Research Catalog

Title

Rhymes from the Cumberland / by Effie Waller.

Author

Smith, Effie Waller, 1879-1960.

Publication

• [New York] : Broadway Publishing Company, 835 Broadway, New York, [1909]
• ©1909.

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Details

Additional Authors

Broadway Publishing Co., publisher.

Description

[6], 53, [1] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Black author
• American poetry > African American authors
• Nature > Poetry
• Smith, Effie Waller, 1879-1960 > Portraits
• Cumberland Mountains > Poetry

Note

• "Copyright, 1909, by E.W. Smith. All rights reserved."--verso of title page.

Additional Formats (note)

• Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Source (note)

• from Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

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

Contents

To the Cumberland Mountains -- Among the "Breaks" of Big Sandy River -- Evening among the Cumberlands -- At Pool Point -- The lake on the mountain -- On Big Sandy River -- Elkhorn City -- O spruce pines on the Cumberlands -- Beauties of the Cumberlands -- On Duty's Knob -- Courtship among the Cumberlands -- My native mountains -- To a spring in the Cumberlands -- Sunrise on the Cumberlands -- Sunset on the Cumberlands -- A mountain picture -- There's beauty all around us -- Violets -- The maple's leaves were scarlet -- Beautiful moon -- A meadow brook -- On receiving a deer-skin -- When you are with me -- A recollection -- In the years that are to come -- "The best of all, God is with us" -- There's a bright and beautiful city -- He is risen -- To an old class-mate -- Do you know? -- I need thee every hour -- "How beautiful it is to be with God" -- Sing a song of autumn -- Christmas -- On receiving a souvenir post-card -- The 'Frisco earthquake -- The "bachelor girl" -- There's a mound in West Virginia -- Some day -- Lines written on a fly-leaf.

Call Number

*WIY 97-250

LCCN

09027013

OCLC

• 8739473
• NYPGR8739473-B

Author

Smith, Effie Waller, 1879-1960.

Title

Rhymes from the Cumberland / by Effie Waller.

Publisher

[New York] : Broadway Publishing Company, 835 Broadway, New York, [1909]

Copyright Date

©1909.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-W (accession no. B547580) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 811-W accompanied by [5] pages of publisher's advertisements at end.

Source

Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare 811-W (Waller, E. Rhymes from the Cumberland), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Broadway Publishing Co., publisher.

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

Research Call Number

*WIY 97-250

Sc Rare 811-W (Waller, E. Rhymes from the Cumberland)

NBI (Waller, E. Rhymes from the Cumberland)