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Pamelia Jenne friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16555
Content Description
This collection contains a friendship album belonging to Pamelia Jenne of Charlton, Massachusetts. The album, a copybook, "Sold by Samuel Wood & Sons, New York," is here used as a friendship album. It contains thirty-eight pages of manuscript and one watercolor of flowers. Included are original and copied verse by a series of friends, many with several entries.
Dates:
1826
Eliza Ellen (Davidson) Johnston commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16513
Content Description
This collection contains a bound volume of manuscript poems written and compiled by Eliza Ellen [Davidson] Johnston. The presentation page is inscribed as folllows " A common place book presented to Eliza Ellen Davidson by her Affectionate Mother on the 4th of June 1826, Greenbrier Virginia." A bound volume of unlined pages divided into two sections, hand-paginated with exception of final 30+ pages. This volume contains many poems written by Davidson, with her name and date at the end of most....
Dates:
1826 - 1827
Sarah Littlefield Johnston album
Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589277]
Identifier: MSS 16139
Scope and Contents
Sarah Littlefield Johnston album (1845-1856; 0.03 cubic feet) containing poems, illustrations of flowers, and sentiments from friends and family in Maine and Massachusetts.
Dates:
1845-1856
Mary C. Jones friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 24
Identifier: MSS 16537
Content Description
This collection consists of one volume. An elaborate sketched title "Mary C. Jones Album," is the first page used; 79 pages used for hand-written inscriptions, verse, and literature, including some calligraphy. Signatures from Providence, "Washington Ball," and New York. The inscriptions are mostly addressed to "Caroline." Marbled paper over boards with red leather spine and red leather board edges; red leather label with gilt stamped name "Mary C. Jones" on the front cover.
Dates:
1825-1829
Mary Kean school scrapbook
Collection — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16701
Content Description
Mary Kean high school scrapbook from Lomita, California, 1925-1934; 1956. Album with ephemera and photographs in a "Memories of my school days" binding compiled by Mary Kean, at Narbonne High School in Lomita in Los Angeles County. Includes programs, a few photographs, certificates, and much more. Of special interest are a series of programs and ephemera for Girl's Athletic Association field days in Southern California. There is a license for a "back seat driver" which seems to be making a...
Dates:
1925-1934, 1956
Ellie F. Keen friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 32, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16554
Content Description
This collection contains a large, stamped friendship album dedicated to Ellie F. Keen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from her father. The album contains a color title page, twelve romantic themed color plates throughout the album, over fifty poems and personal notes, and a full-page watercolor of lovers embracing in the moonlit night. Most inscriptions are signed with a first name only or initials; although, there are some exceptions with the writer’s full name. Predominately written between...
Dates:
1848 - 1856
Louise C. Lamb commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 7, Folder: 1 [X031589282]
Identifier: MSS 16147
Scope and Contents
Louise C. Lamb commonplace book, 1865 with a paste in of a carte de visite of John Wilkes Booth, around 1863 by Alexander Gardner totaling 0.03 cubic feet. Quarto album with gold-stamped leather binding and central inset panel on front cover.A mostly blank commonplace book with a title page indicating that it was published by J. C. Riker, 129 Fulton St., New York. Inscribed "A happy New Year, Lou. Frank." Appears to have been pre-filled with numerous engravings, including one of Little Red...
Dates:
1865
Sarah Lewis common place book.
Collection — Box: BW 38, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16611
Dates:
1841 - 1854
Mary Antoinette Mitchell memory album
Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16382
Content Description
Handwritten friendship sentiments, most signed and dated; Steubenville, Ohio.
Dates:
1876 - 1937
Maria Morse commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 15, Folder: 1 [X031589488]
Identifier: MSS 16319
Scope and Contents
Maria Morse commonplace book, 1828-1876, 0,.03 cubic feet is a cCommercially produced album with covers of hand-marbled paper with red leather corners and binding, and hand-marbled endpapers. Printed title page reads The Album. / E. Hunt & Co. Middletown Con." Owner has illustrated half-title with heart-shaped flower illustration and a stamp 'The Property of / Maria Morse." Hand-painted floral illustrations in a similar style appear throughout the volume. One page includes an example of...
Dates:
1828-1876
Julia M. Nutter friendship album
Collection — Box: BW 43, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16664
Content Description
This collection is a friendship album of Julia Nutter. The album is approximately less then a quarter filled. Entries are mostly poems or short notes and date from 1855 to 1863. Locations are those around the Boston area. The album is inscribed as follows: "Presented to Mrs. Julia M. Nutter by her friend Fannie A. Bradbury, December 25th, 1855." Later in the book Fannie also provides a poem in the shape of a diamond. In addition to entries from friends and albums, there are tipped in items...
Dates:
1855 - 1863
Frances Eleanor Poole commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 28, Folder: 1 [X032669072]
Identifier: MSS 16511
Content Description
This collection contains a commonplace book written in by Frances Eleanor "Fannie" Poole and her classmates at the Frederick Female Seminary in Maryland. The book includes a frontispiece, engraved title page, and additional plates. Poole wrote "this side up," beneath her inscription, but the binding is upside down. Poole died at the age of nineteen in 1860, four years after the last dated entry in the book. The book has heavy foxing on the plates and pages were torn from the book.
Dates:
1854 - 1856
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
Marie Rasmussen scrapbook
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16699
Content Description
Marie Rasmussen high school scrapbook from Omaha, Nebraska, in 1924. Bound in "My Golden School Days" binding and assembled by Marie Rasmussen of South High School, it has 49 pages filled with newsclippings of jokes, and school events including athletic events, plays, and ephemera.There are also photographs of friends, girls at camp, and handwritten sentiments from friends, and a poem about a boy's first kiss. The album is a snapshot of close friendships, and school days from the life of this...
Dates:
1923-1924
Mattie Robertson commonplace book
Collection — Box: BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16629
Dates:
1859 - 1863
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