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Frances Eleanor Poole commonplace book

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2021-0061

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.

Acquisition Type

Purchase

Provenance

Purchased 1 October 2019

Restrictions Apply

No

Access Restrictions

This collection is minimally processed and open for research.

Dates

  • Creation: 1854 - 1856

Creator

Extent

1 items (1 letter sized folder)

Inventory

1 item