Research Catalog

Title

Shadows on the wall / by Howard Weeden.

Author

Weeden, Howard, 1847-1905

Publication

• [New York] : Publishers, M. Stolz & Company, 26 Park Place, N.Y., [1898]
• ©1898.

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Additional Authors

M. Stolz & Company, publisher

Description

[32] pages : portraits; 22 x 17 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• African Americans > Poetry
• Southern States > Social life and customs > Poetry
• American poetry > African American authors

Note

• Poems picturing the vanishing African-American type of antebellum days.
• "Copyright, 1898 by Howard Weeden."--verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Mother and mammy -- The old boatman -- Aunt Judy and the painter -- Two lovers and Lizette -- The banjo of the past -- 'Possum time -- Too late -- A studio dispute -- A regret -- Beaten biscuit -- A plantation hymn -- A banjo song -- The borrowed child -- The Devil's garden.

Call Number

Sc 811-W (Weeden, H. Shadows on the wall. 1898)

LCCN

99001681

OCLC

• 4069294
• NYPGR4069294-B

Author

Weeden, Howard, 1847-1905, author.

Title

Shadows on the wall / by Howard Weeden.

Publisher

[New York] : Publishers, M. Stolz & Company, 26 Park Place, N.Y., [1898]

Copyright Date

©1898.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 811-W (accession no. B527101) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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NYPL Digital Collections

Full text available via HathiTrust (University of Michigan copy)

Added Author

M. Stolz & Company, publisher

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

Research Call Number

Sc 811-W (Weeden, H. Shadows on the wall. 1898)

NBI (Weeden, H. Shadows on the wall. 1898))