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Quotations scrapbook

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Location Note

HGO-01-001-O-C-407

GUSN

GUSN-273958

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Description

This hardbound blank book contains clippings and jottings by the owner, Margaret Danforth, who recorded quotations from a variety of writers and poets such as Shakepeare and Lincoln. The pages are interleaved with many loose newspaper an magazine clippings with sayings, poems, sentimental observations and bits of wisdom. Dates cited include 1916 and 1920.

Details

Descriptive Terms

quotations (texts)
scrapbooks

Physical Description

One scrapbook; 6 x 9 inches

Collection Code

MS004

Collection Name

Scrapbooks collection

Date of Acquisition

2001

Reference Code

MS004.014

Credit Line

Gift of Greg Smart, June, 2001

Record Details

Originator

Danforth, Margaret

Material Type

scrapbooks

Description Level

Item

Location Note

HGO-01-001-O-C-407

Historical/Biographical Note

Historical/Biographical Note

This hardbound blank book contains clippings and jottings by the owner, Margaret Danforth, who recorded quotations from a variety of writers and poets such as Shakepeare and Lincoln. The pages are interleaved with many loose newspaper an magazine clippings with sayings, poems, sentimental observations and bits of wisdom. Dates cited include 1916 and 1920.

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