Nineteenth-century children's scrap album with photograph of two boys
Scope and Content Note
This nineteenth-century children's scrapbook bears the title "ALBUM" in blue letters with additional black and gold stamping on the maroon cloth cover. The scrapbook, which is completely filled with carefully placed images throughout, features collectible, die-cut, color scraps from sets of flowers, cats, dogs, birds, butterflies, insects, reptiles, children, cherubs, cartoonish faces, comic figures, and fashionable women and characters in ethnic dress. The album also includes holiday greeting cards and one photograph of two boys on a page about eight leaves from the back of the volume.
Cards in this album include Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's Day, and general greetings. The photograph depicts two young boys standing on a wooded path.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1875-1885
Creator
- Creator unidentified (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce isrequired from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?askspec
Biographical Note
This scrap album was created by an unknown individual, very probably a child. Content and the cover design, which is in Egyptian Revival style of the Aesthetic Movement suggests that this album was created between 1875 and 1885.
Biographical information derived from collection.
Extent
1 volume (approximately 25 pages) ; 28 cm
Abstract
This nineteenth-century children's scrapbook bears the title "ALBUM" in blue letters with additional black and gold stamping on the maroon cloth cover. The scrapbook, which is completely filled with carefully placed images throughout, features collectible, die-cut, color scraps from sets of flowers, cats, dogs, birds, butterflies, insects, reptiles, children, cherubs, cartoonish faces, comic figures, and fashionable women and characters in ethnic dress. The album also includes holiday greeting cards and one photograph of two boys on a page about eight leaves from the back of the volume.
Source
Unknown.
Materials Available in Alternative Format
A digitized copy of the scrapbook is available at the University of Delaware Digital Institutional Repository .
Shelving Summary
- Item 0032: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0093 folio
OCLC Number
Processing
Processed by Jennifer M. Nichols and Tim Pouch, November 2012. Encoded by Caitlin Farthing, February 2013.
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Finding aid for nineteenth-century children's scrap album with photograph of two boys
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Date
- 2013 February 28
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository