Clough, Maria Louise.
Scrapbook / [compiled by] Maria Louise Clough. - 1886-1887.
5 cm of textual records (1 v.).
Scrapbook compiled by Maria Louise Clough of Boston, Mass. during a trip from Boston to England, Scotland, France and Italy in 1886 and 1887. The scrapbook contains cards, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and realia ( including plant material), and gives an interesting insight into the activities and tastes of a young woman of that day. Among the contents are: Cunard ephemera (including deck plans, menus, passenger list), theatre ephemera (including Henry Irving in Faust at the Lyceum), a cigarette, lace, Westminster Abbey ephemera, transportation tickets, a moving-part Christmas card, fringe forming part of the decoration of the funeral car of the Duke of Wellington, postcards, engravings, hotel ephemera, identified leaves and flowers, etc.
Purchased as part of the Verbeke Collection in 1969.
Call number: WA24
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