lot of 5. Including a hand-tinted silver gelatin copy of a Civil War photo of Rankin men, 8 x 10", on heavy card stock. PLUS notebook with numerous programs and invitations to the dedication of the Rankin memorial in Ripley, photos of Rankin family members, a 7pp hand-written sermon, a number of unidentified photos, the back section relates to T. De Witt Carr, USN with photos and newspaper articles about him, photos of USS Mayflower, including an art print of the Mayflower by Haley Lever and inscribed to Carr and signed by Lever, a letter written by a grandchild of Rankin's about Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to the Rankin house, and many more items. PLUS a Great Lakes Bulletin, Nov. 6, 1942, with headline article about Capt. Carr leaving the training station for sea duty. PLUS 11 x 14" photo taken on the White House lawn with President Coolidge and 10 others identified. AND a Ladies Home Journal for Sept. 1903 with article on p. 7 about Rankin and the underground railroad in Ripley, cover of this issue is Native American mother with baby in cradleboard by Charles H. Stevens. John Rankin (1793-1886) was a pioneer abolitionist, minister and author. He studied for the ministry, and became increasingly disgusted with the institution of slavery, especially as it grew in the early part of the 19th century. In 1817, Rankin and his wife and son left Tennessee for a non-slaveholding state. On his travels, he stopped in Kentucky, giving a sermon at Cane Ridge. He was offered a job as pastor there, which he accepted and held for 4 years. He took his growing family across the Ohio into Ripley in 1822, ever more distressed by slavery and the treatment of African Americans, and remained there for the next 44 years. In 1828, he built a house on a crest overlooking the town, which would become a main stop on the Underground Railroad. Rankin proposed buying and freeing all slaves in the U.S., a proposal many thought ridiculously expensive. In retrospect, it may have been cheaper than the war fought for the same purpose some years later. Condition:Condition variable, but many paper items heavily toned and brittle. Ladies Home Journal has taped repairs to Rankin page.
lot of 5. Including a hand-tinted silver gelatin copy of a Civil War photo of Rankin men, 8 x 10", on heavy card stock. PLUS notebook with numerous programs and invitations to the dedication of the Rankin memorial in Ripley, photos of Rankin family members, a 7pp hand-written sermon, a number of unidentified photos, the back section relates to T. De Witt Carr, USN with photos and newspaper articles about him, photos of USS Mayflower, including an art print of the Mayflower by Haley Lever and inscribed to Carr and signed by Lever, a letter written by a grandchild of Rankin's about Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to the Rankin house, and many more items. PLUS a Great Lakes Bulletin, Nov. 6, 1942, with headline article about Capt. Carr leaving the training station for sea duty. PLUS 11 x 14" photo taken on the White House lawn with President Coolidge and 10 others identified. AND a Ladies Home Journal for Sept. 1903 with article on p. 7 about Rankin and the underground railroad in Ripley, cover of this issue is Native American mother with baby in cradleboard by Charles H. Stevens. John Rankin (1793-1886) was a pioneer abolitionist, minister and author. He studied for the ministry, and became increasingly disgusted with the institution of slavery, especially as it grew in the early part of the 19th century. In 1817, Rankin and his wife and son left Tennessee for a non-slaveholding state. On his travels, he stopped in Kentucky, giving a sermon at Cane Ridge. He was offered a job as pastor there, which he accepted and held for 4 years. He took his growing family across the Ohio into Ripley in 1822, ever more distressed by slavery and the treatment of African Americans, and remained there for the next 44 years. In 1828, he built a house on a crest overlooking the town, which would become a main stop on the Underground Railroad. Rankin proposed buying and freeing all slaves in the U.S., a proposal many thought ridiculously expensive. In retrospect, it may have been cheaper than the war fought for the same purpose some years later. Condition:Condition variable, but many paper items heavily toned and brittle. Ladies Home Journal has taped repairs to Rankin page.
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