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Business Album, Houlton House

Description: One scrapbook created from a Boston business directory entitled Business Album, Houlton House, published 1868. It is in a cloth binding, with one-quarter red morocco (spine and corners). "Business Album" is stamped on the spine; "Houlton House" is stamped on the front and back covers. The scrapbook images have been mounted to each of the 152 pages, covering the text and images of the business directory. Most of the scrapbook images are in black and white, although there are also some chromolithograph images included. The images include a wide variety of subjects: portraits of well-known political, historical and social figures, political cartoons, fashion, architecture, flora and fauna, and illustrated poems. The prefatory notice on the last page is dated 1868.
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Date: not before 1868
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Scrap Book

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One scrapbook entitled Scrap Book, compiler not named, ca. 1905. The scrapbook is within a stamped and embossed brown cloth binding; the title is stamped on the spine. The binding is decorated with a black floral design and pattern which surrounds a round, gold and silver embossed floral scene in the center of the front cover. The scrapbook is 68 unnumbered pages in length, and contains images both in black and white and in color -- some are chromolithographs. The images include those from newspapers, magazines, reproductions of paintings, photographs and other art works. Among the images are landscapes, seascapes, people, animals, greeting cards and architecture. Many of the images within the scrapbook are dated between 1900 and 1905. Mounted to the front pastedown is a chromolithograph chart entitled "Color-Types of the Races of Men, British Association Scale" which labels 10 skin colors and the nationality of men associated with such skin colors. For example: Pale White is labeled for "American"; Brownish-White is labeled for "Italian"; Dark Yellow-Brown is labeled for "Malay"; Copper Colored is labeled for "American Indian"; and Coal-Black is labeled for "South African." "6.00" (price) is written in ms. in the upper left-hand corner of the front flyleaf. "2437" is stamped in black ink in the bottom left-hand corner of the rear pastedown.

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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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House in a Book

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One scrapbook entitled House in a Book, created by Marian B. Healey, ca. 1900 and ca. 1930. The scrapbook is divided roughly into two sections. The first is approximately 64 pages in length and created ca. 1900, followed by 54 blank pages and the second section, which is comprised of 78 pages of scrapbook images, created ca. 1930. The two scrapbook sections begin at each end; the (presumably) first set of images ca. 1900 begin at one end, and when the book is flipped over, the images ca. 1930 begin at the beginning of that end. "Marian B. Healey, "House in a book", I made this up around the age of 10 years old" is written in ms., in ink, on the front flyleaf of the first scrapbook section. An unnumbered ms. index of the following pages is written on the third page. The scrapbook pages are labeled in ms. with titles such as "Piazza", "Parlor", "Library", "Kitchen", "Pantry", "Store Room", and "Back Yard." The images are both black and white and chromolithographs. A similar arrangement is made with the second section of the scrapbook; rooms are labeled in ms. at the top of the page, with mounted color and black and white images. Some of the rooms included in this section are: Front Yard, Parlor, Living Rooming, Pantry, and Bedroom. Several magazine clippings from 1924 and 1925 are laid in at the beginning of this section. There are several loose images.

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Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition

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One scrapbook/collage created from The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, Eastern Edition, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, copyright 1899. The scrapbook is 40 numbered pages in length, and scrapbook images have also been added to the insides of the covers, and to the back cover. The scrapbook images are cut from newspapers and magazines, and cover most but not all of the lithograph images of the instruction book. Most of the images are black and white, but there are also many chromolithograph images. The majority of the scrapbook images are of women. "Cora E. Nash" is stamped, in blue ink, on the front cover.

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

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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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Decalomanie Album

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Seven portfolio albums of transferable images entitled Decalomanie Album, manufactured by Ch. M. & Co., ca. 1918. The manufacturer's name is printed below the subtitle of each portfolio cover. The subtitle reads: "Containing a splendid assortment of pictures easily transferable to any article, giving endless amesement[sic] to children and amateurs." Directions for use are printed on the back cover. Each portfolio contains a long, foldout sheet of approximately 46 transferable images, and each of the 7 booklets contain the same set of images.

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