$360
Scrapbooks, Five Volumes: 1896, 1897, 1900, 1925, and 1927. Detailed scrapbooks compiled by James Morgan, manager of the Boston Globe , and resident of Lynn, including menus, railway tickets, letters, advertising, newspaper and magazine articles, programs, and personal snapshots documenting the following events: the Democratic National Conventions in Chicago and St. Louis, 1896, including some interesting photographs of tornado damage; the Presidential Inauguration of William McKinley in 1897; the Republican National Conventions in Philadelphia and Kansas City in 1900; a trip to Europe in 1925; and a trip to California in 1927, in five separate albums; the condition of the scrapbook pages themselves is poor, many are detached, and heavily chipped and flaking, the contents, in contrast are generally good, 12 x 9 in. each. (5)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
