Research Catalog

Title

The American Negro : what he was, what he is, and what he may become : a critical and practical discussion / by William Hannibal Thomas.

Author

Thomas, William Hannibal, 1843-1935

Publication

• New York : The Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1901.
• ©1901.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Macmillan Company, publisher.
• Macmillan & Co., publisher.
• Norwood Press, printer.
• J.S. Cushing & Co., printer.
• Berwick & Smith, printer.

Description

xxvi, [1], 440 pages; 21 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• African Americans
• Black race
• Insertions (Provenance)
• Black author
• United States > Race relations
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)

Genre/Form

• Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Insertions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title; publisher's logo on verso of half-title page.
• "Copyright, 1901, by The Macmillan Company. Set up and electrotyped January, 1901. Reprinted March, 1901."--verso of title page.
• "Norwood Press. J.S. Cushing & Co. ― Berwick & Smith. Norwood, Mass. U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Includes index.

Indexed In (note)

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

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "To Hon. E.W. Roberts from the Author. William Hannibal Thomas." ; Inscribed: in ink on front pastedown "A.A. Schomburg." With the bookplate "Ex Libris Arthur A. Schomburg." ; With the bookplate: "Obsequio al Club Atenas. Libros por autores de la raza de color. Arthur A. Schomburg. Curator. New York Public Library Branch 135th street. No. 19."

Call Number

Sc 325.26-T (Thomas, W. H. American Negro)

LCCN

01029974

OCLC

• 3548105
• NYPGR3548105-B

Author

Thomas, William Hannibal, 1843-1935, author.

Title

The American Negro : what he was, what he is, and what he may become : a critical and practical discussion / by William Hannibal Thomas.

Publisher

New York : The Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1901.

Copyright Date

©1901.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 10205

Provenance

Copy in Sc 325.26-T (copy 2) (accession no.) inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Copy in Sc 325.26-T (copy 2) accompanied by newspaper clipping reviewing the book, affixed to front pastedown and first endleaf.

Provenance

Copy in Sc 325.26-T (copy 3) (accession no. G126372) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "To Hon. E.W. Roberts from the Author. William Hannibal Thomas." ; Inscribed: in ink on front pastedown "A.A. Schomburg." With the bookplate "Ex Libris Arthur A. Schomburg." ; With the bookplate: "Obsequio al Club Atenas. Libros por autores de la raza de color. Arthur A. Schomburg. Curator. New York Public Library Branch 135th street. No. 19."

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Macmillan Company, publisher.

Macmillan & Co., publisher.

Norwood Press, printer.

J.S. Cushing & Co., printer.

Berwick & Smith, printer.

Thomas, William Hannibal, 1843-1935, inscriber.

Roberts, Ernest William, 1858-1924, former owner.

Club Atenas (Havana, Cuba), former owner.

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

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

Research Call Number

Sc 325.26-T (Thomas, W. H. American Negro)

IEC (Thomas, W. H. American Negro)