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The Icelander Thorfinn Karlsefni who visited the Western hemisphere in 1007 / J. Bunford Samuel.
Library at the Katz Center - Special E105 .S19 1922
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samuel, Joseph Bunford, 1854-1929.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Þorfinnr karlsefni, active approximately 1010.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Norse.
- America.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Thorfinn Karlsefni, active approximately 1010.
- Physical Description:
- 52 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed for private distribution by J. Bunford Samuel, 1922.
- Notes:
- Commemorates erection and dedication of Einar Jónsson's statue of <<(THORN)>>orfinnr karlsefni in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia in 1920.
- Includes correspondence with the sculptor, incl. an autobiographical sketch by the latter, and various materials on the Norse discovery of America.
- Commemorates erection and dedication of Einar Jónsson's statue of Þorfinnr karlsefni in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia in 1920.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Lois Samuel.
- OCLC:
- 6054617
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