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HGO-01-001-O-C-104
GUSN-283345
This scrapbook, bound in 1923, belonged to Annie H. Thwing of Roxbury; the title "Miscellany" is printed on the spine. Thje first page lists, in her handwriting the contents of 23 items. These are a variety of pamphlets dating from 1860-1922 which are tipped into the binding in their entirety. There are little illustrated pamphlets of poems, riddles, charades, and include a calendar of the Civil War, speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the history of the American flag, a recommended list of children's books, essays by Lilian Hoag Monk, a finely printed poem by Rudyard Kipling, and a description of the restoration of the (ancestral?) Thwing Church (East Yorkshire) from 1900.
riddles (document genres)
humor
scrapbooks
One scrapbook; 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches
MS004
Scrapbooks collection
1935
MS004.044
Gift
Gift of Miss Annie H. Thwing 6 April, 1935
Thwing, Annie Haven, 1819-1856 (Assembler)
scrapbooks
Item
HGO-01-001-O-C-104
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