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Collection Reference Number GLC00687.203
From Archive Folder Papers of George May Powell 
Title George May Powell to A.R. Spofford about copyright of "Financial Schedule"
Date 1 December 1871
Author Powell, George May (1835-1905)  
Recipient Spofford, A.R.  
Document Type Correspondence; Business and financial document
Content Description GMP secures copyright of his book, Financial Schedule, with the Library of Congress. Partially printed.
Subjects Congress  Literature and Language Arts  Finance  Book Selling  Library  Business and Finance  Law  
People Powell, George May (1835-1905)  
Place written Washington, D.C.
Theme Merchants & Commerce; Arts & Literature
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Powell was a Lincoln supporter and served as a statistician in the Treasury Department during the Civil War. Active in religious work as a young man, he was the secretary and manager of the Evangelistic Press Association and led a topographical corps through Egypt and North Africa to create Sunday School maps of Palestine and the Holy Land. Powell participated in the American Forestry Commission, the Grange and Patrons of Husbandry, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the National Geographic Society. He was active in Sabbath reform work.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945