1862-1874 THE CHILD'S PAPER. Twelve Years, Including Civil War, Slavery, Reconstruction, &c.

Twelve years in one large folio of the American Tract Society's lead circular for the young. The volume includes significant content relate to the care of children who have been orphaned, on prayer for the soldiers and President Lincoln, on ways of offering material support and care for the war, on the evils of slavery, on fugitives and freedmen, etc. 

A substantial account of the contents detailed below. A rare collection. 

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1862. New York. American Tract Society. 1862. 48pp.

Contents: A Talk about Traitors [Civil War]; Charming Woodcut of a Snowman; Prince Radama of Madagascar Converts to Christ [with Woodcut]; The African King and the Sun-Glass; Fighting Prayers; Saint Patrick; Children's Gifts for the Soldiers; The Glass Decanter [Woodcuts, Temperance]; I would Sooner Face the Bullets; Praying for Our Rulers; The Karen Female Institute in Burmah [with Woodcuts]; What Made the Crops Short; The Merrimac [with fine woodcut, showing "bombs bursting in air" over the warring ships, etc,]; Uncle Crisp the Slave [with Woodcut of an aged slave reading the Bible by candle light]; The Civil War Battery [with Woodcut]; Lott Cary [early Black Baptist pastor; Liberia content]; A Word from a Teacher in the Army; Patriotic Song with Music - I'm going to be a Soldier; etc. 

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1863. New York. American Tract Society. 1863. 48pp.

Contents: Having Your Likeness Taken [on Photography]; Only a Soldier's Blanket; The Brown Baby; What the Holy Spirit did for Sarah Ellis; A Soldier's View of War; The Little Drummer [poem on Civil War Drummer Boy, original for the Child's Paper, with Woodcut]; A Talk about Cotton; The Fortunes of a Poor Irish Boy [apprenticed in a print shop with fine woodcut of the boy in front of type and a press]; The Funeral of the Monitor [from its battle against the Merrimac in the Chesapeake]; The Baby of the Frozen Land [Esquimaux, with woodcut]; Child's Paper Gone to the War [superb woodcut]; The Child Martyr; Will He Hear Me, Mama [on praying for soldiers]; Marks of a Bad Sabbath-School Scholar; Washington D. C. During the War [fine woodcut]; A Little Boys' Prayer-Meeting; The Child's Paper Engraver [Benjamin F. Childs]; Marching Orders; Oysters; etc.

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1864. New York. American Tract Society. 1864. 48pp.

Contents: The End of a Traitor; The Freedman at Our Fort; Four Servants of Satan; The Old Flag; Story of a Battle [Woodcut]; A Sick Soldier in the Cars [Train]; Rum's Doings; Washington's Great Victory; The Ship on Fire [fine woodcut]; Carrie's Dollar for Colored Children; Suffering in East Tennessee; Smoking and Chewing; Fourth of July; How Washington Treated Swearers; Dinah, the Slave Mother [beautiful woodcut]; Two Little Girls Feeding their Father in a Cave [Civil War Suffering in Tennessee]; A Freedman's Village for Emancipated Slaves [excellent with fine large woodcut and architectural plans for their housing]; etc. 

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1865. New York. American Tract Society. 1865. 48pp.

Contents: About a Little Girl Named Hazloo [of Persia]; An African Bishop; The Christian Commission for Soldiers and Cooking on Wheels; Marching On; The Old Minister's Blessing; How a Drunkard was Cured; Our President; The Little Patriots; Tobacco; Come into Christ's Army; What a Poor Boy Became [Abraham Lincoln, just after assassination]; Hunger the Best Sauce; President Johnson's Words to the Children; The Red Children who Live in the Forest [with Woodcut]; General Ulysses S. Grant; 

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1866. New York. American Tract Society. 1866. 48pp.

Contents: Temperance Man; John's First Campaign; Pigs in the South Sea Islands; Irish Nelly; The Return [on returning Civil War Soldiers; with Woodcut]; Precious Christ; The John Williams [Missionary Ship]; Brave John Maynard [J. B. Gough - Pilot on Lake Erie]; Children of the Far West [Nebraska]; The Huguenots; What the Stars Say; etc. 

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1867. New York. American Tract Society. 1867. 48pp.

Contents: The True Soldier; What a Little Girls' Prayer-Meeting Did; A Slave to Naughty; A Word from Utah; The School of Satan [children being taught to drink and smoke in New York City]; Passing Counterfeit Money; The Great Fire [Portland, Maine]; Dr. Jonas King - Missionary; The Black Cat; Christmas Night; A Little Mission Girl; etc. 

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1868. New York. American Tract Society. 1868. 48pp.

Contents: School for Negro Children in Virginia [with woodcut]; Caring for the Children of Chicago; The Bee's Sermon; The Lame Boy; Little Kate at the South [North Carolina]; The Zulu [with excellent illustration]; Fanny's First Night at Boarding-School; The Drunkard's Home; Paying Your Sabbath School Teacher; Sold into Slavery [Ongoing pseudo-Slavery during Reconstruction]; A Christmas Carol [for the Child's Paper]; etc,

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1869. New York. American Tract Society. 1869. 48pp.

Contents: The Missing Dog; Show Your Colors; The Rat-Catcher and His Dogs; An Arrest on the Train; Woodcut of Young Boys Drinking and Gambling; A Letter from a City Girl on Her First Visit to the Country; A Little Girl's Home Duties; Fidelia Fisk; A Kiss for a Blow; etc. 

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1870. New York. American Tract Society. 1870. 48pp.

Contents: Death in the Pit [coal mine]; Giant and Dwarf; A Clipper Boy; The Little Negroes; The Boy who would not Mind Satan; Getting the Logs [Lumberjacks]; Building an Igloo [with Woodcut]; General Philip Sheridan and the Indian Wars [with excellent Woodcut]; etc. 

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1871. New York. American Tract Society. 1871. 48pp.

Contents: The Little Worm-Pedler; The House of Refuge for "Wretched" Girls; The Best Detective Officer; The Two Little Girls Out West; The Thunder-Shower; April-Fooling Grandpa; I Need Thee Precious Jesus; Tattoos in the Marquesas Islands [with Woodcut]; Home for the Homeless; The Naughty Hand [woodcut of Corporal Punishment]; A Queer Preacher; etc.

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1873. New York. American Tract Society. 1873. 48pp.

Contents: Up Hill and Down [excellent sledding woodcut]; From a Missionary to Our Indians; The Best Finger; What an Army for Christ!; The Three Kingdoms; The Flower Mission; Adam's Ale [Temperance]; The Hudson River [excellent woodcut of Native Americans, etc.]; Alligator Terrapin; etc.

[American Tract Society] The Child's Paper for 1874. New York. American Tract Society. 1874. 48pp.

Contents: The White Rover; Murder of Little Girls; Only Good for Chores [child labor]; Woodcut; Excellent Snowman Woodcut; Feeding the Hungry; Child-Work; Hoe-Preaching; Archery [with Woodcut]; The Broken Knife, Or How to Settle a Quarrel; The Great Explorer [David Livingstone]; Work for Christian Children; Niagara - The American Falls; Christmas in Madagascar; etc.  

Large half leather folio, front board nearly detached. First few leaves torn across central fold with minor chip losses at tear; folds tender and torn at various points throughout from original post. Lacks January, 1862; one tear to inner margin in 1862 with loss of text; loss to quarter page in November, 1865;