Things left in books collection Needlework bookmarks, Undated.

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Things left in books collection Needlework bookmarks, Undated.

The bookmarks are made of perforated cardboard, often attached to a length of ribbon. The cardboard has been used as a base for needlepoint or embroidery, and one includes bead work. All but one include a text, with one text in Hebrew. The perforated cardboard is blank, which suggests that the bookmarks date from the middle of the 19th century.

7 items (in 1 folder) ; 3 x 4 cm to 40 x 9 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8191422

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Library company of Philadelphia

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This collection includes unmarked ballots found in books that are part of the Library Company's collections. The books in which they were found are not identified. Since the mid 1980s, the Library Company no longer separates such materials without tracking the connection through accession numbers. This collection gathers items from several sources, and is open to new additions. From the description of Things left in books collection. Ballots, 1851-1864. (Library Company of Philadelph...