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HAV-01-403-Z-K-203
GUSN-356701
With an embossed cover, this scrapbook contains many colorfully illustrated chromolithographic trade cards, stickers, and clippings, often decorated with images of children, animals, and flowers. The trade cards are largely from the New England area, although cards from New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan among other location are also within the scrapbook.Subjects of trade cards include sewing machines and threads, groceries, druggists, shoes and clothing, greeting and advertising cards, clocks, watches and other jewelry, soaps, herbal tonics, and other domestic goods. The scrapbook appears to have been compiled circa 1881.
scrapbooks
trade cards (advertising)
sewing machines (equipment)
thread
stickers
printed ephemera
children (people by age group)
chromolithography
scrapbooks
ephemera
trade cards (advertising)
1.5 linear feet (1 scrapbook ; 15 x 12 1/2 inches)
MS004
Scrapbooks collection
2018
MS004.056
Gift
circa 1881
Gift of Judy Fleischman and Jeremy Stahlin, 2018
Chester (Windsor county, Vermont)
Hutchinson, Edward Wallace (Artist, Designer)
scrapbooks
ephemera
trade cards (advertising)
Hutchinson, Edward Wallace
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Spine detached. Majority of scrapbook pages are not attached to the spine. Pages are very delicate. Extreme caution should be used when handling this scrapbook.
Item
HAV-01-403-Z-K-203
Majority of the scrapbook is in English. Some French is found throughout.
Edward Wallace Hutchinson was born April 14, 1867. His scrapbook, compiled around 1881, was found at a farm in Chester, Vermont, where Hutchinson lived in his later years. The farm was owned by donors John F. and Irene L. Stahlin.The Shahlins purchased the farm from Daniel A. and Lora I. Perry in 1958. The Perrys purchased the farm in 1930. The 1940 census listed E.W. Hutchinson, aged 73, as a lodger in the Perry household. The 1920 census also documents Edward Wallace Hutchinson as a resident of Chester. He had completedfour years of high school, married, and worked as a farm laborer.
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