Scrapbook Collection
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.
Cultural context
Genre / Form
Topical
- 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
47 Strickland Road
Cos Cob CT 06807 United States
203-869-6899
203-861-9720 (Fax)
cshields@greenwichhistory.org