Research Catalog

Title

Hampton and its students / by two of its teachers, Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow ; with fifty cabin and plantation songs, arranged by Thomas P. Fenner, in charge of musical department at Hampton.

Author

Armstrong, M. F. (Mary Frances), -1903

Publication

• New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874.
• ©1874.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ludlow, Helen W. (Helen Wilhelmina)
• Fenner, Thomas P.
• Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911
• Kilburn, Samuel Smith
• G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher

Description

255, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, music; 22 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• African Americans > Education > Virginia > Hampton > History
• African Americans > Music
• Slavery > Southern States > Songs and music
• Hampton Institute
• Notated music
• Songs
• Hampton Institute History
• Folk music > Southern States
• African Americans > Education (Higher) > Virginia > Hampton
• Spirituals (Songs) > Southern States

Genre/Form

• Songs.
• Notated music.

Note

• "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by Helen W. Ludlow, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Cabin and plantation songs, as sung by the Hampton students" (with music)--pages [171]-255.
• "Index to cabin and plantation songs"--page [1] at end.
• Includes illustrations by E.A. Abbey and engravings by Kilburn.

Indexed In (note)

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

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

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

Contents

The school and its story / M.F. Armstrong -- A teacher's witness / M.F. Armstrong -- The Butler School / M.F. Armstrong -- Interior views of the school and the cabin / Helen W. Ludlow -- The Hampton students in the north -- Singing and building / Helen W. Ludlow -- Virginia Hall / Helen W. Ludlow -- Cabin and plantation songs / Thomas P. Fenner.

Call Number

Sc 378.75 (Hampton)-A (Armstrong, M.Hampton and it's students)

LCCN

07042208

OCLC

7786897

Author

Armstrong, M. F. (Mary Frances), -1903, author.

Title

Hampton and its students / by two of its teachers, Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow ; with fifty cabin and plantation songs, arranged by Thomas P. Fenner, in charge of musical department at Hampton.

Publisher

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874.

Copyright Date

©1874.

Type of Content

text

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 660

Provenance

Copy in Sc 378.75 (Hampton)-A (copy 1) (accession no. B541905) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust (Library of Congress copy)

Added Author

Ludlow, Helen W. (Helen Wilhelmina), author.

Fenner, Thomas P. Cabin and plantation songs.

Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911, illustrator.

Kilburn, Samuel Smith, engraver.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.

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

Research Call Number

Sc 378.75 (Hampton)-A (Armstrong, M.Hampton and it's students)