LC control no. | n 96085453 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824 |
Biography/History note | Joseph Delaplaine (1777-1824) was a Philadelphian bookseller and publisher. |
Birth date | 1777-12-20 |
Death date | 1824-05-31 |
Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
Place of death | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
Profession or occupation | Booksellers and bookselling Publishers and publishing |
Found in | NUCMC data from Library of Congress Manuscript Division for His Letter, 1819 (Delaplaine, Joseph) LC data base, Sept. 4, 1996 (hdg.: Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824) Joseph Delaplaine correspondence, 1813-1824 (Handwritten correspondence written between 1813-1824; contains letters sent between Joseph Delaplaine and popular American figures of the early nineteenth century; the majority of items concern information for Delaplaine's book, "Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans;" includes handwritten autobiographical sketches of Oliver Wolcott Sr. and William Pinkney and letters from prominent political figures such as William Henry Harrison and Richard Mentor Johnson) ancestry.com, WWW, March 23, 2018 (Joseph Delaplaine; born December 20, 1777 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died May 31, 1824 in Philadelphia; publisher; he opened a bookstore in Philadelphia and in 1812, with John Fanning Watson, published "Epitome Historiae Sacrae;" in 1813 he began the serial publication of his "Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans," a series of engravings with biographical notices; he exhibited his gallery of portraits in the larger cities of the Union) |
Associated language | eng |