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British late-Victorian album with "Ally Sloper" characters and other scraps
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0044
Abstract
This late Victorian-era scrap album, likely made by a young British boy, bears a black lacquered board cover adorned with a hand-painted bouquet of flowers, ferns, and foliage. Contents include die-cut color scraps of animals, flowers, and a color set of characters from "Ally Sloper," the popular Victorian comic strip. A set of colored transfer prints depict fables and nursery rhymes and a set of color-printed square cards depicts the Stations of the Cross.
Dates:
approximately 1880s
Harriet Elizabeth Hutchison papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0513
Abstract
Documents and memorabilia associated with Harriet Elizabeth Hutchison's service as a nurse in the Army during World War II, and some post-war personal notes and official documents.
Dates:
1943-1974