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UVA History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building-addition 89

 Unprocessed Material — Box: MSS 16758_NewAdditions_04, Folder: ViU-2025-0111_001
Identifier: ViU-2025-0111

Content Description

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains one undated linen-bound Victorian-era collage and watercolor album compiled by a child or adolescent. There are thirty-five watercolor and pencil drawings with clipped monograms pasted throughout the images. Some of the illustrations are captioned in pencil in French, though the occasional monogram hails from London or Birmingham. Some more robust clippings offer the names of French hotels, restaurants, and attractions. Illustrated scenes include a vase, a fan, a greyhound, a chessboard, a house, a violinist, a moth, birds building a nest, and a fox house. There is also a cartoon of a French woman arguing with a German soldier, in the uniform worn during the Franco-Prussian War, dating the album to around 1870.

Acquisition Type

Purchase

Provenance

Purchased from Capitol Hill Books, 17 October 2025.

Language of Description

English

Script of Description

Latin

Restrictions Apply

No

Dates

  • Creation: c. 1870

Full Extent

0.04 Cubic Feet (One legal-sized file folder) ; bound volume, measuring 14 x 22 cm

Language of Materials

English

French

Metadata Rights Declarations

Inventory

One album