Giuseppe Verdi, detail

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New York Public Library
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 29, 2008.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Humanities and Social Science Library, New York Public Library
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Giuseppe Verdi
Source citation
Cabinet Card Portraits in the Collection of Radical Publisher Benjamin R. Tucker, NYPL Digital Gallery
Source note
Original image at NYPLDigitalGallery

August Belmont, photograph, circa 1870, detail

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New York Public Library
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 31, 2008.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Humanities and Social Science Library, New York Public Library
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
August Belmont, copy of a photograph taken about 1870.
Source citation
Historical and Public Figures, NYPL Digital Gallery
Source note
Original image at NYPLDigitalGallery

August Belmont, photograph, circa 1870

Scanned by
New York Public Library
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 31, 2008.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Humanities and Social Science Library, New York Public Library
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
August Belmont, copy of a photograph taken about 1870.
Source citation
Historical and Public Figures, NYPL Digital Gallery
Source note
Original image at NYPLDigitalGallery

Hendrick Bradley Wright (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Hendrick Bradley Wright,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/w/ed_wrightHB.htm.
Hendrick Bradley Wright was born on April 24, 1808, the oldest child of a farming and merchant family at Plymouth, Pennsylvania.  He attended local schools and the Wilkes-Barre Academy.  In May 1829, he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1831 but did not graduate. Instead, he returned to Wilkes-Barre in early 1831 to study law.

Cornelius Vanderbilt, photograph

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New York Public Library
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 31, 2008.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Humanities and Social Science Library, New York Public Library
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1795-1877
Source citation
Pageant of America Collection, NYPL Digital Gallery
Source note
Original image at NYPLDigitalGallery

Cornelius Vanderbilt, photograph, detail

Scanned by
New York Public Library
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 31, 2008.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Humanities and Social Science Library, New York Public Library
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1795-1877
Source citation
Pageant of America Collection, NYPL Digital Gallery
Source note
Original image at NYPLDigitalGallery

Richard Beale (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Richard Lee Turberville Beale,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/b/ed_bealeRLT.htm.
Richard Lee Turberville Beale was born in Hickory Hill, Virginia on May 22, 1819 to Robert and Martha Turberville Beale, a prominent Westmoreland County family.  He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1838 and was elected to the Union Philosophical Society. He retired from the College and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia.  He was admitted to the bar in 1839 and started a practice in his home county.

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