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1882 antique AUTOGRAPH ALBUM ashley pa ANNA P RHOADS genealogy victorian
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A beautiful Victorian friendship album belonging to Anna P. Rhoads of Ashley, Pennsylvania, measuring approximately 4.5 x 7 inches. Bound in its original decorative cloth with an elaborate gilt, black, silver, and floral embossed design featuring pansies and other blossoms, this elegant album is representative of the finely produced gift books popular during the late nineteenth century.
The album opens with a presentation inscription reading:
\"Anna P. Rhoads. From cousin Louisa. Christmas, 1882.\"
Throughout the album, family members, cousins, and friends contributed handwritten verses, poetry, biblical passages, literary quotations, and personal sentiments dating primarily from 1882 through 1886. The entries create a wonderful snapshot of Victorian friendships and educated social circles, with contributors writing from communities throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Several entries reference Swarthmore College and Westtown, reflecting connections to prominent Quaker educational institutions.
Among the identifiable contributors are Annie P. Rhoads, Hannah Rhoads, Mary R. Longstreth, Mary J. Allen, Carrie P. Kirk, Bessie Miller, Edith H. Cheney, Anna V. Wharton, Josephine V. Hall, Mary M. Garrett, Florence Hull, Mary H. C. Wright, Annie Conyd (or Conroy), Katherine E. Kirk, Laura H. Taylor, Jessie C. Yarnall, Osma V. Stout, Mary C. Pancroast, Lily V. Stokes, Mary W. Reeve, and Sallie Wright, along with several additional signatures that may reward further genealogical research.
Locations represented include Ashley, Westtown, West Chester, Media, Montoursville, Marple, Garrettford, Newtownville, Philadelphia, and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, as well as Haddonfield, Camden, and Woodbury, New Jersey, and New York.
The entries feature quotations from Scripture, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Whittier, and other popular nineteenth-century authors alongside original sentiments celebrating friendship, faith, memory, and moral character. One early family inscription from Annie P. Rhoads, identified as Anna\'s grandmother and dated November 25, 1883, quotes Psalm 91, while many later entries preserve the affectionate words of classmates and lifelong friends.
An outstanding piece for collectors of Victorian ephemera, autograph albums, Quaker history, Pennsylvania genealogy, Swarthmore College and Westtown School memorabilia, or the Rhoads, Longstreth, Yarnall, Garrett, Kirk, Taylor, Wright, Reeve, Stokes, and related families.
Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.
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