<I>The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. With Numerous Illustrations.</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1884
name: label: Written by
content: John Greenleaf Whittier, American, 1807 - 1892
label: Published by
content: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, American, founded 1880
label: Printed by
content: Riverside Press, American, 1852 - 1971
label: Subject of
content: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
label: Owned by
content: Clayton Sinclair, American
label: Owned by
content: Hazel Sinclair, American
notes: label: Description
content: A hardcover copy of The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. With Numerous Illustrations. It is a cloth-bound book with a sewn binding and gilded page edges. The book has a brick red cover with embossed gold leaf and black text and design elements. At the top third of the front cover is a gold rectangle with the text, [WHITTIER], centrally printed in black ink. In the bottom right quadrant, is an embossed, black, rectangular, striped frame with the text, [ILLUSTRATED], printed in black at the center. The frame has embossed black rosettes at each corner. In the bottom right corner, overlaying the rectangle, is an embossed circular frame with a depiction of a small house with smoke rising from the chimney. The remaining surface of the front cover is heavily decorated with a black embossed sunflower motif with stemmed leaves and flowers. The spine of the book features the title [WHITTIER], printed in black inside a gold leaf rectangle. The title is framed at the top and the bottom by three, gold rosettes. The back cover is plain. The interior pastedown pages are brown. The interior pages are white with black text, black-and-white etching illustrations, and a frontispiece. A partially erased, pencil inscription on the front flyleaf reads [[----?] [----?] / [C?]---? [---?]anil / [---?] Hannah]. A black ink inscription centered on the back side of the first page reads [Olive W. Rassele[?] / from Hannah]. The frontispiece is a black-and-white etching illustration of a winter scene depicting a boy and a girl, standing in front of a wooden cabin. On the title page is a small black-and-white etching illustration of Whittier. The last page of the book is 331 followed by an index that is numbered to page 336.
place: label: Place collected
content: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Poetry
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Travel
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.12.52.10
objectType: label: Type
content: hardcover books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) with leaf (metal) and book cloth (textile material) on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 10 × 6 11/16 × 1 1/4 in. (25.4 × 17 × 3.1 cm)