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Freddie Norman scrap album
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0028
Abstract
This nineteenth-century scrapbook bears the inscription "Freddie Norman Christmas 1878/ 69 Howe St. / City / from Emmie." The scrapbook features color die-cut images of ladies, children, animals, boats, flowers, birds, famous composers, and seashells.
Dates:
1878
Scrapbook of turn-of-the-twentieth century portraits of world leaders and international celebrities
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0053
Abstract
This scrapbook, compiled by an unknown creator, is a collection of turn-of-the-twentieth century portraits of world leaders and international celebrities. From royalty to military and diplomatic leaders to men and women of science, arts, and letters to personalities of the stage and silent screen, the news clippings, engravings, and cut illustrations from popular reading sources found in this scrapbook present a glimpse of fame documented in another era.
Dates:
approximately 1885-1920; Majority of material found within 1890-1910