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Erinnerungsblätter

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Description
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.
Type
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Production date
1827-1847.
Call number
mssHM 82874
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Herbert Baetz, March 13, 1974.
Dimensions
13 x 20 cm :
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