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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
The Jenny Lind album : a friendship album from Mary Ann De Souza to Esther Bolster
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0045
Abstract
This "Jenny Lind Album" was published as a blank book with engraved illustrations and filled as a friendship album for Esther Bolster by her devoted friend, Mary Ann De Souza in 1858. The album contains original poetry, humorous anecdotes cut from magazines, hand-cut color images of flowers, embossed silver and gold gilt scraps, embossed and colorized foil scraps, and chromatic images of ladies in period fashions. Original verse in the albums includes sentimental themes of Jenny Lind, making...
Dates:
1858
Lillie J.S. Watt friendship album
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0062
Abstract
This friendship album belonged to Lillie J.S. Watt of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and contains autograph inscriptions, signatures, and drawings done by her friends between 1884 and 1909.
Dates:
1884-1909; Majority of material found within 1884-1885