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Scrapbook, ca. 1860-1891.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 329
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- Format:
- Other
- Author/Creator:
- Ralston, William Chapman, Mrs., 1836 or 1837-1929.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fry, William Henry, 1813-1864.
- Fry, William Henry.
- Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
- Genre:
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Engravings (prints)
- Scrapbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v
- Place of Publication:
- ca. 1860-1891.
- Summary:
- Scrapbook containing clippings and engravings, evidently belonging to Lizzy Fry who received a certificate of appreciation from the Committee on the Restaurant of the Great Central Fair in Philadelphia (1864) tipped inside front cover. Many of the clippings are stories of tragic deaths.
- Four obituaries of composer William Henry Fry are pasted on ff. 1v-2r.
- Notes:
- A few items were previously removed from the scrapbook, clippings dated 1887-1891 are laid in.
- More than half the scrapbook is blank, covers detached.
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