Items

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  The Charter Oak

  Leading anti-slavery newspaper in Connecticut
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  The Children's Book of Dogs and Cats

  Children's book, 22 pages with watercolors by Elizabeth S. Tucker
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  The Christmas Tree

  Two-page spread with Christmas tree and a young girl showing it off. Note that to enter it into his scrapbook, George S. Burleigh had to overlap the pages.
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  The Cloud
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  The Cold-Water Army

  A group of boys happily carrying The Cold-Water Army banner in the streets of Boston. The name of the publishing house is clearly visible behind the band of boys.
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  The Death Penalty Makes killers of us All
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  The Deer Mice

  Illustration (artist unknown) to accompany poem of the same name
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  The Descent from the Cross, title page

  Title page of the long poem, The Descent of the Cross, written by the young George S. Burleigh, but DELIVERED by his older brother Lucian R. Burleigh. The poem was related to a showing of the Rubens painting in Hartford
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  The Difficult Winter of 1851

  A paragraph in the Twentieth Anniversary Report of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society that concerns the efforts of agents in states other than Massachusetts. Mentions Cyrus Moses Burleigh and Sallie Holley
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  The Domicile Erected by John

  https://exhibits.sjsu.edu/s/burleigh/item/88
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  The elderly George Shepard Burleigh

  Photograph of George Shepard Burleigh in his study. From Minnie Spies thesis
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  The fight for the sparrow-hawk.

  Full-page illustration in "The Court of King Arthur: stories from the Land of the Round Table" by William Henry Frost. Illustrated by Sydney Richmond Burleigh.
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  The Game

  Tabletop Ball Game patent application, in papers of Charles Hartwell Burleigh in his role as a patent attorney. Image reversed as in a negative
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  The Hang-Bird's Nest illustration

  Mother holding her baby, sitting in a rocking chair, and looking out past thick, Victorian curtains at the "hand-bird's nest"
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  The Homeless
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  The Knights of the Round Table, cover
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  The Last Green Valley finding guide map
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  The Liberator

  The foremost, and longest-running, Abolitionist newspaper in the United States
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  The Liberator, October 29, 1831, welcomes The Stonington Phenix and Charles W. Denison to the growing list of immediate abolitionists

  The Stonington Phenix, at this time, likely had William Henry Burleigh as an assistant to Charles Denison
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  The Man in the Boy
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  The Man in the Boy
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  The Man in the Boy original

  The original, undated publication of this short poem, as found in the Burleigh scrapbooks at John Hay Collection, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
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  The Marvellous Mowing-Match Illustration

  Death, the Devil, and the Drunkard mowing with scythes. Note the Devil is dark-skinned, but his facial hair looks more like a Spaniard than any African-American of the time.
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  The Marvellous Mowing-Match Part 1

  Poem about the dangers of mowing with Death and the Devil when you are drunk.
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  The Marvellous Mowing-Match Part 2

  Poem about the dangers of getting into a mowing-match with Death and the Devil when you are a Drunkard