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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box BW 4

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Mary Ann Ankrim friendship album

 Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589236]
Identifier: MSS 16071
Scope and Contents

Friendship album, Mary Ann Ankrim, 0.03 cubic feet, 1833, Jennersville, Pennsylvania. The album has a calligraphy title page and other pages with numerous rhyming verses, dated and signed, some with locations. Of added note are 2 pencil sketches, a pen and ink drawing and a watercolor.

Dates: 1833

[James Nounnan] General Store business ledger

 Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589237]
Identifier: MSS 16073
Scope and Contents

[James Nounnan] General Store business ledger in Putnam County, West Virginia, 0.03 cubic feet, 1834-1836. The leder was used to record sales and expenses, credit transactions and all other kinds of business common to a general store. The store sold a lot of whiskey and coffee, indicating this establishment was also a local tavern. The ledger contains over 470 pages of entries with many references to James Nounnan, who appears to be the owner or scrivener.

Dates: 1834-1836

Scrapbook album with cut out illustrations of girls and ladies

 Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589238]
Identifier: MSS 16074
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook filled with cut out illustrations of girls and ladies, each one with a handwritten page detailing the personalities and character traits of individuals, 0.03 cubic feet, [1915-1916?].

Dates: [1915-1916]

F. A. T. Magazine

 Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589239]
Identifier: MSS 16078
Scope and Contents

F. A. T. magazine, 0.03 cubic feet, 1884, presumably by Charles F. Leland, a handwritten manuscript of weekly humor periodical with color drawings,stories, rhymes, riddles, and more, with at times bawdy illustration and also natural history drawings.

Dates: 1884

Mrs. Penny Tweedy photograph

 Collection — Box: BW 4, Folder: 1 [X031589240]
Identifier: MSS 16079
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Mrs. Penny Tweedy, owner of race horse Secretariat, 0.03 cubic feet, 1974

Dates: 1974