Blanchard family scrapbooks, 1870-1940.

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Blanchard, Minnie J. Blanchard family scrapbooks, 1870-1940.

Blanchard family scrapbooks, 1870-1940.

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Scrapbooks (3 vols., 1870-1920s), valentines, clippings, photographs, and greeting cards from the Blanchard family. Two scrapbooks (1870-1915, 1890s) were compiled by Minnie J. Patten Blanchard (Mrs. Allen I. Blanchard). The first scrapbook contains valentines sent to her daughter Maude, newsclippings and photographs of the Patten family of Hennepin (Ill.), including Minnie's parents Robert Patten and Sarah Jane (nee Baird) Patten, and her sisters: Eveline (Mrs. A.M. Daniels, d. 1869), Mira (Mrs. Otis Davis), Hattie (Mrs. James S. Simpson, d. 1984), and Mary (Mrs. Eugene M. Danly, d. 1899). Also present are articles on Allen I. Blanchard, a former skating champion and lifelong Chicagoan. Allen's father, Ira B. Blanchard, a Chicago pioneer and business associate of John Wentworth is also documented, and a photograph of Ira and Allen is present. The second of Minnie's scrapbooks consists of poems clipped from newspapers and sentimental or moral lessons. The collection also contains a scrapbook created by Minnie's daughter Maude Blanchard Brace (Mrs. William T. Brace). Her scrapbook beginning in the 1920s, is mainly postcards of Chicago and of European tourist destinations. The collection also contains a folder of various greeting cards.

0.25 linear ft. (1 box and 1 unboxed v.)

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