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William S. Auchincloss scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0420
Abstract This one-volume scrapbook, with contents spanning 1862- 1892, includes correspondence, maps, tickets, papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, documents, advertisements, and drawings; and was largely assembled from the professional activities of William S. Auchincloss. Evidence within the scrapbook points to the wide range of interests that captured the attention of Auchincloss, a civil and mechanical engineer, originally from New York who later resided in Wilmington, Delaware, and in...
Dates: 1862-1892

Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0431
Abstract

The Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger Scrapbook chronicles the 1909 cruise taken by Philadelphia resident and theatrical manager Nixon-Nirdlinger and his wife from New York City to France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. The scrapbook records various aspects of the early twentieth-century travel business and is particularly rich with theatrical ephemera, indicating Nixon- Nirdlinger’s trip combined theatrical business interests with pleasure.

Dates: 1909

World fairs and expositions collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0630
Abstract

This artificial collection comprises a variety of types of material documenting world fairs and expositions, spanning the dates between 1851 and 1967, with the bulk of the collection dating from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Material consists of printed matter and ephemera, including newspapers, programs, invitations, maps, brochures, viewbooks, advertisements, stationery, contracts, bonds, trade cards, and a scrapbook; photographs and prints; and realia souvenirs.

Dates: 1851-1967; Majority of material found in 1893

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Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Photographs 2
Postcards 2
Programs (documents) 2
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Trade cards (advertising) 2
Advertising fans 1
Albumen prints 1
Authors, American--19th century 1
Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Brazil--Description and travel 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Buffalo (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Business letters 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Civil engineering--History--19th century 1
Contracts 1
Correspondence 1
Cruise ships--History--20th century 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Engineers 1
Ephemera (general) 1
Exhibitions--England--London--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--19th century 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--20th century 1
Handbills 1
Inventors--United States--History--20th century 1
Invitations 1
London (England)--History--19th century 1
Mechanical engineering--History--19th century 1
Menus 1
Montréal (Québec)--History--20th century 1
New Orleans (La.)--History--19th century 1
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century 1
Newspapers 1
Ocean travel--History--20th century 1
Pamphlets 1
Pennants 1
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 1
Punch (London, England) 1
Railroads--History--19th century 1
Receipts (financial records) 1
Saint Louis (Mo.)--History--20th century 1
San Francisco (Calif.)--History--20th century 1
Scarves (costume accessories) 1
Schedules (time plans) 1
Scrapbooks--United States--History--20th century 1
South America--Description and travel 1
Souvenirs 1
Stationery 1
Stereographs 1
Stereoscopes 1
Telegrams 1
Theater--History--20th century 1
Travel--United States--19th century 1
Viewbooks 1
Visiting cards 1
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Names
Auchincloss, W. S. (William Stuart), 1842-1928 1
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec) 1
Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris 1
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) 1