The Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections department is home to many fascinating historical works. One of our more compelling books is George Washington Williams’ A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. The Special ...
First published in 1877, Jessie Fothergill’s best known work, The First Violin is told in first-person from two points of view. It begins with May Wedderburn living a quiet existence in a small town in England. Her quiet is disrupted ...
Uncle Tom’s cabin; or, Life among the lowly was a novel written by American abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Living in New Brunswick, Maine, the wife of a Bowdoin college professor, and mother of six children, Harriet Beecher Stowe, ...
Special Collection’s Student Assistant, Elizabeth Grace, has chosen our featured book for March 2011: Daughters of Genius: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 100th International Women’s Day on March 8, 2011, a book about famous and notable women seemed ...
Abraham Lincoln : his book; a facsimile reproduction of the original with an explanatory note by J. McCan Davis is our featured book for February 2011. Part of the Howard Collection, this diminutive book holds facsimiles of newspaper clippings of ...
Daguerreotype, Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Law Convention, August 22, 1850. Held at the Madison County Historical Society. Frederick Douglass is seen in group photograph on cover of North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom by ...
The book of common prayer : Oxford: : Printed at the Clarendon Press, by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood … and sold by E. Gardner, at the Oxford Bible Warehouse … London., 1818. Call number: BX5145 .A4 1818. The Special ...
Fragement from Regen, Sadie Thompson, US, Raoul Walsh “This book has been produced to accompany the exhibition of the same name from 23 September to 11 November 2005 in the Poster Gallery in the Spui tram station, The Hague, the ...
Author, town of Owego historian, and Tioga County historian, Emma M. Sedore has brought together this book of photographs and memories of the town of Owego. Organized in 1800, under then name Tioga, the town of Owego is the largest ...
Title Page The School of Reform; or, How to Rule a Husband: a Comedy in Five Acts by Thomas Mortan is the featured book for September 2010. Printed in the early-1850s by John Cumberland of London, this brief volume (only ...