Scrapbook, 1893-1899.

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Scrapbook, 1893-1899.

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Consists of all manner of items that document this young Philadelphian's social life. Throughout the album, Miss Abbot includes letters (in their envelopes) from friends; invitations to social events (and her comments on how they went); programs and playbills from concerts, operas and plays she attended; snapshots (including cyanotypes and other processes); pencil sketches (some caricatures, some interiors of homes, some of people); pressed flowers; and various other ephemera (such as a 22 caliber shell casing to remember "shooting from the rocks" at Kennebunkport, ME; tickets from an 1895 football game between Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania; a map of Lake Sunapee, NH; or a flat pebble from the U. S. Naval Training Station, Newport, RI). The early pages include quite a number of items from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

1 v. (84 p.) : ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Abbot, Elsie Sargeant.

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Daughter of George M. Abbot, Elsie Sargeant Abbot was a young resident of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when she created this scrapbook/keepsake album. From the description of Scrapbook, 1893-1899. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 84665229 ...