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“Yes, this is my album” Victorian Collections of Scraps, Signatures, and Seaweed

Exhibit Works Cited and Consulted

Primary sources:

Scrapbooks housed at University of Victoria Libraries

Autographs. 1828-1859. CA UVICARCH SC198-1976-019. English 19th Century Autographs Scrapbook collection. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/ykkq-5qb9-dmay. (Digitized version here)

Duckworth, Minna. Notebook. 1869-1875. CA UVICARCH SC037-1983-161. Minna Duckworth collection. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/notebook-10.

Gerrard, Muriel. Victorian Child’s Scrapbook. 1891. CA UVICARCH SC236-1980-061. Muriel Gerrard fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/victorian-childs-scrapbook. (Digitized version here)

Holmes, Edward Morell. Scrapbook. 1849-1918. CA UVICARCH AR069. Edward Morell Holmes fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/edward-morrell-holmes-fonds. (Digitized version here)

Kelly, Thomas. Scrapbook. 1886-1911. CA UVICARCH SC238-1980-045. Thomas Kelly fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/7h53-bnsn-skg3.

Kidman, Ella. Ella Kidman autograph album. 1897-1930. CA UVICARCH SC624-2020-041. Kidman family fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/ella-kidman-autograph-album. (Digitized version here)

Kidman, Henry Oscar, Lilian L. Kidman, and Ella Kidman. Kidman family art album. 1829-1895. CA UVICARCH SC624-2020-041. Kidman family fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/kidman-family-art-album.

Kidman, Lilian L. Lilian L. Kidman autograph album. 1898-1928. CA UVICARCH SC624-2020-041. Kidman family fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/lilian-l-kidman-autograph-album. (Digitized version here)

Mulvena, Henry Walter. Scrapbook. 1883-1903. CA UVICARCH SC400-1980-043. Judge Mulvena fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/scrapbook-3.

Seymour, Robert. R. Seymour’s “Caricatures of the Tory Cabinet.” 1830. CA UVICARCH SC390-2002-042. Robert Seymour fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/r-seymours-caricatures-of-the-tory-cabinet-of-1830.

Sylvester, Cecelia Davies. Autograph book. 1863-1921. CA UVICARCH AR281-2001-006, Box 1, File 17. Frank and Cecelia Sylvester family fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/frank-and-cecilia-sylvester-family-fonds. (Digitized version here)

Sylvester, Cecelia Davies. Scrapbook. [1854-1928?]. CA UVICARCH AR281-2002-029, Box 2, File 2. Frank and Cecelia Sylvester family fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/frank-and-cecilia-sylvester-family-fonds.

Sylvester, Cecelia Davies. Scrapbook. [1886-1919?]. CA UVICARCH AR281-2001-06, Box 1, File 18. Frank and Cecelia Sylvester family fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/frank-and-cecilia-sylvester-family-fonds. (Digitized version here)

Sylvester, Frank. Diary. [1874-1907?]. CA UVICARCH AR281-2002-029, Box 2, File 1. Frank and Cecelia Sylvester family fonds. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/frank-and-cecilia-sylvester-family-fonds. (Digitized version here)

Theatre Clippings. 1884-1903. CA UVICARCH SC372-2000-041. Mary Henderson collection. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Victoria Libraries, Victoria, British Columbia. https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/2tk6-6wxw-fcn2. (Digitized version here)

Scrapbooks housed at other archival institutions

Andersen, Hans Christian, and Adolf Drewsen. Billedbog til Jonas Drewsen = Original picture book. [1862?]. PT8103 .D7. Jean Hersholt Collection of Hans Christian Andersen. Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2008gen51371/?sp=1. Accessed 2 February 2021.

Anthony, Susan B. Scrapbooks. 1876-1903. mss11049, Box 4, Reel 5. Susan B. Anthony papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms997009.mss11049.028. Accessed 2 February 2021.

