Volume 2 — MISCELLANEA OF AMERICAN HISTORY: A REFERENCE LIST
Reading edition
The short list following is partly supplemental to Larned’s Literature of American History; its regular A. L. A. continuations; the various cumulative indexes to periodicals and Miss Kroeger’s Guide to reference books (q. v.). This little collection, which may be extended, is intended merely ta present some clews to additional means of historical research.
KEY:—
010
Bibliography (general).
017
Catalogs (sale).
580
Botany (ancient America).
913
Antiquities.
920
Biography.
929
Genealogy.
973
History (U. S.).
010 BIBLIOGRAPHY (general).
Cole, George Watson. Compiling a bibliography. Practical hints with illustrative examples concerning the collection, recording and arrangement of bibliographical materials, by George Watson Cole. An address delivered before the Pratt Institute School of Library Training, March 15, 1901; reprinted, with additions, from the Library Journal [26:791,–859]; New York, The Library Journal, 1902. 21 pp. 23½ x 19 cm. [“Two hundred and fifty copies printed for private distribution.”]
Cole, George Watson. American bibliography, general and local. (In the Library Journal, 19, No. 1 [Jan., 1904]:—5–9.)
017 CATALOGS (sale).
Bibliotheca Americana. Being a collection of books ... for sale by George Harding, 64, Gt. Russel St., Bloomsbury, London, W. C., England. New series, No. 112 (1905). 36 pp.
347Edwards’s American catalogue. Parts 1–3 (1904–1905). Books for sale by Francis Edwards, 83, High Street, Marylebone, London, W., England. Partially annotated.
Contents: Part 1 (Oct., 1904). The American continent; voyages of discovery, general histories, collections, atlases, and maps (pp. 1–35); natural history; geology, botany, zoölogy (pp. 36–53); North American Indians and prehistoric remains of man in North America (pp. 54–69); languages of North American Indians (pp. 70–72). Part 2 (1904–1905?) relates to Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland, Alaska and Yukon territory. Part 3 (June, 1905), The United States; Colonial period 1606–1764 (pp. 137–169); Revolution, 1765–83 (pp. 170–202); Constitution, 1784–1811 (pp. 203–216); War of 1812 (pp. 217–221); Settling of Great West, 1816–60 (pp. 222–240); Civil War, 1860–65 (pp. 241–248); Reconstruction, 1866–date (pp. 249–254); Texas (pp. 255–256).
Gray’s international bulletin. Books for sale by Henry Gray, Goldsmith’s Estate, East Acton, London, W., England. Monthly, Foreign series, No. 1 (1904–5?) pp. 32. Contents: Americana and Coloniana.
580 BOTANY (ancient America).
Cook, O. F. Food plants of ancient America. (In annual report of the ... Smithsonian Institution ... for the year ending June 30, 1903, Washington: Government printing office, 1904; see pp. 481–497.)
“Revision of article on The American Origin of Agriculture, in Popular Science Monthly, October, 1902.” Sets forth some inferences to be drawn from evidences of ancient trans-Pacific communication; distribution of food-plants, etc.
913 ANTIQUITIES
Butterworth, Hezekiah, ed. The Mysterious Races. (See his Young Folks’ History of America, chap. 1, 13–28, Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1881, illustrated.)
Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. List and prices of publications issued by Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, U. S. A. [1904.] 12o. 9 pp.
See serial Nos. 8, 16, 23, 28, relating to archæology of Mexico, Peru and Yucatan.
Hewett, Edgar L. Antiquities of the southwest and their preservation. By Edgar L. Hewett [of the] National Museum, Washington. (In The Magazine of History, ... New York, 1, No. 5 [May, 1905]: 291–300.)
348Holmes, W. H. Report ... on the Congress of Americanists, held at Stuttgart, Germany, Aug. 18–23, 1904. (In Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, quarterly issue, vol. 47, No. 1558, pp. 391–395.)
Contains programme of the congress, with titles of addresses; also a list of publications, “a set of 75 bound volumes relating mainly to American Archæology and Ethnology, published by the Smithsonian Institution and its two bureaus—the National Museum and the Bureau of American Ethnology.”
McAdam, William. Records of ancient races in the Mississippi Valley; being an account of some of the pictographs, sculptured hieroglyphs, symbolic devices, emblems and traditions of the prehistoric races of America, with some suggestions as to their origin. With cuts and views illustrating over three hundred objects and symbolic devices. St. Louis: C. R. Barnes Publishing Co., 1887. 120 pp., 8vo.
Based on much personal research by the author, who died about April 16, 1895, on which date the Alton (Illinois) Daily Republican printed a two-column obituary notice, he having been a resident of that city.
The “Old Mill” at Newport: A new study of an old puzzle. Scribner’s Monthly, 17, No. 5 (March, 1879): 632–641.
Makes some architectural comparisons of the tower with other similar ancient structures, in an attempt thus to solve the problem of the former’s origin.
Prescott, William H. Origin of the Mexican civilization—analogies with the Old World. (See his Conquest of Mexico, 3, appendix, part 1: 309–352, Philadelphia: David McKay, 1892. [‘Preliminary notice,’ pp. 309–310].)
“The civilization of Anahuac was, in some degree, influenced by that of Eastern Asia; ... the discrepancies are such as to carry back the communication to a very remote period,” extract, p. 352. Accompanied by very extensive notes and citations of authorities.
Thomas, Cyrus. Central American hieroglyphic writing. (In annual report of the ... Smithsonian Institution ... for the year ending June 30, 1903, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904; see pp. 705–721, illustrated.)
