Albums (Books)

Scope and Contents Contains purchase records for Whittier's collections of books and antiques. Volume 1 contains bills and receipts from used book dealers (particularly Goodspeed's Book Shop, Charles E. Lauriat Co., N. J. Bartlett & Co., and Maggs Bros.) and antique furniture dealers (particularly Israel Sack, Inc.). Volume 2 consists of mounted photographs--many of which have identifications typed on cards and stapled above--of some of the furniture recorded in vol. 1. Penciled numbers key most of the...

Scope and Contents Contains 77 negative silhouettes mounted on black backgrounds, all but three of which are identified on a "List of Names" at the beginning of the volume. There are also six leaves of 'Scherenschnitten' pictures; and then eight un-mounted silhouettes (six of which are identified) laid in. These loose silhouettes are now in separate sleeves. Many members of the Coates family are pictured, as are members of the Hornor, Morrison, Evans, Redman, Randolph, Pickering, Hopkins, Snowden, and Yarnall...

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Scrapbook created by Grace Gardiner Smith, assembled at around age 10. Contents include various chromolithograph scrap cutouts, trade cards, and greeting cards.

Scope and Contents Contains accounts of Hazen Richardson, a carpenter and cabinetmaker from Stockbridge, Vermont, with over 65 individuals. Includes such entries as "to trundle Bedstid," "to one Beauro," "to Six Citchin Chairs," "to one Candle Stand." Other than the price, the accounts do not give any information about the furniture, for example the species of wood used. The one exception is a charge for a cherry coffin. Also includes entries for manual labor ("to myself two dys work on the Schoolhouse"), for...

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Album of photographs by T.H. Owens of operations at an unidentified textile mill in Rhode Island. The images document the full breadth of textile production at the mill, including carding, spinning, loading thread onto bobbins, weaving, quality checks, and packaging of the new fabric. Also included are images of the exterior of the mill and the main office, as well as photos of employees at work throughout the mill.

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An interior design collage album made by Tressa Myrick as a school assignment, titled "Our Blue Heaven." The album includes hand-drawn floor plans, decoration plans made from images cut out of magazines and other printed ephemera, estimated cost lists, and hand-written explanations for multiple bedrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry, library, and a roof-top pool and garden.

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Ledger of Boston shipping merchants William Appleton and Company detailing transactions that took place between 1836 and 1842. Accounts include tea speculation, shipments of goods to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Liverpool Packet Co. shipments to Havana, Cuba. Following the ledger entries, the ledger was used for children's drawings of American Civil War battle maps, as well as used as a scrapbook containing various maps of the United States and material related to American territories.

Content Description A scrapbook documenting the 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1967 meetings of the Wilmington District of the Delaware Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, possibly kept by a member of the Ringgold Chapel A.M.E. Church in Middletown, Delaware. The scrapbook contains photographs, programs from worship services, handwritten notes, a partial expense report, call and response guides from worship services, and typewritten minutes from a meeting of The Evangelistic Cooperative...