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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
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