Manuscripts

Travel Album of Hieronymus Tielsch

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Description: A picture book of costumes: "I wrote this for Hieronymous Tielsch in friendly remembrance of the tour through England and Scotland." Seventeen color and gilt drawings with German captions and English translations on alternating leaves.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1603-1616.
Call number: mssHM 25863
Creator: Reichell, Servatius(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of May 1960.
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Erinnerungsblätter

Manuscripts

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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Victorian album of collages

Manuscripts

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

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Photograph album depicting travel in Central Mexico

Manuscripts

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

Manuscripts

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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Travel album to Great Britain

Visual Materials

An album of commercial black-and-white photographs depicting popular tourist destinations in England sometime in the 1930s. The album begins with one exterior view and several interior views of the SS Europa ocean liner of the North German Lloyd line. Once in Great Britain, there are views of London, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Lincoln, York, the Lake region, Tintern Abbey, Raglan Castle, Chepstow Castle, North Devon, Clovelly, Exeter, and Bournemouth. The images depict landmarks including cathedrals, castles, town streets, and well-known residences and buildings, that are all identified in handwritten captions. There are no personal photographs included and no indication of the compiler or owner. The photographs of Clovelly are hand-tinted.

photCL 536

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Czarine Boxall Canada travel album

Manuscripts

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

Travel Album of Hieronymus Tielsch

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