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Confederate imprints are books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals or
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in a location which, at the time, was under Confederate and not
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s are important as sources of the history of the Civil War and many institutional libraries have formed large collections of these works. A number of checklists and bibliographies of them have been published, one of which catalogs 9,457 imprints.


Printing in the South

Prior to
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, the South manufactured relatively few books, but imported them heavily from Northern cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. In 1860, there were only four major book publishers in the South, although there were numerous small job printers. Of even greater concern was the fact that the South manufactured little of its own paper and ink. After Secession, these were no longer available from the North, and the South began to expand its own printing and manufacture of paper and ink. Shortages of these supplies, however, were chronic and often severe.


Important collections

The following institutions have significant collections of Confederate imprints: *
Boston Athenaeum Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most ...
*
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* Rice University's Fondren Library's Woodson Research Center * Rosanna Blake Library of Confederate History at
Marshall University Marshall University is a public research university in Huntington, West Virginia. It was founded in 1837 and is named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. The university is currently composed of nine colleges: L ...
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Virginia Historical Society The Virginia Museum of History and Culture founded in 1831 as the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a major repository, research, and teaching center for Virginia history. It is a private, n ...
*
Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
's Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library *
American Civil War Museum The American Civil War Museum is a multi-site museum in the Greater Richmond Region of central Virginia, dedicated to the history of the American Civil War. The museum operates three sites: White House of the Confederacy, The White House of the Con ...
's Museum of the Confederacy Collection *
South Carolina Historical Society The South Carolina Historical Society is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1855 to preserve South Carolina's rich historical legacy. The SCHS is the state's oldest and largest private repository of books, letters, journals, maps, dr ...
* The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at
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* The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
The Division of Special Collections
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The University of Alabama The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and largest of the public ...
W.S. Hoole Special Collections
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Bibliographies of Confederate imprints

* Crandall, Marjorie Lyle. ''Confederate Imprints: A Checklist Based Principally on the Collection of the Boston Athenaeum''. Boston: The Boston Atheneaum, 195
digitized version
* Harwell, Richard. ''Confederate belles-lettres, a bibliography and a finding list of the fiction, poetry, drama, songsters, and miscellaneous literature published in the Confederate States of America.'' Hattiesburg, Miss.: The Book Farm, 1941. * Harwell, Richard. ''Cornerstones of Confederate Collecting.'' Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1953. * Harwell, Richard. ''More Confederate Imprints.'' Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1957. * Harwell, Richard. ''In Tall Cotton: The 200 Most Important Confederate Books.'' Austin: Jenkins Pub. Co., 1978. * Harwell, Richard. ''Confederate Imprints.'' Wendell, N.C.: Broadfoot's Bookmark, 1982. * Parrish, T. Michael and Robert M. Willingham, Jr. ''Confederate Imprints: A Bibliography of Southern Publications from Secession to Surrender.'' Austin, TX : Jenkins Publishing Co. & Katonah, NY: Gary A Foster, n.d. * Rudolph, E. L. ''Confederate Broadside Verse: A Bibliography and Finding List of Confederate broadside ballads and songs.'' New Braunfels, Texas: Book Farm, 1950.


See also

* Confederate paper currency * Confederate postage stamps


References

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External links


Examples of Confederate publishers bindings
Economic history of the Confederate States of America American Civil War books Printing in the United States Book publishing in the United States