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Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A.2023.016

Scope and Contents

This material reflects collected scrapbooks ranging from the early 1800s to the 1980s. It includes personal photographs, collected clippings on families, businesses, and government, miscellaneous epehmera, correspondence, and collected histories. Many of the scrapbooks were collected by Helen Binney Kitchel in service of the Greenwich Historical Society and have been marked as such.

Dates

  • Creation: 1855-1993

Conditions Governing Access

There are no conditions governing access to this material.

Biographical / Historical

This is an artificial collection made of various single-item donations related to scrapbooks or scrapbooking that are not part of a larger personal or business collection. Many of these items have individual accession numbers which are listed within the notes page for the item itself, with an overarching accession number given in order to ensure they are appropriately grouped together.

Full Extent

70 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

This collection is broadly a single series of scrapbooks, with sub-series of specific recurring scrapbooks from the same individuals.

Title
Guide to the Scrapbook Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Ashley Aberg
Date
October 6, 2023
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Greenwich Historical Society Repository

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