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Mary Pringle Scrapbook [Album 4] [graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

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Date:

1881.

Reference:

R11648-0-7-E, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4350354

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Kenneth Rowe fonds

Mary Pringle Scrapbook [Album 4]
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Date(s):

1881.

Place:

London / Belfast:

Place of creation:

Ontario

Publisher:

Marcus Ward & Co., Royal Ulster Works,

Extent:

1 album (scrapbook): 36 folios, 168 items primarily colour lithograph reproduction Christmas cards and other greeting cards : 164 prints, 3 watercolours, 1 drawing ; 30.0 x 25.0 x 3.5 cm [album].

Language of material:

English

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Scrapbook [album 4] is 1 of 11 bound albums which include Victorian scapbooks, and catalogues and order books for greeting cards, and donor's presentation albums. This album is part of a collection which also includes loose items, artifacts and general ephemera with photographic and philatelic elements.

has 36 folios, with 167 items in the format of greeting cards: Christmas cards, a company Christmas card, some Birthday, Easter and Obituary cards. Most cut-out card covers, or flat cards, some book-open, various sizes. Process includes colour lithography, some with hand-colouring and some original hand-made in watercolour and some pen and ink drawing. Some special papers, embossed, scalloped edge, and faux frame and border details. Some inscriptions note recipients, dates, and are present on cards and follio pages.

Provenance is Canadian, but cards are of Canadian, American and United Kingdom origin. Publishers include: L. Prang & Co., Boston; Raphael Tuck & Sons, London; Campbell & Tudhope, Glasgow; Marcus Ward & Co., Thomas Stevens; Eyre & Spottiswoode; O. B. Pacher Bros., New York; F. E. Weatherly; Religious Tract Society; John A. Lowell & Co., Boston, U.S.A.

This scrapbook was made by Mary Pringle of Hamilton, wife of Robert Anderson Pringle (1856-1942), lawyer of Hamilton, Ontario.

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Pringle, Mary

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(Electronic) item-level descriptions on-line In Mikan database. R11648-4, (90: Open)

(Paper) Word list on accession file. R11648-2005. Accession file R11648-2005 in art library. (90: Open)

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Custodial history:

Private source, collected by Kenneth Rowe.

Accompanying material note:

This scrapbook contained a group of (16) loose cards, which have been removed and described as items: 38 to 53.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed in pen and black ink, fol. 1, recto: From Uncle Tom / Montreal 15 - 7. 81 ; in pencil, l.c.: This scrapbook made / by Mary Pringle of Hamilton / Husband Robert of the / legal frim of Pringle & Bell / of Hamilton

Related material:

Pringle Family Papers, Hamilton Public Library.

Subject heading:

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Christmas cards

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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00004
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R11648]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 File number 4

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Accession No. R11648-4 ;

Copyright: Expired.

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Date modified:: 2024-06-27