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Hairwork

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Hair jewelry instructions

 Collection — Box BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16529

Helene Freedman Victorian hairwork collection

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2020-0060

Verona Houghton memory book

 Collection — Box BW 49, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16762
Content Description This collection contains the memory book and autograph album of Verona A. Houghton of Weymouth, Massachusetts. A birthday gift from her mother, the book includes signatures and inscriptions with locks of hair and remembrances, predominately from 1854 to1857. There are fifty-four signatures, forty-one of which include a lock of hair. The signers of the book came from various locations in the United States including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa The inscription at...
Dates: 1854 - 1868

Two circulars promoting the American School Institute and Schermerhorn's School Agency, a diary, human hair, and ads for a carpet and refrigerator (Addition 7) 2023-0101, 1860-1923

 File — Box 2: [Barcode: X032669458], Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Addition 7 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains two circulars promoting the American School Institute and Schermerhorn's School Agency. There is also a tri-fold trade card ad for a White Mountain refrigerator; an advertisement booklet for a carpet called "Something Under Foot" used as a diary by "Sara"; and a plaited hair sentiment with a verse from Charlotte A. Lewis which was sent to a girl named Maryann...
Dates: 1860-1923