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Nineteenth-century children's scrap album

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
Item 0027
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
1 volume (40 pages)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0093, Item 0027, Nineteenth-century children's scrap album, 1880-1885, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1880-1885 (inclusive)
Creator:
Creator unknown
Form:
Scrapbooks, Printed ephemera, Trade cards (advertising), Visiting cards, and Juvenilia
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.

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.

Biographical information derived from collection.

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, visiting cards, religious cards, and larger color-printed images.

The cover of this volume, which is in fragile condition with brittle pages and a broken spine, is decoratively embossed with the words "scrap album." Images within include several covers from

Youth's Companion , a children's magazine published in Boston; trade cards for Ponds cream, Excelsior starch, J. & P. Coats thread, Clarks thread, and Pears soap. A set of seven cards for Higgins German laundry soap, as well as several cards for Eureka Poisoned Fly Plate depict African-Americans to advertise the product. A trade card from J. Mandelbaum Fine Shoes in Albany, New York, 1880, suggests that the child who created this album may have lived in the area. Visiting cards in the album bear the names Mrs. Frankie Knuck, Lucus Grimstead, Mamie Dykman, A. J. Cribs, Robbin Ragsville, and others.

Item 0027: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0093 folio

Unknown.

Processed by Jennifer M. Nichols and Tim Pouch, October 2012. Encoded by Caitlin Farthing, February 2013.

This item forms part of MSS 0093 Commonplaces, Albums, Scrapbooks collection.

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Publisher
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2013 February 27
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Nineteenth-century children's scrap album, 1880-1885.
Item 0027
Physical Description

1 volume

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