The Jenny Lind album : a friendship album from Mary Ann De Souza to Esther Bolster 1858

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The Jenny Lind album : a friendship album from Mary Ann De Souza to Esther Bolster 1858

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This "Jenny Lind Album" was published as a blank book with engraved illustrations and filled as a friendship album for Esther Bolster by her devoted friend, Mary Ann De Souza in 1858. The album contains original poetry, humorous anecdotes cut from magazines, hand-cut color images of flowers, embossed silver and gold gilt scraps, embossed and colorized foil scraps, and chromatic images of ladies in period fashions. Original verse in the albums includes sentimental themes of Jenny Lind, making albums, beauty, and friendship.

1 v. (ca. 100 p.) : ill.

eng,

University of Delaware Library - Special Collections

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Esther Bolster, fl. 1858

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De Souza, Mary Ann, fl. 1858

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Mary Ann De Souza, apparently a young woman from Philadelphia, made and presented this friendship album to Esther Bolster in 1858. An additional inscription in the album reads "A gift of affection from Anne Bolster to her friend Mrs. [?] Brice, March 13, 1874." Anne Bolster may have been a relative of Esther Bolster who inherited the album as a family keepsake. Additional names that appear in the album include Henry De Souza, whose name is li...

Lind, Jenny

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Swedish singer. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Oak Lea, Wimbledon Park, S.W., to Arthur Sullivan, 1883 Feb. 11, and 9 incompletely dated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125245 Swedish soprano. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Mannheim Dec. 7 1846, to an unidentified recipient, 1846 Dec. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270667419 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London Apr. 27 1874, t...