Research Catalog

Title

Mammy's reminiscences, and other sketches / by Martha S. Gielow of Alabama.

Author

Gielow, Martha S. (Martha Sawyer), 1854?-1933

Publication

• New York : A.S. Barnes and Company, 1898.
• Cambridge, U.S.A. : University Press, John Wilson & Son, [1898]
• ©1898

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Details

Additional Authors

• Parrish, Clara Weaver, 1861-1925
• A.S. Barnes & Co., publisher.
• University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
• John Wilson and Son, printer.

Description

ix, [5], 109, [5] pages : illustrations, music; 21 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

Mammy's reminiscences

Subject

• African Americans > Folklore
• African Americans > Poetry
• African Americans > Southern States > Fiction
• Plantation life > Southern States > Fiction
• Mammies > Southern States > Fiction

Note

• Illustrated by Clara Weaver Parrish.
• "Copyright, 1898 by A.S. Barnes & Company."--verso of title page.
• "University Press. John Wilson & Son, Cambridge, U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• "Blow, li'l' breezes, blow. A plantation lullaby. Words and music composed by Martha S. Gielow."--pages 93-99.
• "Notices": pages [2]-[4] at end.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900

Provenance (note)

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

Contents

Ca'line's wedding' -- How Brer' Simon got 'erligion -- How sis' Viney went home to glory -- De pianner juett -- seein' sperrits -- dat time honey got los' -- Plantation nursery scene.

Call Number

Sc Fic (Gielow, M. Mammy's reminiscences and other sketches)

LCCN

99000271

OCLC

2198363

Author

Gielow, Martha S. (Martha Sawyer), 1854?-1933, author.

Title

Mammy's reminiscences, and other sketches / by Martha S. Gielow of Alabama.

Publisher

New York : A.S. Barnes and Company, 1898.

Manufacturer

Cambridge, U.S.A. : University Press, John Wilson & Son, [1898]

Copyright Date

©1898

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 4100

Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900, 2157

Provenance

Copy in Sc Fic-G (copy 1) (accession no. B545666) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Parrish, Clara Weaver, 1861-1925, illustrator.

A.S. Barnes & Co., publisher.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

John Wilson and Son, printer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Fic (Gielow, M. Mammy's reminiscences and other sketches)