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In the wake of Columbus : adventures of the special commissioner sent by the World's Columbian exposition to the West Indies
- Title
- In the wake of Columbus : adventures of the special commissioner sent by the World's Columbian exposition to the West Indies / by Frederick A. Ober ; with above two hundred illustrations from photographs by the author and sketches by H.R. Blaney.
- Author
- Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913
- Publication
- Boston : D. Lothrop Company, 1893.
- ©1893.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- [18], 515, [9] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsimiles; 23 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Copyright, 1893, by Frederick A. Ober. All rights reserved."--verso of title page.
- Leaves of plates (with the exception of the folded map) included in pagination.
- Provenance (note)
- is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- ch. 1. The bridge that spanned the world -- ch. 2. At the New World's portal -- ch. 3. In Guanahani with Columbus -- ch. 4. Where was the admiral's landfall? -- ch. 5. Through the Bahama Isles -- ch. 6. The commissioner's mission to Cuba -- ch. 7. North coast of Cuba and Haiti -- ch. 8. The Haitian civilization -- ch. 9. The buccaneers and the black king -- ch. 10. The first American Christmas -- ch. 11. Round about Isabella -- ch. 12. Where the first gold was found -- ch. 13. The port of the Silver Mountains -- ch. 14. Samana and the bay of arrows -- ch. 15. The holy hill of Santo Domingo -- ch. 16. The earthquake-buried towns -- ch. 17. In Santo Domingo city -- ch. 18. Where is the tomb of Columbus? -- ch. 19. Puerto Rico and Ponce de Leon -- ch. 20. Among the saints and the virgins -- ch. 21. An island quite out of this world -- ch. 22. The second voyage to the New World -- ch. 23. Carib islands and lake dwellers -- ch. 24. Jamaica and the wreck of Columbus.
- Call Number
- Sc 917.29-O (Ober, F. In the wake of Columbus)
- LCCN
- 02008493
- OCLC
- 2628804
- NYPGR2628804-B
- Author
- Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913, author.
- Title
- In the wake of Columbus : adventures of the special commissioner sent by the World's Columbian exposition to the West Indies / by Frederick A. Ober ; with above two hundred illustrations from photographs by the author and sketches by H.R. Blaney.
- Publisher
- Boston : D. Lothrop Company, 1893.
- Copyright Date
- ©1893.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc 917.29-O (accession no. B498010) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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- Added Author
- Blaney, Henry Robertson, 1855- illustrator.D. Lothrop & Company, publisher.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc 917.29-O (Ober, F. In the wake of Columbus)HNH (Ober, F. A. In the wake of Columbus)