Galaxy album, 1880-1888 : especially adapted for autographs and sketches.

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Galaxy album, 1880-1888 : especially adapted for autographs and sketches.

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Used by Eckert as an autograph album from 1881 to 1888, this volume was published by L. Prang & Co. in 1880. It contains eight chromolithographs featuring scenes with birds and flowers. The autographs were written by Emma's friends and cousins. Most include a brief saying; many were from people who resided in Monticello, N.Y.

1 v. : col. ill. ; 20 x 13 cm.

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Eckert, Emma C.

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L. Prang & Co.

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In the 1880s, L. Prang & Co. was commissioned by W.T. Walters to prepare 116 color plates for a book on his collection of oriental ceramics. It took three artists from the firm and nearly ten years to produce the chromolithographic plates. Five hundred copies of the book, Oriental Ceramics Art, were published in 1896. From the description of Proof book, 1891. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122555724 L. Prang & Co. made and published greeting cards for appr...