True stories of the favorites sons and daughters of America for young people
Subtitle: containing full accounts of the lives and heroic deeds of about half a hundred illustrious men and women who have made our country great and our flag respected throughout the world : from the time of George and Mary Washington to Admiral Dewey and Clara Barton
By: prepared by a corps of distinguished writers, John S.C. Abbott, William Garnett, W.W. Birdsall, Edward S. Ellis, and others ; illustrated with magnificent full page photogravure portraits and a wealth of other fine engravings
Contributors: Garnett, William, 1850-1932, contributor; Birdsall, William W. (William Wilfred), 1854-1909, contributor; Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916, contributor
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: World Bible House
Published: 1899
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Copyright date: 1899
Subjects: Presidents; Juvenile literature; Statesmen; Generals; Mothers; Authors; Wives; Women; Suffrage; Temperance; History
Notes: Title page in red and black.

Pictorial cover and spine; illustrated endpapers.

Frontispiece printed in colors.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.