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Album of verse and quotations
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0158
Abstract
This commonplace volume of verse and quotations was likely created by Rebecca Bailey while at school in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, in 1852. While most of the material was copied from popular hymns, poetry, and other literature, Bailey may have written some of the poetry.
Dates:
1852
Jennie Wilds and Caddie Lynch autograph albums and daguerreotypes
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 0423
Abstract
The Jennie Wilds and Caddie Lynch autograph albums and daguerreotypes, 1856-1862, consist of two autograph albums and two daguerreotypes of Jennie and Lydia Wilds, who were sisters and lived in Kent County, Delaware. The autograph albums represent the popular nineteenth-century custom of keeping friendship albums, and the photographs provide portraits of the young schoolgirls who typically engaged in this activity.
Dates:
1856-1862