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Working with the hands : being a sequel to "Up from slavery," covering the author's experiences in industrial training at Tuskegee

Title
Working with the hands : being a sequel to "Up from slavery," covering the author's experiences in industrial training at Tuskegee / by Booker T. Washington ; illustrated from photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Author
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Publication
  • New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904.
  • ©1904

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Additional Authors
  • Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
  • Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.
  • Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
Description
xi, 246 pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait; 21 cm
Donor/Sponsor
  • Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
  • Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  • Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
  • Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 > Portraits
  • Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
  • African Americans > Biography
  • Educators > United States > Biography
  • African Americans > Education
  • African Americans
  • Educators
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
  • Personal narratives.
  • Bookplates (Provenance)
  • Portraits.
Note
  • "Published, May, 1904."
  • With a half-title; advertisements on verso of half-title page.
Indexed In (note)
  • New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.
Contents
Moral values of hand work -- Training for conditions -- A battle against prejudice -- Making education pay its way -- Building up a system -- Welding theory and practice -- Head and hands together -- Lessons in home-making -- Outdoor work for women -- Helping the mothers -- The tillers of the ground -- Pleasure and profit of work in the soil -- On the experimental farm -- The eagerness for learning -- The value of small things -- Religious influences at Tuskegee -- Some tangible results -- Spreading the Tuskegee spirit -- Negro education not a failure.
Call Number
Sc Rare D 24-2
ISBN
  • 0837113148
  • 9780837113142
LCCN
04012107
OCLC
422662
Author
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, author.
Title
Working with the hands : being a sequel to "Up from slavery," covering the author's experiences in industrial training at Tuskegee / by Booker T. Washington ; illustrated from photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Publisher
New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904.
Copyright Date
©1904
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Physical Medium
8vo. rdabf
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
African Americans
Americans
Indexed In:
New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 9, page 8149, column 3, row 4
Local Note
The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of this book. Copy 1 in Sc B-Washington, B. (copy 1) (accession no. B524150) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926; probably added to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," the NYPL perforated stamp, and early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection. Library-bound in hunter green cloth over boards, and gilt spine title.
Copy 2 in Sc Rare D 24-2, is a recent addition to the Schomburg collection; it containts original cloth bound cover, and dust jacket in mylar wrapper.
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Local Subject
Black author.
Place of Publication
United States New York (State) New York.
Added Author
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.
Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948 curator.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Other Form:
Online version: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Working with the hands. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904 (OCoLC)562099136
Online version: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Working with the hands. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904 (OCoLC)609008502
Research Call Number
Sc Rare D 24-2
Sc B-Washington, B. (Washington, B. Working with the hands)
SSR (Washington, B. T. Working with the hands)
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