A. V. Garney Library Collection

Book

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

A. V. Garney Library Collection

Entry/Object ID

LIB1131

Description

Books and published materials owned and used by A. V. (Chick) Garney. Collection includes the following titles: -Amended Charter of Corporation of Charles Town with Ordinances and By-Laws, 1896 -Charter and Ordinances of Corporationof Charles Town, 1912 - Strange Story of Harper's Ferry with Legends of the Surrounding Country (portion of book only) (Joseph Barry) - A Series of First Lessons in Greek (John W. White, PhD., 1890) - A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook (A. Kippis, 1843) Volume 1 - A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook (A. Kippis, 1843) Volume 2 - The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (American Bible Society, 1859) - The Life and Death of Jefferson Davis (A.C. Bankcroft, 1889) - The James and Younger Brothers (J.A. Kacus, Ph.D., 1882) - Historical Collections of Virginia (H. Howe, 1845) - Gaiety Theatre Broadway & 46th Street (Theater Program Corporation) - Burning of Chambersburg (front cover and inside attribution missing) - A System of Modern Geography (S. Augustus Mitchell, 1860) - Hymn Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1889) - Gypsy's Year at the Golden Crescent (Elizabeth S. Phelps, 1867) - History of the United States (George Holmes, 1894) - First Steps in Geography (S. S. Cornell, 1858) - The Child's World Second Reader (Browne, Withers, and Tate, 1917) - McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader (Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co, 1879) - inscribed "Vernon(?) Garney, 'Stone School House' Sept 8 - 1885." - The New Primary Geography ( S. Augustus Mitchell, 1882) - Our Bible, Our Church, and Our Country (Rev. John D. Mcfaden, 1890) - Story Time (D. Lothrop Company, 1888) - A System of Modern Geography (S. Augustus Mitchell, 1890) - Pluck and Luck - Charley Barnes' Bank No. 1407 (H. K. Shackleford, 1925 - New Buffalo Bill Weekly (Street and Smith Corporation, 1918) - Frank Reade Library No. 17, New Electric Submarine Boat :"The Explorer" and No, 45 Queen Clipper of the Clouds (part I and II), (Frank Tousey, Publisher 1893) - New York Five Cent Library No. 87 - Yale Murphy, the Great Short-Stop (Billy Boxer, 1894) - Secret Service No. 565 - The Brady's After the Tong Kings or, The Red Lady of Chinatown, (Frank Tousey, Publisher, 1909) - The Liberty Boys of 76 No. 764 - The Liberty Boys and Lafayette, or Helping the Young French General (Harry Moore, 1915) - SNAPS No 39 - Muldoon's Boarding House (Tom teaser, 1900) - Pluck and Luck No 174 - Two Boys' Trip to an Unknown Planet (Richard R. Montgomery, 1901) - Collier's The National Weekly, The Big Hike (Rupert Hughes, 1916) - Mosby's Rangers (Williamson, 1896) Physical Description: Some books are inscribed by Vernon Garney.

Acquisition

Accession

29

Source or Donor

Garney, James W.

Acquisition Method

Gift