Research Catalog

Title

The American museum, or, Repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, &c. prose and poetical.

Publication

Philadelphia : Printed by Mathew Carey, M. DCC. LXXXVII-M. DCC. LXXXIX. [1787-1789]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
• Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
• Washington, George, 1732-1799
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
• Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, bookplate.

Publication Date

Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1787)-v. 6, no. 6 (Dec. 1789).

Description

6 volumes; 22 cm

Donor/Sponsor

• Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
• Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources Access Project.

Alternative Title

Repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, etc. prose and poetical

Subjects

• United States
• Slavery
• African Americans
• History
• Travel
• Slaves > Social conditions
• Politics and government
• History > Sources
• United States > Civilization > Early works to 1800 > Periodicals
• United States > History > 1783-1815 > Sources > Periodicals
• Sources
• Early works
• Slaves > United States > Social conditions > Early works to 1800 > Periodicals
• United States > Description and travel > Early works to 1800 > Periodicals
• African Americans > Early works to 1800 > Periodicals
• Periodicals
• Civilization
• 1783-1815
• Slavery > United States > Early works to 1800 > Periodicals
• United States > Politics and government > 1783-1789 > Periodicals
• United States > History > 1783-1815 > Periodicals

Genre/Form

• Early works.
• History.
• Periodicals.
• Sources.

Note

• Issued monthly January 1787-December 1789.
• Vol. 2, no. 1 (July, 1787) is dedicated to the Marquis de La Fayette by Matthew Carey. Vol. 4 (1788) is dedicated to George Washington.
• Printed in double-columns.
• Subscribers' lists in each volume. Vol. 6 has lists of senators and members of the house of representatives preceding the alphabetical list.
• Advertisement for The American museum, or, Universal Magazine, for January 1790 on terminal page of v. 6.
• Includes indexes.
• Errata.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued on microfilm in American Periodical Series from University Microfilm Inc.

Source (note)

• of Sidney Lapidus;

Provenance (note)

• Copies in Sc Rare 082 - A (accession no. M531490, & M623000) includes NYPL's bookplate of: Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection.
• Copy in Sc Rare 082 - A, vol. 6 (Nov. 1789) (accession no. D986426) includes NYPL's bookplate of: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History.

Call Number

Sc Rare 082 - A (American museum : or repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, &c);

OCLC

191120818

Title

The American museum, or, Repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, &c. prose and poetical.

Publisher

Philadelphia : Printed by Mathew Carey, M. DCC. LXXXVII-M. DCC. LXXXIX. [1787-1789]

Current Frequency

Monthly

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also issued on microfilm in American Periodical Series from University Microfilm Inc.

Provenance

Copies in Sc Rare 082 - A (accession no. M531490, & M623000) includes NYPL's bookplate of: Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection. NN

Copy in Sc Rare 082 - A, vol. 6 (Nov. 1789) (accession no. D986426) includes NYPL's bookplate of: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History. NN

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copies are incomplete and post-Lawrence Reddick addition to the collection; imperfect: stained, treated, and lack original covers; vol. 5 (May 1789) (accession no. M531490) was probably a re-accession from E902318 to M531490; vol. 6 (Nov. 1789) (accession no. D986426) each page has been reinforced, rebound in brown cloth library binding, and gilt spine title and label.

Source

Copy in Sc Rare D 16-32 (Lapidus Collection); Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2016. Copy in Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books

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Chronological Term

1783-1815

Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Added Author

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, printer, publisher.

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834, dedicatee.

Washington, George, 1732-1799, dedicatee.

Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, bookplate.

Continued By

American museum, or, Universal magazine

Other Form:

American museum (DLC)sf 89099246 (OCoLC)9433239

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 082 - A (American museum : or repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, &c); Library has: vol. 3 no. 1 (Jan. 1788), vol. 5 (May 1789); vol. 6 (Nov. 1789) inc.

Sc Rare D 16-32 (Lapidus Collection) Library has: v. 4 (July-Dec 1788)