Hampton And Its Students With Fifty Cabin And Plantation Songs by Armstrong, M. F. And Helen W. Ludlow

Historic Publishing, 2017-09-22. Paperback. Used:Good.

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First edition; 8vo; cloth embossed covered boards with gilt, hardcover; 255 pages plus index; fold out frontispiece; b&w illustrations; history of Hampton Institute for students in Virginia; title page and endpapers have some foxing else very good in edgeworn boards with corners and spine ends fraying.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. 256, [1] p. : fold. front., illus. 22 cm. Songs (with music for voice with piano for the accompaniment): p. [171]-255.

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. New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1874 First Edition. Contents Include: The School and its Story, the Butler School, Interior Views of the School and the Cabin; the Hampton Students of the North Singing and Building; Virginia Hall; Financial History of the Institute; Extract from the Catalogue of 1873-1874; Report of Professor Hitchcock and others; and Cabin and Plantation Songs, plus much more. Condition: NOT a library book. All original, in very good condition as shown. No stamps, crimps, or writing found within. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision! *Please Note: This item will be shipped to your address of record AND will require a verified signature upon receipt. Thank you for tracking your purchase and being available to sign for it upon delivery. We appreciate your business and hope to do business… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. [256]pp. First Edition. Bound in green cloth. 8vo., large folding frontispiece view; modestly illustrated with vignette engravings throughout. Rear board with extensive but mild small bubbling to cloth; a very good and clean copy with bright gilt to spine and upper cover. Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at Virginia's Hampton Institute for African Americans and Native Americans; this title published almost a decade after the close of the American Civil War. The content is varied, from a brief section on the Ku Klux Klan to testimonials: one being from a formerly enslaved woman who came to Hampton to be educated; another being a public address by a young woman graduate. From page 171 and onwards, the text is devoted to an early collection of "Cabin and Plantation Songs" with scored music and lyrics printed. The spine is lettered in gilt: "Hampton and Its Students / With the Slave Songs."

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Large octavo. 256pp.. Folding frontispiece plate: "Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute". Green cloth gilt. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, very slight fraying at extremities, a bright, near fine copy.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 256 pp. B/w fold-out frontis., woodcuts in text. Original gilt lettered green cloth.Bumping and rubbing to extremities, wear to spine ends and corners. Cloth is cockled to rear board, a few scuffs and spots of light soiling. One leaf Publisher's Catalogue supplement dated February, 1874 laid in. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, Hampton was established after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen. The institution now operates as Hampton University, which houses the Hampton University Museum, the oldest museum of the African diaspora in the United States and the oldest museum in the commonwealth of Virginia. This book contains a substantial number of illustrations of African Americans at the school, and the frontispiece contains a folding plate illustration of the institute.

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1874. First Edition. Octavo, terra cotta cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, fold-out plate, 255 pp. Very Good, with edgewear. Illustrated.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 255, [1]pp. Folding frontispiece, illustrated. Green cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Light wear at the extremities of the cloth, else very near fine.

New York: Putnam's Sons. Original terra-cotta cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. First Edition. Hampton began as a school for African-Americans, and this book contains a substantial number of illustrations of African-Americans at the school. One of the students who would become most prominent was Booker T. Washington. The school also taught Native Americans and began by hosting 70 of them in 1878 after this book was published. The school eventually became the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute focusing on trades and agriculture, and the frontispiece contains a pristine folding plate of the institute. Slight wear at head and foot of spine, Very Good. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1874.