Victorian life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
19th Century American Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: GTM-190909
Scope and Contents
American 19th century commercial cartes de visites photograph album in tooled leather covers with ornate brass clasp. Contains 15 albumen print images, mostly cartes de visites of unidentified individual men and women. A few images show young children.
Dates:
circa 1870s
Edward Hermon papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-000003
Collection Level Scope and Contents note
During the nineteenth century great fortunes were made by various entrepreneurs in the cotton industry of Lancashire. One of the most remarkable of these cotton masters was Edward Hermon (1821?-1881), the managing partner of Horrocks, Miller & Company, an early giant in the field. Hermon became the conservative M.P. for Preston (1868-1881) as well as an eminent art collector, sportsman, philantropist and builder. His papers, dating between 1864 and 1867, cover a variety of topics, but...
Dates:
1864-1897
Russell of Swallowfield Archives
Collection
Identifier: GTM-871002
Scope and Contents note
The Russell of Swallowfield Archives consists of documents and correspondence regarding the personal and financial affairs relating to the marriage trust of Fanny Russell Hole, eldest daughter of the Rev. Whitworth Russell. The papers include material dating from 1848, when Fanny Russell married the Rev. William Brassey Hole, Vicar of Bray (?-1887) to the early 1890's, when assets from her marriage trust were being transferred to their children. The collection comprises .5 linear feet of...
Dates:
1848 - 1896
Franklin B. Sanborn papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS229
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This is a collection of some 250 letters written to Franklin B. Sanborn from friends and relatives during his years as a student first at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and then at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts (circa 1852-55). Primarily containing domestic and social news about other family members and mutual friends, the letters include references to contemporary election politics of the 1850s with mention of numerous statesmen including John Bell, James...
Dates:
1850-1902; Majority of material found within 1850-1856
Woman's 19th Century Scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: GTM-150615
Content Description
Scrapbook belonging to a British woman, containing cut silhouettes, paste-in watercolors and pencil sketches re European tour and trip to South America.
Dates:
1820 - 1849
Woman's 19th Century Scrapbook: "Cherished Memories"
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: GTM-170130
Content Description
Woman's scrapbook containing autograph transcriptions of poetry; sketches, printed engravings.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1820 - 1849
Arnold U. Ziegler Memorial Dickens Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-150610
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, correspondence, ephemera and realia relating to Charles Dickens collected by Arnold U. Ziegler. Includes records and publications of various branches of the Dickens Fellowship (c1921-1960s).
Dates:
1843 - 1960