[Rarebooks] fa: CENTENNIAL OF THE U.S. CAPITOL 1896 - ExLibris ALBERT S. BURLESON of TEXAS (pioneering segregationist)

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Listed now, auction ending Sunday, April 15. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


Gen. Duncan S. Walker, ed.: Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Capitol of the United States. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1896. Small folio (29 cm) bound in three-quarter morocco and cloth, marbled page edges and endpapers;  front cover with the gilt-lettered name of Albert S. Burleson, of Texas. Scuffing to the spine, edges and corners, else very good, contents clean and bright. Profusely illustrated. Burleson (1863-1937), the son of a Confederate officer, was a conservative Democratic congressman from Texas. Later, as postmaster-general under Woodrow Wilson, he initiated racial segregation in the U.S. Post Office, a policy which Wilson then applied to other government agencies.