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Here is a publishing mystery. A bound set of page proofs of Parton's Life of Gen. Jackson came to AAS as part of the William C. Cook Jacksonian Era Collection. The volume has a handwritten note tipped in declaring it to be one of only two copies…

AAS already had a copy of theCongressionaland State Government Almanac for1835,which, thought titled Almanac is really more of a directory. However, a second copy was acquired when close comparison revealed that the William C. Cook Jacksonian Era…

This previously unknown pamphlet is already being used by readers at AAS: a literary scholar working on disability studies and a poet looking for eccentrics and examples of the way they used language.Elegiac poems for President Andrew Jackson were…

This lithographed portrait depicts Andrew Jackson sitting at a desk, holding a sword. Another reworked black & white version of this lithograph was published by D.W. Kellogg & Co. of Hartford, Ct. in 1847. Both the colored and black & white versions…

The title page ofBiographical Sketch of the Life of Andrew Jacksonis dated 1828, which squares with the description in the text of Jackson and "the important relation in which he now stands to the American people, as a candidate for the splendid…

This engraving is a portrait of Gen. Andrew Jackson in military uniform astride a horse. He holds his hat in his proper right hand. The image is not entirely unknown, as the Library of Congress has the same portrait. The video included here shows all…

Like many nineteenth-century books, this biography of Andrew Jackson was issued in parts. Each part would come out in an individual printed paper wrapper as the work was printed. In this case, only seven parts were issued and the text stops…

Rachel Donelson Robards (1767-1828) married Andrew Jackson in 1791 or 1794. The ambiguity in dates depends on which marriage you count. When they first married, the couple had assumed Rachel's first husband had secured a divorce. Turns out he had…

In 1825 Andrew Jackson was still being celebrated as a victorious general even though he had just lost his first bid for the presidency. This advertisement was for a wax museum that presumably traveled from town to town. It displayed the likenesses…

Eagle-eyed collector Bill Cook noticed this sixteen-page pamphlet ofProceedings of the Democratic Conventionin an auction catalog and immediately contactedtheAAS curatorial staff to see ifthe itemwas of interest. Additional financial assistance from…

Like Jackson himself, Davy Crockett (1786-1836) came to be known as a larger-than-life Tennessee frontiersman. However, Crockett was no supporter of Jackson. He vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, most notably the…

The Jacksonian Wreathwas a gift book published to celebrate the first inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1829. It included a map, music, and engravings as enticements to purchase it. A later Jackson biographer, James Parton, described it as "a…

If you have seven copies of The Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson, all published in 1837 in Concord, N.H., you keep the one in the best condition and pass along the rest, right? Well, when the head of cataloging at the American Antiquarian Society sat…

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…

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…

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…

Pictured here are two copies of William Joseph Snelling'sA Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson.If you compare the size of the original publication (on top)to the extra-illustrated version with additional…

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…

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…

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…