Author: Bancroft (Family)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Bancroft Family Papers
Author: Bancroft (Family)Bancroft Family Papers
Author: Hubert Howe BancroftPublisher:
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Category : Authors and publishers
Languages : en
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Letterpress copybook of Hubert Howe Bancroft, 1869-1876, containing several letters concerning his publication and book collecting activities; letters from H. H. Bancroft to individuals, in particular his immediate family; misc. receipts and legal documents, and related correspondence.
Hubert Howe Bancroft Family Papers
Author: Hubert Howe BancroftPublisher:
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Category : Bancroft Farm (Walnut Creek, Calif.)
Languages : en
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Two scrapbooks containing newspaper clipping reviews of Hubert H. Bancroft's book, The Book of the Fair. Each clipping is annotated with the publication name, location and date published.
History of the Family of Bancroft
Author: John M. BancroftBancroft Family
Author: War At The Wall Street Journal
Author: Sarah EllisonPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547488513
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A tale about big business, an imploding dynasty, a mogul at war, and a deal that epitomized an era of change While working at the Wall Street Journal, Sarah Ellison won praise for covering the $5 billion acquisition that transformed the pride of Dow Jones and the estimable but eccentric Bancroft family into the jewel of Rupert Murdoch’s kingdom. Here she expands that story, using her knowledge of the paper and its people to go deep inside the landmark transaction, as no outsider has or can, and also far beyond it, into the rocky transition when Murdoch’s crew tussled with old Journal hands and geared up for battle with the New York Times. With access to all the players, Ellison moves from newsrooms to estates and shows Murdoch, finally, for who he is—maneuvering, firing, undoing all that the Bancrofts had protected. Her superlative account transforms news of the deal into a timeless chronicle of American life and power.
The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
Author: Jean Fagan YellinPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469625792
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, holds a central place in the canon of American literature as the most important slave narrative by an African American woman. Born in Edenton, North Carolina, Jacobs escaped from her owner in her mid-twenties and hid in the cramped attic crawlspace of her grandmother's house for seven years before making her way north as a fugitive slave. In Rochester, New York, she became an active abolitionist, working with all of the major abolitionists, feminists, and literary figures of her day, including Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Amy Post, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, William C. Nell, Charlotte Forten Grimke, and Nathan Parker Willis. Jean Fagan Yellin has devoted much of her professional life to illuminating the remarkable life of Harriet Jacobs. Over three decades of painstaking research, Yellin has discovered more than 900 primary source documents, approximately 300 of which are now collected in two volumes. These letters and papers written by, for, and about Jacobs and her activist brother and daughter provide for the thousands of readers of Incidents--from scholars to schoolchildren--access to the rich historical context of Jacobs's struggles against slavery, racism, and sexism beyond what she reveals in her pseudonymous narrative. Accompanied by a CD containing a searchable PDF file of the entire contents, this collection is a crucial launching point for future scholarship on Jacobs's life and times.
Edward Bancroft
Author: Thomas J. SchaeperPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300171714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable resume as both a scientist and a man of letters. In recognition of his works in natural history, Bancroft was unanimously elected to the Royal Society, and while working to secure French aid for the American Revolution, he became a close associate of such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and John Adams. Though lauded in his time as a staunch American patriot, when the British diplomatic archives were opened in the late nineteenth century, it was revealed that Bancroft led a secret life as a British agent acting against French and American interests. In this book, the first complete biography of Bancroft, historian Thomas J. Schaeper reveals the full extent of the agent's deception during the crucial years of the American Revolution. Operating under aliases, working in ciphers, and leaving coded messages in the trees of Paris's Tuileries Gardens, Bancroft filtered information from unsuspecting figures including Franklin and Deane back to his contacts in Britain, navigating a complicated web of political allegiances. Through Schaeper's keen analysis of Bancroft's correspondence and diplomatic records, this biography reveals whether Bancroft should ultimately be considered a traitor to America or a patriot to Britain.
Albert Little Bancroft Papers
Author: Albert Little BancroftPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : de
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Fifteen account books recording personal and household expenses (1866-1875, 1878-1885); journals containing notes of trips taken in 1873 and 1880; two passports (1864, 1870); genealogical material on the Bancroft family compiled by A.L. Bancroft, including a five-notebook genealogy and a "Card string of events," a chronology and genealogy written on index cards tied together with yarn; and a small amount of correspondence, personal and business papers, and receipts (1860-1912).
Smiley Bancroft Papers
Author: Smiley BancroftPublisher:
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Category : East Calais (Vt.)
Languages : en
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Family papers, letters, deeds, accounts, receipts, diaries, and commission as captain of militia (1850), of Smiley Bancroft of East Calais, Vt., 1840-1897.