An Extra-Illustrated Life
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An Extra-Illustrated Life
Collection Items
Binding of an extra-illustrated Life
The copy of William Snelling's A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jacksonin the William C. Cook Jacksonian Era Collection has been extra-illustrated. Learn more about this book and extra-illustrated books (also known as…
Bookplate(in extra-illustrated Life)
The compiler of this particular "extra-illustrated" book is believed to be autograph collector Ferdinand J. Dreer. The Brooklyn Public Library acquired the volume sometime in or after 1895, when they received funds from a Charles R. Lynde. AAS still…
Frontispiece(in extra-illustrated Life)
The frontispiece—an illustration placed opposite a book’s title page—of this volume is an extra illustration of “Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson”. This portrait of Jackson is an engraving probably based on an 1817 military portrait of the then-general by…
Title Page(in extra-illustrated Life)
The text of this extra-illustrated life of Jackson comes from a book called A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson. The work was published in 1831 in the run-up to Jackson’s re-election bid in 1832. Despite the…
U.S. Map at Jackson's birth (following title page in extra-illustrated Life)
This fold-out map, inserted between two pages of the volume, was drawn around 1770 “from the Best Authorities” by Thomas Bowen, an English geographer, and was “engraved for Jones’s Geographical Grammar.” It depicts the…
Hermitage (opposite preface in extra-illustrated Life)
An image of the Hermitage, Jackson’s home in Tennessee, appears opposite the first page of the Preface in the extra illustrated Jackson biography, A Brief and Impartial History. Jackson purchased the land for the plantation in 1804, and he and…
Preface (in extra-illustrated Life)
The first page of the biography’s Preface, in which the author sets his work apart from others about Jackson’s life, insisting that his biography will not focus only on the President’s military career (in particular, the author…
Jackson portrait (opposite p. 3 in extra-illustrated Life)
Every chapter in this extra-illustrated volume comes accompanied by a portrait of Jackson opposite its first page. This one is an engraving from 1832 by James B. Longacre that depicts Jackson as President and is based on possibly the most famous…
Cornwallis Portrait (opposite p. 5 in extra-illustrated Life)
A portrait of Lord Cornwallis appears opposite a description of Jackson’s participation in the Revolutionary War as a young boy of fourteen. After the death of his older brother, Jackson and another brother were captured and badly treated by British…
Webster portrait (opposite p. 7 in extra-illustrated Life)
An image of Daniel Webster, a contemporary and later rival of Jackson, this portrait originally came, like many other portraits in this extra-illustrated Life, from the 1834 book The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, [catalog…
Nashville (opposite p.9 in extra-illustrated Life)
An image of Nashville, where Jackson settled as a lawyer in 1788.
Jackson Portrait (opposite p. 11 in extra-illustrated Life)
A portrait of “General Andrew Jackson” opposite the narration of Jackson’s appointment to the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1796—his first political office. He was elected to the House of Representatives that year…
Jackson Portrait by Jules Lion (opposite p. 14 in extra-illustrated Life)
Was the creator of this Jackson portrait an African American free man of color or not?
What we do know: this lithograph was created by Jules Lion. Born in Paris, in the mid-1830s Jules Lion immigrated to New Orleans, where the 1837 city directory…
Push-Ma-Ta-Ha, A Choctaw Warrior. (opposite p.112 in extra-illustrated Life)
Pushmataha (1764/65?–1824) was a Choctaw warrior who fought against Creeks and Seminoles with Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812. He later negotiated treaties with GeneralJackson, but Pushmataha died while in Washington,D.C.,to protest the…
Life in Philadelphia:What de debil you hurrah for General Jackson for? (opposite p. 206 in extra-illustrated Life)
The engraving "What de debil you hurrah for GeneralJacksonfor?"was originally part of a racist Life in Philadelphia series satirizing upwardly mobile African Americans that was drawn by Philadelphia native Edward Williams Clay. It was originally…