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True stories of the favorites sons and daughters of America for young people : containing full accounts of the lives and heroic deeds of about half a hundred illustrious men and women who have made our country great and our flag respected throughout the world : from the time of George and Mary Washington to Admiral Dewey and Clara Barton / prepared by a corps of distinguished writers, John S.C. Abbott, William Garnett, W.W. Birdsall, Edward S. Ellis, and others ; illustrated with magnificent full page photogravure portraits and a wealth of other fine engravings.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--Juvenile literature.
- Presidents.
- Statesmen--Juvenile literature.
- Statesmen.
- Generals--Juvenile literature.
- Generals.
- Mothers--Juvenile literature.
- Mothers.
- Authors--Juvenile literature.
- Authors.
- Wives--Juvenile literature.
- Wives.
- Women--Suffrage--Juvenile literature.
- Women.
- Temperance--Juvenile literature.
- Temperance.
- Women--Suffrage.
- United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (414 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : World Bible House, 1899.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Title page in red and black.
- Pictorial cover and spine; illustrated endpapers.
- Frontispiece printed in colors.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 905309560
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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