Sarah Ann Hays Mordecai collection undated, 1823-1888

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Sarah Ann Hays Mordecai collection undated, 1823-1888

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Consists of a commonplace book containing 102 manuscript poems (and 22 illustrations) apparently by contemporary poets, the majority of which are dedicated to Miss Sarah Ann Hays, including the work of Charles Fenno Hoffmann, Charlotte Meade Graham, and William Keating, an original water color of a view of Major Stephen Long's expedition party crossing the lower falls of the Winnipeg River by Samuel Seymour and other illustrative material; contains also 17 individual items among which are 3 original sketches, a pith drawing by Charlotte Meade Graham and a copy of an 1830 edition of Flora's dictionary.

.25 linear feet (1 half manuscript box)

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American Jewish Historical Society

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Graham, Charlotte Meade

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Hays, Sarah Ann, 1805-1894

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Keating, William, 1846-1930

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Mordecai, Sarah Ann Hays

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Sarah Ann Hays Mordecai (1805-1894) Sarah Ann Hays was born on September 27, 1805 to Samuel and Richea Gratz Hays. One of her maternal aunts was Rebecca Gratz (see *P-8 ), the founder of the Jewish Sunday School Society, about whom Sarah published a book in 1893. She married Alfred Mordecai, who served in the Mexican War, on June 1, 1836 in Philadelphia, and the couple had eight children, including Alfred Mordecai, Jr., an officer in the Civil War, and Laura,...

Seymour, Samuel

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Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman), 1784-1864

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David Ives Bushnell was born 28 April 1875 in St. Louis, Mo. He was educated in St. Louis schools and in Europe. He worked as an assistant archaeologist at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University from 1901-1904. Bushnell contributed to the Handbook of American Indians and wrote numerous books on Native American Indians, including Native villages and village sites east of the Mississippi, (1919), Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan tribes west of the Mississippi (1922), The Manahoac tr...

Hoffmann, Charles Fenno, 1806-1884

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