Tag: print

Arte de la lengua Mexicana y Castellana

Courtesy of the General Archive of the Indies, Sevilla, Spain.

The first printed grammar for facilitating Nahua-Spanish communication and a reference for beginner Nahuatl-learners in the 1500s.

Creators: Alonso de Molina

Date of Creation: 1571

Place of origin: Mexico City/Tenochtitlan (in Pedro Ocharte’s printing press).

Physical measurements: 117 leaves + 10 manuscript inserted pages at back, 14 cm in length

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Woodcut title illustration (Saint Francis receiving the stigmata), woodcut initials throughout, and moveable type. Inserts include use of vermillion, a cochineal lake, and a gypsum-based pigment.

Current location: Library of Congress

Information contributed by Marlena Petra Cravens.

“A Masterly Trick, or, Chick and the Beautiful Italian”

Courtesy of the Nickels and Dimes Collection, Northern Illinois University Libraries.

A New Nick Carter Weekly dime novel, the third issue in a trilogy focused on a fictional criminal organization called the Black Hand.

Creators: Chick Carter (pseud.), but can be attributed to Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey (1861-1922). John R. Coryell (1851-1924) is the creator of the Nick Carter character.

Date of Creation: August 7, 1909. Reprinted in thick book format with New Magnet Library nos. 718 and 1268 in 1912 and 1929.

Place of origin: New York City

Physical measurements:  31 pages; approx. 5” x 7”.

Materials: Paper, ink

Process by which it was made: Stereotyping

Current location: Northern Illinois University: Nickels and Dimes, From the Collections of Johannesen and LeBlanc.

Information contributed by Nancy Caronia.

Rebecca Rubin American Girl doll and Jacqueline Dembar Greene, “Meet Rebecca”

Rebecca Rubin doll and Meet Rebecca book, American Girl. Courtesy of American Girl.

The Rebecca doll, books, and accessories established the fictional character of a Jewish nine-year-old girl living in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood in 1914.

Creators: American Girl

Date of Creation: 2009

Place of origin: Middleton, Wisconsin.

Physical measurements: Doll is eighteen inches tall; book is 6.5 x 8 inches and 86 pages.

Materials: Doll has vinyl limbs and face and stuffed soft cloth body; book has glossy pages.

Process by which it was made: Manufacture, print.

Information contributed by Rachel B. Gross.

“Who Are the Indians?”

“Who Are the Indians,” from the Juvenile Instructor 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1, 1866), pg. 1.

An 1866 article about Native Americans published for the youth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Creators: Anonymous author (likely George Q. Cannon) and anonymous illustrator.

Date of Creation: 1866

Place of origin: Salt Lake City, Utah Territory

Physical measurements: 26cm., 4 pages

Materials: Ink on paper

Process by which it was made: Typeset and engraved

Current location: Multiple libraries house copies.

Further Reading

Farmer, Jared. On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. Harvard

University Press, 2009.

Mauss, Armand L. All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and

Lineage. University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Rees, Nathan. Mormon Visual Culture and the American West. Routledge, 2021.

Reeve, W. Paul. Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Information contributed by Nathan Rees.

“Admonitions for Confessors of Natives”

A trilingual (Nahuatl-Spanish-Latin) handbook for missionaries in Mexico.

Creators: Juan Bautista de Viseo

Date of Creation: 1600

Place of origin: Tlatelolco, Mexico

Materials: Vellum covers, rag paper, string, recycled materials.

Process by which it was made: Printed by Melchor Ocharte.

Current location: Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University.

Information contributed by Alex Hidalgo.

“Unwritten History of Slavery”

Table of Contents for the Unwritten History of Slavery: Autobiographical Account of Ex-Negro Slaves (1945), Fisk University Social Science Institute. Image courtesy of Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

A 1945 collection of interviews with formerly enslaved African Americans.

Creators: Ophelia Settle Egypt, J. Masuoka, Charles S. Johnson

Date of Creation: 1945

Place of origin: Nashville, Tennessee

Physical measurements: 8 inches x 11 inches, 322 pages plus 5-page introductory note and table of contents.

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Printing

Current location: Drew University Library, Madison, NJ.

