Cooke, Harriet, scrapbookHarriet Cooke scrapbook MSS 16400Tanner GreeneAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

5 March 2019

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110University of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110URL:
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Folio scrapbook with marble-paper cover, and gold-stamped green leather corners and binding, containing pages of many different colors. Inside the front cover is a red leather gold-stamped plate reading "Harriet Cooke / 1842." Title page has a memorial plate reading "To Miss Cook May 2nd 1842 / In Remembrance of the late / Miss Sarah P. M. Kreth / Obit 26 Apr Atat 33yr / Jas Thomas, Undertaker, Bristol." Contains a wide range of visual materials pasted into the volume, including original drawings (unsigned), popular prints, items clipped from printed volumes. Notable is A Sermon on Malt, a visual poetry broadside "Printed and Sold by John Wright, Temperance Tract Depository, 18, Bridge-street." No indication is given of the relationship between the two women.

 Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research use.

 Preferred Citation

MSS 16400 Harriet Cooke scrapbook, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

 Biographical Note

Harriet Cooke appears to have lived in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.

Source: Materials within collection.

 Immediate Source of Acquisition

2015-0058, Purchased 2 May 2016. William and Elizabeth Morris Fund.

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