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American scrapbook of Victorian chromolithographic art prints
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0035
Abstract
The creator of this scrapbook of Victorian art prints is unknown but presumed to be American as many of the images were published by H. Hallett & Co. of Portland, Maine, or by Knapp Co. Lith. for the Sunday Art Supplement to the New York Recorder. The scrapbook features large chromolithographic prints (and cut-out images from prints) of beautiful women, mothers and children, cherubs, flowers and fruit, animals, American characters, and George and Martha...
Dates:
1871-1896
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
Nineteenth-century children's scrap album
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0027
Abstract
The creator of this late nineteenth-century scrapbook is unknown, though the contents suggest that the compiler was a child who may have lived near Albany, New York. This scrap album includes chromolithographed scraps, trade cards, religious cards, visiting cards, and larger color-printed images.
Dates:
1880-1885
The Centennial scrap book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0042
Abstract
This late nineteenth-century American scrapbook bears the title "The Centennial Scrap Book" and its contents suggest that it may have been made by an adolescent female: scraps and images depict courtship, infants, fashionable ladies, flowers, and religious sentiments. The album features a series of Centennial exhibition cards that show the buildings in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, that were constructed for the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876. The album also includes prayer...
Dates:
1876