Research Catalog

Title

Off hand sketches of men and things in western Africa / by D. K. Flickinger.

Author

Flickinger, D. K. (Daniel Kumler), 1824-1911.

Publication

Dayton, Ohio : Published by order of the Trustees of the United Brethren Printing Establishment, 1857.

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Additional Authors

Printing Establishment of the United Brethren in Christ, publisher.

Description

iv, 5-144 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 17 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

Sketches of Africa

Subject

• Moravian Church > Missions
• Missions > Sierra Leone
• Black people > Missions > Sierra Leone
• Black people > Sierra Leone > Social life and customs
• Moravians
• Africa, West > Description and travel
• Sierra Leone > Description and travel

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• On cover: Sketches in Africa.
• "What I shall say of the people will redate to ... the Mendi, Sherbro and Timiny tribes."--p. 5.
• Includes index.

Indexed In (note)

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

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in pencil on recto of free endleaf preceding frontispiece plate "William F. Brown Nov. 15th 1864." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 916.64-F (Flickinger, D. K. Sketches in Africa)

OCLC

• 4430992
• NYPGR4430992-B

Author

Flickinger, D. K. (Daniel Kumler), 1824-1911.

Title

Off hand sketches of men and things in western Africa / by D. K. Flickinger.

Imprint

Dayton, Ohio : Published by order of the Trustees of the United Brethren Printing Establishment, 1857.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 3710

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 916.64-F (accession no. B513242) inscribed: in pencil on recto of free endleaf preceding frontispiece plate "William F. Brown Nov. 15th 1864." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Printing Establishment of the United Brethren in Christ, publisher.

Brown, William F., active 1864, former owner.

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

Cover Title

Sketches of Africa

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 916.64-F (Flickinger, D. K. Sketches in Africa)

BMB (Flickinger, D. K. Off hand sketches of men and things in western Africa)