Autograph collection.

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Autograph collection.

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Scrapbooks compiled by historian Samuel G. Drake, beginning ca. 1835, containing wax seals, drawings of coats of arms, news clippings on autograph sales, and autographs, often accompanied by biographical notes supplied by Drake.

0.2 c.f. (3 volumes in 1 archives box)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6841490

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Drake, Samuel Gardner, 1798-1875

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Samuel Gardner Drake, antiquarian and author. Drake was born to Simeon and Love Muchmore (Tucke) Drake in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, on October 11, 1798. After teaching for several years in New Hampshire and New Jersey, Drake established a book auction business in 1828. Two years later, he opened the first antiquarian bookstore in the United States in Cornhill, Boston. Drake was a founding member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, serving as its first corresponding secr...