Miscellaneous specimens of American penmanship
Overview
Copybooks and other specimens of 18th-19th-century penmanship.
Dates
- Creation: 1773-1865
Conditions Governing Access
Restricted: Most items are fragile. Permission of the curator is required for access.
Extent
.3 linear feet (2 boxes)Specimens of American handwriting, some by professional writing masters but most by New England school pupils in copybooks, from the 18th and 19th-centuries.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Received from various sources at various times. Accession information, as far as it is known, is given with the item entry.
This collection was assembled from items in the Harvard College Library before 1945.
Processing Information
Processed by: J. F. Coakley.
- Title
- Miscellaneous specimens of American penmanship, 1773-1865: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01858
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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