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The Negro Author : Fiction, History, Poetry, Music.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 5 no 55
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whiteman, Maxwell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whiteman, Maxwell--Catalogs--Specimens.
- Whiteman, Maxwell.
- American fiction--African American authors--Catalogs.
- American fiction.
- American literature--African American authors--Catalogs.
- American literature.
- African Americans--History--Bibliography--Catalogs.
- African Americans.
- United States--History--Catalogs.
- United States.
- African Americans in literature--Catalogs.
- African Americans in literature.
- American fiction--Catalogs.
- American literature--Catalogs.
- Booksellers and bookselling--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--20th century.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- American literature--African American authors.
- Pennsylvania.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- History.
- Booksellers' catalogs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 13 leaves ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Negro List No. 15
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Maxwell Whiteman, 4674 N. Sydenham Street, Philadelphia 40, Pennsylvania, 1952.
- Biography/History:
- Maxwell Whiteman, a prominent Philadelphia historian, archivist and antiquarian bookseller, was born in 1914. During his long career Whiteman has served as associate director of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, the librarian of Dropsie University, archivist of the Union League of Philadelphia, and as a commissioner of the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission. Whiteman has a number of books to his credit including; a history of the Jews of Philadelphia, several studies of Afro-American literature, a history of the Union League of Philadelphia, and a history of the Einstein Medical Center of Philadelphia.
- Notes:
- Typescript.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from D. Anthem, Bookseller.
- OCLC:
- 1308954813
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