Edwin c r humphries editor (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Oblong folio; 254 pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding of cloth spine with pictorial boards; some wear to edges of boards, still quite a nice example of this uncommon illustrated history of the Police Department of the Nation's Capital. OCLC 9028501 Illustrated throughout with reproductions of photographs and drawings. A wonderful record of the District Police Department to the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries with marvelous visual content. "The work has been compiled . by J. Russell Young . and E. C. R. Humphries." [Page 3] Includes advertising material. Editor: John Russell Young (1840 â" 1899) was an American journalist, author, diplomat, and the seventh Librarian of the United States Congress from 1897 to 1899. He was invited by Ulysses S. Grant to accompany him on a world tour for purposes of recording the two-year journey, which he published in a two-volume work. In 1897, President William McKinley appointed him Librarian of Congress, the first librarian confirmed by Congress. During his tenure, the library began moving from its original home in the US Capitol Building to its own structure, an accomplishment largely the responsibility of his predecessor, Ainsworth Rand Spofford.…