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Boys in White; the experience of a hospital agent in and around Washington, DC
de Wheelock, Julia S
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San Francisco, California, United States
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New York: Lange and Hillman, 1870. vii, 268p, 5 x 7.5 inches, illus, ex library with bookplate attached to front paste-down endpaper, dark green endpapers, shelfworn brown cloth-bound boards with beveled edges and some fraying at corners, front hinge loose, spine with bumped edges stamped in gilt and a hospital tent scene in gilt on the front board, tissue guard covering frontispiece portrait of Wheelock has large tear, date in blue pencil on a blank front page . Memoir of author's experiences as a nurse from 1862-1865 in Washington, D.C. including the death of her brother. Boys in white is a reference to the way the soldiers' bodies were prepared for burial. Julia S. Wheelock Freeman (1833 - 1900) , a Michigan native, spent three years in Washington, DC nursing injured Civil War veterans as a volunteer with the Michigan Soldiers Relief Association. The US House of Representatives recognized Wheelock Freeman for her service as "a brave woman, a patriot in the highest sense of the term.
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- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 159283
- Título
- Boys in White; the experience of a hospital agent in and around Washington, DC
- Autor
- Wheelock, Julia S
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- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Lange and Hillman
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1870
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Women; Civil War; 1860s; Michigan; District of Columbia;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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San Francisco, California
Sobre Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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- Hinge
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
