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(Xt) Levy, Louis Edward : THE RUSSIAN JEWISH REFUGEES IN AMERICA: CONSIDERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF IMMIGRATION IN ITS HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS [SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR]

Philadelphia: Levytype Co. ,, 1895

1st Separate Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 25 pages; 24 cm. In English. Reprinted from “The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen, ” by Simon Wolf. Levy was an “American photochemist… He went to America in early life, and was educated at Detroit; he studied especially mathematics and astronomy at Michigan University in 1866, and optics at Detroit. He was connected with the meteorological observatory of the United States Lake Survey District in 1866, and engaged in researches in microscopic photography during 1869 and 1870. This led to his invention of a method of photochemical engraving, the ‘Levytype, ’ which was patented in 1875. He established a company in Baltimore, but removed to Philadelphia in 1877, in which year he invented the ‘Levy line-screen, ’ which was perfected by his brother Max. For this he received the John Scott Legacy medal at the Franklin Institute in 1897. He invented a new process of intaglio engraving, the ‘photo-mezzotint, ’ in 1889. In 1896 he invented a new method of etching, the ‘Levy acid blast, ’ for which he received the Elliott Cresson gold medal at the Franklin Institute in 1899. He was awarded a medal and diploma at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and decorations and (a) diploma from the Imperial Photographic Society of Moscow… From 1887 to 1890 Levy was publisher and editor of the Philadelphia ‘Evening Herald, ’ and at the same time of the ‘Mercury, ’ a Philadelphia Sunday paper. In 1896 he edited and published ‘Cuba and the Cubans. ’ He is the author of ‘The Russian Jewish Refugees in America’ (1895) … He has contributed to many technical journals, and represented the Franklin Institute at the Scientific Congress of the Paris Exposition” (Cyrus Adler in Jewish Encyclodia, 1906) . For this work, the author utilized a paper read by him before the Board of Presidents of the National Societies of Philadelphia, as a member of that body. Quotes letters of Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Judge John F. Dillon, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, and Father Sylvester Malone of Brooklyn. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- United States. Jewish refugees -- United States. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Signed, “With the compliments of the author” on the cover. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Some water damage. Wrappers are worn with a tear in the back wrapper and last page with no text effected. Inside pages are bright and readable. About good condition. (AMR-48-46)

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