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Box BW 40

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Contains 9 Results:

Eliza's memory book

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16650

Myra A. Straw essays and homemade newspaper

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16645
Content Description Amateur newspaper and handwritten essays by a young woman from Hopkinton, New Hampshire in the 19th century. Four handwritten essays, totaling eleven pages, plus a manuscript amateur newspaper, all signed by the author. The essays include a four page spoof titled "Autobiography of an old stove," describing the life of a stove from its existence as a lump of ore in an iron mine, to the manufactory, to being used in a schoolhouse. The other essays are titled "Summer," "Our talents," and "A...
Dates: 1888

Una Wonn commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16646
Content Description

Each page contains questions about preferences, likes, and dislikes and are answered by different friends, family, and acquaintances. Many entries are signed and include locations, with most being signed "Eckhart Mines, Md."

Some questions include what epoch would you choose to have lived; Favorite books, or artists? What trait do you most admire, or most detest; What is your idea of happiness, misery? What are the saddest words in the world?

Dates: 1880 - 1884

Martha T. Pritchard commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16647
Content Description

Handwritten poems and sentiments written to Martha, 1839-1842. Blank "Album" published by J. C. Riker, New York, includes several pages of illustrations, mostly black and white, many signed by artists and engravers. Printed engravings are preceded by colored papers for protection. Some illustrations have been pasted in.

Dates: 1839 - 1842

Nancy D. Willson friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16648
Content Description

Includes 15 sentiments of good thoughts and wishes, each one or two pages in length. Locations of signers include Bellevernon, Loudonville, OH, Union City, Ashland, OH, Uniontown and West Alexander, PA.

Dates: 1848 - 1855

Dennis Palumbo "The Grande Game" screenplay

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16649
Content Description

Script for an unproduced film, "The Grande Game" about Edgar Allan Poe.

Dates: 1985-01-20

Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence carte de visite

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16638
Content Description This collection contains a carte de visite of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a formerly enslaved child. The caption states "A Redeemed Slave Child, 5 years of Age. Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church by Henry Ward Beecher in May 1963. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by C. S. Lawrence, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York." Photographed by the...
Dates: May 1863

The Old Man and the Sea film stills

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16636

Mary Ruggles album

 Collection — Box: BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16637