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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
Lester F. Black sample book of calligraphic calling cards
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0018
Abstract
Lester F. Black penned the calling cards in this late nineteenth-century volume of thirty calligraphic samples, as well as a brief note on the final page.
Dates:
approximately 1880-1890
John A. Parke penmanship exercise book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0186
Abstract
John A. (John Andrew) Parke, likely a student in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, kept this penmanship exercise book between 1845 and 1846. Parke used the book to practice his handwriting in German Text.
Dates:
1845-1846