Bernhardt, Sarah. Series II. Clippings & Scrapbook. [1879-1977?]. PA-00170. Sarah Bernhardt collection. Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX. https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00184. Accessed 2 February 2021.

Carroll, Lewis. Scrapbook. 1855-1872. lchtml lc001. Lewis Carroll Scrapbook collection. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. http://international.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lchtml&fileName=lc001/lchtmllc001.db&recNum=0&itemLink=r?intldl/carrollbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(carroll000130)). Accessed 2 February 2021.

Clarke, Mary Cowden. CLARKE, Family: A scrap-book belonging to Mary Cowden Clarke. 1832-1882. BC MS NCC/94. Novello Cowden Clarke collection. Special Collections, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire. https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/465583/clarke_family__a_scrap-book_belonging_to_mary_co?query=scrapbook&browseQuery=Search&archiveLatest=1800&resultLength=24&resultOffset=8. Accessed 2 February 2021.

Douglass, Frederick. Scrapbook. 1869. mfd.16013. Frederick Douglass Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mfd.16013. Accessed 2 February 2021.

Lincoln, Abraham, and Stephen A. Douglas. Illinois political campaign of 1858. 1858. E457.4 .L772 1858. Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://lccn.loc.gov/2004573227. Accessed 2 February 2021.

London, Jack. Scrapbook 1. 1899-1901. mssJL 1-25307. Jack London Papers. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8q2nb2xs/. Accessed 2 February 2021.

McClung, Nellie. Scrapbook. 1895-1905. MS-0010.27. Nellie McClung fonds. BC Archives, Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives, Victoria, British Columbia. https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/scrapbook-66. Accessed 2 February 2021.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Scrapbooks; On the Women’s Rights Convention. 1848. mss41210, Box 9. Elizabeth Cady Stanton papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms998020.mss41210.0152. Accessed 2 February 2021.

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain Papers. [1850-1910?]. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA. https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/mark-twain-papers/about-the-archive. Accessed 2 February 2021.

Watanna, Onoto. Scrapbook. 1898. CA ACU SPC F0177, Box 17, Folder 2. Winnifred Eaton Reeve fonds. Archives and Special Collections, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/winnifred-eaton-reeve-fonds. Accessed 2 February 2021.

Scrapbooking manuals and articles

de Blaquière, Dora. “Autographs, and Their Use. Autograph-Furniture, Quilts, Tablecloths, etc.” Girl’s Own Paper, 1897, pp. 500-1, https://www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/GOP/Recreation/1897-Autographs.pdf. Accessed 7 October 2020.

Croly, May. “Writing in Autograph Albums.” Demorest’s Monthly Magazine, Apr. 1880, pp. 190-1, https://www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/Demorest/Dem1880/Dem1880-Autographs.pdf. Accessed 7 October 2020.

Gatty, Margaret. British Sea-Weeds: Drawn from Professor Harvey’s “Phycologia Britannica.” London, Bell and Daldy, 1872, https://archive.org/details/britishseaweedsd11872gatt/mode/2up. Accessed 13 October 2020.

Gurley, E. W. Scrap-Books and How to Make Them: Containing Full Instructions for Making a Complete and Systematic Set of Useful Books. New York, Authors’ Publishing Company, 1880, https://archive.org/details/scrapbookshowtom00gurl/mode/2up. Accessed 7 October 2020.

Henland, Cecil. The Ghosts of My Friends. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112054863839&view=1up&seq=1. Accessed 7 October 2020.

Hervey, Alpheus Baker. Sea Mosses: A Collector’s Guide and an Introduction to the Study of Marine Algae. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1881, https://archive.org/details/seamossescollect001herv/mode/2up. Accessed 28 October 2020.

Hibberd, James Shirley. The Seaweed Collector: A Handy Guide to the Marine Botanist. London, Groombridge & Sons, 1872, https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Z1oDAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PP1. Accessed 7 October 2020.

