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Travel Album of Hieronymus Tielsch
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Erinnerungsblätter
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These "Remembrance Leaves" are signed autograph poems, notes, and religious sayings, some with watercolor illustrations; there is also a pressed flower and a braid of hair. Thirty-three leaves are in German and one leaf is in English; there are also unused blank leaves. The leaves are housed in a green leather, gold embossed box made to look like an autograph album; the corners have some damage and the front cover is loose.
mssHM 82874
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Photograph album depicting travel in Central Mexico
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Album containing photographs taken during a 1905 train tour of Mexico. The photographs depict people and places throughout Mexico including Monterrey, Mexico City, Guanajuato, and Queretaro; there are also several photographs of the travelers and tour employees. The photographs are numbered and there is an index glued on the rear pastedown providing a description and location for all the photographs in the album. A souvenir brochure laid into the album indicates that the trip was a Raymond & Whitcomb Tour, which departed from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia on February 9, 1905. The brochure lists the names of the travelers.
mssHM 83832
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Butterfly watercolor album
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This albums contains water color images of over 101 different butterfly species, mostly from Europe with some from America, India, Suriname and China. Most of the images are labeled with the butterfly's German and Latin name. The artist, who is unknown, also painted images of caterpillars and chrysalis. The preparation of the album appears to have been done over a number of years with individual leaves done separately and then collated before binding together with 18th century and 19th century leaves occasionally intermixed.
mssHM 76712
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Czarine Boxall Canada travel album
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This photo album portrays a lengthy excursion taken by Czarine Boxall in August and September 1947 to Lake Louise, Jasper and Prince Rupert, as depicted by snapshots, captioned postcards, and the compiler's own typewritten account, which is bound in with the pages of photographs and snapshots. The volume also contains a full itinerary of the trip, probably generated by the compiler using information supplied by the tour operator. The album is marked "Northwest Canada" on the front cover.
mssHM 83461
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Mercedes Bryant photograph travel album of Omnibus College tour
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The photographs, postcards, and ephemera document the travels of the participants in the 1931 Omnibus College tour, the first traveling summer school excursion for the college. The tour took the students through Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Montana, and Wyoming. The album contains over 300 photographs, all identified, 77 postcards, and various ephemera. With the album is a 14-page typewritten journal of the trip, along with over 12 loose photographs and postcards (one written by Mercedes Bryant to her mother, Etta). The album also includes 40 photographs taken by Mercedes Bryant in 1932 of locations in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
mssHM 83850
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Victorian album of collages
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This album is composed of 12 original collages inserted into decorated paper-covered front and rear boards. Collages are made with paper, silk ribbons, flowers, dyed wool, shells, leaves, cut-outs from various printed sources, and lithographs. The collagist was likely an Irish Catholic young woman, either from or living in Avoca, Wicklow County, Ireland (there is a collage page with the title "Sweet Vale Avoca"). Each collage speaks to a different theme ranging from rural life, nature, a childhood home, childhood, youth, communion, perceptions of old age, and a haunted house. Each collage has a title and handwritten pasted-down captions, some coming from popular songs and verse including Thomas Moore's "The Meeting of the Waters." Housed in a slip case with gilt title "ALBUM ANGLAIS."
mssHM 84002