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Kelsey family
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Cartes-de-visite, card photographs, other photographs.
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Photographs and ephemera
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The photographs include a tintype, black and white cartes-de-visite, card photographs, and unmounted photographs; subjects include the Kelsey family, their extended family, friends, travels, and houses. The ephemera includes visiting cards, greeting cards, invitations, printed programmes, brochures, and clippings. There are also folders of material related to Bessie Rayner Parkes, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Ida Vernon.
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Kelsey family Guest Book
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Binding damaged and loose; leather covers have red rot, handle carefully.
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Albert H. Kelsey note to Kelsey family
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A collection of the papers of the Kelsey family of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1948; the papers include correspondence, a memoir and a diary, printed volumes, photographs, and ephemera. The voluminous correspondence of Jeannette G. W. Kelsey, her husband, children, extended family, friends, social connections, and business people covers the literary, intellectual, cultural, political, and business topics of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Subjects covered in the collection are American and British politics; the expatriate community in Europe; family relations; World War I; the Catholic Church; and business affairs. There is a small amount of material related to the businesses and estate of Jeannette's father Cadwallader C. Washburn. Correspondents include, among others, Bessie Rayner Belloc, John Murray Brown, Julia Pitt Byrne, Annie Fields, Fola La Follette, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Ida Vernon, and Cyrus Woodman.
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