Memorabilia, 1880-1923.

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Finley, Frances Aspril. Memorabilia, 1880-1923.

Memorabilia, 1880-1923.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261228871

Consists of a diary; genealogical information on the Ginn, Reynolds, Price, and Cleaver families; a playbill from Hofele's Theatre, Broadway advertising "Uncle Tom's Cabin;" a diploma from Goldey-Wilmington Commercial College presented to J. Archie Finley in 1900; wills for Jonathan K. Williams and Fanny Williams (grandparents of Frances Finley); and a trade card with directions for using the Imperial Self-Heating Flat Iron manufactured by the Imperial Brass Manufacturing Co., Chicago. The diary was kept in the autumn of 1881 and documents a trip taken by Frances Finley from Pennsylvania to Iowa to visit relatives and friends and to see sights along the way. In Iowa, she offered comparisons of farms there with farms in Delaware. In Galena, Illinois, she stopped at the home of Ulysses S. Grant. While in Chicago, Finley went to Pullman, the company town of the train car manufacturing firm. She toured a woolen mill in New Albany, Pa., owned by a family friend by the name of Gebhart. Finally, she witnesses the workings of the Oil Exchange in Oil City, Pa. The genealogical information was kept in a notebook distributed by E, Mosher, outfitter for men and boys and advertising clothes made by Schloss Bros. & Co. The first page contains a note "Frances A. Finley's aunt M.A. Ginn" as well as the notations "This book is the property of J.R. Ginn, son of M.T. Ginn and Emma J. Ginn. Also forming part of the collection are microfilmed copies of four scrapbooks kept by Mrs. Finley. They contain photographs, invitations, newspaper clippings, advertisements, poscards, letters, maps, report cards, etc. Three scrapbooks dating 1860-1961 are on one reel, and the fourth scrapbook, dating 1870-1920, is on another reel.

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