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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