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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]

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Harriet Elliot manuscript original drawings, 1807-1808 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 volume (150 leaves)
Abstract:
This bound volume of original graphite sketches, notes, and nature prints is attributed to Harriet Elliot (d. 1825), daughter of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto. Minto House and the surrounding landscape in Roxburghshire, Scotland, are the subjects of this sketchbook, with contents dated between 1807-1808. The volume also includes copied verse and studies of geometry and perspective.

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