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British late-Victorian album with "Ally Sloper" characters and other scraps
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0044
Abstract
This late Victorian-era scrap album, likely made by a young British boy, bears a black lacquered board cover adorned with a hand-painted bouquet of flowers, ferns, and foliage. Contents include die-cut color scraps of animals, flowers, and a color set of characters from "Ally Sloper," the popular Victorian comic strip. A set of colored transfer prints depict fables and nursery rhymes and a set of color-printed square cards depicts the Stations of the Cross.
Dates:
approximately 1880s
Harry Anderson scrap album
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0036
Abstract
This nineteenth-century American scrapbook, apparently belonging to a child named Harry Anderson, contains visiting cards, rewards of merit, holiday cards, trade cards, prayer cards, die-cut images and art prints.
Dates:
approximately 1880-1890