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    Album of gems

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    Blank book with lithographic plates, intended as an autograph book or commonplace book, where one could put letters, inspirational quotes, favorite poems, etc.

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    Love and the flowers

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    Blank book with lithographic plates, intended as an autograph book or commonplace book, where one could put letters, inspirational quotes, favorite poems, etc.

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    Flower tokens

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    Blank book with lithographic plates, intended to be presented to young women with handwritten letters, poems, mementos, and advice from friends, family, and acquaintances.

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    Mary Lupton album amicorum

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    This autograph album contains a miscellany of poetry, prose and drawings penned between 1822 and 1829 by various friends and acquaintances of Lupton; there are 98 pages of text, 11 full page drawings in watercolor or pencil, with the remaining pages blank. The album includes a broad variety of literary and religious content: poetic extracts from Cowper; a sketch of lake Windermere, lines of poetry in the hand of the poet James Montgomery and another poem in the hand of French artist Alphonse Dousseau.

    mssHM 82836

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    Floral album [an autograph album]

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    Autograph book likely from 1884. Signed through volume by family members, friends, etc., the majority of them dated 1884 in Patterson, New Jersey. Includes chromolithographic illustrations of flowers every few leaves.

    610391

  • System of Industrial Art Drawing: Ornamentation

    System of Industrial Art Drawing: Ornamentation

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    One drawing book entitled System of Industrial Art Drawing: Ornamentation, by E. Croasdale, published by J.M. Stoddart & Co., Philadelphia, copyright 1876. Also printed on the front cover is: "Issued in sets from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, by E. Croasdale, Principal, Second Series, Number Three." This book contains 7 plates (plate VIII is wanting) of Egyptian design and motif. Each plate is faced by a blank page intended for copying. This book is vertically oriented, with the cover and pages intended to be lifted up, instead of to the left, as usual.

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