Philadelphia Area Archives

Start Over Form Albums (books)

John Jackson albums of specimens of dried flowers and plants, approximately 1810-1819 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 volume (146 pages)
Abstract:: This collection consists of two albums of specimens of dried and pressed plants and wild flowers made by early nineteenth-century London Grove, Pennsylvania, botanist John Jackson between 1810 and 1819. One of the albums was given to Dr. Francis Alison (1751-1813), son of the Presbyterian minister and educator Rev. Dr. Francis Alison (1705-1779).

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Nineteenth-century collecting card album, approximately 1850-1899 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (approximately 45 pages )
Abstract:: This nineteenth-century album contains approximately 154 illustrated collecting cards depicting various human-built or natural landscapes, places, activities, and wildlife. Many, if not all, of these collecting cards were part of sets produced by Louis Prang & Co. of Boston, Massachussetts.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Robert C. Carter photograph album of the St. Francis Dam disaster site, 1928

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This photograph album, which belonged to Robert C. Carter, contains thirty-one black-and-white photographs of the site of the St. Francis Dam disaster in the San Francisquito Canyon, near Los Angeles, California. The photographs were taken in 1928, shortly after the dam's failure. Several pictures contain young Carter and his family posing together or traversing the rocky site.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

James Maxwell papers, 1860-1949 (inclusive) 1867-1900 (bulk)

Extent:: 4.4 linear foot (13 boxes) and 2 oversize removal
Abstract:: The James R. Maxwell papers consist of the personal, professional, and family papers of James Maxwell, a resident of Newark, Delaware, and a civil engineer who worked for significant railroads in the American West and South America in the late 19th century.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Jennie Wilds and Caddie Lynch autograph albums and daguerreotypes, 1856-1862 (inclusive)

Extent:: .3 linear foot (1 box)
Abstract:: The Jennie Wilds and Caddie Lynch autograph albums and daguerreotypes, 1856-1862, consist of two autograph albums and two daguerreotypes of Jennie and Lydia Wilds, who were sisters and lived in Kent County, Delaware. The autograph albums represent the popular nineteenth-century custom of keeping friendship albums, and the photographs provide portraits of the young schoolgirls who typically engaged in this activity.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

William H. Trueman collection of dental advertisements, circa 1900 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.1 linear_foot (1 volume)
Abstract:: This album contains about twenty reprographic copies of dental advertisements (published between 1767 and 1828) collected by William H. Trueman (1842-1927). Trueman, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, practiced dentistry in Philadelphia for over fifty years and was an authority on the subject of dental history. The images in this album primarily advertise the services of individual dentists, and together provide information about this profession in the late eighteenth century United States.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Views in Homestead Steel Works, 1895 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (15 leaves)
Abstract:: Photograph album comprising 27 photographs of the Homestead steel yard and factory entitled Views in Homestead Steel Works dated 1895.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Scrapbook, circa 1850 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box (0.2 linear foot)
Abstract:: A scrapbook created in Gemany by an unnamed person aroung 1850. The scrapbook comprises cut-outs of lithographs and various prints. Several examples of 19th century Scherenschnitte in black silhouette images appear throughout the volume.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Pictorial postcard albums, 1907-1909 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes (0.7 linear foot)
Abstract:: Two volumes comprised of 235 picture postcards compiled by an unnamed person, probably from Adelaide, South Australia. The postcards represent the compiler's journey throughout British occupied India spanning the years from 1907 to 1909. Twenty-eight postcards are of European cities. A majority of the postcards have handwritten commentary and remarks on the versos creating a postcard travel journal or diary.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Album of cartes de visites of Rome , circa 1900 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: Album compiled by Craig Dorsey Ritchie consisting of 47 silver-gelatin prints depicting Rome, Italy.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]