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Lives of poor boys who became famous / Sarah K. Bolton.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1885 Bolton
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bolton, Sarah Knowles, 1841-1916.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Famous Americans--Juvenile literature.
- Famous Americans.
- Men--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Men.
- Boys--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Boys.
- Scientists--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Scientists.
- Statesmen--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Statesmen.
- Genre:
- Biographies -- 1885.
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1885.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 367 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co., c1885 (Boston : J.S. Cushing & Co. ; Berwick & Smith)
- Contents:
- George Peabody
- Bayard Taylor
- Capt. James B. Eads
- James Watt
- Sir Josiah Mason
- Bernard Palissy
- Bertel Thorwaldsen
- Wolfgang Mozart
- Samuel Johnson
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Michael Faraday
- Sir Henry Bessemer
- Sir Titus Salt
- Joseph Marie Jacquard
- Horace Greeley
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Guisppe Garibaldi
- Jean Paul Richter
- Leon Gambetta
- David G. Farragut
- Ezra Cornell
- Lieut.-General Sheridan
- Thomas Cole
- Ole Bull
- Meissonier
- Geo. W. Childs
- Dwight L. Moody
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth, stamped in black and gilt on front cover and spine.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Bernice and Edward Keebler.
- OCLC:
- 3571672
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