[Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Boston, Loring, 1868): preface to end (p. 18), no illus.] – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Boston, Loring, 1868): preface to end (p. 18), no illus.], preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Boston, Loring, 1868): preface to end (p. 18), no illus.]
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Rather than a picture, this record describes a single printed page: the preface and text through page 18 of Horatio Alger Jr.'s *Ragged Dick*, published in Boston by Loring in 1868. The novel follows a young New York bootblack who climbs toward respectability through hard work and honesty, and it became one of the most widely read of Alger's rags-to-riches stories. With no illustrations on these pages, the page is best read as text, where the narrator's brisk, moralizing voice and the opening sketch of street life come through directly.
| Medium | 1 item. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1868 |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Boston, Loring, 1868). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rare Bk. Div.; Fictional characters; PI--Works; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,225 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-126396 |
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