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Jay T. Snider Collection
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New York, NY 10036-1902 
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DIRECTORY - Jane AITKEN (publisher). Census Directory For 1811. Containing the Names, Occupations, & residence of the Inhabitants of the City, Southwark & Northern Liberties, a Separate Division being Allotted to Persons of Colour. Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1811. 484, [2] pp., 12mo (135 x 75 mm). Library buckram. Condition: minor foxing. Provenance: D. D. Lewis? (contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper, noting that he has sold this copy of the Census Directory for $1 to Mr. Moffit). Among the earliest directories with a separate listing of the city's African American residents. Aitken's ad on the terminal leaf offers for sale Charles Thomson's translation of the Bible. Blockson 2562; Spear, p. 277.ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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