Sketchbook
- Title:
- Memorial Book
- Object Name:
- Sketchbook
- Object ID:
- 1972.056
- Date:
- 1860-1861
- Description:
- Sketchbook. Ink, pencil, and watercolor. Brown decorative cover with gold embossed laurel branch encircling a feather pen, inkwell, and book. Ink inscription on page two, "Annie Clarke. / 1860. from Kitty.", and pencil inscription below, "Memorial Book 1860 & 1861". 25 pages in total. Sketches include landscapes (North Conway, West Branch, Welch Mountain, Long Pond in Concord, Mad River Bridge, West Campton) and two sketches of women with captions. Some sketches are signed with initials (M.E.C., S.B.M., E.J.C.) and dated 1859-1861. Also poems handwritten in ink, watercolors of flowers, newspaper clippings (Lafayette Square, Jackson Square, chicken, "The Sock Movement - Keep the Ball Rolling", New Brick or Second Church, Hollis Street Church, Hancock School). Photograph of a man identified as "C. C. Felton" (Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1862), president of Harvard). A few pages where images and flowers were glued but are missing; some captions still remain.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-8.25 W-7 D-0.65 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- Subjects:
- Schools, School buildings, Flowers, Apples, Fruit, Chickens, Sewing, Sailboats, Sketchbooks, White Mountains
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