Guide to the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Illustrated Fragment MSS.3150
Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
November 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
- Description Rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Unit ID:
MSS.3150
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet
- Dates:
circa 1850
- Abstract:
Fragment of an illustrated German translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Language of Materials note
Material is entirely in German.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2008
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains four pages from an illustrated German translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Biographical/Historical note
According to Grace Edith MacLean in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Germany (1910), failure of social movements in the German Empire from 1830-1848 provided fertile conditions for reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel. As of 1910, there were 75 distinct editions of the novel in German, including 11 abridgements for children. Presumably, most of these translations occurred in the decade following the original publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852.
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Uncle Tom's Cabin Illustrated Fragment, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Processing Information:
Processed by
James N. Gilbreath, 2010
Fragment Box SC0052 Folder 3150.1