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Sarah Belville early nineteenth-century friendship album
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0054
Abstract
This friendship album belonged to Sarah Belville of Christiana, Delaware, and contains poems, tributes, and classical quotations from Belville's friends, who sometimes sign or initial, give their location, and date their contributions.
Dates:
1828-1852
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