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AUTOGRAPH BOOKS
Mary Norton's Autograph Book, Maynard, Mass., 1879 Norton, Mary A. 1879 Maynard, MA: ephemera. Mary started this autograph book in 1879. It contains sentimental inscriptions from friends and relatives, mostly from Maynard, MA and Halifax, Nova Scotia. "Remember me till death shall close these eyelids…" from Katie Snee, Maynard. Includes small embroidery of a Bible with a cross, with flowers on it. 17 x 10 cm. Leather autograph book, spine leather torn off, some damp stain on first few pages, fair. (7688) $28.00. American Originals Medford (MA) ca. 1859-62 Autograph Book includes pasted-in autographs of Sen. Charles Sumner and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles kept by Wild, Helen Tilden 1862 Medford, MA: ephemera. About 66 autographs, most of them scholars at Medford, Massachusetts, classes of 1861 and 1862. During period from 1859 to first part of 20th century Helen Wild very carefully annotated entries, noting which young men went off to fight in Civil War, who wed whom and when; when they died; some who traveled to Calcutta, Mauritius and Turkey, Illinois, etc. One woman, Helen A. Dyer moved to Port Royal, SC during Civil War, one year after historic Union victory there, married R.K. Lee, probably serving in the Union Army. Two weeks after they married she was lost, apparently drowned, from the Steamer Melville. Several notables have their autographs, removed from letters pasted in: Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, and Senator Charles Sumner, the famous Massachusetts Champion of Abolition. Pasted in: “Proclaim Liberty Throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof. Charles Sumner, Senate Chamber 8th Dec. ‘64”.* Also pasted in is autograph of H. Hamlin, probably Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President, 1861-65. Keeper of this book over fifty years, probably Mrs. Helen Tilden Wild, also inserted a Golden Wedding card to herself: "with Mrs. Samuel Lapham’s Kindest Regards”. Keeper of book also pasted in numerous newspaper clippings of marriages and deaths over that period. Civil War Officer entry: Lyman Uriah Leo Foxcroft Me. Medford June 28th 1863 followed by notation in pencil: (Co. M 2nd Mass Artillery 1864; Co. F. 5th; Married Miss Laura Comings Oct 1866 Keene NH 1868; Groveland 1890). Also: George L. Clapp Medford July 26, 1860 and in pencil: (Off to the War, Potomac; Married Miss Lizzie Pearce June 1868; Died Jan. 1887). Also included are several pages of a skit with numerous hand-drawn cartoons, text apparently taken from St. Nicholas Magazine, 1877. ~67 entries 13 x 19 cm. Elaborately decorated leather on board cover, gilt title "Autographs" and deep blindstamped design on back. Spine missing, boards detached, edges scuffed and worn. Gilt-edged pages. Poor. (7437) $140.00. American Originals *Signature of Sen. Sumner corresponds with facsimile signature on cover of book, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner by Elias Nason, 1874.
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American Originals… Here’s a chance to feel first hand our wonderful American experience, with some of the things that people wrote by hand, or collected and stuck in an album, elegantly inscribed in autograph books, scrawled in diaries, journals, in letters, on postcards, in the years when our fathers and mothers, and all the generations before them, were building this country. This is a very personal collection… young people, their eyes full of the future, penning elegant poetry to each other, but often including a grim stanza about death; a scrapbook of clippings carefully pasted into a book a century ago...a woman’s collection of her babies’ photos…postcards to and from young soldiers in World War I and World War II...a postcard to a young man about to go to jail. Also, Easter, Christmas, New Year’s, Thanksgiving and Valentine’s cards. You’ll see things from other countries in our collection, too. A letter from an officer in the Royal Navy beseeching his boss, the Admiral, about a matter relating to damage to his ship, in 1821...A scrapbook of postcards from Sweden. These pages are a part of our extensive collection of ephemera. To find more, search ABE.com using keyword “ephemera” or browse through our advertising, educational, history, religious and other catalogues. See our Site Map. Enjoy what you find here, and let us know if you have something you’d like to offer us! —The Personal Navigator |
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Medford (MA) ca. 1859-62 Autograph Book includes pasted-in autographs of Sen. Charles Sumner and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles kept by Wild, Helen Tilden 1862 Medford, MA: ephemera. About 66 autographs, most of them scholars at Medford, Massachusetts, classes of 1861 and 1862. During period from 1859 to first part of 20th century Helen Wild very carefully annotated entries, noting which young men went off to fight in Civil War, who wed whom and when; when they died; some who traveled to Calcutta, Mauritius and Turkey, Illinois, etc. One woman, Helen A. Dyer moved to Port Royal, SC during Civil War, one year after historic Union victory there, married R.K. Lee, probably serving in the Union Army. Two weeks after they married she was lost, apparently drowned, from the Steamer Melville. Several notables have their autographs, removed from letters pasted in: Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, and Senator Charles Sumner, the famous Massachusetts Champion of Abolition. Pasted in: “Proclaim Liberty Throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof. Charles Sumner, Senate Chamber 8th Dec. ‘64”.* Also pasted in is autograph of H. Hamlin, probably Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President, 1861-65. Keeper of this book over fifty years, probably Mrs. Helen Tilden Wild, also inserted a Golden Wedding card to herself: "with Mrs. Samuel Lapham’s Kindest Regards”. Keeper of book also pasted in numerous newspaper clippings of marriages and deaths over that period. Civil War Officer entry: Lyman Uriah Leo Foxcroft Me. Medford June 28th 1863 followed by notation in pencil: (Co. M 2nd Mass Artillery 1864; Co. F. 5th; Married Miss Laura Comings Oct 1866 Keene NH 1868; Groveland 1890). Also: George L. Clapp Medford July 26, 1860 and in pencil: (Off to the War, Potomac; Married Miss Lizzie Pearce June 1868; Died Jan. 1887). Also included are several pages of a skit with numerous hand-drawn cartoons, text apparently taken from St. Nicholas Magazine, 1877. ~67 entries 13 x 19 cm. Elaborately decorated leather on board cover, gilt title "Autographs" and deep blindstamped design on back. Spine missing, boards detached, edges scuffed and worn. Gilt-edged pages. Poor. (7437) $140.00. American Originals *Signature of Sen. Sumner corresponds with facsimile signature on cover of book, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner by Elias Nason, 1874. |
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“Proclaim Liberty Throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof. Charles Sumner, Senate Chamber 8th Dec. ‘64”.* |