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Rachel Leah Lindeman album
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0008
Abstract
The Rachel Leah Lindeman album is a presentation album which was given to Lindeman on March 18, 1862, in honor of her birthday. The album, which contains thirty-four pages of photographs, poems, artwork (pencil sketches, ink drawings, cartoons, illuminations, watercolors, etc.), elaborate calligraphy, and pressed flowers dating from 1862 to 1877, is a fine example of a Victorian presentation album with colonial Indian influences.
Dates:
1862-1877
Journal of a voyage from Philadelphia to Antwerp
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0170
Abstract
Joseph Martin, a ship's boy on the merchant vessel Pacific, kept this ship's log during two 1820s voyages: Philadelphia, to Antwerp (Belgium), to Crounstant (likely Kronstadt, Russia), and back to Philadelphia with Captain Abiah Sharpe; and Philadelphia to Madras (India) and back with Captain James Moore. In addition to standard nautical data, Martin added a small number of illustrations, some in color, and many nautical and mathematical exercises, including...
Dates:
1820 April 15-1822 April 17, 1843; Majority of material found within 1820 April 15-1822 April 17
The shades of evening veil the lofty spires … : sonnet
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0808
Abstract
Autograph manuscript of sonnet by David Lester Richardson.
Dates:
after 1825