Caroline Howard Gilman. The Lady's annual register and housewife's memorandum book. Boston: 1837-1840.
Crockett Almanac 1839. Containing Adventures, Exploits, Sprees & Scrapes in the West, & Life and Manners in the Backwoods. Nashville, Tennessee. Published by Ben Harding, 1838.[5]
John Stevens Cabot Abbott. The school-boy: or, A guide for youth to truth and duty. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1839.
Jacob Abbott. Caleb in the country: A story for children. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1839
Crockett Almanac Improved 1842. Boston. Printed and Published by S. N. Dickinson, 1841.
John Frost. Book of the Navy. 1843
John Frost. The pictorial history of the United States of America: from the discovery by the Northmen in the tenth century to the present time. ca.1843. 1852 ed. (Boston: H. Wentworth)
John Frost. Panorama Of Nations. Auburn & Buffalo: John E. Beardsley, (1852).
Graham's Magazine. Oct. 1844. Illustration to Charles J. Peterson's "The Pic-Nic: a Story of the Wissahicken." (Croome's interpretation described in 1983 by historian Burton Pollin: "simpering expressions and contrived postures, and ... overdressed characters"[6])
S.G. Goodrich. A pictorial natural history: embracing a view of the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms; For the use of schools. Boston: James Munroe & Company, 1845. New edition (1854).
William Spottswood White. The African preacher: An authentic narrative. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1849
Songs for the People. 1849
Clara Moreton (Clara Jessup Moore[7]) Frank and Fanny: a rural story. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1851
Falconbridge. Dan. Marble: a biographical sketch of that famous and diverting humorist, with reminiscences, comicalities, anecdotes, etc., etc. New York: Dewitt & Davenport, 1851. Google books
Godey's Lady's Book
Image gallery
Portrait of Jacob Perkins in American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 1835
From: Caroline Howard Gilman's The Lady's Annual Register and Housewife's Memorandum Book, 1837
From: Jacob Abbott's Caleb in the Country, 1839
Frost's Pictorial History of the United States, illustrated by Croome, ca.1843
From: Graham's Magazine, Oct. 1844. Illustration to Charles J. Peterson's "The Pic-Nic: a Story of the Wissahicken."
References
^WorldCat. Croome, William 1790-1860
^Frank Weitenkampf. American graphic art. 1912
^W. J. Linton. The History of Wood-Engraving in America. Chapter III. American Art Review, Vol. 1, No. 7 (May, 1880), pp. 284+
^American Antiquarian Society. "Token".
^Frederick S. Voss. Portraying an American Original: The Likenesses of Davy Crockett. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 91, No. 4 (April, 1988)
^Burton R. Pollin. Edgar Allan Poe and John G. Chapman: Their Treatment of the Dismal Swamp and the
Wissahickon. Studies in the American Renaissance, (1983), p.261
^Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 118.
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