1862-1933
HGO-01-001-O-C-406
GUSN-273819
Scrapbook contains a miscellany of ephermera and mementos dating from 1862-1933. It includes a photograph of Annie H. Thwing as a child, playbills from England and the United States, pages from the advertising flyer The Ray dated 1873, tickets, pencil sketches of seaside holiday scenes, and romantic poems from an admirer. There are also greeting cards, about 30 calling cards, invitations, ephemera from Cunard Steamship Line trips to England and Germany, including a program for the Japanese Village of 1873 in London. There is a photoggraph of Annie H. Thwing in a library room with a note which says, "From which I wrote 'Crooked Streets,' now in the Massachusetts Historical Society."
ephemera
greeting cards
sketches
invitations
photographs
playbills
poems
scrapbooks
1 scrapbook; 11 x 12 3/8 inches
MS004
Scrapbooks collection
1935
MS004.002
Gift of Annie H. Thwing, 1935.
Thwing, Annie Haven, 1819-1856 (Collector)
scrapbooks
Massachusetts Historical Society
Item
HGO-01-001-O-C-406
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