My first memory book : manuscript / Katharine P. Hastings.
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Description
- Title
- My first memory book : manuscript / Katharine P. Hastings.
- Creator
- Hastings, Katharine P.
- Contributor
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Hastings, Katharine P.
Yale University - Published / Created
- 1893-1894, n.d.
- Copyright Date
- 1893-1894.
- Abstract
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Notebook or diary containing pen-and-ink sketches and autograph manuscript captions and text documenting the activities and interests of a young, New Haven, Connecticut-area woman over a five month period from September 1893 into January 1894. Sketches and captions depict and refer to objects, friends, school, and social activities. Activities include meetings with others, meals, church, drawing, dancing, shopping for gifts, the gym, the circus, Yale University events, and specific games, such as charades, chess, cards, parchisi, hide-and-seek, and paper dolls. Includes loose material and material pasted in: one autograph letter, signed, addressed to Hastings at a New Haven address, additional sketches, one clipping, printed ephemera, and manuscript notes.
- Description
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Chiefly in English; some material in French.
From cover: The Keystone Note Book.
Katharine P. Hastings (circa late 1870s-) of 248 Bradley St., New Haven, Connecticut.
Purchased from James Arsenault & Company on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2015.
Title from title page. - Extent
- 1 volume (116 pages) ; 23 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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English
French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- GEN MSS 1516
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Drawings (visual works)
Sketches - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Geographic)
- New Haven (Conn.)
- Subject (Name)
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Hastings, Katharine P.
Yale University - Subject (Topic)
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Board games
Games--United States
Paper dolls
Women--United States--Social life and customs--19th century
Young women--United States
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Katharine P. Hastings, My First Memory Book. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13757515
- Object ID (OID)
- 16865288