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| Title: | Green, Arnold. Collection |
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| Dates: | circa 1893 |
| Size: | 1.5 linear feet (1 box) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | The Arnold Green Collection consists of a single scrapbook that conserves a variety of examples of die-cut, Victorian chromolithograph illustrations. |
The collection is open for research.
The scrapbook should be consulted with care given the fragile condition of pages.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Green, Arnold. Collection, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Arnold Green, who composed the scrapbook, was the great-grandfather of Judi Clements, the collection’s donor. Green tragically perished aboard the S.S. Eastland on July 24, 1915. A passenger ship for tourists, the Eastland rolled over while docked on the Chicago River, killing 844 passengers and crew.
The collection consists of a single scrapbook that has an elaborate front cover carrying the title “Columbian Souvenir.” Although the scrapbook is undated, the cover title suggests that the volume was prepared sometime around the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, which produced a range of souvenir and memorabilia material. However, it is unclear whether the scrapbook itself or the illustrations that it contains were acquired at the Exposition. The illustrations are more consistent in manufacture and design with the period genre of Victorian “scraps.”
The scrapbook contains over two hundred embossed, die-cut chromolithograph illustrations. Typical of the Victorian style, the scraps are thematically wide-ranging. They include formally dressed adults and children; soldiers, policemen, and firefighters; animals, cherubs and angels; flags of the world, pastoral vignettes, and fairy tale scenes.
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| Box 1 | Scrapbook, circa 1893 |