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    Filters: Trade cards (advertising) in format [X] Scrapbooks in format [X] Greeting cards in format [X]

    Results:  3 Items

    Creator:Creator unknown
    Title:Children's scrapbook belonging to "A.R."
    Date(s):1850-1899
    Call No:MSS 0093, Item 0026
    Abstract:This nineteenth-century children's scrapbook bears the initials "A.B." and the date 1891 in cross stitch on a small oval canvas label affixed to a red cloth cover. The scrapbook features[...] both German and English trade cards; collectible scraps of flowers, animals, children, and flowers; visiting cards; New Year cards; color printed cartoons of Grimm fairy tales and rhymes in German; and other color printed images.
    Subjects:Scrapbooks--19th century
    Creator:Harris, Ella, active 1875-1895
    Title:Ella Harris nineteenth-century American scrapbook
    Date(s):1875-1895
    Call No:MSS 0093, Item 0030
    Abstract:This nineteenth-century American children's scrapbook bears the inscription "To Ella, Much Love from Edith and Edna." The scrapbook features trade cards; Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, and New Year's greeting cards;[...] collectible scraps of flowers, animals, and children; one silk program for "Nunnemacher's Grand Opera" featuring a performance of Martha by the Milwaukee Philharmonic Society.
    Subjects:Scrapbooks--United States--History--19th century
    Creator:Creator unknown
    Title:Fred's nineteenth-century British album of scraps and greeting cards
    Date(s):1875-1885
    Call No:MSS 0093, Item 0039
    Abstract:This nineteenth-century scrap album, apparently compiled by a British child named "Fred," contains colorful scraps of animals, children, British sailors in uniform, rowers, flowers, birds, and other decorative items. There[...] are also a number of small printed images, Bible verses, and Christmas, New Year's, Easter, and birthday greeting cards. The cover of this album is embossed black and gold on red cloth in a Japonesque design of the Aesthetic Movement.
    Subjects:Scrapbooks--Great Britain--History--19th century