Record ID:
131886
Accession number:
MA 1306-07
Credit:
Acquired before 1949.
Description:
2 v. (ca. 90 p. and 18 p.), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 10 x 13 cm and 12.1 x 19.9 cm
Notes:
MA 1306 with stamp on the front free endpaper: "Law Offices of Laurens Maynard, 31 School St. Room 38, Boston, Mass." Also with Maynard's signature written in pencil.
MA 1307 with "L. A. Maynard Jr. / Boston" written on the front free endpaper.
Dates of signatures range from the 1840s to the 1890s; Maynard probably compiled the albums in the last two decades of the 19th century or the early 20th century.
Summary:
Two albums of clipped signatures including many 19th-century American writers, politicians, etc., with occasional reproduced portraits.
Housed in:
Paper phase boxes.
Binding:
MA 1306: blue leather stamped in gilt: "Autographs"; MA 1307: red leather stamped in gilt ""Autographs."
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