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Account book: manuscript, 1923-1932.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 432
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Garland, Miss.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hyatt family.
- Needlework--United States.
- Needlework.
- Annisquam (Gloucester, Mass.).
- United States.
- Genre:
- Account books.
- Drawings (visual works)
- Manuscripts (documents) -- Massachusetts -- Twentieth century (dates CE).
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased from Franklin Gilliam Rare Books, 2002.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v
- Place of Publication:
- 1923-1932.
- Summary:
- Accounts for needlework, particularly for monogramming sheets, towels, napkins, and handkerchiefs. Notebook includes pencil drawings of monograms and samples of thread, yarn, and fabrics. Includes names and some addresses of clients, many appear to be associated with the summer colony at Annisquam. Clippings regarding the Alpheus Hyatt and Edmund C. Cook families are laid in.
- Notes:
- Written in one hand, attribution from a thank-you letter addressed to Miss Garland from May or Mary Duff dated Feb. 18, 1932, laid in.
- Notebook, paper cover detached, a few stains.
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