Scrapbook

Scrapbook

Date

1895 to early 20th c.

Description

scrapbook of cardboard and paper, tooled design of gold flowers and the words "Scrap Book" on the cover, filled with prints and photographs taken from contemporary magazines or booklets, mostly having to do with American history, personages and sites, some having to do with contemporary interior design, some domestic & sentimental genre pictures. In the inside front cover is an opinion essay citing the W.C.T.U and citing the need for sobriety and temperance. The scrap book contains nothng specific to Delaware or to Milton.

Material

Paper/Cardboard/Thread

Provenance

Catalogued with other materials at storage facility in fall of 2005 prior to movement into the museum.