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Title
Escape by Night: a story of the Underground Railway
Names
Wells, Helen, 1910- (Author)
Connelly, George (Illustrator)
Collection

The Black Experience in Children's Books: Selections from Augusta Baker's Bibliographies

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1953
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Winston
Edition: [1st ed.]
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc Fic (Wells, H. Escape by night)
Topics
Underground Railroad
Genres
Books
Children's literature
Illustrations
Physical Description
Extent: Ix, 182 p. illus. 22 cm.
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
Library of Congress Control Number: 53007414
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG744142807-B
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b10138820
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c4fda9c0-5c1b-0134-883d-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1953: Issued
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Escape by Night" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1953. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/075a1aa0-6efd-0134-eaae-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Escape by Night" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 10, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/075a1aa0-6efd-0134-eaae-00505686a51c

APA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1953). Escape by Night Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/075a1aa0-6efd-0134-eaae-00505686a51c

Wikipedia Citation

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Escape by Night