note

1. Researchers are restricted to the microform copy: Sc Micro R-1536 no. 5 or the electronic resource.

Author

1. Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906, author.

Title

1. Candle-lightin' time / by Paul Laurence Dunbar ; illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong.

Publisher

1. New York : Dodd Mead & Co., MDCCCCI. [1901]

Manufacturer

1. Cambridge, U.S.A. : University Press, John Wilson and Son

Copyright date

1. ©1901

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Local subject

1. Black author.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1945

Added author

1. Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, illustrator.
2. Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer.
3. Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.
4. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Camera Club, illustrator.
5. John Wilson and Son, printer.
6. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Other form:

1. Online version: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906. Candle-lightin' time. 1st ed. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1901 (OCoLC)654157485

LCCN

1. 01025641

Research call number

1. Sc E 23-1458
2. Sc Rare 811-D (Dunbar, P. L. Candle-lightin' time )