Research Catalog

Title

Candle-lightin' time / by Paul Laurence Dunbar ; illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong.

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906

Publication

• New York : Dodd Mead & Co., MDCCCCI. [1901]
• Cambridge, U.S.A. : University Press, John Wilson and Son
• ©1901

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Details

Additional Authors

• Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944
• Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.
• Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Camera Club, illustrator.
• John Wilson and Son, printer.

Description

127 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Poems in old-fashioned, stereotypical African American dialect.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

• 1800-1945
• African Americans > Poetry
• American poetry > African American authors
• American poetry > 19th century
• African Americans > Southern States > Poetry
• Country life > Poetry
• African Americans > Pictorial works
• African Americans > Portraits
• African American women > Portraits
• African Americans > Southern States > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
• Country life > United States > Pictorial works
• Dialect poetry, American
• Country life
• African Americans
• African American women
• African Americans > Social life and customs
• Social conditions
• American poetry
• Southern States > Social conditions > 1865-1945 > Pictorial works
• Southern States
• United States

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works.
• Pictorial works.
• Poetry.
• Portraits.

Note

• Poems.
• With half title.
• Copyright, edition, and printer statements from verso of title page.
• Title page printed in red and black. Text and illustrations within floral border printed in green.
• Cloth binding designed by Margaret Armstrong. Consult Gullans.

Contents

Dinah kneading dough -- Dat ol' mare o' mine -- A spring wooing -- The old front gate -- Fishin' -- When dey listed Colored soldiers -- Lullaby -- Song of summer -- At candle-lightin' time.

Call Number

Sc E 23-1458

LCCN

01025641

OCLC

761561

Author

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906, author.

Title

Candle-lightin' time / by Paul Laurence Dunbar ; illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Margaret Armstrong.

Publisher

New York : Dodd Mead & Co., MDCCCCI. [1901]

Manufacturer

Cambridge, U.S.A. : University Press, John Wilson and Son

Copyright Date

©1901

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Researchers are restricted to the microform copy: Sc Micro R-1536 no. 5 or the electronic resource.

Local Subject

Black author.

Chronological Term

1800-1945

Added Author

Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, illustrator.

Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer.

Dodd, Mead & Company, publisher.

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Camera Club, illustrator.

John Wilson and Son, printer.

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

Other Form:

Online version: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906. Candle-lightin' time. 1st ed. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1901 (OCoLC)654157485

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-1458

Sc Rare 811-D (Dunbar, P. L. Candle-lightin' time )