The Gerrit Smith
Broadside and Pamplet
Collection
This digitization project was supported by a 2002 Regional
Bibliographic Databases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing Program funds,
awarded by the New York State Library.
Using the Collection:
The collection of broadsides and pamphlets can be accessed
via the Library's CONTENTdm server and can be browsed as well as being
fully searchable by keyword, title, series title, and author.
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About the Collection:
The personal collection of Gerrit Smith himself, the Gerrit
Smith Papers at Syracuse University, contain a significant volume of his
collected works, publications by others on important themes of the day,
and a large body of correspondence. Among the correspondents are Frederick
Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stow, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Sojourner Truth, and William Henry Seward. The collection has been microfilmed,
and an index prepared, which supplements the WPA Project Calendar of the
Gerrit Smith Papers. Smith's outgoing correspondence is not indexed, largely
because of its progressive illegibility.
Included among the publications authored by Gerrit Smith are various
circulars, speeches, sermons, and tracts which deal with such topics as
abolition, suffrage, temperance, transportation, and the postal system.
With this project, we can now provide full text access to 214 of these
important publications.
More information about Gerrit Smith can be found in the Gerrit Smith
Virtual Museum, and in the Gerrit Smith Papers which hold Smith's correspondence
and other publications written by by him and others.
Contents:
Introduction:
By Dr. Milton C. Sernett, Professor of African American Studies and History,
Adjunct Professor of Religion, Syracuse University
Technical Information:
2006-07-28
Importation of collection into CONTENTdm database and project completion
Peter D. Verheyen, Project Manager
Debra G. Olson, Digital Project Assistant
For more information about the collection, please contact the Special
Collections Research Center
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