Nineteenth century friendship albums, 1828-1891 (bulk 1830-1870).

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Nineteenth century friendship albums, 1828-1891 (bulk 1830-1870).

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Collection of albums filled with inscriptions to the owner from friends and relatives; many inscriptions are poems or excerpts of poems. Topics include friendship and loyalty, a desire to be remembered, praise of the album's owner, advice for personal conduct including the endurance of adversity, the beauty of nature, religious faith, and the anticipation of death. Flowers figure prominently in the poems and illustrations, and are sometimes used symbolically. Owners of albums include Mrs. Henry Adams, Harriette Austin, Ann L. Brewster, Marianne Brown, Sylvia Brown, Alzina Bruce, Caroline Bullard, Phebe Bunker, Minnie S. Canfield, Sarah Chase, Sarah Helen Chase, Mary W. Clapp, Mary Elizabeth Cole, Adeline Darrow, Angeline M. Graves, Marie Hubbard, Hattie M. Johnson, Anna R. Lawyer, Jane Lewis, Lucy A. Marshall, Anna Marstan, Darius Mathewson, Lydia Mathewson, Gratia S. Pinney, Lucy Jane Pinney, Mary Poor, Nelly Potter, Emma A. Richards, Sarah Sargeant, Emily Caroline Goodman Stearns, P. Roman Steck, Sarah Elisabeth Swan, Susan Duncan Swift, Etta L. Tolman, Sarah L. Weld, Flora J. Whillimore, Mrs. Wilkinson, Catharine C. Williams, and Lydia W. Young. Album with title "Oberlin College autograph book" written on flyleaf (Bd. Ms. 28) includes inscriptions by C.G. Finney, G.W. Shurtleff, and E.H. Fairchild. In addition to inscriptions, albums also include illustrations cut out of printed works, autographs cut out of letters, pressed flowers, tracings of pressed flowers, newspaper clippings (mainly poems), calling cards, locks of hair, patches of cloth, and small stickers bearing romantic messages.

53 v. : ill., some col. ; 7-29 cm.

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Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Ockenga, Starr,

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Swift, Susan Duncan.

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Cole, Mary Elizabeth.

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Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875

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Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875), revivalist, educator, and second President of Oberlin College (1851-65), abandoned the practice of law after a dramatic religious conversion and, following ordination in the Presbyterian Church, launched a decade of extraordinarily successful revivals in New York state (1824-33). He left the Presbyterian Church in 1836 and identified himself as a Congregationalist from then on. Finney's brand of theological perfectionism helped to make Oberlin College famous...

Adams, Henry, Mrs.

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Hubbard, Marietta

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Fairchild, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1815-1889

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Lewis, Jane

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Brewster, Ann L.

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Sargeant, Sarah

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Bullard, Caroline.

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Richards, Emma A.

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Swan, Sarah Elisabeth.

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Austin, Harriette.

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Williams, Catharine C.

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Whillimore, Flora J.

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Steck, P. Roman.

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Mathewson, Darius, 1818-

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Potter, Nelly.

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Poor, Mary.

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Clapp, Mary W.

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Stearns, Emily Caroline Goodman.

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Tolman, Etta L.

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Canfield, Minnie S.

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Lawyer, Anna R.

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Bruce, Alzina.

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Chase, Sarah Helen.

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Brown, Marianne K.

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Wilkinson, Mrs.

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Young, Lydia W.

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Darrow, Adeline.

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Bunker, Phebe.

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Pinney, Lucy Jane.

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Weld, Sarah L.

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Mathewson, Lydia.

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Lydia Mathewson, who in 1842 was a child, was a Shaker residing at the New Lebanon, N.Y. community. From the description of Words on a card sent from Holy Mother Wisdom to Lydia Mathewson, 1842 July 10. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122573542 ...

Marstan, Anna.

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Shurtleff, Giles Waldo, 1831-1924

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Giles Waldo Shurtleff was born in Canada in 1831 and came to the United States at age three. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1859 and married Mary E. Burton in 1864. During the Civil War, he served in Company C of the 7th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the 9th Army Corps, and the 5th U.S. Colored Troops. He reached the rank of brevetted Brigadier General. Following the war, Shurtleff returned to Oberlin to become a professor of Latin and Greek (1866-87). He also held positions as financi...

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