Women's Scrapbook/ Commonplace Book Collections (University of Virginia)
Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Ann Pratt friendship album
Marie Rasmussen scrapbook
Harriet S. Rowley commonplace books
Margaret Ann N. Russell commonplace book
Women's commonplace album with about 20 pages of inscriptions, sentiments, and verse, hand-written with signatures or initials and date.
Mary M. Russell album
This collection contains a commonplace book of Mary M. Russell. The first entry, signed "Mortimer," and dated Rose Mont, August 7, 1844," is a kind of paean to "The Album" itself. Book includes engraved images, verses, drawings, and handwritten entries with place names, including Virginia, Washington, and Maryland. Laid in hand-lettered piece of music, "We no more," addressed to Miss Mary Russell.
Sadie commonplace book
Ella Schultz scrapbook
Sarah Stoughton commonplace book
Susan's Friendship album
This collection contains one album with 47 pages of inscriptions, prose, and autographs with named locations including Norwich, Canterbury, Bell Plane Minnesota, Providence R.I., Colchester, Attleboro, East Greenwich, Mystic River, Boston, and Hartford.
Estelle F. Tayloe commonplace books
Margaret M. Tillotson album
Margaret Tracy commonplace book
Susan W. Tudor album
Susan W. Tudor album with numerous handwritten sentiments and poetry inscribed to her by men and women in southern Pennsylvania, mostly from East Berlin and Locust Grove. Of interest are a pasted in die-cut card illustrated by hand, a floral sketch, and two poems about escaping "Indian Maidens" which is accompanied by a nice watercolor rendering of the eponymous character in a canoe in front of a waterfall scene.
Various commonplace books
Mary Webster album
Laura A. Wright friendship album
This collection contains one volume belonging to Lauren A. Wright of Hebron, Connecticut, with 67 pages of inscriptions, prose, and drawings. An intricate calligraphy inscription reads "Calvin H. Phelps to Miss Laura A. Wright, Hebron." Dates for inscriptions range from 1830 to 1860, with the majority written in the 1830's and 1840's. Locations written in the book include Hebron, Hartford, Glastenbury, Belchertown, New Haven, Columbia, and West Dennis, Connecticut.