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Season's greetings
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Shares recipes and menus for special Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's meals, and includes advice on parties, table decorations, gifts, and holiday ideas.
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[Emery Record Preserving Company book binding tool sample book]
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Sample book containing examples on leather and paper of: type ornaments, stamps, rolls, fillets, personalized stamps, stamping frames in various sizes, die samples and other binding decorations. Various ink colors and gilt are shown. The final two pages contain samples of the Emery Record Preserving Company book labels and printed advertisements.
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Scrap Book
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One 68-page scrapbook by an unidentified compiler containing black-and-white and color images 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.
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Subseries B. Holidays, celebrations, and commemorations
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This subseries includes greeting cards, scrap material, devotional images and scapulars, mourning and memorial cards, dance cards, tickets, programs, correspondence, and other ephemera. A majority of the items pertain to Christmas, Easter, New Year's Eve, Jewish New Year, birthdays, Leap Year, and other holidays.
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Manuscript sample book
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Manuscript sample book containing about 1,200 samples of various kind of dyed wool and felt produced by the Christoffel Dyeing Company. It is signed by Carl Ludwig Christoffel on the inside endpaper with the date 1822, November 1 (although the manuscript is actually dated 1822, November - 1826, April). This sample book contains 467 samples of the finished dyed wools and felts, along with two to four additional samples of unfinished fabrics for each of the finished samples. Each of the 467 finished samples is accompanied by a recipe in manuscript for the dye which was employed. The text is in German.
mssHM 69384
Artist's Scrap Book
Visual Materials
One set of art reproductions entitled Artist's Scrap Book, arranged by Pedro J. Lemos, published by The School Arts Magazine, Davis Press, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1929. This portfolio of art reproductions is comprised of 104 numbered plates and an illustrated publisher's advertisement for the portfolio. Each of the plates contain numerous images of artworks by a variety of artists. Each plate is numbered and the images are grouped and labeled by category. Some of the categories included are: Hillside Houses, Decorative Trees, Fantastic Figures, Busy Women, Feminine Activities, Colonial People, Figure Groups, Children of the Eighties, Foreign Lands, Birds, Animals, and Flowers. "Courtesy of the Ladies' Home Journal" is printed in the lower left-hand corner of each plate. The set of plates is housed within an illustrated paperboard folder; a paper label containing the contents list is mounted to the inside of the front cover. "Mabel Spofford" is written in ms., in pencil, on some of the plates.
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