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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

British scrapbook of the late Regency-early Victorian period

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0041
Abstract

This early nineteenth-century British scrapbook features both copied and original riddles and poems. Images included in this collection are political cartoons, fashionable ladies and gentlemen, architecture, animals, birds, flowers and fruit. Thematic arrangements of scraps include virtue, marriage, courtship, mourning and the loss of family members.

Dates: approximately 1830-1840

Harriet Elizabeth Hutchison papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0513
Abstract

Documents and memorabilia associated with Harriet Elizabeth Hutchison's service as a nurse in the Army during World War II, and some post-war personal notes and official documents.

Dates: 1943-1974