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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Barbara Hochman Abstract For marginalized readers in the United States, the public library has often been an icon of integration, assimilation, and self-making. At the New York Public Library (NYPL) of the 1920s, children’s librarians, mostly white and native born, assiduously drilled immigrant...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Joseph Helminski 2006 Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literary Anthologies . By Joseph Csicsila. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xx, 262 pp. $38.50. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861 . By Carl...
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 3 February birthday events in the Harlem Branch Library. Detail from Nella Larsen’s Children’s Room Report of March 7, 1925. 135th Street Branch records, Sc MG 219 Box 5. Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New More
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 6 Diversity in the Harlem Branch library. Detail from an unsigned, handwritten Children’s Room Report (March 1923). 135th Street Branch records, Sc MG 219 Box 5. Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York More
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Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 6 Cover of the first volume of the Frank Reade Library (1892). From the holdings of the Eaton Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of California, Riverside More
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 1 Helen Keller reads a raised-print book (Perkins Library, 1894). Description: Keller, fourteen years old, holds a large book on her lap with her right hand and reads with her left. Courtesy of the Perkins School for the Blind Archives More
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Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 3 “Douglass in Cedar Hill Library.” Courtesy of Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, National Park Service More
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 1 Georgia Plate, “Slaves and Free Negroes.” Library of Congress More
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2008
...David M. Stewart © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States . Ed. Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. x, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95. The Temple...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Laura Zebuhr Based on archival research done at the Library Company of Philadelphia, this essay offers an interpretation of original and popular verses that appear in nineteenth-century friendship albums. It argues that the verses engage a long-standing conversation about the nature of friendship...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 331–360.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Mary Elene Wood Abstract This article begins with the discovery in a Wellcome Library war psychiatry archive of a carbon copy of one of John Steinbeck’s 1943 dispatches to the New York Tribune from the Italian front. The article examines Steinbeck’s dispatch in relation to documents in the military...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 4 Prefatory pictures from Daisy , Pussy Meow , and Pussy Black-Face . Original texts housed at New York Public Library, Library of Congress, and New York Public Library, respectively. Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Libary More
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Published: 01 December 2019
Figure 1 “Nervous Function,” diagram from Holmes’s anatomy lecture notebook, 1852. Courtesy of the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine More
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 5 An “amusing incident” with serious implications. Final page of a Children’s Room Report by Estelle Olsen, Chatham Square Branch, July 4, 1922. Courtesy of the Office of Children’s Services records. New York Public Library Archives. The New York Public Library More
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 2 National Plate, “Proportion of Freemen and Slaves Among American Negroes.” Library of Congress More
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Published: 01 December 2016
Figure 1 “Black Valley Railroad” broadside (c. 1860). Made available by the New York Public Library. More
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Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 2 An image of the Newark Steam Man, apparently submitted with the patent. From the New York Public Library More
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 3 Portrait of Joseph Cinque (Cinquez) with a fragment of his speech given on board the Amistad , 1839. Library of Congress More
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 6 “Booker T. Washington,” one of Meow’s kittens. Image from Chapter XXVIII. Courtesy of the HathiTrust Digital Library More
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Published: 01 September 2017
Figure 2 Detail of “Map 1.” From John Snow’s ( 1855 ) On the Mode of Communication of Cholera . Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia More