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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Arbres de l’Amérique sketchbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0187
Abstract

This volume, entitled “Arbres de l’Amérique,” consists of 157 original pencil drawings (exact copies reduced to one third of the originals) of engraving taken from paintings by P.J. Redouté and Pancrace Bessa done for Francois-Andre Michaux’s North American Sylva, Paris, 1817-1819.

Dates: approximately 1850s

Papermaking apprentice's notebook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0159
Abstract

This notebook belonged to an English papermaking apprentice in the 1890s and contains instructions and recipes for making paper as well as poetry.

Dates: approximately 1890

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Botanical illustration 1
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