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African American girl's birthday photograph album

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16756
Content Description This collection contains a photo album containing fifteen original black-and-white photographs from the 1960s of a birthday celebration of a young Black girl and her family.Exceptional depiction of an 11 year old's birthday party with all of it's innocence, happiness and absence of the racial world that lives outside the doors of their grandmother's nice home.The children are wearing cone hats and there is dancing, presents, game playing, a birthday cake, blowing out candles, and an...
Dates: 1960s

U.S. Air Force Pilot's Training Guide in World War I

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16737
Content Description This item is a U.S. Air Force Pilots Training Manual during World War I. It is printed on matte finish photographic paper, with each page mounted to leaves and secured by ribbon. Includes graphs, charts, tables, and arial photographs related to German aircraft and their speeds, altitudes, and aerial views. Views include "Cheminot Lake," Verny and wire entanglements, Pournoy dugouts, E. of Norroy maching gun nest, Champey anti-aircraft battery emplacements, Pommerieux dugouts,...
Dates: C.1918

Jane E. Arnold commonplace book

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16734
Content Description

Hand-written sentiments, poems, and inscriptions, most signed with place, name, and date. Some of the locations are in Massachusetts.

Dates: 1852-1856

Forget Me Not album

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16724
Content Description This collection consists of a commonplace book featuring quotes and sayings from newspaper and magazine clippings from a variety of authors like Shakespeare, Goethe, Longfellow, Elliot, and Byron. Most are organized so the quotes from the same author are grouped on the same page. Also included are excerpts of poems handwritten into the album. There are six black and white engravings and have the following titles 'Moonlight', 'Sketching from Nature', The Dukes Daughter',...
Dates: c.1852

Caroline's floral album

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16721
Content Description This collection contains the friendship album belonging to a woman named Caroline. It is assumed from the locations of the authors of the entries that she was from Massachusetts as towns listed include Plymouth, Boston, Berkley, etc. The earliest note from this album dates from 1837 and is a loose page that was inserted into the front covers. The page has two original poems written in 1837 and 1838, by Ester Holmes of Plymouth, entitled "The Thunder Storm," and "Parting of a mother with...
Dates: 1837 - 1880

Mary Webster album

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16723
Content Description This collection consists of the album from Mary Webster, a young woman from Madison, Ohio. Entries include a variety of poems and notes from friends of Mary. Some of the poetry may be original works. Inside are five finished engravings: these tend to have small black and white biblical scenes with large, colored floral borders that extend up the page. The flowers are identified, and meanings attributed to the flower are identified below the illustrations.The locations most often...
Dates: 1843 - 1846

Jemima Buell Griffing album

 Collection — Box: BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16735
Content Description

An autograph album of Jemima Buell Griffing from Clinton, Connecticut.The album is filled with phrases, poems (some original), and short entries, including stories of Griffing with her family and friends.

Additionally there is a pencil drawing of what appears to be a grave with "Sacred to Memory" written on it surrounded by foliage drawn by J.R. Carns. It includes four engravings, some of which are hand-colored.

Dates: 1832-1856