Autograph albums.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books, loose-leaf binders, or other volumes containing blank leaves, on which persons have written sentiments, quotations, or signatures.Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Isabella Bain memory album
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16754
Content Description
This collection features a memory book belonging to Miss Isabella Bain (1855-1934) of New Orleans, Louisiana. Various personal letters from friends and New Orleans community members addressed to Miss Bain are included. The cover of the memory book is composed of engraved Morrocan leather adorned with "Miss Isabella Bain" in gilt. Several chromolithographs of a variety of subjects, notably botany and female gender roles, are pasted throughout the book. Letter entries are not...
Dates:
c.1870-1913
Malinda Caperton album
Collection — Box BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16769
Content Description
This collection contains a friendship album for Malinda "Lin" Caperton (1842-1922) of West Virginia. The album contains approximately thirty pages of autographs with dates throughout, 1855-1861. The autographs are almost certainly all from young girls, some noted as likely classmates from the Virginia Female Institute, although a lengthy two-page poem is more likely a male student at the University of Virginia.Caperton was the daughter of Allen Taylor Caperton, 1810-1876, the...
Dates:
1855 - 1867
Jane Florence Connor autograph album
Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16848
Content Description
This collection contains Jane Florence Connor's autograph album (1857-1946). The album contains two original watercolors by Johnston as well as ink drawings, and calligraphy. Also included are numerous autographs, well-wishes, notes, and drawings from numerous Philadelphia-area friends of the Connor family, some of whom are connected to Johnston's circle.
Dates:
c.1877-1895
Edmund Harrison autograph book
Unprocessed Material — Box RG 30 - Additions Box 1: [Barcode: X032668433], Folder: ViU-2023-0146_001
Identifier: ViU-2023-0146
Esther Lightner Matson and Frank A. Matson autograph albums
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16486
Content Description
This collection contains two similarly designed autograph albums belonging to Esther Lightner Matson and her husband Frank A. Matson. The albums contain inscriptions to Esther Lightner Matson from fellow students and teachers at the Santee Normal School and to Frank A. Matson from the Genoa Indian School, both Native American Residential schools in Nebraska and taught by Quakers in the 1880’s. The albums look like typical nineteenth century autograph albums except for the page(s) that are...
Dates:
1880 - 1899
Grace's friendship album
File — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669455]
Identifier: MSS 16736
Content Description
A Victorian novelty album owned by a person named Grace from Massachusetts. The covers are pasted with colorful die cut-outs on a background of printed lace paper doilies. The album is in the shape of a triange with scalloped edges, in its original (cardboard) triangle-shaped box. The interior pages are folded over, with instructions from Grace telling the recipient when the messages can be opened. Many of the entries are from Stoneham, MA indicating Grace may have been from this...
Dates:
1889-1891
Summerfield Smith autograph album
Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16879
Content Description
This collection contains the autograph album of Summerfield Smith (1836-1864), compiled while he was a student at the University of Virginia. Smith collected fifty-eight autographs of peers and professors at the University between 1856 and 1858. The red leather-bound autograph book contains entries that list a student’s name, the date of entry, their location, where they lived away from the University, the “session” (i.e. 1857-58), and a personal note to Summerfield (referred to as...
Dates:
1856 - 1858
Mrs. G. J. Walker collection
File — Box BW 38-115: [Barcode: X030043722]
Identifier: MSS 38-115
Scope and Content
An autograph album of a Miss Glasgow, of Virginia, contains autographs, 1842-1847, of American statesmen including John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Alexander H.H. Stuart, and Henry A. Wise.
The collection also includes a note from Henry Clay, 1847 July 30, responding to a request for an autograph; "In memoriam," a poem "written for Harrie [?] W. Kuhl after his death by Davis"; a letter from George [McCorkle], Newport News, Va., 1901 Dec. 26, to his sister Juliette McCorkle,...
Dates:
1842-1901
Mary Webster album
Collection — Box BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16723
Content Description
This collection consists of the album from Mary Webster, a young woman from Madison, Ohio. Entries include a variety of poems and notes from friends of Mary. Some of the poetry may be original works. Inside are five finished engravings: these tend to have small black and white biblical scenes with large, colored floral borders that extend up the page. The flowers are identified, and meanings attributed to the flower are identified below the illustrations.The locations most often...
Dates:
1843 - 1846
Johann Georg Weidenkeller album amicorum
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16877
Scope and Contents
Album amicorums were an early friendship and autograph book. This volume is bound in contemporary calf skin with a gilt embossed plate on both covers and the bookbinder's mark WL; all edges are gilt. It is in a modern slipcase. The manuscript is ink on paper comprised of 173 leaves with twenty-eight miniatures in gouache including one full-page allegorical depiction on the verso of the first leaf, twenty-four coats of arms (two mounted) mostly with motto and entry, two full-page depictions...
Dates:
1605 - 1620