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Maria Louise Clough scrapbook
Fonds consists of scrapbook kept by Maria Louise Clough while on a trip from Boston to England, Scotland, France and Italy in 1886 and 1887. The scrapbook contains cards, correspondence, clippings, ephemera, and realia (including plant material), and gives an interesting insight into the activities and tastes of a young woman of that day. Among the contents are: Cunard ephemera (including deck plans, menus, passenger list), theatre ephemera (including Henry Irving in Faust at the Lyceum), a cigarette, lace, Westminster Abbey ephemera, transportation tickets, a moving-part Christmas card, fringe forming part of the decoration of the funeral car of the Duke of Wellington, postcards, engravings, hotel ephemera, identified leaves and flowers, etc.
Title from content of the fonds.
WA24
1886-1887
9 cm of textual records (1 v.)
albums (books)
Maria Louise Clough
Botanical specimens
EnglandFranceItalyScotland
Public Domain
University of Waterloo Library. Special Collections & Archives. Maria Louise Clough scrapbook. WA 24.