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Field name | Value |
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Title | Topsy / c.1894-1914 |
Date | c.1894-1914 |
Record ID | 221802 |
Collection Name | McLoughlin Collection |
Reference | McL-PamT6757T67571894 |
Theme | Race, Ethnicity and Racism Leisure and Play |
Library of Congress Subject | Children's poetry Picture books for children African Americans Wit and humor Juvenile Children's accidents Race relations Dogs Monkeys Teachers Donkeys Geese |
Genre | Poetry and Verse |
Publisher | McLoughlin Bros |
Places | New York |
Document Type | Pamphlet |
Book Type | Juvenile literature--1894 Poems--1894 Caricatures Color printing (Printing) Shaped books (Printing) Pictorial bindings (Binding) Publishers' paper bindings (Binding) Chromolithographs Lithographs |
Size | [12] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm |
Page Numbers | 12 |
Catalog Notes | In verse. Title transcribed from upper cover. Imprint statement transcribed from inside upper cover. Book cut in shape of a standing Afro-American girl (Topsy) holding a piece of watermelon. Some illustrations chromolithographed. "5 cent toy books no. 34.--Topsy series--4 kinds--shaped size, 4 x 9 inches[.] These little books each contain 14 pages, of which 4 are in full colors. The covers are also in full colors, and are varnished."--McLoughlin Brothers' eighty-sixth annual catalogue of paper and linen toy books, 1914, p. 6. Issue in hand does contain four full-page color illustrations, and the pictorial cover is varnished. The Topsy series is recorded in a handwritten entry in McLoughlin Brothers Vice President Charles E. Miller's copy of the Confidential price-list and telegraph code for 1894. |
Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
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