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Collection Reference Number GLC00687.125
From Archive Folder Papers of George May Powell 
Title Hurd and Houghton Publishers to George May Powell about publishing Rawson's Bible Hand Book
Date 24 February 1875
Author Hurd and Houghton, Publishers and Booksellers  
Recipient Powell, George May  
Document Type Correspondence; Business and financial document
Content Description On Hurd and Houghton Publishers and Booksellers letterhead, re: They propose to publish Rawson's Bible Hand Book on certain terms of royalties, with GMP providing illustrations.
Subjects Book Selling  Business and Finance  Literature and Language Arts  Christianity  Religion  Art, Music, Theater, and Film  
People Powell, George May (1835-1905)  
Place written New York, New York
Theme Arts & Literature; Religion; Merchants & Commerce
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