8.75" x 11.5" handmade school report entitled "Negroes Who Fought in the Civil War." It was written by Deborah Dumont Sabelli in 1964. There are 20 handwritten pages in total, with chapters on the negro soldiers in both the Union and Confederate Army and a Bibliography. There are also seven.....
There are 18 larger photos, programs, ephemera and tons of clippings in this 8.75” x 11” loose-leaf notebook scrapbook with a lyre on the cover. This was done as a school assignment and it is titled “Coral Music” and it is by Kitty Anne Wittich. The Index includes.....
A HUGE scrapbook containing items from over 50 years of Charles Miller’s Masonic membership in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was Melha Shriner and the first Melha Potentate from 1897-1902, and was part of the Royal Arch Morning Strand and part of the York Rite. At almost 7 pounds, this.....
Large red leather and cloth bound 13” x 17” scrapbook of sixty pages with 165 cut out comic illustrations from newspapers and/or magazines. British caricaturist and illustrator John Leech is depicted in an illustration on the first page. The comics or cartoons, which are glued onto the pages, mostly deal.....
12.25 x 14.75” dark brown photo album with gold decoration and border framing on the front cover. Loose within the album are homework items, artwork and clippings from Robert Slepicka's time as a student at Spry School in Chicago. There are several handwritten pages from around 1951 to 1962 of.....
10 x 12.75” wooden album with metal hinges. As the title carved into the cover suggests, this album covers Phillip Appleman’s time at Kendallville High School from 1940 to 1944 through all of his academic achievements and extracurricular activities. Appleman was extremely busy in high school, maintaining straight A’s and.....
The Russell/Pratt family from the North Hadley area of Massachusetts includes several albums, including scrapbooks, diaries, over 60 letters and over 250 photos. The collection documents the lives of a few key individuals in the Pratt/Russell family from 1879 to the 1960s. In particular, the collection is focused on Miriam.....
Pale pink 8.25 x 10.25” book with “Baby’s Book” written in gold lettering. The book is by Cornelia Morton Weyburn and provides prompts and illustrations that parents can fill out concerning their child. The book has been entirely filled out with information about Ashley Mecham Spaulding, a son born to.....
This large (11 ¾” x 14 ½”) scrapbook is overstuffed with newspaper and magazine clippings, a Thanksgiving Day program, postcards, tourist brochures, a few soldiers’ uniform patches, a couple of matchbooks, various Army publications and handouts (“Army Hit Kit of Popular Songs,” for instance), a Christmas Dinner menu from 1943.....
This massive album, 16 ½” x 12” x 2 ½”, documents the four years in college of Virginia Lee Ames, from her matriculation in September 1918 through her graduation in 1922. You can feel the love that went into making this album as you page through it. There are 45.....
This collection consists of 2 scrapbooks compiled by Duncan Gregor McGregor, including information about him which reads as follows: “Duncan Gregor McGregor, West Point Class of 1917. He served in the 5th Cavalry in WWI, spent the rest of his career in the Ordnance Corps, commanded the Philippines 47th Ordnance.....
11.5 x 7.25” black string-bound album which says “Memory Book” in gold on the front cover. The album consists of several loose pages, alternating between black and white pages. Lucille, likely a teenager from Cedar Rapids, stuffed this album full of memories from around 1918 to 1921. There are around.....
8.25 x 11.5” brown string-bound album which says “Scrap Book” on the cover inside of a framing motif. Contains what appear to be school assignments for a specific class from 1940, which includes written assignments on punctuation, Columbus Day, and multiplication tables. There are also several charming crayon drawings depicting.....
12 x 12.25” string-bound album with a red cover and gold letters on the front that spell out “This Is Your Life”; the ‘i’ in ‘life’ is missing and the ‘f’ has been damaged. There is also an illustration of flowers from an anniversary card pasted onto the cover. Contains.....
9 x 12” book for recording information about a baby from their birth up to age 5. The cover is a textured silver-green cloth with a blue oval exclaiming the title. This particular baby book contains information about Henry Adler Sosland, born December 14th, 1932. His mother has written amusing.....
10.75 x 13.5” album with a black cover and tan suede spine and corners. In the middle of the front cover is the name M. L. Emerson. This 19th century album is a flower herbarium containing over 35 pages of specimens. About two thirds are identified. Those that are labeled.....
Circa 1890s, 8 x 10.25” fabric-covered Victorian photo album with worn red velvet and a metal clasp. The outer spine is essentially gone, and the front cover is detached, but within lies a well-preserved treasure trove of dried seaweed samples which have been artfully arranged on cards inserted into pockets.....
There are 54 photos and photo postcards in this 6' x 9" photo album that belonged to Nina H. Shocaroff, whose name is written on the inside cover. The album documents a holdiay in Mexico, that took place in 1951, and besides photos, there is an itinerary, and other ephemera.....
This collection consists of two scrapbooks documenting different parts of Mildred Irene Rabon’s life, from the late 1930s to the late 1950s. She lived in New London, Connecticut and there are around 300 photos and loads of ephemera in these two albums. The first is a 12.25 x......
This collection consists of 2 thick hardcover books with marbled covers. The vaudeville albums, compiled by actor Milton Boyle, are completely stuffed with programs for plays, advertisements for shows, newspaper clippings, signed portraits from actor friends, photos from shows, and letters and cards from friends. He traveled throughout the US.....
Large 10 x 14.75” marbled hardcover album with a black spine. A sticker of a globe on the front cover reads “Around the World.” This oversized album documents a 1923 cruise around the world undertaken by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McMillan. The tour was organized by Raymond-Whitcomb, and there.....
13.25 x 10.5” black string-bound album with “Photographs” on the front in gold and an embossed horse head. The first page reads: “My Collection of Wild Flowers” by Jean Velky. As this title suggests, the album has 58 numbered flower samples that have been mounted on color construction paper and.....
There are over 80 hand cut silhouettes in three separate albums, including two softcover notebooks and a collection of loose, hole-punched pages. All of the silhouettes are cut out from black paper. The 2 softcover albums measure 6.25 x 9.25” and both say “Clippings” with a picture of scissors in.....
7.5" x 9.75" Composition book made into an Herbarium, featuring trees and ferns from New York City. Written on the cover is "Trees - Leon Moses," and on the first page it says "Trees of New York City & Ferns of N.Y.C." A quick Google search, brings up two possible.....
There are twelve double sided pages in this 7.5" x 9" Victorian scrapbook. All but two are filled with trade cards, die cuts and scraps. The album seems to be from Massachusetts with some of the cards being from Boston, Worcester and Barre. There are Black and Asian stereotypes, a......