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Hurd & Houghton, Publishers and Booksellers [Memorandum of an Agreement]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00687.128 Author/Creator: Hurd & Houghton, Publishers and Booksellers Place Written: New York, New York Type: Document signed Date: 7 March 1875 Pagination: 1 p. ; 35.5 x 21.7 cm. Order a Copy

A contract between George May Powell of the Oriental Topographical Corps and Melancthon M. Hurd and Albert G. Houghton, Publishers and Booksellers, to publish Rawson's Bible Hand Book. GMP will provide illustrations at his cost and will retain ownership. Signed by GMP, Hurd, Houghton, and Rawson.

Powell was a Lincoln supporter and served as a statistician in the Treasury Department during the Civil War. Active in religious work as a young man, he was the secretary and manager of the Evangelistic Press Association and led a topographical corps through Egypt and North Africa to create Sunday School maps of Palestine and the Holy Land. Powell participated in the American Forestry Commission, the Grange and Patrons of Husbandry, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the National Geographic Society. He was active in Sabbath reform work.

Powell, George May, 1835-1905

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