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Ellen : or, The disinterested girl / revised by the Committee of Publication.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sunday school literature.
- Children's stories.
- Girls--Conduct of life.
- Girls.
- Home economics--Juvenile literature.
- Home economics.
- Mothers and daughters--Juvenile literature.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Animal welfare.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (36 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Ellen
- Place of Publication:
- American Sunday-School Union
- Notes:
- The American Sunday-School Union was located at 146 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, between 1827 and 1853. Publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper, lists the ASSU address as 316 Chestnut St. The ASSU moved to 316 Chestnut St. in 1854. The ASSU also had branch offices at 147 Nassau St., New York, between 1846 and 1856; at 9 Cornhill, Boston, between 1848 and 1859; and 103 Fourth St., Louisville, between at least 1846 and 1858. The forementioned publisher's advertisement includes an address for the Charleston, S.C. depository, located at 17 Chalmers St. According to available directories, and ASSU reports/catalogs, the South Carolina depository was located at 17 Chalmers St. between 1852 and 1855.
- Wrapper wood engraving signed by William Jay Baker.
- "Kindness to animals."--p. 29-30; "Miss Jane Taylor's dying advice to the young."--p. 31-36.
- "Catalogue of The juvenile library, no. 2; containing 125 books in 75 vols. 18mo. Only $5. Published by the American Sunday-School Union, at the Society's House, 316 Chestnut St., Philadelphia ... Depositories: George S. Scofield, 316 Chestnut St., Philada. H. Hoyt, 9 Cornhill, Boston. J.C. Meeks, 147 Nassau St., N. York. Charles T. Cherry, Rochester, N.Y. William H. Bulkley, 103 Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. A.W. Corey, 80 Chestnut St., St. Louis, Mo. B.P. Lanneau, 17 Chalmers St., Charleston, S.C."--advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162496444
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