Research Catalog

Title

Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman / by Sarah H. Bradford.

Author

Bradford, Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins), 1818-1912.

Publication

Auburn [N.Y.] : W.J. Moses, printer, 1869.

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Additional Authors

• Moses, W. J.
• Wise, William G.
• Dennis Bro's & Thorne, stereotyper.

Description

[4], 132 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 18 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913
• African American women > Biography
• Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913 > Portraits
• Slaves > Maryland > Biography
• African American abolitionists > Biography
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Antislavery movements > United States > History
• Slavery > Maryland > History
• Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography
• Underground Railroad
• African Americans > Biography

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by William G. Wise, in the clerk's office of the District Court for the Northern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Stereotyped by Dennis Bro's & Co., Auburn, N.Y."--verso of title page.
• "List of subscribers to the publishing fund"--p. [131]-132.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in pencil on back of leaf of plates "[Wm.?] Lain Reese from J.W." ; in ink [in Arthur A. Schomburg's hand] on back of leaf of plates "Purchased from Reese Collection sold at Luddmarrow." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92 (Tubman) B (Bradford, S. H. Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman)

OCLC

• 2199227
• NYPG92-B52475

Author

Bradford, Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins), 1818-1912.

Title

Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman / by Sarah H. Bradford.

Imprint

Auburn [N.Y.] : W.J. Moses, printer, 1869.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 1467

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.92 (Tubman) B (copy 2) (accession no. B526696) inscribed: in pencil on back of leaf of plates "[Wm.?] Lain Reese from J.W." ; in ink [in Arthur A. Schomburg's hand] on back of leaf of plates "Purchased from Reese Collection sold at Luddmarrow." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Moses, W. J., printer.

Dennis Bro's & Thorne, stereotyper.

Wise, William G., copyright holder.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92 (Tubman) B (Bradford, S. H. Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman)

AN (Davis) (Bradford, S. H. Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman)