The college of life : or, Practical self-educator, a manual of self-improvement for the colored race forming an educational emancipator and a guide to success. Giving examples and achievements of successful men and women of the race as an incentive and...

Collection History

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Names
Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930 (Author)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909 (Author)
Gay, Joseph R (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1900
Place: [United States?]
Publisher: [s.n.]
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 030-N (Northrop, H. D. The college of life)
Topics
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
African Americans -- Biography
African Americans -- Education
Genres
Books
Illustrations
Notes
Statement of responsibility: by Henry Davenport Northrop, Joseph R. Gay, and I. Garland Penn ; embellished with hundreds of superb engravings.
Physical Description
Extent: [17]-704 p., 58 p., 705-720 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Barcode: 33433034100119
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR8719601-B
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11594282
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 52b1b710-c6df-012f-eecd-58d385a7bc34
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