Historical Society of Pennsylvania scrapbook collection

Artificial collection of a variety of scrapbooks compiled by several different people between the 1850s and the 1940s. The collection includes the following volumes: Marie Olga Norris (newspaper clippings and some religious items); Nancy Correy Smith (social life); Arthur Church (student life at the...

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Corporate Author: Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Creator)
Collection:Historical Society of Pennsylvania Scrapbook Collection
Collection Number:3441B
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
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Physical Description: 10.0 Linear feet 10 linear feet, 1 box, 22 volumes
Summary: Artificial collection of a variety of scrapbooks compiled by several different people between the 1850s and the 1940s. The collection includes the following volumes: Marie Olga Norris (newspaper clippings and some religious items); Nancy Correy Smith (social life); Arthur Church (student life at the University of Pennsylvania in 1880s); David Schuster memorial book (1885); Thomas L. Hicks tributes (1895 and 1897); Harry Shelmire Hopper (Republican party politics in 1870s and many articles on the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, 1851-1880); Mrs. Coleman Browne (engraved portraits, landscapes, and other scenes); Eleanor A. Toland (vacation trip to Florida, 1937); scrapbook documenting trip along the Pacific Coast, including Alaska, c. 1900; tribute book for Ella F. Harris, executive secretary of the Philadelphia District Health and Welfare Council; Mrs. F. Tennyson Neely, 3 vols. (the Liberty Bell, 1914-43); the Minstrel and Variety Scrapbook, circa 1880; Samuel R. Shipley (1856); and 2 unidentified volumes containing a large number of etchings. The volumes contain one or more of the following: theater programs, dance cards, invitations, greeting cards, postcards, menus, poetry, newspaper clippings, photographs, etchings, pamphlets, and programs.