The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera
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Date Range
1850-1880
Materials/Description of item
This mid-nineteenth century autograph book, titled "The Jenny Lind Album," was (according to the inscription) presented to Alice J. Cornell by her brother, Christmas 1852. The hardcover album book is full of messages, many of them poems, written to Alice by friends and family. It was printed with several picturesque engravings in its pages like “Balboa” as “Drawn by P. F. Rothermel” and “Engraved by J. Sartain."
Dimensions
15.5 x 20cm
Keywords
Cornell Collection, Westerville History, Poetry
Disciplines
Cultural History | History | United States History | Women's History
Recommended Citation
Cornell, Alice J., "Alice J. Cornell's Album Book" (1852). The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection: Ephemera. 345.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_ephemera/345