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Box 5 (OS)

 Container

Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:

Public Ledger, pictoral section, 1914 January 18

 File — Box: 5 (OS), Folder: 2
Identifier: Series II
 
PUBLIC LEDGER. PICTORIAL SECTION. Philadelphia, Jan. 18, 1914. Original self-wraps. 16 x 11”. [16]pp. Faint crease and small area of toning with slight impact on image of Mitchell; tear to gutter; good plus. Front wrap bears a large photographic portrait of Mitchell, published as a memorial soon after his death.

Dates: 1914 January 18

Sheet music, "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep", dedicated to John Kearsley Mitchell by J.P. Knight, 1853

 File — Box: 5 (OS), Folder: 3
Identifier: Series II
 
WILLARD, Mrs. And KNIGHT, J.P. ROCKED IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP. WORDS BY MRS. WILLARD. MUSIC COMPOSED AND DEDICATED TO DR. MITCHELL BY J.P. KNIGHT. [Cover title]. Boston: Oliver Diston, 1853. Sheet music. Original printed wraps neatly backed in cloth. Very good. Dedicated to John Kearsley Mitchell (I).

Dates: 1853

The Century For November, chromolithograph advertising broadside, 1896

 File — Box: 5 (OS), Folder: 6
Identifier: Series II
  [CENTURY COMPANY]. HAMBIDGE, Jay, [illustrator]. THE CENTURY FOR NOVEMBER. LARGE CHROMOLITHOGRAPH ADVERTISING BROADSIDE FOR CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. N.Y.: G.H. Buek & Co., Lith[ographers], 1896. Broadside measuring 17.5 x 21”. The text continues: “Beginning the New Volume. A Great Article on Elections. Opening Chapters of the New Serials: “CAMPAIGING WITH GRANT,” Personal Recollections by Gen Horace Porter. “HUGH WYNNE FREE QUAKER,” A Novel of the Revolution by Dr. S. Weir...
Dates: 1896

Harper's Weekly, poem "A Prayer" by S.W. Mitchell, 1898 August 13

 File — Box: 5 (OS), Folder: 1
Identifier: Series II
 
MITCHELL, S[ilas] Weir. “A Prayer.” A poem. Vol. 42, No. 2173, Aug. 13, 1898. Original self-wraps. Short tear to head of spine, else near fine. Mitchell’s poem appears in an inset box in the “Diary of the [Spanish American] War.”

Dates: 1898 August 13