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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Jack Halyard the American Sailor Boy / c.1862-1864 |
| Date | c.1862-1864 |
| Record ID | 539250 |
| Collection Name | McLoughlin Competitors |
| Reference | McL-CompB121 |
| Theme | Travel Nationality and Place Calendar Events and Holidays |
| Library of Congress Subject | Picture books for children Boys Seafaring life Adventure stories Shipwrecks Fourth of July celebrations Child labor Weddings |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Publisher | Fisher & Brother |
| Places | Philadelphia |
| Document Type | Picture Book |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1862 Publishers' advertisements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Publishers' advertisements--Maryland--Baltimore Printed wrappers (Binding) Pictorial bindings (Binding) Relief prints Hand colored illustrations Publishers' copies (Provenance) |
| Size | [16] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm |
| Catalog Notes | A picture book version of William S. Cardell's "Story of Jack Halyard, the sailor boy; or, The virtuous family." Cover title; series from head of title. Caption title: Life of Jack Halyard. Fisher & Brother was located at 12 N. Sixth St., Philadelphia between 1862 and 1868, and at 64 Baltimore St., Baltimore between 1855 and 1864. Pagination: [2], 2-14, [1] p. Even numbered rectos. First and last page blank; pasted to wrapper. Wood engravings hand-colored under the direction of the publisher. Illustrations have captions: Portrait of Jack Halyard. Jack Halyard plucking fruit from the tree. Jack delivering his Fourth of July oration to his school-mates. Jack riding home his colt Snowball. Jack at the sale of the bureau. Jack gazing with disgust at the idle and lazy boys about the park in New York. Jack in the boat waving adieu to his friends on shore at the Battery New York. Jack's arrival in his mother's house. Jack telling his adventures to the ladies on the deck of the vessel. Jack saving a mother and daughter, the vessel sinking on a rock. Jack parting with Harriet Temple at the house on the beach. Marriage of Jack Halyard to Harriet Temple, in the homestead at Rosendale. "Fisher & Brother's Great big toy books, twelve kinds, sixteen pages each. Printed and splendidly colored on all sides. No blank pages. Jack Halyard, the American sailor boy. ..."--p. [4] of wrapper. |
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