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Autograph album containing the signatures of nine U.S. Presidents and other notables.
Vicinity of Scarsdale, N.Y.: compiled 1880s-1930s. Autograph album stitched into original suede covers with signatures or inscriptions on sheets or on cards mounted to the sheets. The album 7 1/4 x 6 inches (18 x 5 cm). Chips to some edges, stray stains from adhesive. A late 19th century autograph album with presidents Many on on White House Cards,:R.B. Hayes, C.A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Wm. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.
The album starts with signatures of the Bates family of Scarsdale and continuing to include a laid-in letter from Edith Roosevelt (on her "Strange Ports" stationery); the inserted other than the presidents includes signatures of Lucretia Garfield; Henry Longfellow, John G. Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Frank Stockton, Mark Twain signed as both S.L. Clemens and Twain, John Burroughs, Jane Addams, Edwin Markham, Helen Keller, Robert Swain Gifford, even a calling card of August Rodin, Edwin Booth, Ellen Terry, to name some of the well known personalities included inthis unique album.
Autograph album containing the signatures of nine U.S. Presidents /Mark Twain and other notables. compiled 1880s-1930s.
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