Fred's nineteenth-century British album of scraps and greeting cards

This nineteenth-century scrap album, apparently compiled by a British child named "Fred," contains colorful scraps of animals, children, British sailors in uniform, rowers, flowers, birds, and other decorative items. There are also a number of small printed images, Bible verses, and Christmas, New Year's, Easter, and birthday greeting cards. The cover of this album is embossed black and gold on red cloth in a Japonesque design of the Aesthetic Movement.

A few religious verse cutouts as well as Christmas cards have an origin or publisher (some from the Religious Tract Society published by Riddle & Couchman, Lith.). Other greeting card types include birthday, New Year's, and Easter. Frequently featured are cards published by S. Hildesheimer & Co. Other notable publishers are Vogelsang & Kaiser, Munich; John Brand & Co, Lith., London; and E.C. Kershaw & Son, London.

There is one trade card depicting a Chinese scene with a tea plantation, a Chinese junk sailing away, and two Chinese gentlemen in the foreground drinking Horniman's Tea. Throughout the album are a few photographs of buildings cut from an albumen compilation of buildings from Oxford, England, such as the Meadows Buildings and St. Algates.

Selected images of note include an image of H.R.H. Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, and a black-faced jockey on a bicycle that decorates a New Year's greeting card. Page 25 of the scrap album has a Christmas greeting illustration that has been attributed to the children's illustrator Kate Greenaway.