MSS 0093. Commonplaces, Albums, & Scrapbooks

Collection Category

Identifier: MSS 0093

Staff Only

Items housed in this Collection Category are albums, blank books, or scrapbooks in format, ranging in size from small handbooks to oversize folios. These volumes include commonplaces, copybooks, friendship albums, autograph albums, scrap albums, scrapbooks, albums with sample trade cards, and other such blank books filled with collected items or text. Material of this type may appear in MSS 0100 collections, such as scrapbooks in personal or family papers. The call number for sources in this category also includes an item number: MSS 0093, Item ####. For additional information on Collection Categories please visit: https://guides.lib.udel.edu/specintro/finding

Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:

The Centennial scrap book

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0042

Abstract This late nineteenth-century American scrapbook bears the title "The Centennial Scrap Book" and its contents suggest that it may have been made by an adolescent female: scraps and images depict courtship, infants, fashionable ladies, flowers, and religious sentiments. The album features a series of Centennial exhibition cards that show the buildings in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, that were constructed for the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876. The album also includes prayer...

Dates: 1876

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Robert J. Voshell collection of Delaware political ephemera scrapbooks

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0119

Abstract

Delaware native Robert J. Voshell spent his career working for the Delaware Department of Motor Vehicles and served as a State Senator representing the Milford area from 1993-1998. The Robert J. Voshell collection of Delaware political ephemera scrapbooks contains 17 volumes and 2 albums of flyers, clippings, bumper stickers, newsletters, brochures, posters and other ephemeral material pertaining to local, state and federal elections, Delaware government and politics.

Dates: 1925-2004; Majority of material found within 1968-2000

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Lillie J.S. Watt friendship album

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0062

Abstract

This friendship album belonged to Lillie J.S. Watt of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and contains autograph inscriptions, signatures, and drawings done by her friends between 1884 and 1909.

Dates: 1884-1909; Majority of material found within 1884-1885

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Joseph Willett 1856 eclectic scrapbook of engravings

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0043

Abstract

This American scrapbook bears the name Joseph Willett, along with the date 1856, on the inside cover and is predominantly comprised of monochromatic engravings, printed images, and illustrated verses.

Dates: 1856-1880

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

World's Columbian Exposition scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0017

Abstract

Created by an unknown individual, this scrapbook contains newsclippings from an unidentified source that document the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago, Illinois, from May 1 to October 30, 1893.

Dates: approximately 1893

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Anne Wheeler Young and William Young scrapbooks

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0003

Abstract This collection comprises eight scrapbooks and special periodical issues assembled and collected by Philadelphia resident Anne Wheeler Young, who was interested in sensational news such as the trial and execution of Bruno Hauptmann for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., and celebrity coverage of British royalty, particularly King George V, King Edward VII, and Queen Elizabeth II. The collection also includes a scrapbook complied by Mrs. Young’s son, William Young, for an eighth-grade...

Dates: 1934-1953

Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections