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Abram Keller Shaifer antebellum movable scrapbook

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Description: This scrapbook was assembled by Abram Keller Shaifer and features clippings of articles, poems, and other printed matter that were published in various newspapers and magazines. Shaifer created flaps and little doors out of colored paper to expand the scrapbook pages in order to hold additional text. Included in the scrapbook are all 19 installments of Alexander Walker's "Jackson and New Orleans" which were published in the New Orleans Weekly Delta. Other topics featured in the scrapbook include steamboat accidents, Kansas and enslavement, the telegraph system, plantation operation, the Know-Nothing Party, and world events.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1855 August.
Call number: mssHM 84539
Creator: Shaifer, Abram Keller (1774-1860)

Abram Keller Shaifer Antebellum movable scrapbook

Manuscripts

An assemblage of approximately 130 clippings of articles, poems, and other printed matter related to nativist and racist social and political issues in the Antebellum South. The scrapbook, which was made by an unknown person in Mississippi, is made from an old diary. Clippings include the American Party of Mississippi's platform statement, pieces on the "Bloody Monday" riots in Louisville, the American Party State ticket, and with articles entitled "Americanism Nothing New," "Immigration & Americanism," and "Union of Disunion-What Shall it Be?" In the middle of the volume is a woodblock print used by the Port Gibson newspaper, The Herald and Correspondent, of an American eagle with a banner proclaiming, "Americans Must Rule America. Our Whole Country." The scrapbook contains a few racist depictions of Afrrican Americans. The cover features components of the Saturday Evening Post masthead laid down, and a large engraving of a reception by Queen Victoria is on the rear board. The scrapbook features homemade flaps and foldout tabs, often with colored tabs and the terms "up" or "down" to indicate which direction will reveal more text.

mssHM 84096

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Henry Raup Wagner scrapbook

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Wagner's scrapbook contains notes and document facsimiles for his various publications on New Mexico printing (the majority of them were for his article published in 1937). The facsimiles are of official announcements by New Mexico governors Manuel Armijo and Francisco Sarracino, and copies of the newspaper Sante Fe Republican. There are also facsimiles of items printed by Father Antonio Jose Martinez, an early printer in New Mexico. The scrapbook also contains several letters between Wagner and other historians and writers regarding New Mexico printing and history including Edward Eberstadt, Herbert O. Brayer, and Lansing Bloom. The documents are in English and Spanish.

mssHM 68047

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Abram Pease Williams letter to Lawrence F. Bower

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Williams responds to Bower's request that he was born in Maine in 1832, moved to California in 1858, and was elected to the Senate in 1886 as a Republican. Signed "A. P. Williams."

mssHM 21337

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Theatre scrapbook

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This scrapbook contains clippings from theater and concert programs and images of notable actors and actresses of the day. They were collected by Dorothy Peck Luckie.

mssHM 70303

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Theatre scrapbook

Manuscripts

This scrapbook contains clippings from theater and concert programs and images of notable actors and actresses of the day. They were collected by Dorothy Peck Luckie.

mssHM 79019

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Frank J. Cotter scrapbook

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A scrapbook created by Frank K. Cotter in the early part of the 20th century. The leather-bound scrapbook has a printed photo of Cotter pasted down on the title page; there is a modern autograph note, in an unknown hand, laid inside the front cover, with a few other printed items laid into the volume. The poems and short stories in the scrapbook are either printed clippings or typewritten copies, some of which were written by Cotter under his pseudonym Pat O'Cotter. The clippings and copies only fill twenty-five pages with the majority of the scrapbook containing blank and empty pages. The subjects covered are mainly World War I, Alaska, and the Klondike.

mssHM 83799

Abram Keller Shaifer antebellum movable scrapbook

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