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Small octavo, unpaged (approximately 180pp.).The book was the property of James Hall (probably of Jamestown, New York), as noted on the front free endpaper, and presented by a Mrs.Street and Lizzie. He is mentioned, though, in "Contributions of the Old Residents' Historical Association, Lowell, volume 3., issued in 1887. Most of the inscriptions that follow are dated May 6, 1861, and are divided between residents of Jamestown and graduates of the class of 1861 and others connected to Lowell High School in Lowell, Massachusetts -- which was the first co-ed high school in the U.S. From Jamestown, signers include several other Halls, Sophie J. Davis, Mary Marvin, Addie Butler, S.M. Lowry, Ellen Hall, William A. Keiler, William Proudfit, Chas. S. Keeler, Agnes A. Gillis, J. Ernest Shaw, and L.W. Davis. In Lowell, signers include J.S. Russell (teacher of mathematics), F.W. Kittredge, C.C, Chase (the school principal), Stephen H. King, Lissie M. Street, James O, Scripture (teacher). Owen Street, Mary F.Eastman (head of the female department of the school), John J. Colton, Edward B. Holt, George B. Allen, George F. Woodward, Charles F. King, Warren Chase, Charles Lowell, Henry W. Wilson, Frederic A. Hinckley, and Joseph A. Sladen. A blotter, a ruling sheet and a receipt for an 1862 subscription to "The Independent" are laid in. Also laid in is a small celluloid photographic plate, showing (somewhat faintly), a woman in a light dress and an older man with a newspaper. A few signatures pulled, else very good in edge-rubbed black pebbled morocco stamped gilt and blind, all edges gilt.
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, c. 1861, FROM LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS AND JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK.
(re:Lowell, Mass; Jamestown, NY).
Price: $500.00
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