U. S. Smithsonian Institution. Classified list of Smithsonian publications, available for distribution, April, 1904. Washington: published by the Institution, 1904. (No. 1461.) 29 pp. 8o. See pp. 6–8, Archæology.
349U. S. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. List of publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, with index to authors and titles. Extract from the twentieth annual report of the Bureau. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. 26 pp. [paged cxcix-ccxxiv], 29½ cm.
920 BIOGRAPHY.
Twelve contemporary estimates of Washington. (In Self Culture, 2, No. 6 [March, 1896]: 851–857.)
Accounts quoted (presumably) verbatim.
Elliott, Agnes M. Comp. Contemporary biography. References to books and magazine articles on prominent men and women of the time. Compiled by Agnes M. Elliott. [Pittsburgh]: Carnegie Library, 1903, pp. 171, 23 cm.
929 GENEALOGY.
Allaben, Frank. Concerning genealogies; being suggestions of value for all interested in family history. New York: The Grafton Press, 1904 (?) 12mo. 75 cts. Not examined.
American genealogies or family histories, and other historical works, for sale by Joel Munsell’s Sons, Albany, N. Y. 48 pp. 12½ cm.
Contains a large number of surnames arranged alphabetically, with date, number of pages and price of publication.
Genealogical, heraldic and historical publications of the Grafton Press. New York: 1905. 16 pp.
Gray’s International Bulletin. Books for sale by Henry Gray, Goldsmith’s Estate, East Acton, London, W., England. Monthly, No. 242 (1904–5?); pp. 16. Contents: Family history, British and foreign.
Same. Subject series, No. 1 (1904–5?); pp. 32. Contents: Family history and other personalia.
Partly annotated, and arranged in alphabetical order by surnames, with some cross references.
McPike, Eugene Fairfield. Genealogy in America. (Notes and Queries, London, tenth series, 2:63.) [Relates to the attitude of Washington, Adams, Franklin, Garfield and Oliver Wendell Holmes toward genealogical research. Authorities cited.]
350
973 HISTORY (U. S.).
Clark, A. Howard. List of publications of the American Historical Association, 1885–1902, and the American Society of Church History, 1888–1897. Contents of American Historical Review, 1895–1902, by A. Howard Clark, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903, p. 65, paged 575–639.
Reprinted from the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1902, vol. 1, pp. 575–639. Gives titles of all articles forming contents of each publication, and concludes with an excellent index.
[Deshler, C: D.] A Glimpse of “Seventy-six.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 49, No. 290 (July, 1874): 230–245.
An interesting account by one who was personally acquainted with many survivors of the American Revolution. Accompanied by illustrations of colonial furniture.
Finney, B. A. Public libraries and local history. (Public Libraries, 10, No. 1 [Jan., 1905]: 1–6.) [Read before the Ann Arbor Library Club, March 12, 1903.] Same. Also issued separately.
Guest, Captain Moses. 1755–1828. Poems on several occasions. To which are annexed extracts from a journal kept by the author while he followed the sea, and during a journey from New Brunswick, in New Jersey, to Montreal and Quebec Ed. 2. Cincinnati: Looker & Reynolds, 1824. 160 pp., 12o in half sheets.
Most of these poems were written during the American Revolution. Captain Guest belonged to the New Jersey militia and captured Lt.-Col. J. G. Simcoe, of the Queen’s Rangers, Oct. 26, 1779. This incident is described in his journal, which, however, begins 16 March, 1784. He removed to Cincinnati in 1817.
[McLaughlin, Andrew C.] [Descriptions of work undertaken by the Bureau of Historical Research, established by the Carnegie Institution of Washington.] (Am. Hist. Review, 9, No. 3 [April, 1904]: 635–636; caption Notes and News: America.)
McLaughlin, Andrew C. Historical research. (In Carnegie Institution of Washington, Year book, No. 3 [1904], pp. 65–67.)
Describes the work and plans of the Bureau of Historical Research, established by the Carnegie Institution; includes mention of its (completed) 351Guide to the Archives of the Government of the U. S., at Washington; of preliminary report by Prof. Chas. M. Andrews of Bryn Mawr, on the character, extent and location (in British archives) of material for the study of American history; of a bibliography of current (1903) writings on American history, etc. As the director is the editor of the American Historical Review, some of the material collected by the Bureau appears in that periodical.
[Putnam, Herbert.] Publication of historical material by the Government. (In his report of the librarian of Congress for the ... year ending June 30, 1904; pp. 66–70; 171–181.)
“The library seems in a peculiarly favorable position to publish such of the MSS. in its possession as seem to deserve publication. It will begin with those that most obviously require it. The first of these is the Journals of the Continental Congress, of which admittedly no one of the three existing editions is either complete or accurate.” Extract, p. 69. Other important historical collections mentioned.
Richardson, Ernest Cushing, and Morse, Anson Ely. Writings on American history, 1902. An attempt at an exhaustive bibliography of books and articles on United States history, published during the year 1902, and some memoranda on other portions of America. Princeton, N. J.: The Library Book Store, 1904. P. xxi + 294.
A similar collection for 1903 has been undertaken by the Bureau of Historical Research, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C.
Tarbell, Ida M. The Story of the Declaration of Independence. (In McClure’s Magazine, 17, [July, 1901]: 223–235.)
“Illustrated with portraits and autographs of the signers.”
Eugene Fairfield McPike.
Chicago.
352