Bertha and Ruth Edgerton scrapbooks 1880s-1920s

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Bertha and Ruth Edgerton scrapbooks 1880s-1920s

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Two of the three scrapbooks in this small collection are identified as having been made by Bertha Edgerton of Creston, Lake County, Indiana. The Bertha and Ruth Edgerton scrapbooks, made during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, contain collectible scraps and images from seed packets and catalogs, scrap sets, catalog illustrations and advertisements, and Sunday school cards.

3 v.

eng,

University of Delaware Library - Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6363082

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Edgerton, Ruth.

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Edgerton, Bertha.

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Bertha and Ruth Edgerton were born to Alfred and Jane Edgerton of Cedar Creek, Lake County, Indiana. Bertha, born around the year 1867, was about ten years the senior of her younger sister, Ruth, who was born about 1877. The Edgerton sisters had an additional three brothers and three sisters: Oscar, Nora, George, Millie, Homer, and Alma. The elder sister Bertha was active in Sunday school. In the year 1884, at the age of seventeen, Bertha par...