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One bound scrapbook compiled by Helen Doble, circa 1857-1860

Description: One bound scrapbook, untitled, compiled by Helen Doble, ca. 1857--1860. It is approximately 100 pages in length, and contains images and scenes of cut out images and scenes created from paper and bits of material. Some of the pages contain representations of individual rooms with tables, chairs, and curtains, made from cutout images and collage-like formations. The book contains both black and white and chromolithograph images, and other black and white images that have been hand-colored. The scrapbook is bound in a cloth-covered paperboard binding, which has "Herbarium" printed in gilt letters on the spine. The front endpaper has "Helen Doble '57" written in ms., in blue ink, on it. Title supplied by cataloger.
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Date: 1857-1860
Call number: ephKAEE

Scrapbook, circa 1885

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One scrapbook, untitled, created ca. 1885. The scrapbook is 22 unnumbered pages in length, and is made from paper and images pasted to the leaves of an instruction book by Walter Smith (the inside back cover of the instruction book is the only page not covered with created images; this page is a publisher's advertisement for other books by Walter Smith). Each page of the scrapbook is created to resemble a room within a home, such as a parlor, a bedroom, a library, and a kitchen. All of the rooms feature drapes and curtains made from colored and textured papers. The images throughout the scrapbook are a combination of black and white images cut from magazines and newspapers and die-cut chromolithograph images. Included among them are people, furniture, and flowers. The scrapbook's compositor is not given; an accompanying note written by DK reads, in part: "Child's collage- 1875-80? (Pasted into Walter Smith instruction book.)" The scrapbook was purchased by DK in 1980 at the New England Trade Center. Title supplied by cataloger.

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One Japanese pattern book, circa 1898

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One Japanese pattern book, circa 1898. The book is labeled (or titled) in Japanese on the cover; it contains approximately 200 pages in length, and is comprised of labeled (in Japanese) nature scenes, including those of waterfalls, birds, flowers and trees. "Compliments of Arthur W. Dow, 1898", is written, in ms., in ink, at the top of the first page. The item is bound in orange paper overlaying thick paper. Title supplied by cataloger.

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One Japanese pattern book, circa 1898

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One Japanese pattern book, ca.1898, labeled (or titled?) in Japanese on the cover. Approximately 150 pages in length, the small book appears to contain Japanese symbols, patterns and words. The pages are unnumbered. The item is bound in yellow paper overlaying embossed paper. "Owned and Given Compliments of Arthur W. Dow" is said to be written on the pink paper label affixed to the front cover. (per DK). Title supplied by cataloger.

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Scrapbook comprised of hand-painted paper cutouts and decorative pieces

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One scrapbook, untitled, comprised of hand-painted paper cutouts and decorative pieces of paper, ca. 1876. The scrapbook is 18 unnumbered pages in length, within which two full Victorian rooms are represented. Each of the two rooms fill 2 pages (an opening) and contain images of armchairs and couches, curtains, framed pictures hanging on the walls, a pipe organ, hanging plants and rugs. Most of the pages within the scrapbook are blank. Title supplied by cataloger.

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Album

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One bound scrapbook entitled Album, a collection of domestic images mounted to paper (forming leaves within the scrapbook). There are 45 pages of images; the second half of the album is blank. The scrapbook contains cutout images of a primarily domestic nature, and are arranged by use. For example, a kitchen-themed page contains images of cookware, dishes and flatware, stoves and food storage containers. Another page represents a parlor, and contains images of furniture, carpets, drapes, and household decorative items. The album contains both black and white images (possibly taken from magazines and newspapers) and chromolithograph images. The images themselves appear to be from ca. 1875 to 1895, but the album seems to have been assembled ca. 1900. Although the majority of the images are of domestic items and furnishings, there are also images of people, flowers and outdoor scenes. The album itself is bound in green cloth, and is embossed with black and gilt floral patterns. A color scene is centered on the front cover. A compositor's name is not given.

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One bound Set of engravings

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One bound set of engravings, untitled, unsigned, and undated (ca. 1780?). It is comprised of eight leaves of original engravings. The images are all portraits, some are single figures and others are multiple faces. The first is of a nude woman, and the engraved "label" reads "From the Venus de Medicis." The second plate is numbered "11" in the upper right-hand corner, and is comprised of three rows of heads: the top row shows four female heads in different positions, the middle row is 7 male heads from various angles, and the third row is comprised of 5 children's heads in different positions. The third plate is numbered "16" inthe lower right-hand corner; it is an image of a bearded man, side view. The fourth image is numbered "17" in the lower right-hand corner (the number is very faded); it is an image of a hooded man, gazing upward. The fifth plate is numbered "20" in the lower right-hand corner. This image is of a woman dressed in a fur-trimmed cloak wearing a double strand of pearls; she is looking down. The sixth plate contains two images of the same side view portrait of a woman; the image on the left is in outline form, the image on the right is the completed portrait. The engraving is signed "Anib. Carracche del." The seventh plate is also a double portrait of a young woman, this one is a three-quarters view and it is similarly signed "Annibal Caracci del." The eighth and last engraving is a full-frontal double-portrait of a young man with curly hair. This plate is signed "Anib. Carracche in." Title supplied by cataloger.

ephKAEE

One bound scrapbook compiled by Helen Doble, circa 1857-1860

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