Further Reading

“NAACP History: Carter G. Woodson.” NAACP.org. Online. https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-carter-g-woodson/.

Smith, John David, “Dubois and Phillips – Symbolic Antagonists of the Progressive Era.” The Centennial Review 24, no. 1 (Winter 1980): 88-102.

Stevenson, Louise L. “The New Woman, Social Science, and the Harlem Renaissance: Ophelia Settle Egypt as Black Professional.” The Journal of Southern History 77, no. 3 (Aug. 2011): 555-594.

[Woodson, Carter G.], “Book Review: American Negro Slavery by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips.” Journal of Negro History 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1919): 102-103. Online. 

Yetman, Norman R. “Making the Collection Known.” Under Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938. The Library of Congress. Online. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snintro12.html

Information contributed by Anne M. Ricculli.

Compendio de la Historia de los Estados Unidos

Photograph by Jessica Linker.

Georg Sünder’s personal copy of a Spanish-language translation of Emma Willard’s History of the United States.

Creators: Emma Willard, Miguel Terube Tolón.

Date of Creation: 1852

Place of origin: New York City

Physical measurements: 400 pages

Materials: Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped flag, leather spine.

Process by which it was made: Print, hand-written annotations.

Current location: Owned by Jessica Linker.

Further Reading

Homestead, Melissa J. “‘When I Can Read My Title Clear’: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Stowe v. Thomas Copyright Infringement Case.” Prospects 27 (October 2002): 201–45. 

Kanellos, Nicolás, and Helvetia Martell. Hispanic Periodicals in the United States, Origins to 1960: A Brief History and Comprehensive Bibliography. Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 2000.

Kelley, Mary. Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Lazo, Rodrigo. Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States. Envisioning Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Information contributed by Jessica Linker.

“A Ball by Mrs. Lindsay”

Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia

An eighteenth-century invitation to a ball in Antigua.

Creators: Unknown

Date of Creation: 1768

Place of origin: Saint John’s, Antigua

Physical measurements: 7 x 10 cm

Materials: Heavy paper and ink

Process by which it was made: Text printed, type ornament

Current location: Library Company of Philadelphia

Further Reading

Barringer, Tim and Wayne Modest, eds. Victorian Jamaica. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.

Frohnsdorff, Gregory. “‘Before the Public’: Some Early Libraries of Antigua.” Libraries & Culture 38 (2003): 1–23. 

Goodman, Glenda. “Joseph Johnson’s Lost Gamuts: Native Hymnody, Materials of Exchange, and the Colonialist Archive.” Journal for the Society of American Music 13.4 (2019): 482-507.

Information contributed by Maria Ryan.

Relation de ce qui s’est passé en La Nouuelle France, es années 1640. et 1641

A section from the seventeenth-century “Jesuit Relations,” which presents the dying words of Chiwatenhwa, a legendary “first convert” among the Wendats.

Creators: Joseph Chiwatenhwa [Wendat]; Barthélemy Vimont; Paul Le Jeune; Jérôme Lalemant

Date of Creation: Printed 1642

Place of origin: Paris

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Letter-press printing

Current location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania; Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Information contributed by John Pollack.

Reglas y estatutos del coro de la santa metropolitana iglesia de Santiago de Goathemala

Courtesy of the Archivo Histórico del Arquidiocesano de Guatemala

One of the few books published in Guatemala on music, it outlined rules for his cathedral singers in the colonial capital of Santiago de Guatemala.

Creators: Pedro Cortés y Larraz; printer: Don Antonio Sanchez Cubillas

Date of Creation: 1772

Place of origin: Santiago de Guatemala (current day Antigua, Guatemala)

Physical measurements: 20 pages

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Print

Current location: Archivo Histórico del Arquidiocesano de Guatemala

Further Reading

Alfred Lemmon, “Reglas y estatutos del coro de la Santa Metropolitana Iglesia de Santiago de Guatemala,” Mesoamérica: revista del Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica 11, no. 19-20 (1990): 299-314.

Ana María Martínez de Sánchez, “Fuentes de archivo para el estudio del derecho canónico indiano local,” Revista de estudios histórico-jurídicos, no. 30 (2008): 485-503.

Kate van Orden, Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Information contributed by Diane Oliva.