Odds and Ends:
No. 1. Crystal Palace.
No. 2. Old Sugar House.
No. 3. Paul Morphy.
“The above series will be continued from time to time. Struck in good copper, and sold at the low price of 25 cents each.”
S. H. and H. Chapman, Catalogue of the Celebrated and Valuable Collection of American Coins and Medals of the Late Charles I. Bushnell. Philadelphia: Chapman, 1882, p. 31, nos. 459-462: “Sage’s Historical Tokens.”
L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Vol. V. London: Spink and Son, 1912, p. 296.
Forrer’s pertinent account on Sage’s “Historical Tokens” must be corrected in accordance with the data given in the present essay.
“The Old Provoost” of New York
I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island: 1498-1909. Vol. III, New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1918. p. 972, s. v. New Gaol (“Goal”).
John Pintard, “The Old Jail.” The New York Mirror: A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts, Vol. IX, No. 10 (New York, September 10, 1831), p. 73.
With a reproduction of “The Old Provoost,” drawn by Alexander J. Davis and engraved by Alexander Anderson.
Frank Bergen Kelley, Historical Guide to the City of New York. Revised Edition. New York: The New York Commercial Tercentenary Commission, 1913, p. 55.
“The Old Jersey Prison Ship”
Albert G. Greene (editor), Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship: Taken, and Prepared for Publication, from the Original Manuscript of the Late Captain Thomas Dring, of Providence, R. I., One of the Prisoners. New York: P. M. Davis, 1831. Re-edited by Henry B. Dawson. Morrisania, N. Y.: H. B. Dawson, 1865.
Especially p. 14, note 3; p. 196; reproduction of an engraving of the “exterior view of the ship,” facing p. 16.
[Anonymous], 1888. A Christmas Reminder: Being the Names of about Eight Thousand Persons, A Small Portion of the Number Confined on Board the British Prison Ships during the War of the Revolution. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Society of Old Brooklynites. 1888.
Containing the names of the “prisoners confined on board the British ship Jersey.”
Henry R. Stiles, Letters from the Prisons and Prison-Ships of the Revolution. (The Wallabout Prison-Ship Series, No. 1). New York: Privately printed, 1865.
Includes letters written on the Jersey.
Livingston’s Sugar House
I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island: 1498-1909. Vol. V, New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1926, pp. 1042 (1777); 1234 (1789).
Thomas E. V. Smith, The City of New York in the Year of Washington’s Inauguration, 1789. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Co., 1889, pp. 36-37.
Rhinelander Sugar-House
James Grant Wilson, The Memorial History of the City of New York from Its First Settlement to the Year 1892, Vol. II, New York: New York History Company, 1892, p. 452 and note 1.
With a good picture of the Rhinelander Sugar House. A picture of Livingston’s Sugar House is found, ibidem, p. 457.
I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island: 1498-1909, Vol. IV, New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1922, p. 790 (anno 1769); cf. Vol. V, 1926, pp. 1234 (1789); 1699 (Febr. 4, 1831).
Henry Collins Brown, Book of Old New York. New York: Privately printed, 1913.
Opposite p. 308, a good photograph of the Rhinelander Sugar House.
Libby Prison and Libby Prison War Museum
Will Parmiter Kent, The Story of Libby Prison: Also Some Perils and Sufferings of Certain of Its Inmates. Second edition. Chicago, Ill.: The Libby Prison War Museum Association [1890].
Profusely illustrated. On the cover pictures of Libby Prison “as it was” and “as it is.”
[Anonymous], Libby Prison War Museum: Catalogue and Program. Chicago: Libby Prison War Museum Association, [no year given]; reprinted several times.
[Anonymous], A Trip through the Libby Prison War Museum. Chicago: Libby Prison National War Museum Association, 189?.
Frank E. Moran, A Thrilling History of the Famous Underground Tunnel of Libby Prison. New York: Reprinted from the Century Magazine, 1889-1893.
F. F. Cavada, Libby Life: Experiences of a Prisoner of War in Richmond, Va., 1863-64. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1865.
Most comprehensive description with contemporary illustrations, among them a reproduction of the best contemporary engraving of Libby Prison in Richmond, Va.
Louis Palma di Cesnola, Ten Months in Libby Prison. [Pamphlet, no place, no date]. [New York, 1865].
Description of prison life in Libby prison, 1863-1864.
Isaac N. Johnston, Four Months in Libby, and the Campaign against Atlanta. Cincinnati: J. N. Johnston, 1864.
A. O. Abbott, Prison Life in the South at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, during the Years 1864 and 1865. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1865.
Description of the life in Libby Prison by a former prisoner, on pp. 22-41.
Cullen B. (“Doc”) Aubery, Recollections of a Newsboy in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865; His Capture and Confinement in Libby Prison. [Milwaukee, Wisc.: Doc Aubery, 1904].
Memoirs of Libby Prison and its commanders by a former prisoner of war.
United States Sanitary Commission
United States Sanitary Commission, Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers While Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities. Boston: “Little’s Living Age,” 1865.
Official report of a commission of inquiry, with an appendix containing the testimony. See also Arthur C. Cole, The Irrepressible Conflict, 1850-1865 (A History of American Life, Vol. VII) (New York, 1934), pp. 322 f., 331 f.
W. S. Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington with Historical and Critical Notes. Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1885, pp. 150 ff., especially No. 364, p. 154.
The present bibliography has been completed on April 1, 1945.
The author wishes gratefully to acknowledge the courtesy of the American Numismatic Society (Mr. Sawyer Mc. A. Mosser, Librarian) and of the New York Historical Society (Mr. John T. Washburn, Chief of the Reading Room) in permitting him use of their collections, without which this study could never have been completed.