John Blake White: Southern Romantic painter and playright: unpublished typescript, 1951.

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John Blake White: Southern Romantic painter and playright: unpublished typescript, 1951.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83107448

Dissertation in American Civilization on John Blake White, a painter and playright in Charleston, South Carolina, prior to the Civil War . This typescript has editing marks in pencil and lacks the illustration plates that were included in the final version.

1 v. (222 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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