9.25” x 11.5” photo album/scrapbook with over 100 photos, newspaper clippings and three drawings. There is a fabulous 5.75” x 8.75” broadside for a football game in 1915 between New Rochelle and Bridgeport Naval Militias and four of the photos are 8” x 10” shots showing inside the USS Granite.....
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.....
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 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.....
9.5" x 11.25" scrapbook with rigid covers that opens on both sides, sort of like an accordion. In gilded letters on the cover, it says "Kindergarten Work." This circa 1920s scrapbook, appears to be inspired by Friedrich Froebel. Most of the cut out and stitched artwork is a bit sophisticated.....
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.....