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The clansman : an historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan / by Thomas Dixon, Jr. ; illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.

Accession number
PML 182013
Creator
Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946.
Published
New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905.
Credit line
Gift; Family of Carter Burden.
Notes
Dixon's theatre pass for The Southern Amusement Co.'s production of The clansman at the Harlem Opera House pasted down on inside front cover.
"Mrs. Oliver Remick Grant"--Stamped on inside front cover.
"Laura Grant"--Stamped on inside front cover.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Part of a trilogy of profoundly racist and offensive novels that helped galvanize the Ku Klux Klan, written by a white supremacist author.
Classification
Department