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School-age girls and
young women often
kept autograph albums in
the nineteenth century.
Friends, schoolmates, and
the owner would fill in the
blank pages with poems,
prayers, notes of affection
and friendship, drawings,
signatures, and mementos.
These albums contain
sentiments and signatures
similar to those written in
modern school yearbooks.
Mary
and Thomas Cope
Poetry
Autograph
Albums
David Hackman
Wartime
Letters
Valentine's
Day
Sarah
and Jasper Yeates
Credits
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My love for
you will never fail.
As long as fido has a tail.
Your Schoolmate
Chas. A. DeHuff
New Holland, Oct 22nd, 1879
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Autograph Album of Alta M. Diller
1879–1880
Alta M. Diller (1865-1953) was the daughter of Edwin and Cora
M. Diller of New Holland. She attended Swarthmore College
and was a lifelong member of Trinity Lutheran Church in New
Holland.
LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ARCHIVES, MG-118 AUTOGRAPH ALBUM COLLECTION |
Painfull Love
To Love is painfull it is true
Not to Love is painfull too
But ah! it gives the greatest pain
To Love and not be loved again
Autograph Album of Elizabeth F. Allen
1827–1832
LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ARCHIVES, MG-118 AUTOGRAPH
ALBUM COLLECTION |
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