Research Catalog

Title

My larger education : being chapters from my experience / by Booker T. Washington ; illustrated from photographs.

Author

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Publication

• Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911.
• ©1911

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Details

Additional Authors

• Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.
• Country Life Press, printer.

Description

viii, 313, [1] pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 21 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
• Educators > United States > Biography
• Black author
• African Americans > Biography
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 > Portraits

Genre/Form

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title.
• "All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian. Copyright 1910, 1911, Doubleday, Page & Company."--verso of title page.
• "The Country Life Press. Garden City, N.Y."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

Indexed In (note)

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

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• inscribed: in ink on recto of endleaf preceding half-title page "To Mr. Charles D. Stickney with the deep gratitude of Booker T. Washington. Dec. 6, 1911." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. Learning from men and things -- ch. 2. Building a school around a problem -- ch. 3. Some exceptional men, and what I have learned from them -- ch. 4. My experience with reporters and newspapers -- ch. 5. The intellectuals and the Boston mob -- ch. 6. A commencement oration on cabbages -- ch. 7. Colonel Roosevelt and what I have learned from him -- ch. 8. My educational campaigns through the South and what they have taught me -- ch. 9. What I learned from black men -- ch. 10. Meeting high and low in Europe -- ch. 11. What I learned about education in Denmark -- ch. 12. The mistakes and the future of Negro education.

Call Number

Sc B-Washington, B. (Washington, B. My larger education)

LCCN

11029623

OCLC

1894421

Author

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, author.

Title

My larger education : being chapters from my experience / by Booker T. Washington ; illustrated from photographs.

Publisher

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911.

Copyright Date

©1911

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), Suppl. 2448

Provenance

Copy in Sc Sc B-Washington, B. (copy 1) (accession no. B524138) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Copy in Sc B-Washington, B. (copy 2) (accession no. B524149) inscribed: in ink on recto of endleaf preceding half-title page "To Mr. Charles D. Stickney with the deep gratitude of Booker T. Washington. Dec. 6, 1911." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Connect to:

Internet Archive, UNC Chapel Hill copy

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.

Country Life Press, printer.

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, inscriber.

Stickney, Charles D., active 1911, former owner.

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

Research Call Number

Sc B-Washington, B. (Washington, B. My larger education)