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  Business Album, Houlton House

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  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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  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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  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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  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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  House in a Book

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  One scrapbook created by Marian B. Healey, and divided roughly into two sections with images of domestic rooms and objects in both black-and-white and color chromolithographs. The first section, created when Healey was 10 years old contains 64 pages of images labeled in ms. with titles such as "Piazza", "Parlor", "Library", "Kitchen", "Pantry", "Store Room", and "Back Yard." The second section contains 78 pages created ca. 1930 with sections for rooms including: Front Yard, Parlor, Living Rooming, Pantry, and Bedroom. Several magazine clippings from 1924 and 1925 are laid in at the beginning of this section.

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  Album Mondiale di Disegni per Ricami

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  Two Italian pattern books. The first is entitled Album Mondiale di Disegni per Ricami. "Serie N. 51" is printed in the lower left-hand corner of the title page. Sixteen unnumbered pages in length, this is a pattern book for embroidery and lace designs. The pages are printed in blue ink. The second pattern book is missing the front cover and at least the first 2 pages. What appears to be a running title is printed in the upper left-hand corner of each page: Riservati tutti i Diritti. This incomplete book is 34 unnumbered pages in length, with an additional 4 pages of manufacturer's advertisements at the end. The 34 pages of patterns are printed in white on black paper, and are labeled "Tavola" I-XV. "Tipografia della Societa anonima Dollfus-Meig & Co." is printed at the bottom of the last page of advertisements. The back cover is decorated with the stylized initals "DMC."

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