Ogilvie, John Stuart. The Album Writer’s Friend. Comprising More than Three Hundred Choice Selections of Poetry and Prose, Suitable for Writing in Autograph Albums, Valentines, Birthday, Christmas and New Year Cards. New York, J. S. Ogilvie & Co., 1881, https://archive.org/details/albumwritersfrie00ogiliala/mode/2up. Accessed 7 October 2020.

Sheridan, Louisa Henrietta. “The Adventures of an Album.” The Comic Offering, or, Ladies’ Melange of Literary Mirth, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1831, pp. 251-85, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435080975899&view=1up&seq=279. Accessed 7 October 2020.

Wyndham, H. Saxe. “Autograph Collecting for Girls.” Girl’s Own Paper, 1891, pp. 111-2, 347-8, https://www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/GOP/Recreation/1891-Autograph.pdf. Accessed 7 October 2020.

Your Hidden Skeleton: A Novel Autograph Book which Reveals the Secret Skeletons of Your Friends Through Their Handwriting. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1911.


Secondary sources:

Allen, Moira. “Victorian Pastimes & Recreation: Collecting & Collections.” VictorianVoices.net, 2020, https://www.victorianvoices.net/topics/recreation/collecting.shtml. Accessed 2 October, 2020.

“Autograph Ghosts of Famous People.” Inherited Values, 2012, http://www.inherited-values.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ghost-autograph.pdf. Accessed 2 December 2020.

Connolly, Kate. “Scrapbook of Queen Victoria’s Childhood to be Auctioned in Berlin.” The Guardian, 27 Nov. 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/27/scrapbook-of-queen-victorias-childhood-to-be-auctioned-in-berlin#img-2. Accessed 2 February 2021.

Duggins, Molly. “Pacific Ocean Flowers: Colonial Seaweed Albums.” The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture, edited by Steve Mentz and Martha Elena Rojas, Routledge, 2016, pp. 119-34. doi:10.4324/9781315553092

Elgabri, Alexa. “Leaves of Affection: A Look at Autograph Books of the 19th Century.” Ohio Memory, 4 Dec. 2015, https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/archives/2546. Accessed 7 October 2020.

Garvey, Ellen Gruber. “Scissoring and Scrapbooks: Nineteenth-Century Reading, Remaking, and Recirculating.” New Media, 1750-1915, edited by Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 207-227.

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Giaimo, Cara. “The Forgotten Victorian Craze for Collecting Seaweed.” Atlas Obscura, 15 Nov. 2016, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-victorian-craze-for-collecting-seaweed. Accessed 7 October 2020.

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Green, Claire. “Calling Cards and Visiting Cards: A Brief History.” Hoban Press, 12 Sept. 2016, https://hobancards.com/calling-cards-and-visiting-cards-brief-history. Accessed 7 October 2020.

Hancock, Michael W. Boffin’s Books and Darwin’s Finches: Victorian Cultures of Collecting. 2006. University of Kansas, PhD dissertation. DigitalCommons@IMSA, https://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/eng_pr/5/. Accessed 2 October 2020.

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Hodgman, Charlotte. “Where History Happened: Victorian Collectors.” HistoryExtra, 6 Aug. 2012, https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/where-history-happened-victorian-collectors/. Accessed 2 October 2020.

Hunt, Leigh Ina. Victorian Passion to Modern Phenomenon: A Literary and Rhetorical Analysis of Two Hundred Years of Scrapbooks and Scrapbook Making. 2006. University of Texas at Austin, PhD dissertation. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

Kingstone, Helen, and Kate Lister. Introduction. “It’s a Victorian Thing.” Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects, edited by Helen Kingstone and Kate Lister, Taylor and Francis, 2018, pp. 1-14. doi:10.4324/9781351172844. Accessed 2 October 2020.

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Long, Thomas Lawrence. “Documents of Performance: James Sheridan Knowles’s Gift Album to Jemma Haigh: A Glimpse of Victorian Social Networks and Cultural Practices.” Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, vol. 40, no. 2, 2013, pp. 125-32. doi:10.7227/NCTF.40.2.4. Accessed 7 October 2020.

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