1853. Girls Education Memory Album with 24 handwritten entries from friends and classmates of a Young Woman named Hettie in Hillsboro IL from 1853-1862. A memorabilia recording many aspects of the first major movement of women's education in the United States brings depth to a movement that was groundbreaking in its time but today is largely at risk of disappearing from the historical record. 24 entries in various hands dated 1853-1862. Memory albums held autographs sentiments and reminiscences of friends and schoolmates similar to yearbooks today. "To Hettie Oh! do not say Farewell We we are going to sever Tis like sudden passing bell of Friendship gone forever. Oh seek some other language than the mournful truth to tell Say parting friends may meet again but do not say farewell." Red cloth boards with a gilt motif of a girl scattering flowers in center. 7 3/4 x 6 in. Gilt edges. 130 pages. Album includes one frontispiece engraving and 5 color illustrations of flowering plants and birds. 2 hand-drawn pictures of flowers and a hand-drawn pencil illustration of a young woman cut out into a paperdoll. Most entries from Hillsboro IL but include other location such as St. Louis. Young women particularly those finishing their time at a female academy and preparing to leave their school friends tended to be the ones to create friendship albums. Boards faded. Good to very good condition. unknown
1000. Soft Cover. Good. PB/Gd. condition/72 pages - Silver Jubilee Queen Elizabeth II 1952-1977 is an illustrated picturesque magazine full of many different photos. TK130561 paperback
London: George C. Leighton 1861. Folio 678pp. Very good. 3 / 4 leather with marbled boards. Profusely illustrated. Lacking the colored engravings. The boards are worn at the edges. History--England Illustrated London News. George C. Leighton Paperback
Illustration Education Scholarship Edition 1932. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Illustration Education Scholarship Edition paperback
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Paperback. Pbo. 12mo (15 x 9 cm). In Ottoman script. 161, [5] p. Insâd ve hitâbet. Mekâtib-i Idâdiyede tedris olunmak üzere tertib edilmisdir.