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Centennial Exposition scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0015
Abstract

This scrapbook of advertisements, trade cards, and collectible ephemera from the 1876 Centennial Exposition was created by Richard W. Davids.

Dates: 1876
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Établissements Artistiques Parisiens, Album des Menus

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0065
Abstract

This scrapbook of menu designs was created by French printing house Établissements Artistiques Parisiens in 1935 to showcase the firm's wide range of print styles and graphic designs.

Dates: 1935
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0431
Abstract

The Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger Scrapbook chronicles the 1909 cruise taken by Philadelphia resident and theatrical manager Nixon-Nirdlinger and his wife from New York City to France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. The scrapbook records various aspects of the early twentieth-century travel business and is particularly rich with theatrical ephemera, indicating Nixon- Nirdlinger’s trip combined theatrical business interests with pleasure.

Dates: 1909
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Emilie Sargent scrapbook of West Indies and South American cruise aboard R.M.S. Mauretania

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0010
Abstract The Emilie Sargent scrapbook documents Sargent’s travels to the West Indies and South America aboard the cruise ship R.M.S. Mauretania in the fall of 1933. The scrapbook comprises approximately one-hundred-pages of photographs, newsletters, postcards, programs, menus, newspaper clippings, souvenirs, and other ship ephemera gathered during the cruise, which stopped at the following ports of call between September 9 and September 22, 1933: Trinidad, La Guaira...
Dates: 1933-1935
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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Advertisements 2
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Cruise ships--History--20th century 2
Ocean travel--History--20th century 2
Postcards 2
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Trade cards (advertising) 2
Advertising--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Colón (Panama)--Description and travel 1
Curaçao--Description and travel 1
Ephemera (general) 1
Exhibitions--United States--History--19th century 1
Graphic design (Typography) 1
Handbills 1
Havana (Cuba)--Description and travel 1
Havana (Cuba)--History--20th century 1
La Guaira (Distrito Federal, Venezuela)--Description and travel 1
Maps (documents) 1
Newsletters 1
Pamphlets 1
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 1
Photographs 1
Programs (documents) 1
Receipts (financial records) 1
Schedules (time plans) 1
Scrapbooks--United States--History--20th century 1
Souvenir programs 1
Telegrams 1
Theater--History--20th century 1
Tickets 1
Travelers 1
Trinidad--Description and travel 1
Visiting cards 1
Women travelers--20th century 1
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Language
English 3
French 1
 
Names
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Cunard Line, ltd. 1
Davids, Richard W. 1
Harris, Dorothy 1
Mauretania (Ship) 1
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Nixon-Nirdlinger, Fred G. (Frederick G.), 1877-1931 1
Pears (A. & F.) Limited 1
Sargent, Emilie Hall 1
Wanamaker & Brown 1
Whitcomb, Arthur B. 1
de B. Lovett, Louis 1
Établissements Artistiques Parisiens 1
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