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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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  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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  Real Pen Work: Self Instructor in Penmanship

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  One fragment of a penmanship book entitled Real Pen Work: Self Instructor in Penmanship, published by Knowles & Maxim, ca. 1884. This piece is the binding only; the interior pages are missing. The boards are bound in brown cloth, with green cloth spine and corners. The title, which is in a decorative frame, is stamped in gold on the front cover. The back cover is illustrated with a horseshoe-shaped design that surrounds another line-based design. The publication information is taken from a bibliographic record in OCLC.

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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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