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Autograph album cover with handwritten name and flowers – Vintage Print

Autograph album cover with handwritten name and flowers — historic image
Autograph album cover with handwritten name and flowers. Historic image from the Books & Writers collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Autograph album cover with handwritten name and flowers comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Autograph album cover with handwritten name and flowers

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Autograph albums like this one were a fixture of American parlors from the mid-1800s into the early 1900s, when friends and schoolmates filled them with signed verses, sketches and sentiments. The cover here carries a handwritten name alongside a painted or printed spray of flowers, a decorative touch that set these albums apart as keepsakes rather than working notebooks. Looking closely at the lettering and floral motif can tell you a good deal about the owner's taste and the period in which the album was made.

Original scan1,224 × 782 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi
Reference383790468_a73c47b27a_o First Page Playingwithbrushes

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