Description:
A commercially produced autograph album, each page with red and blue borders. Mostly blank pages but some have illustrations with blank spaces for autographs. Album contains signatures, verses, drawings, paintings and greeting cards. Most illustrations signed. Some illustrations and cards pasted in. Autographs include surnames: Caen; Smyth; Sherriff; Kidman; Crawford; Morgan; Hays; White; Winters; Walde; Haines; Shettle; Martin; Waller; Figgins; Earle, and Dyke. Some autographs are only initials.
Scrapbook title:
Lilian L. Kidman Album
Creator:
Kidman, Lilian L.
Dates of creation:
1898-1928
Format-Extent:
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some colour); 20 x 16 x 2 cm
Full scrapbook description:
This friendship autograph album was owned by Lilian Leigh Kidman (1879-?), and was created in England. The contents of the album include ink designs drawn by Kidman, often depicting fantastical elements such as elves, or moons and suns with faces. These designs also feature deliberately blank spaces and compartments for the addition of signatures and inscriptions. Artwork, inscriptions, and autographs from Kidman’s friends and family are collected in the album. The album also features many inkblot signatures. Notably, Lilian Kidman’s autograph album matches the one owned by her younger sister, Ella. The sisters’ respective albums have many similarities, suggesting that they may have worked collaboratively on their custom designs. Additionally, Lilian and Ella Kidman had mutual friends, and their albums contain similar entries from their shared connections. The albums itself is commercially made and was given to Lilian Kidman as a Christmas gift in 1897.
Scrapbook category:
Autograph album
Language:
eng
Fonds / collection title:
Kidman family fonds
Fonds / collection identifier:
SC624
Fonds / collection creator:
Kidman family: Henry Oscar Kidman, Lilian L. Kidman, and Ella Kidman
Archival item identifier:
Accession Number: 2020-041
Identifier:
Call Number: Z42.4 G7K535
Source:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library