Research Catalog

Title

Missionary tales for little listeners / by M.A.S. Barber ; revised and enlarged by the editor.

Author

Barber, M. A. S. (Mary Ann Serrett), -1864

Publication

• Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1848]
• ©1848

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mitchell, A. W. (Alexander W.)
• Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Board of Publication, publisher
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate

Description

180 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 16 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subject

• Missions
• Protestant converts
• Missionary stories
• Missions > Africa, West

Genre/Form

Juvenile literature – 1848.

Note

• In original publisher's binding: morocco-grain blue cloth with border stamped in blind on boards, title in gilt on spine.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by A.W. Mitchell, M.D., in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for Eastern the District of Pennsylvania." t.p. verso.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Provenance (note)

• Copy in Sc Rare 266 B with bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection;" and inscribed in ink on the preliminary page preceding the frontice piece: "To Agnes Meikle from her affectionate S.S. Teacher, M. [Prazer?], Nov. 1863."

Contents

The Negro village -- Egede -- The three sisters -- Story of Mrs. Judson -- Dusselthal Abbey -- The panorama -- Leang Afa -- Heathen superstitions -- The alpine school -- Jerusalem -- Little Ellinor's prayer -- Rarotonga -- The Jews at Shiraz -- The Rechabites -- Skenando, the white man's friend -- True story of a young Jew -- Girls' schools in India.

Call Number

Sc Rare 266-B (Barber, M. A. S. Missionary tales for little listeners)

LCCN

2020657007

OCLC

987275344

Author

Barber, M. A. S. (Mary Ann Serrett), -1864, author.

Title

Missionary tales for little listeners / by M.A.S. Barber ; revised and enlarged by the editor.

Publisher

Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1848]

Copyright Date

©1848

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 1, page 773, column 3, row 4.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 266 B with bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection;" and inscribed in ink on the preliminary page preceding the frontice piece: "To Agnes Meikle from her affectionate S.S. Teacher, M. [Prazer?], Nov. 1863." NN

Local Note

Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy has accession no. G72400 written in ink on several parts of the book; a gift to theSchomburg collection, probably added to the collection during the years of Catherine A. Latimer & Arthur A. Schomburg; lacks original covers bound in library binding red cloth over boards, and gilt spine. Library bounding date stamped: "Oct. 09, 1940."

Source

Gift; G72400. NN

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Local Subject

Bookplates (Provenance).

Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Added Author

Mitchell, A. W. (Alexander W.)

Barber, M. A. S. (Mary Ann Serrett), -1864. Negro village.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Board of Publication, publisher.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, Curator.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 266-B (Barber, M. A. S. Missionary tales for little listeners)