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Watkins Boston scrapbook

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1906-1926

Location Note

H-G-O-01-001-O-C-307

GUSN

GUSN-283646

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Description

This is a scrapbook of Boston subjects, including Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allen Poe, Chelsea and old and new Boston compiled in the years 1906-1926 by Walter Kendall Watkins who was an historian and geneaologist, andSecretary of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is comprised of clippings, letters and ephemera.

Details

Descriptive Terms

scrapbooks

Collection Code

MS004

Collection Name

Scrapbooks collection

Reference Code

MS004.029

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Walter K. Watkins, 1934

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Watkins, Walter Kendall, 1855-1934 (Compiler)

Material Type

scrapbooks

Description Level

Item

Location Note

H-G-O-01-001-O-C-307

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