Moses Dresser Phillips and His World

This board is about Moses Dresser Phillips (1813-1859), the senior member of Phillips, Sampson & Company, a Boston publishing firm, and the founder of The Atlantic Monthly. He was the subject of my dissertation, "A Publisher's Hand: Strategic Gambles and Cultural Leadership by Moses Dresser Phillips in Antebellum America" (The College of William and Mary, 2001). See also: http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/MDP
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Duyckinck's Portrait Gallery -1873- LYDIA SIGOURNEY - Steel Engraving
Duyckinck's Portrait Gallery -1873- LYDIA SIGOURNEY - Steel Engraving
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Christmas Blossoms
CHRISTMAS BLOSSOMS FOR 1848 AND 1851, ILLUSTRATED WITH 12 SARTAIN MEZZOTINTS, BOTH INSCRIBED BY AND FROM THE LIBRARY OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, ONE DATED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.). Christmas Blossoms, and New Year’s Wreath, for 1848. WITH: Christmas Blossoms, and New Year’s Wreath, for MDCCCLI. Boston and Philadelphia: Phillips & Sampson and E.H. Butler, 1848, 1851
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Duyckinck's Portrait Gallery -1873- LYDIA SIGOURNEY - Steel Engraving
Duyckinck's Portrait Gallery -1873- LYDIA SIGOURNEY - Steel Engraving
two books with gold designs on them sitting next to each other
Christmas Blossoms
CHRISTMAS BLOSSOMS FOR 1848 AND 1851, ILLUSTRATED WITH 12 SARTAIN MEZZOTINTS, BOTH INSCRIBED BY AND FROM THE LIBRARY OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, ONE DATED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.). Christmas Blossoms, and New Year’s Wreath, for 1848. WITH: Christmas Blossoms, and New Year’s Wreath, for MDCCCLI. Boston and Philadelphia: Phillips & Sampson and E.H. Butler, 1848, 1851
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1857: Photos of the World From the Year The Atlantic Launched
Images of five of the original eight founders of <em>The Atlantic</em>, most of them made close to the year of its founding: 1857. From left, Ralph Waldo Emerson (ca 1856); James Russell Lowell (1855); Francis H. Underwood (undated); Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (ca 1860); and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (ca 1860). Lowell served as the magazine's first editor and Underwood was its first associate editor. The other men were writers who, along with publisher Moses Dresser Phillips and other founding
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Lydia H. Sigourney, famed poetess of Hartford. Click on the image for more detail.
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Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sigourney, 1850's
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