Manuscripts

Maggie Jane Bishop autograph album

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Description: Autograph album inscribed by friends and family; illustrated with engravings.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1850-1857.
Call number: mssHM 48501
Creator: Bishop, Maggie Jane(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Fred Wonser, October 1936.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Lydia Woodworth autograph album

Manuscripts

Autograph album of Lydia Woodworth chiefly containing blank pages with 10 drawings, 1 handwritten piece of music, and 3 manuscript pieces contributed by her friends including members of the Strong family and Charles Warren Stoddard. Consists of: a poem titled "Madrigal" by Charles Warren Stoddard, 1880; an undated unsigned poem in French beginning "Ah! Mademoiselle Lydie! est a bien vous..."; 1880; pen-and-ink sketch of a woman by Joseph D. Strong, 1880; two pages of music, "To Lydia" with "words by J. E. T." and "music by C. T.", February 1879; three pen-and-ink sketches of a woman by Belle Osborne Strong, 1878 and undated; a pen-and-ink sketch of a figure in Chinese costume with a fan by Jules Tavernier; a watercolor of a misty landscape by J. W. Rix; a watercolor of flowers signed E. Williams; an ink-and-watercolor of a human skull, unsigned; an unfinished watercolor of a woman and flowers, unsigned; and a colored sketch of a flying duck by E. N. [McCoy?] . Also includes a note from Austin Strong, son of Joseph and Belle Strong, dated September 1919, identifying the contents as contributions "all from young artists living in San Francisco in the real Bohemia days." The volume is inscribed "Lydia Woodworth, from her dear Friend Jessie Rand, Dec. 25th, 1876."

mssHM 45669

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Autograph Album of Charles H. Tuxbury

Manuscripts

Autograph album containing various signatures and short notes by soldiers from the American Civil War, American poets, educators, and social activists. There is an introduction to the autograph album by Lucy J. Sherman and a loose business card belonging to Charles H. Tuxbury.

mssHM 79904

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Petra Avila's autograph album

Visual Materials

Petra Avila's autograph album, dated 1889 to 1896, contains handwritten notes, poems and drawings by family members and friends, with color decals of love sentiments attached to some pages. The signers added their Los Angeles neighborhoods after their names: Compton, Vernon, Florence, Green Meadows and Tajuata. There are entries by Petra's siblings Ernest, Hernaldo, Anastacio, and Carolina Avila; P. [Pedro?] Lugo; and others with surnames that include Van Dorn, Belieu, Palomares, Schulze, Wright, Redding, Fogal, Rivera, Sanchez, Ochoa, Stoppel, Sawyer and Browning.

photCL 355

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G. E. Dyke-Poore seaweed specimen album

Manuscripts

A Victorian album of seaweed and algae specimens collected and preserved by G. E. Dyke-Poore. The album contains twenty-three seaweed specimens mounted on cards and then mounted on pages bound in the album; there are also four additional specimens mounted onto loose pages laid into the back of the album. The specimens are carefully pressed onto each card and labeled with their Latin names; the specimens seem to have been gathered in Jersey, with one specimen from The Heads, Tasmania. The album is bound in contemporary pink and gilt illustrated paper covers (possibly homemade), with the remainder of green silk ties. Mounted onto the verso of the front cover is a little green card which says "Collected, Arranged, and Mounted by Miss G. E. Dyke-Poore, Jersey" and there is also a short poem inscribed by Miss Dyke-Poore at the beginning of the album.

mssHM 84128

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Floral album [an autograph album]

Rare Books

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

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William Hugh Sibbald autograph album and ephemera

Manuscripts

The autograph album contains autographs, caricatures, cartoons and drawings. The autographs in the album include U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1911 March 21) and William H. Taft (1911 October 16), politicians, cartoonists, actors, aviators, athletes and musicians; it appears many of the autographs were from guests staying the hotels managed by W.H. Sibbald. There is also a leather case with snap closure and one folder of printed ephemera with clippings, obituary, and a copy of a 1950 Los Angeles city resolution (5 pieces).

mssHM 82921

Maggie Jane Bishop autograph album

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