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"Ode to the Evening" in Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, From Eight to Fifteen Years of Age

2 pp

Fifth edition copy of Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, from Eight to Fifteen Years of Age by Caleb Bingham and printed in 1809 by Lincoln and Edmands in Boston, Massachusetts. Phillis Wheatley is mentioned on page 57, where the letter author requests a volume of her poems. A response letter includes the poem "ODE TO THE EVENING" on pages 61 and 62. Front flyleaf has inscr

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"Ode to the Evening" in Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, from Eight to Fifteen Years of Age

2 pp

Fourth edition copy of Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, from Eight to Fifteen Years of Age by Caleb Bingham and printed in 1807 by David Carlisle in Boston, Massachusetts. Phillis Wheatley is mentioned on page 57, where the letter author requests a volume of her poems. A response letter includes the poem "ODE TO THE EVENING" on pages 61 and 62. Inside cover has numerous i

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"Of Course He Wants To Vote The Democratic Ticket"

2 pp

The primary depiction is of two men threatening an unarmed man with pistols. The overall scene shows several men crowded in a small room. On the left, a man wears dark jacket, bright shirt and trousers, bent hat, and rests his proper left hand on the shoulder of an unarmed man. In the middle, the unarmed man with curly hair wears a bright long sleeve shirt and patched trousers. With his right arm

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"On Recollection," in The Gentleman's Magazine

An edition of Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1773, edited and published by David Henry in London. Page 456 features the poem "On Recollection" by Phillis Wheatley and includes a small review that partly reads: [This piece is taken from a small collection of Poems on Various Subjects, just published, written by Phillis Wheatley, a negro of Boston, who was brought from Africa in 1761, and is no

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"On the Death of a Child, Five Years of Age" in Arminian Magazine

An issue of The Arminian Magazine for August 1789. The issue features the 20-line poem “On the Death of a Child, Five Years of Age” and attributes it as [By Phillis Wheatly, a negro]. Previously bound, possibly as part of a larger volume of Arminian Magazine content. Magazine pages are numbered 353 to 404. Leather spine is slightly powdering and cracking. Interior pages are yellowed, with foxing,

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"Pee Dee," Georgetown

A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Great Pee Dee River in South Carolina. The river can be seen meandering through the middle of the image. Wetlands on either of its sides appear greenish-brown and the one on the left retains many vestigial canals. Wooden fences can be seen protruding out of the water where some of these canals connect to the main river chann

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"Pendulum"

This is the “Pendulum" necklace designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The necklace is made of a sterling silver wire shaped as an open-ended torque necklace, or neck ring, with flattened ends to contain a movable sterling silver sphere the ring runs through. The back of the sphere has a hole. Attached to the bottom of the sphere is the pendant’s long, vertical metal rod that begins circular,

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"Platelet"

This is the “Platelet" cuff designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The nickel-silver cuff is comprised of five rectangular shaped plates with organic cutout edges, with two differing in texture. The plates are held together with two attachment rings on each side. Some plates have extra holes next to the attachment rings. The cuff closes with a flat, circular box clasp placed on one of the end

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"Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley..." in Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette Vol. XX No. 956

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An issue of the Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette published Thursday, July 28, 1791. The newspaper is a single folded page. On the back page, at top center, is a call for subscriptions that begins [Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley. Two Which will be Added (Never Before Published) Works, Consisting of Poems, on Various Subjects and Letters to Eminent P

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"Recollection" in The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1772

The Wheatleys manumitted Peters in 1773 under pressure from critics who saw the hypocrisy in praising Peters’ talent while keeping her enslaved. They died within a few years of this decision, and Peters soon met and married grocer John Peters. Her life afterwards was indicative of the troubled freedom of African Americans of the period, who were emancipated but not fully integrated into the promis

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"Right to Work" Laws - A Trap for America's Minorities

13 pp

A pamphlet made of blue and black ink on yellowed paper. The entire pamphlet is split down the middle; the left side is in English and the right in Spanish. On the cover, at center left is a black and white photograph of workers striking. At center right is a black and white photograph of a family sitting on the front porch gazing out. Above the left is the title ["Right to Work" Laws"]. Above the

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"Saturnian"

H x W x D: 3 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 1/8 in. (9.5 × 9.5 × 0.3 cm)

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<I>"Ode to the Evening" in Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, From Eight to Fifteen Years of Age</I>

<I>"Ode to the Evening" in Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, from Eight to Fifteen Years of Age</I>

<I>"Of Course He Wants To Vote The Democratic Ticket"</I>

<I>"On Recollection," in The Gentleman's Magazine</I>

<I>"On the Death of a Child, Five Years of Age" in Arminian Magazine</I>

<I>"Pee Dee," Georgetown</I>

<I>"Pendulum"</I>

<I>"Platelet"</I>

<I>"Proposal for Republishing by Subscription, Poems by Phillis Wheatley..." in Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette Vol. XX No. 956</I>

<I>"Recollection" in The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1772</I>

<I>"Right to Work" Laws - A Trap for America's Minorities</I>

<I>"Saturnian"</I>