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Was Abraham Lincoln a spiritualist?

or, Curious revelations from the life of a trance medium [excerpts]

Also known as Was Abraham Lincoln a spiritualist?, or, Curious revelations from the life of a trance medium

by Nettie Colburn Maynard, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana DLC & Harry Houdini Collection DLC

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Description

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Illustrated with engravings, and frontispiece of Lincoln, from Carpenter's portrait from life--t.p "After all, it is the old old story, Truth is stranger than Fiction."--t.p Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography Lincoln copies: Book, cloth; title and vignette of Lincoln embossed in gold on cover Lincoln copy 1: Daniel Fish Collection; Daniel Fish signature in pencil on reverse of frontispiece Lincoln copy 2: Bookplate of Earl S. Haines on first leaf; Haines's notation in ink that book was purchased in Washington, D.C. in July 1957 1 18

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Mediums” and “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Mediums” in the subject metadata and “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Mediums”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spiritualism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Mediums”· via Open Library
    • “Spiritualism”· via Open Library
    • “Mediums”· in subject
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 3 editions; 1 cataloged here.

or, Curious revelations from the life of a trance medium [excerpts]

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1891Philadelphia : R. C. Hartranft; Philadelphia : R.C. Hartranft; Philadelphia : Rufus C. Hartranft; Philadelphia, R. C. Hartranft; R.C. HartranftEnglish—Public

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Cornell University Library
  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Contributing institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Contributing institution: unknown library
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Digitization sponsor: Sloan Foundation
  • Digitization sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library
  • Digitization sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant
  • Digitization sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: google
  • Scanner: Kirtas APT 2400
  • Scanner: scribe1
  • Scanner: scribe2.indiana.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe5.indiana.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe6.capitolhill.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe7.capitolhill.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL15349439W
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