Research Catalog

Title

My southern home, or, The south and its people / by Wm. Wells Brown, M.D.

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Publication

Boston : A.G. Brown & Co., publishers, 26 East Canton Street, 1880.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Anelay, Henry, 1817-1883
• A.G. Brown & Co., publisher.
• N. Orr & Co., engravers.

Description

vii, [1], 253, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

• My southern home
• South and its people

Subjects

• Publishers' advertisements > Massachusetts > Boston > 19th century
• Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 > Portraits
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Plantation life > Missouri
• Slavery > Missouri
• African Americans > Southern States
• Black author
• Plantation life > Southern States
• Southern States > Race relations
• Slavery > Southern States
• Southern States > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

• Publishers' advertisements – Massachusetts – Boston – 19th century.
• Ink stamps (Provenance)

Note

• "Copyright 1880, by Annie G. Brown."--verso of title page.
• "Electrotyped and printed by Duffy, Cashman & Co., Fayette Court, Boston."--verso of title page.
• Publisher's advertisements, final [2] pages: "The negro in the American rebellion ... . Nearly 400 pages. Handsomely bound in cloth. ..."--p. [2], 4th count; "The rising son ... . Price $2.00 per copy."--p. [3], 4th count.
• Includes illustrations by H. Anelay; one engraving by N. Orr Co.

Indexed In (note)

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

Provenance (note)

• with ink stamp on p. [1] at end: "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 C 81-7

OCLC

• 6248562
• NYPG814130302-B

Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.

Title

My southern home, or, The south and its people / by Wm. Wells Brown, M.D.

Imprint

Boston : A.G. Brown & Co., publishers, 26 East Canton Street, 1880.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 1727

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 917.5-B (accession no. B593784) with ink stamp on p. [1] at end: "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

Copy in Sc Rare 917.5-B lacks final leaf with publishers' advertisements.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 -- Portraits.

A.G. Brown & Co., publisher.

Anelay, Henry, 1817-1883, illustrator.

N. Orr & Co., engravers.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare C 81-7

Sc Rare 917.5-B (Brown, W. W. My southern home. 1880)