Title |
Biddle, Edward C. |
Date |
January 5, 1808-July 18, 1893 |
Description |
Edward C. Biddle, print and book publisher and son of John Biddle and Elizabeth Canby, was born January 5, 1808 in Philadelphia.
He published from an office at the S.W. corner of Fifth and Minor streets during the 1830s and 1840s, and later the 200 block
of South Third Street. He resided in Center City. By the time of his death on July 18, 1893, he lived at 1422 Spruce Street.
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Biddle was the third publisher of the seminal Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's "History of the Indian tribes of North America..."
issued 1837-1844. The work about early 19th-century Native American culture contained 117 portraits, several after paintings
by Charles Bird King. Biddle collaborated with printers Lehman & Duval with artist Albert Newsam and printer J. T. Bowen with
artist A. Hoffy 1836-1838 and issued parts 1-8 (Vol. 1).
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Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
References |
See Bowen, J.T.; Hoffy, A.; Lehman & Duval; and Newsam, Albert. |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Census 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 |
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Peters, 93 |