Harriet Cooke scrapbook
Scope and Contents Note
Folio scrapbook with marble-paper cover, and gold-stamped green leather corners and binding, containing pages of many different colors. Inside the front cover is a red leather gold-stamped plate reading "Harriet Cooke / 1842." Title page has a memorial plate reading "To Miss Cook May 2nd 1842 / In Remembrance of the late / Miss Sarah P. M. Kreth / Obit 26 Apr Atat 33yr / Jas Thomas, Undertaker, Bristol." Contains a wide range of visual materials pasted into the volume, including original drawings (unsigned), popular prints, items clipped from printed volumes. Notable is A Sermon on Malt, a visual poetry broadside "Printed and Sold by John Wright, Temperance Tract Depository, 18, Bridge-street." No indication is given of the relationship between the two women.
Dates
- Creation: 1842
Language of Materials
English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
Biographical Note
Harriet Cooke appears to have lived in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.
Source: Materials within collection.
Extent
0.25 Cubic Feet (1 volume)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2015-0058, Purchased 2 May 2016. William and Elizabeth Morris Fund.
Genre / Form
- Title
- Harriet Cooke scrapbook
- Author
- Tanner Greene
- Date
- 5 March 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States