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Clara Agnes Boulter mid-nineteenth century scrapbook from the American South

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0033
Abstract This antebellum and mid-nineteenth century scrapbook from the American South bears the name Clara Agnes Boulter on the inside front endpaper. The contents of this book are largely centered on ladies' manners, etiquette, advice, short stories, and fashion for women, though a significant component includes references to Confederate generals and Southern sympathies. Several items suggest the creator had ties to Texas and Virginia, and new clippings from Southern papers in Knoxville, Louisville,...
Dates: approximately 1843-1869

The Jenny Lind album : a friendship album from Mary Ann De Souza to Esther Bolster

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0045
Abstract This "Jenny Lind Album" was published as a blank book with engraved illustrations and filled as a friendship album for Esther Bolster by her devoted friend, Mary Ann De Souza in 1858. The album contains original poetry, humorous anecdotes cut from magazines, hand-cut color images of flowers, embossed silver and gold gilt scraps, embossed and colorized foil scraps, and chromatic images of ladies in period fashions. Original verse in the albums includes sentimental themes of Jenny Lind, making...
Dates: 1858

Alice Marston scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0421
Abstract

The Alice Marston scrapbook, 1896-1906, chronicles a decade of Marston family life, revealing information about the social, cultural, and leisure activities of an ordinary upper-middle-class Philadelphia family at the turn of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1896-1906